Ant Builder

Ant Builders serve as the meta-progression merchants for the game.

Ability
Ant Builders offer Permanent Upgrades for the player to purchase in exchange for Cornucopias. Once unlocked, they will be found before starting a run, and will change the appearance of the player's Farmhouse as new upgrades are purchased.

Unlock Method
There are 5 different Ant Builders in the game which are discovered at random during a run: the Historian, the Sage, the Chemist, the Engineer, and the Alien. According to the official Atomicrops twitter account, the spawn locations are controlled, but the spawn order is random. All Ants can be found during any year. The Ants will spawn in these locations and order:


 * 1) Tier I Jungle or Tier I Tundra biomes
 * 2) Tier II Plains or Tier II Desert biomes.
 * 3) Tier II Tundra or Tier II Jungle biomes.
 * 4) Tier II Tundra or Tier II Jungle biomes
 * 5) Tier II Tundra or Tier II Jungle biomes