Ants Took My Eyeball: Full Walkthrough

Player can get resources which can upgrade the base through opening chests, defeating bosses and activate the beetle jars inside the game.

1. Truffle Pot
Increase 15 maximum health per level.

2. Trinket Printer
Can get one trinket per level at the game beginning.
When player dies, player can select a trinket to be registered in the trinket printer, and the unregistered trinket cannot be selected (There is no trinket registration option when complete the game, so player can only register through death in current version. Suggest the developer to modify this inconvenient point). The detail is showed in the following picture

3. Recycler
Level 1: Get three green components at the game beginning.
Level 2: Get two blue components at the game beginning.
Level 3: Get one red component at the game beginning.
(The function of components will be described in “Reinforcement inside the game” chapter). Player can press “E” to switch the type of components. The detail is showed in the following picture

4. Money Tree
Money trees can be found in the small biomes in every stage, and press “E” to interact to get money

5. Ammo Belt Rack
Press “E” to switch the type of ammo belt obtained in the game beginning (ammo belt can increase the maximum ammo), and upgrade the ammo belt rack can have higher maximum ammo. The detail is showed in the following picture

6. Coffee Maker
The coffee maker can be found in the small biomes in every stage, and press “E” to interact to get coffee
Drinking coffee can increase the attack speed, fire rate and reload speed for 3 minutes, but it is generally not recommended to drink coffee (specific reason will be described in “Reinforcement inside the game” chapter).

7. Clock

Discounts can be offered for the vending machines in the store between stages, and the discount will gradually weaken as the elonation of clearance time

8. Three statues in the right area
Blood statue: The function is showed in the above picture.
To unlock with a blood key, the blood key can be obtained by defeating the mini boss mamoth in stage1-2

Soul statue: The function is showed in the above picture. The enemies will respawn as ghosts infinitely, so it’s better not to activate this statue.
To unlock with a soul key, the blood key can be obtained by defeating the mini boss great wisp in stage 2-2

Trash statue: The function is showed in the above picture.
To unlock with a trash key, the trash key can be obtained by completing two rounds of challenges in the challenge room of the laboratory in stage 4-1 (the door of the challenge room requires the soul key to unlock).

Except opening of treasure chests, items and weapons bought from shop, this chapter will introduce some unique reinforcement inside the game

1. Scrapyard
There will be a scrapyard at the end of the first small stage of each large stage, the entrance is shown in the picture above
Inside the room from right to left are the vending machine for maximum health, the decomposing machine, the anvil and the trash key door
Vending machine for maximum health: Buy maximum health
Decomposing machine: Player jumps on the decomposing machine and press “x” to drop items or weapons, which can be broken down into components of the corresponding quality (Secret: Try to repel the monster to the feed port of the decomposing machine, the monster will be decomposed into the item “ant eye”, and the ghost monster will also be decomposed). Recommend to take the hot coffee found in the current stage to decompose, the max level of coffee can be decomposed into a red component.
Anvil: Player jumps on the anvil press “x” to drop melee or range weapons, it takes 5 pieces of the corresponding quality components to upgrade the quality of the weapon by one level, and the weapon can only be upgraded once. Suggestion: Try to get a blue → red melee weapon and red → gold range weapon in the run.
Using trash key to unlock the trash key door, there are gem extractor and item replicator inside, which can consume the corresponding quality of components to dig gems or copy items

2. Saint Rekoil
There will be a saint rekoil at the end of the first small stage of each large stage. Entering the room, the statue will shoot explosive fireballs to the player, and a bunch of explosive monsters will also attack the player. Smash the gold container at the corner of the room (as shown in the picture above), the statue will stop attacking, the monsters will become friendly (help you attack other monsters), and the door to the inner room will open
There is a saint rekoil statue in the inner room. Press “x” to drop items or weapons to feed the statue, and the statue would offer one of three reward. The qualitties of the rewards are proportional to the height of gold liquid on the top of statue, and player can receive red quality reward when the liquid is full. Suggestion: Feed the hot coffee found in the current stage to saint rekoil statue, because the hot coffee would become cold coffee in the next stage and the quality of coffee would downgrade to green

1. Blood key
There will be a moth cave at the end of 1-2 stage
After entering, press “E” to quickly turn on the four lights to start the mini boss battle and defeat the mamoth to obtain the blood key
The blood key can open the door of blood statue in base
At the beginning of the first small stage of each large stage, there will be a blood shrine, and the door will be opened with the blood key
There is a mosquito statue inside, press “E” to sacrifice blood for one of three rewards, the first time needs 20% HP, the second time needs 30% HP, the third time needs 40% HP, each stage can sacrifice up to 3 times (only remain 10% HP to go out). The qualities of rewards are proportional to the height of blood on the statue, player can obtain red quality reward when the blood is full.
Suggestion: Select the item “mutated heart” in trinket printer which can recover HP when kill enemy at low health. Player can recover up to 25% HP after exiting blood shrine. Although it’s dangerous to perform, player can receive more resources.

2. Soul key
There will be a room as shown in the picture above at the end of stage 2-2, press the buttons on the four platforms by exhaustive method (green light in the middle means that the buttons are correct).
As all correct buttons are pressed, mini boss great wisp would be summoned. Defeat great wisp to obtain the soul key
The soul key can open the door of soul statue in base
At the first small stage of each large stage, there will be a soul shrine, and the door will be opened with the soul key
There is an ant statue inside, press “E” to start the challenge, kill all the monsters to get one of four green quality reward. Press “E” again to start the second run of challenge, the previous monsters will respawn as ghost, kill all ghosts to get one of four blue quality reward.The way of obtaining trash key is related to this soul shrine, completing the second run of challenge in the soul shrine in stage 4-1 (lab) to obtain the trash key
Due to the sudden increase of difficulty at stage 3, the soul shrine can be very dangerous.
Suggestion: Use gadget “ghost mesmerizer” to revive the enemy as friendly ghost which can help player to attract other enemies’ attention. Thus player can have a comparable safe environment to attack.

3. Trash key
The way of obtaining trash key is mentioned in the above paragraph of “Soul key”
The trash key can open the door of trash statue in base
The trash key can open the trash door in scrapyard

Player can not get all achievements in current version, according to this walkthrough can get 14/15 achievements when complete the game
The last achievement “Fly Twins” 😅