# Ants in my shelter!?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ants-in-my-shelter/896>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [April 19, 2013, 8:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ants-in-my-shelter/896 "2013-04-19T08:32:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Fox](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Fox)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 8:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ants-in-my-shelter/896/1 "2013-04-19T08:32:56Z")

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I’ve been living in the emergency shelter. The doors are always closed behind me when I leave\enter. I just entered an anthill and eventually had to flee due to a horde of soldier ants, and I fled back to the emergency shelter. When I got back into the shelter I went down the steps and I found that the basement was filled with soldier ants. WTH

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**Author:** ![deadmerits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/deadmerits/32/19_2.png) [@deadmerits](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deadmerits)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ants-in-my-shelter/896/2 "2013-04-19T13:50:03Z")

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Even if they weren’t in your bunker they can tunnel down into the basement. Actually its a bug where enemies follow down stairs (possibly up?) depending on how many tiles away the are, walls don’t compute.

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ants-in-my-shelter/896/3 "2013-04-19T21:54:37Z")

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I think they fixed that bug, or at least Kevin’s put a lot of effort into such a fix.

I’d be curious how close your shelter-basement is to the ant colony. My Lab’s basement is adjacent (but not connected) to a Mine, and Lab critters (Blob, zombie scientist, manhack) tend to spawn in the Mine area.

Wondering if this sort of spawn-sector overflow might be the culprit here.

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**Author:** ![deadmerits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/deadmerits/32/19_2.png) [@deadmerits](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deadmerits)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 11:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ants-in-my-shelter/896/4 "2013-04-19T23:54:55Z")

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I may have spoke too quickly on that part, I’d hate to overlook someone’s hard work. I did just test it on Classic zombies mode. I ran to town, grabbed three Z’s headed back to the bunker and shut the door. As soon as I heard thumping I went downstairs and bam, three Z’s in the bunker basement. Oh yeah the .4 release

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ants-in-my-shelter/896/5 "2013-04-20T00:01:55Z")

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Or, maybe the fix didn’t work for some reason. Testing on the current version beats half-remembered work reports any time.

Guess you’re onto something there, deadmerits.