antsword is a thing

so happy

i cry

also there's an interaction between antgutgem batteries and ant materials in that they don't just power them they also make them really light. that weird antigrav effect.

this means not only can i make an antsword

i can make a ludicrously enormous antsword

my dreams of becoming an rpg character are closer to reality than ever

so yeah anyway

now i have a giant antsword

wooooooo

also while doing aggby experiments for to make giant antsword kind of tripped over something else interesting. antgutgems are putting out this constant antigravity wave. actually it's not really antigravity but explaining is boring so we're just going with that. it makes stuff lighter especially antstuff. move on. anyway the wave degrades fast but you can detect it + figure out how far away the source is with some applied maths. also if you put a bunch of detectors in a circle you can figure out what direction the signal is coming from.

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you know what this means

jin got a minimap boiiiiiii

i mean it only detects ants. well technically it detects those shiny precious antgutgems sitting in their antguts but same diff right? anyway rigged up a hud thing i can wear. scouter style. shows me where ants are. range is like a couple dozen metres. not sure if i can increase that. not without making it unreliable. maybe a switch. unreliable longrange. reliable shortrange. hmm. or no wait if i did overlays then cancelled display of longrange when within shortrange. yes. that could work. feels like mostly this is a ui issue. fiddly. sometimes fiddly can be fun.

oh also realised something. teleporting aggbys is a terrible idea. that's not the realisation. already knew that. i mean it leads to giant vortex explosions. teleporting raw antgutgems also creates vortex explosion. basically anything to do with antgutgems + teleport == badtimes. but for like ages i was walking around with my emergency teleportal thing while loaded down with like dozens of aggbys. if that thing ever activated i would've been sploded all to heck.

so yeah

pretty lucky it never activated

haha

anyway all my oldschool powerpacks are dead now so i'm not even using the emergency teleporter. and also probably cannot ever teleport while using any ant tech. i mean. it's not such a big deal. i guess in a true emergency i could dump all my antgear and then activate a teleporter. if i made another personal teleporter. and found/invented a power source that is not antbased.

superscience biz gets crazy complicated sometimes

anyway

time to go ride my loving scooter around a postapocalyptic city and detect some ants and then slice them to pieces with a giant sword

welcome to my life ladies and gentlemen

welcome to my cute little life