Just a quick update. My oldest norn, Atta, has just passed away at 2 hours, 21 minutes! One of the quirks of this breed is that females are allowed to become queens by breeding with males. Breeding with males prolongs their lives, after all. I really like this feature and it’s kind of fun to see how long you can get them to live. Anyway, carry on.
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No, as a matter of fact. I don’t know what I’m doing.
C-rex worked very hard on this new genome and I’ve definitely been looking forward to it. Naturally, when he said he needed testers, I was more than happy to oblige.
I loaded up a fresh world in Creatures 2 to introduce the new norns.
Atta was first. I figured that since males live such short lives I should introduce the male a little later.
The first thing Atta did was eat the mushrooms. She learned all the words I could teach her with the computers and at 10 minutes old, she was an Adult and ready to breed. 
She learned all of the vocabulary she could from the two computers by 11 minutes old and it was time to export her.
I did the same with Flik and he was ready to breed at 10 minutes as well. I saved copies of both of them in their new adult stage and introduced them to each other.
After they met, the ran straight for the cave and proceeded to wall bonk. In the midst of all their head injuries, they ended up getting pregnant.It almost seems like once they met, Flik just continues to wall bonk and has actually forgotten to eat. I’ve given him fruit and I keep asking him to eat but he dances around the fruit and continues to bonk against the wall.
I’ve been able to get Atta away from Flik and she’ll eat fruit when she’s separated from him. After some one on one time with Flik, I think he’s forgotten to eat fruit but he’ll still eat food.
They met again and started kisspopping and wall bonking right away. Soon, Flik was all mated out and died at just 21 minutes old. I knew males lived shorter lives than the females but I wasn’t expecting just 20 minutes. Still, he has two eggs to his name.
Out of those eggs came these two little males. 
These two males cause or have the same problems as their father did. Atta is still to crashing into a wall when they’re around but they still happily eat fruit. We’ll see if that changes when they grow up.Before long, they were old enough to breed and the wall bonking got worse again.
Only 45 minutes into the game, it seemed like the babies and pregnancies were starting to get out of hand. Rather than try to raise them all myself, I decided to leave them to their own devices.
Eventually, it became clear that wallbonking was a serious problem. Whenever they would mate they would get stuck in this cave.
I don’t know if it’s a result of the slapping, running or breeding but no matter what, when other ant norns are around, these guys run straight for this cave and repeatedly into the wall. It’s actually frustrating to watch and a bit boring.
Otherwise, I think their lifespans are about right and it’s fun to watch them breed and grow up so quickly. If their quirks were worked out I think they’d make a great wolfing breed! I only wish they would explore a little bit and remember to eat once in a while.
The behavior you’re witnessing here? Get used to seeing it; nearly every creature in C2 will do it given half a chance. They’re just that stupid.
Welcome to Creatures 2.
Really? That’s pretty rough. D:
Sadly, I haven’t played C2 much. I’m not sure I look forward to starting a blog world in it anymore. XD
Thanks for testing the Ant Norns for me Kezune! As Grendel Man said, Creatures 2 Norns have a terrible wallbonking problem, and are not too fond of eating. I recommend you give your Norns some time alone when they are first born (try hiding the hand) so they can learn about the world themselves.
Solitary Ant Norns should explore on their own, although when in large colonies their main priority will be to breed. In all honesty the Incubator room is really too small and a better place to keep them would be in the tropical area near the frog pond (Make sure you use an electric gate to keep them out of the water!), the swamp, or the surface of Albia.
Ah. I don’t know how to get all those norns up there without cheating, sadly. D:
I’ll give them another go and see if I can get them to visit the surface since that seems like it might be the easiest place to get them to go. Thanks for the tip!
Oh! Fun fact, I let the game run on its own for 4 hours and the ant norns were still happily breeding away.