Pets

Pets, the Dungeon, and mount training

Dungeon Pet Coins hatch Snail, Spider, Mantis, and Ladybug eggs. Mount training removes the ant you submit.

Pets, the Dungeon, and mount training

Dungeon Pet Coins hatch Snail, Spider, Mantis, and Ladybug eggs. Mount training removes the ant you submit.

Pets, mounts, and worker ants are three different systems. Mixing them up is how a good producer leaves the nest.

Pets

  1. Stabilize food and Cash before you leave the colony for side content.
  2. When the server says the Dungeon has appeared, run it for Pet Coins.
  3. Spend Pet Coins on a Pet Egg. Pet Eggs are not Ant Queen rolls.
  4. Place the egg in a hatch slot and wait out the timer.
  5. Equip the pet and read the bonus on its panel.

Shop eggs named on September 23, 2026 are Snail, Spider, Mantis, and Ladybug. Pages describe pet bonuses as passive colony effects, including Ant Speed, and say they stack with rarity, mutations, and jelly. A public multiplier table for those four eggs was not published, so the number on your pet panel is the one to trust. One extra pet equip slot is a reported R$99 one-time buy.

Mounts

Mount training submits one of your ants. Failure consumes it. Success turns it into a ride, so it leaves the worker roster either way. Several guides also say the mount is only slightly faster than walking, while a teleport-to-nest option already shortens the return. Train a duplicate you can lose, and only after the sell loop pays for that loss.

What to do with spare ants

The Resource Converter accepts unused ants and can return items such as Jelly. Exact conversion rates were not published. Auto Jelly Feed, added in the late-September update, applies jelly without repeating the manual feed. It does not choose the best ant for you.

Keep the main nest producing while you hatch a pet. A dungeon trip does not collect the food boxes sitting at home.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What do you actually do in Build An Ant Empire?

Roll an offer at the Ant Queen, buy the ant with Cash, place it in a nest slot, collect the food boxes it produces, sell those boxes for Cash, then spend Cash on egg luck, egg rolls, food income, slots, and later mutations.

How do codes work?

Finish the short tutorial, click the gear icon at the top-right, open Settings, paste one code, and press Redeem. wnixh2 is listed for 100 Star Coins. 9hcb2s is a 15-minute Cash boost that an earlier page said would expire on October 9, 2026, even though later lists still showed it as active.

What should a new colony buy first?

Buy Egg Luck and Egg Rolls first while you keep enough Cash to purchase a strong offer. Then raise food income and add slots when you have ants worth placing. Buy Ant Speed when trips, not ant quality, are the bottleneck.

Which mutation is the strongest?

Starlight is the strongest listed mutation at 5x EFF and a cash price of $5.1Qi. Petal is 3x at $500T. Put those on ants you will keep. Leaf at 1.35x and $1M is only a first mutate for a keeper, not for a Common you plan to replace.

Do pets replace worker ants?

No. Pets come from Pet Eggs bought with Dungeon Pet Coins. They are companions with their own bonuses. Worker ants still produce food, and mount training is a third system that removes the ant you submit.

Are there gamepasses?

An October 5, 2026 catalog of the Roblox shop says there are no gamepasses and that the listed products are one-time buys. Cash prices in the center item shop are a separate list from those Robux prices.