Ha, thanks. That was a lot of fun to put together, really hits hard what you let happen to your poor queen
I had no idea there was a sorting hat spider!!! We should have just changed all the spiders to this! That really is an awesome little beast. You are of course right about the hat having little effect on arachnophobes. That fact alone, I find quite hilarious (that we added the feature and it doesn't help at all)- though I think some people are quite serious about not wanting to be scared by spiders. The idea came up (though may not be implemented for some time yet) to have an "arachnophobia slider": The higher you set your arachnophobia, the bigger the top hat is, and on maximum it is just a big mobile top hat.
Obviously we don't want to get too side tracked pouring time into that, not when ants are still getting themselves stuck on nest entrances.. Damn 3d pathfinding.