Home Improvements

Home Improvements are the game's meta-progression upgrades.

General Description
Home Improvements are purchased from the Ant Builders, once they are rescued, by using Cornucopias. The cost of each upgrade starts at 3 Cornucopias and increases linearly at a rate of 1 up to a maximum of 20. Once the cost reaches 20, the ant will no longer offer additional upgrades. However, despite this no upgrades can be missed. This means that players will be able to purchase all 16 or 17 upgrades listed by the Ants and not have to pick and choose. You can review your purchased upgrades by interacting with the front door of your home.

Some upgrades are unique and others may be offered more than once, or by more than one ant. These improvements can therefore be purchased more than once, and all will stack additively (not multiplicatively).

Purchasing upgrades from the ants also provide cosmetic upgrades to your home in the form of statues, benches, friendly monsters in/on your house, etc. The home's cosmetic upgrades are non-interactive.

Alien Ant
The Alien Ant primarily offers upgrades that improve weapons. Added in the Invasive Species update.

There are 17 upgrades in all, including repeats.

Chemist Ant
The Chemist Ant primarily offers upgrades which focus on Mushrooms.

There are 16 upgrades in all, including repeats.

Engineer Ant
The Engineer Ant primarily offers upgrades that affect Tractors and Scrolls.

There are 16 upgrades in all, including repeats.

Historian Ant
The Historian Ant primarily provides upgrades that focus on improving the player's next run based on how well they did in their previous run. This is done in the form of the Time Capsule.

There are 16 upgrades in all, including repeats.

Sage Ant
The Sage Ant's upgrades focus on Stat and time improvements.

There are 16 upgrades in all, including repeats.