This relies on an implicit field-of-view of 180 degrees. Its implementation is inspired by https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/circle-drawing/ If dynam

Returns true if ant is at a valid position to settle down and begin giving birth. This requires four things: 1) The ant must be underground. 2) The an

Returns true if ant is at a valid position to begin digging out a nest chamber. This requires six things: 1) The ant must not already be creating a ne

This is very intentionally kept private. Movement must be consumed with action. Otherwise, systems lose their "source of truth" as to whether actions

Finish digging a nest by removing the Nesting instinct and adding the Birthing instinct. Also, drop anything the ant is carrying so that they can eat

Search for a valid position for an element to fall into by searching to the bottom left/center/right of a given position. Prioritize falling straight

Start digging a nest by digging its entrance underneath the ant's current position TODO: `commands.dig` could fail (conceptually, if worker ants exist

Apply chambering to ants which walk over tiles covered in chamber pheromone. Chambering is set to Chambering(3). This encourages ants to dig for the n

Apply tunneling to ants which walk over tiles covered in tunnel pheromone. Tunneling is set to Tunneling(8). This encourages ants to prioritize diggin

If covered in Chamber pheromone then the following things need to occur: 1) Look forward in the direction the ant is facing - if something is diggable

TODO: This is (relatively) expensive to perform for the amount of value the concept adds to the user. Each tick, each ant processes any food it has in

TODO: This is kinda weird - maybe should just diminish naturally Whenever an ant takes a step it loses 1 Chambering pheromone.

Whenever an ant takes a step it loses 1 Tunneling pheromone.

TODO: Need to make this logic more robust still. If there's stuff blocking the path between ant and strongest pheromone they'll get stuck. At time of

Step 1: Find all ants which are hungry or worse. Step 2: For each hungry-or-worse ant, look at the position directly in front of it. Step 3: If there

TODO: Ants stop getting hungry while asleep which isn't really intended, but I haven't thought through Initative removal enough clearly because someti

Each ant maintains an internal timer that determines when it will act next. This adds a little realism by varying when movements occur and allows for

A worker ant may randomly decide to dig a tunnel in a tunnel east/west/south of the nest under the following conditions: 1) The ant must not be hungry

Ants that are building the initial nest (usually just a queen) should prioritize making it back to the nest quickly rather than wandering aimlessly on

TODO: perf - prefer to query directly for Queen rather than filtering through all workers

Ants lose Chambering when they begin carrying anything because they've fulfilled the pheromones action. Ants lose Chambering when they emerge on the s

Ants lose Tunneling when they begin carrying anything because they've fulfilled the pheromones action. Ants lose Tunneling when they emerge on the sur

Periodically show sleeping emotes above sleeping ants.

Ants walking vertically may have the ground beneath their feet disappear. Usually, this means gravity will take over and they'll fall downward, but so

If an ant is on the surface, and it's facing the edge of the nest, and it's not carrying anything then it is able to leave the nest and go out into th

If an ant walks into the "Nest Entrance" area of the crater then it is able to enter into the nest TODO: Need to more intelligently find a place to pu

"Whenever ant walks over tile with nesting pheromone, they gain "Nesting: 8". Then, they attempt to take a step forward and decrement Nesting to 7. If

Update the position and orientation of all ants. Does not affect the external environment.

Wandering is a low-priority task which occurs if ants aren't following pheromones. Ant will generally try to walk forward unless it is blocked. If it'

Spawn a new Pheromone entity and update the associate PheromoneMap cache. Performed in a custom command to provide a transactional wrapper around issu