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Wigfrid Portrait
Tis the mighty liön!

Wigfrid

The Antlion is a Mob exclusive to Don't Starve Together, introduced in A New Reign. It appears in the Desert biome during Summer Season. The players can either appease or kill it, otherwise, it creates sinkholes on the surface and causes cave-ins when a player goes inside the caves. The Antlion can be given a stage 1, 4 or 5 Thermal Stone to start combat.

Brain Behavior[]

When the Antlion first spawns in Summer, when there is no rain and the ground is dry, players have 20-16 seconds to pay tribute before it disturbs the players. When the attack is complete, the Antlion's disturbance timer will become either at most 480 seconds or 80% of the previous calm duration.

During rain, the Antlion will temporarily burrow itself underground, disabling players from interacting with it.

Tribute[]

Players can contribute the following items to delay the Antlion's disturbance:

Days
Items
0.33
RocksEggSecond-hand DenturesBent SporkAir UnfreshenerLeaky TeacupShoe Horn Collected Dust
0.66
Melty MarblesGord's KnotTiny RocketshipBall and CupFrayed YarnWire HangerWhite BishopBlack BishopWhite RookBlack RookWhite KnightBlack KnightGnomeGnometteFrazzled WiresLying RobotBeaten BeaterFake KazooToy Trojan HorseUnbalanced Top
0.99
Cut StoneMismatched ButtonsBack ScratcherHardened Rubber BungDessicated TentacleLucky Cat JarPotato Cup
1.32
Beach Toy
2.98
Thermal Stone Stage 2 Thermal Stone Stage 3

For example, if one gives the Antlion an Egg, it would delay its attacks for 158 seconds, or 0.33 day. Giving the Antlion 10 rocks is cheaper than a Thermal Stone because the 10 rocks delay the disturbance timer by 3.3 days, while a Thermal Stone (stages 2 and 3) only delays the disturbance timer by 2.98 days, plus costing 2 Twigs and 5 Flint to craft. One should keep in mind that its disturbance timer cannot exceed 6 days, so players may need to contribute a hefty amount of items to it at least twice throughout Summer in order to never be attacked, if players are going the appeasement route.

When the Antlion is given anything other than Rocks, Cut Stone, or Thermal Stone, it will give a Desert Stone. If it is given a Beach Toy, it will give a blueprint for The Lazy Deserter as well as the Turf-Raiser Helm but no Desert Stone.

Summer Disturbances[]

When the timer is up, there will be 3 warnings to let the players know that Sinkholes or Cave-ins will start to spawn soon. Up to 2 players can be targeted by the Antlion in a single attack with between 2-5 sinkholes if on the surface or 6-10 boulders if in the Caves spawning around each of them.


Sinkholes[]

For Sinkholes leading to the Caves world, see Sinkhole.
Wendy Portrait
The ground crumbles beneath me.

Wendy, when announcing a sinkhole.

Sinkholes are craters that are created by the Antlion during summer when displeased. When they are created, they damage players and destroy Structures where they form. Once formed, new structures cannot be built on them and they'll slow down all players walking on them. Sinkholes cannot be removed by the player and will only begin to self-repair after 21-22 days since they were formed, taking 9-11 more days to fully repair. Players can prevent them from appearing by contributing items to the Antlion (listed above).

Characters also say different quotes depending on how long before the sinkholes happen.

Cave-ins[]

Cave-ins, similar to Sinkholes, happen in the Caves when the Antlion is displeased. Big boulders will drop on locations close to the players inside caves, damaging them if hit, destroying any Structures nearby and potentially blocking the way. Like Sinkholes, they can be prevented if the players occasionally give items to the Antlion. The boulders that drop on Cave-ins can be carried, much like Suspicious Marble, and can even be brought outside the caves. They can also be mined for rocks using a Pickaxe.

Antlion Sand Castle

A Sand Castle spawned by Antlion

Sand Spike Medium

Sand Spike

Items spawned by Antlion

Sand Castles and Sand spikes

The Sand Spikes and Sand Castle, in increasing sizes, has 25, 65, 100, 250 HP. They last for 6-7, 7-8, 8-10, 15-16 seconds. Any structures placed/built that are hit by Sand Castles or Sand Spikes will be destroyed. Sand Castles are a way of trapping you, and the Sand Spikes are a way of damaging you, dealing either 50, 75, or 100 damage on hit, increasing with the size of the Sand Spike. Mobs take double damage. The Sand Castles and Sand Spikes can be turned into decorative Glass Castles and Glass Spikes when set on fire.

Spear Combat[]

The Antlion can be given a stage 1, 4 or 5 Thermal Stone to start combat. The Antlion will either freeze or smolder, and then attack the nearest player within 15 metres. The Antlion will then attempt to trap the player within Sand Castles (not to be confused with Sand Castles featured in the Shipwrecked DLC), and then repeatedly slam into the ground, causing Sand Spikes to jut out of the ground. The Antlion can heal 200 Health Meter each time it eats rocks. The healing can be interrupted by attacking the Antlion.

If killed, the Antlion drops 4 Meat, 6–8 Desert Stones, Blueprints for the Lazy Deserter and Turf-Raiser Helm, 2–4 Rocks and varying amounts of Trinkets. The desert stone that is dropped may be insufficient until the following summer, and hence players may want to obtain a good amount of Desert Stones before killing the Antlion. Killing Antlion will ensure the summer will no longer have any disturbance from Antlion.

There are multiple strategies for killing Antlion. Any of them are best with 2 thermal stones (one for Antlion and one for you) and appropriate goggles (for vision and movement). Build a fridge or endothermic fire several tiles away to cool the stones before combat (too close and antlion will destroy them). Start with full health and sanity. Restorative food such as Surf 'n' Turf or Pierogi and any necessary light should complete your preparations.

Tanking[]

A single player should be able to tank Antlion with approximately 1.5 Marble Suits and 0.5 Thulecite Clubs by holding down attack and only occasionally maneuvering closer when pushed out of melee range by the sand spikes. Keep the attack as continuous as practical so that Antlion cannot heal (the club's tentacles help with this).

Alternatively, a player could light 29 gunpowders while Antlion is frozen to drop its health down below 200, drastically shortening the time it takes to kill it while still giving its loot.

Kiting[]

Players are likely to need Desert Goggles or Astroggles, paired with unrestrictive body armor such as a Log Suit or Thulecite Suit. Players can dodge the upcoming Sand Spike, using the sand circle as indicators for their locations. Players also can move preemptively since antlion would always target at least 1 attacker with sand spike. Players should move around to attack antlion from all angles to avoid a dense packing of spikes that will trap the players.

Placeholder Trivia[]

  • The Antlion was introduced in the Against the Grain update as a trader, while the ability to fight it was added in the Heart of the Ruins update.
  • The Antlion's name is a pun on its appearance (Ant + Lion) and the fly-like insect, the Antlion.
  • Wickerbottom and Maxwell's quote for the Desert Stone suggests that the Antlion might have come into contact with gems before, since its bezoars are impure Orange Gems.
  • Maxwell's quote for the Antlion is a pun on the word pride, referencing the fact that a group of lions is called a pride.
  • According to Wickerbottom, its scientific name is "Panthera auropunctata". This alludes to the combination of the scientific names of the two animals that make the Antlion; the genus of the lion "Panthera leo" and the specific epithet of the little fire ant "Wasmannia auropunctata".
  • When the Antlion was first released, several characters referred to it as a female. These examination quotes were later changed to a gender-neutral "it".
    • However, Wigfrid, whose quotes for the Antlion were changed to be gender-neutral, refers to the Antlion as "her" when examining the Antlion Figure, which was added long after the quotes were changed.
      • Warly, who was introduced to Don't Starve Together after the quotes were changed, refers to the Antlion as "amie", the French word for a female friend, when paying tribute. However, it appears that Warly uses amie and its masculine counterpart ami interchangeably: Wolfgang and Wormwood are also referred to as amie by him.
  • There's a value in the code that shows that the sinkholes could be repairable, but currently do not have any tool assigned to be able to fix them.
  • The Antlion and Dragonfly spawn in different desert biomes. Antlion's desert contains the Oasis and limbed cacti, while Dragonfly's desert has spiky trees, hound mounds, and round cacti. Both have flintless boulders, spiky bushes, and buzzards however. Hound mounds CAN spawn in Antlion's desert if a special Set Piece generates.
  • If Antlion is spawned using the Console in any Season other than Summer, it will disappear after being spawned.

Winona's Spotlight Animations[]

Blueprint Gallery[]

Gramophone Sounds[]

The Antlion's battle theme.

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