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Economy System

Everything in the game is paid for with Cash, and Cash comes from one place: selling food.

The money loop

  1. 1

    Ants

    Placed ants walk to the food tree and bite off food. Higher EFF = more food per trip.

  2. 2

    Carts

    Cart ants haul food from the nest to your storage boxes.

  3. 3

    Boxes

    Food stacks up as boxes. Pick them up to carry them.

  4. 4

    Merchant

    Hand boxes to the merchant ant. Value = food × sell multiplier × cash boosts.

  5. 5

    Upgrades

    Spend cash on the upgrade board, new ants, slots, potions and skins.

Key mechanics

Food → Cash

Ants bite the food tree, cart ants haul it to the storage boxes, and you carry the boxes to the merchant ant to sell.

Sell price multiplier

The merchant's price multiplier moves between roughly 0.6× and 2× and refreshes about every 20 seconds. Waiting for 1.6×+ before selling is the easiest free boost.

Fixed Price pass

The Fixed Price game pass (800 Robux) locks the multiplier at 2.5×.

Food Buyer

A visiting Food Buyer event buys food at 2.5× for a short time — stockpile boxes before it arrives.

Offline earnings

Ants keep working while you are away; one player found the stockpile capped at about 4 hours of AFK.

Number suffixes

Cash uses K, M, B, T, Qa, Qi, Sx… — use the number converter if you lose track.

Number suffixes

K

Thousand · 103

M

Million · 106

B

Billion · 109

T

Trillion · 1012

Qa

Quadrillion · 1015

Qi

Quintillion · 1018

Sx

Sextillion · 1021

Sp

Septillion · 1024

Oc

Octillion · 1027

No

Nonillion · 1030

Dc

Decillion · 1033

Convert any value with the Number Converter.