October 2026 update

Coming next (not released yet)

• Leafcutter mound vents, and a new Air view in the nest
• Full maps at full zoom-out, every plant included, starting with the desert
• Grass and flowers that stand up in 3D when you turn the view

Rainforest and desert overhaul

• Desert at true size: prickly pears, barrel cacti, yuccas, agaves, mesquite
• Giant rainforest trees rebuilt: solid trunks, buttresses, real stilt-palm roots
• Every species' larvae and pupae, now in 3D

Ant wars and real enemies

• Each species fights the way it does in the wild, or not at all if it isn't recorded doing so
• Real enemies: army ants raid leafcutters and big-headed ants, and other ants keep honeypot ants pinned inside their nest
• Living skies: butterflies, flies, bees and midges, each flying its own way

Every ant redrawn

• Necks and legs on every ant, all 14 species, every caste
• Males drawn as males, in their real colours and sizes

New look

• Loam Colony logo on the loading screens
• New "dry dust" interface: warm earth tones, grain, ragged edges
• Phone layout reworked to give the game view more room

Website launched (9 October)

• loamcolony.com goes live, with species profiles and this devlog to follow

Phone performance

• Performance work for large colonies on phones

Camera

• Lower the camera for a ground-level view
• Turn the view a full 360 degrees
• Follow a single ant
• Open a full map of your world

Colony life

• New predators: cane toads, blind snakes, echidnas
• "Let the workers decide": the colony shares out jobs on its own
• Army ants march off to a new forest when they move camp
• Fungus disease, with defences to evolve

Living forests

• Forest floor plants, light through the canopy, vines up the trunks
• Trees at true size for every habitat
• Colonies range as far as their real kind does