• Didn't commit the code to not harm the gameplay of others.
• Feel free to reach me here if you are interested
• Curiosity-driven work (Atm the goal isn't to build a real solid software)

Demo on Youtube 👀

What is The Ants - Bot?

A program who will play for you when you cannot play at The Ants: Underground Kingdom

What can it do?

• ✅ Farm resources by attacking world monsters
• ☑️ Resource gathering
• ☑️ Provide Allance Help
• ☑️ Claim Alliance Gifts
• ☑️ Upgrade buildings of your AntHill

How it works?

Stack

• MacOS Monterey
• Dart: All the codebase
• BlueStacks: Android device emulation on my Mac
• CliClick: Simulate user taps
• MacOS Screencapture CLI: Screenshot emulator
• Tesseract: Text recognition (OCR) on Screencaptures (from emulator)
• ImageMagick: Image cropping + Image preprocessing for Tesseract

Problems encountered

☑️ BlueStacks sometimes makes my Mac BlackScreen during its startup

✅ OCR's Result isn't accurate (Multiple data on the same line)

→ 💡 Split this date in multiple cropped images + OCR them 1 by 1

details here

When scanning this:

Tesseract can return:

• 460 Dye 220/1,540 @ 84/100 &, 4.0K
• 460 Dye 220/1,540 @ PAPAL!) &, 4.0K
• even worse cases...

It is better like this:

✅ OCR's Result isn't accurate (Application graphics aren't always aligned the same way)

→ 💡 Find better values for thoses crop zones

details here

See those 2 cases with different stamina:

OCR Result: 100/100

OCR Result: PAPAL!) 🤯

I hardcoded the crop zone value when stamina was 100/100. When Stamina drops to 93/100, crop zone is bad (because it contains part of the insect image). OCR This produces noise and a bad OCR result like

☑️ OCR not consistent

→ 💡

details here

Bot modes

1. AutoFarming

Goal

Farm resources by attacking monsters as much a possible.

Advantages

• You wake up with a lot resources :)
• Provides XP for your special Ants

Features

• ✅ Computes which resource you need the most before attacking a monter
• ✅ Use all March Units available (only the first two are used at the moment)
• ☑️ Automatically refills your March Units with available soldier ants

Prerequisites

You build your March Units before launching the bot