Ants should be less edible

The_Lone_Badger · 2014-05-25T00:38:28.000Z

Giant ants provide a trivial pretty much unlimited source of food at the moment. And, well, have you ever smelled crushed ants? They’re not going to be tasty.

Suggestion: Butchered ants produce ‘acrid meat’. This can be cooked and eaten, but with substantial negative Enjoyability and a chance of throwing up.

Garm · 2014-05-25T00:44:29.000Z

Well technically insects have rather nutritious meat extremely rich in protein yada yada.

kevin.granade · 2014-05-25T01:16:45.000Z

If ants are too weak I’m far more interested in making their delicious meats harder to get than devaluing them. I think they haven’t been updated since some of the gun adjustments, they may bear some looking at.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-05-25T01:19:18.000Z

Ants aren’t that hostile… Last time I faced them.

The_Lone_Badger · 2014-05-25T01:23:14.000Z

Garm:

Well technically insects have rather nutritious meat extremely rich in protein yada yada.

They’re nutritious, yes. But ants are brim-full of formic acid. Not remotely tasty, and chronic exposure can be toxic (blindness, kidney damage).

Rivet · 2014-05-25T03:15:49.000Z

The Lone Badger:

They’re nutritious, yes. But ants are brim-full of formic acid. Not remotely tasty, and chronic exposure can be toxic (blindness, kidney damage).

Their venom glands are full of formic acid, but most folks don’t make a habit of eating the poison sacs out of their prey.

KA101 · 2014-05-25T03:23:21.000Z

FunsizeNinja123:

Ants aren’t that hostile… Last time I faced them.

Probably a problem with scent-based targeting. Scent is great for general homing but folks who rely on it (insects, mostly) tend to have trouble locking on and attacking IME.

The_Lone_Badger · 2014-05-25T10:09:51.000Z

Rivet:

Their venom glands are full of formic acid, but most folks don’t make a habit of eating the poison sacs out of their prey.

Good point, giant ants are big enough that you can cut them out.

i2amroy · 2014-05-25T17:04:52.000Z

The Lone Badger:

And, well, have you ever smelled crushed ants? They’re not going to be tasty.

I can inform you that they (or at least the little black ones) taste exactly the way that they smell (has eaten several black ants by accident due to a colony living in our dining room roof).

That said with big ones you should be able to cut out the venom sacks, maybe as an additional butchering result?

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-05-25T17:20:02.000Z

i2amroy:

(has eaten several black ants by accident due to a colony living in our dining room roof)

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Datanazush · 2014-05-25T17:49:21.000Z

i2amroy:

[quote=“The Lone Badger, post:1, topic:6241”]And, well, have you ever smelled crushed ants? They’re not going to be tasty.

I can inform you that they (or at least the little black ones) taste exactly the way that they smell (has eaten several black ants by accident due to a colony living in our dining room roof).[/quote]

Weaver ants here in Australia aren’t too bad to eat in an emergency, amazingly enough. The bastards are rich in protein, they don’t attack you too bad, and taste a little bit like citric acid. The larvae are pretty good to eat if you’re stranded, if someone difficult to dig out.

kilozombie · 2014-05-25T17:51:56.000Z

FunsizeNinja123:

[quote=“i2amroy, post:9, topic:6241”](has eaten several black ants by accident due to a colony living in our dining room roof)

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Have I mentioned the time I was eating ramen only to discover that the black seasoning was bits of insect (ants or flies, can’t remember) after eating half the bowl?

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-05-25T17:54:10.000Z

Yeah, you did.

FunsizeNinja123:

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i2amroy · 2014-05-25T19:20:30.000Z

kilozombie:

Have I mentioned the time I was eating ramen only to discover that the black seasoning was bits of insect (ants or flies, can’t remember) after eating half the bowl?

I guess that’s the nice thing about them tasting so terrible; you know exactly when you eat one by accident and could never do something like that.

ShinQuickMan · 2014-05-26T02:45:06.000Z

Make team ants faster, and give at least the soldiers poisonous attacks; generally, make them about as dangerous as swamp wildlife (or at least how that used to be in older versions?). That ought to bring them up to par.