Ant Wars World Files -------------------- Ant Wars map files are a simple text file format. The first three lines are newline terminated strings which respectively name the map, the author, and the date of the map's creation. The next two lines specify the map width and height in cells. The remaining lines describe the world itself. Each line is 2*width characters wide. Even lines (including the first, 0 based line) start immediately with a cell description character. Odd lines begin with a space and then the cell description character. In this way the cells are staggered as they will be in the game itself. See the original ICFP manual for more information. The possible cell description characters are: # -> Rock @ -> Water - -> Black Ant Hill + -> Red Ant Hill 1,2,3,4,5 -> One, two, three, four, or five food pellets on grass . -> Grass Apart from the addition of the mapname, author, and date fields, this format is identical to the original ICFP format. The other difference is the addition of the 'water' cell. Water is described in the Formicidae VM description, but essentially, water is fatal to an ant. Upon stepping in, the ant dies and turns into food as usual. Food on water will float in a random direction once every 14 ticks until it reaches shore.