User blog:Courageouskyran/The amount of work that got into getting pictures of ants

So i was working onthis article, trying to get pictures of ants doing things. However, to get this i needed a picture of ants destroying things and a picture of an ant riding something. To do this i needed a hostile ant - which was incredibly hard to find. I went through about 3 servers with no bloody hostile ants, and then found one WITH the ants, but with a hacker halfway through. So in the next server, I actually GOT hostile ants, and then the games begun!

Trying to get them to ride something
I chose this as the first task, deciding to begin to exponential task of just getting a banto from the island. See, this is alot more of a serious endeavor then many would think, as I was already in the ant caves to see if the ants were hostile. I had to build a tower, put another tower on another part of the wall, build ANOTHER tower down the entrance, climb that, make a bunch of hobbles as platforms, put leaves on those and jump up. Then I had to craft a saddle and throw it on the bantho.

Now that i have the bantho I bring it down to the ants, and just leave it there. I take a fire ant, make him mad, and run past the bantho so he'll get on it- and he does! And then someone killed him!

So trying again I got another fire ant, threw him on a bantho, and got a decent picture.

Trying to get them to attack something
This was the most difficult part. I tried building just a wall first, but it looked like he was rubbing his face into it while moving his arms. Next i tried a grinder, and it worked fine! But of course, i failed to remeber two crucial things: So I decided to try a chest! This also worked, but i needed a shot where the ant was actually attacking the chest. I tried this over and over, until eventually I was out of logs - i ran over to the lake area to break some rafts, and found all the other ants stuck. I killed off the ants, leaving like 50 spawned in brand new.
 * Fire ants hit for as much as a Mag Pickaxe
 * Grinders have like 35 health

Next off I built a Lookout, Hobble, Grinder and Chest. I Let them all sit, and when a handful of ants came over and begun attacking, I actually got a decent shot. WOooooOOWoWOWoo