WaffleGuy
Colony
So for the past few days, I have been doing Excavators on insane. I actually did it almost a year ago in 50 minutes, but I decided to revisit it so I can improve my speedrunning skills. Now I can do it in 35 minutes. How? Well, there's not really anything special, I just follow this page of instructions I made, describing which chambers you should strike from first to last.
- Excavate One Northeast.
- Kill the Northeast Mole Cricket.
- Excavate Southeast.
- Excavate Dirt Packs.
- Kill the Southeast Mole Cricket.
- Excavate All Wests.
- Excavate Whip Spiders.
- Kill Northwest Mole Crickets.
- Excavate Three Northeasts.
- Excavate Bush Crickets.
- Kill the Bush Cricket Mole Cricket.
- Excavate One West.
- Excavate One Northwest.
- Excavate One West.
- Kill the Northwest Mole Cricket.
- Excavate One Northwest.
- Excavate One Left South.
- Excavate One Right South.
- Kill the West Mole Cricket.
- Excavate One Very Left South.
- Kill the Left South Mole Cricket.
- Excavate One Very Right South.
- Kill the Right South Mole Cricket.
- Excavate the Middle Northwest Chamber.
- Kill the Northeast Mole Cricket.
- Kill the Western Mole Cricket.
- Kill the Southwest Mole Cricket.
- Kill the Northwest Mole Cricket.
- Kill the Northwest Mole Cricket.
- Kill the Northwest Mole Cricket.
- Kill the Uber Mole Cricket.
- Any other soldier other than army ant majors aren't as cost effective. Even mortars. You should only build army ant majors.
- At the start, you should have ended up collecting all of the food around you and building 13 workers and 2 majors before the first mole cricket arrives.
- Spamming food stores is important, especially at the beginning of the game where you need to gather food fast. I usually make 2 per tunnel early game, and 1 per three tunnels late game.
- Store up a bunch of food, especially for the bush crickets and tiger beetles. I suggest 400 per excavation.
- After you have a significant amount of army ants (30 I personally like), start upgrading them all to level three. Then make more once you can't upgrade anymore.
- Make at least 50 extra workers, 40 of them for food collection/digging and the last 10 for brood chambers and eggs.
- At the start of the game, you can prebuild some tunnels (like those to the west and north of the map), so you don't have to waste time digging later on.
- You should not let your 40 workers attack, they are generally meant to supply food, dig masses of land, and create eggs for challenging waves.
- If you did the strategy correctly, you should never end up getting overwhelmed. The closest you could come to death is with the northern bush crickets.
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