Colony Flow Level 1317 Solution & Walkthrough Guide

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Colony Flow Level 1317 Solution & Walkthrough Guide

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Colony Flow Level 1317 presents a vibrant pixel art challenge featuring a ripe tomato framed by a decorative border. Your ants begin at the nest near the bottom edge, but thick layers of perimeter tiles cut off access to the juicy interior. Clearing this stage requires careful block selection from the tray and smart management of your five waiting slots, especially when dealing with connected blocks that must be handled as pairs.

The pixel illustration showcases a large, rounded tomato shaded with deep red, crimson, rich purple along the shadowed underside, bright orange, and pale yellow highlights across the upper right curve. The tomato is topped with a cluster of green leafy stems. Surrounding the entire fruit is an elaborate green square border accented with red corner flourishes and red outer framing lines.

Beneath the board sits the block dispenser tray, organized into tidy columns. You can immediately see a variety of solid colored blocks including red, orange, crimson, green, and purple. The starting visible numbers are quite high, commonly ranging between 25 and 35. This means each block you pick will summon a substantial swarm of ants that needs a wide stretch of matching food tiles to expend its full count.

The main physical obstacle at the start is the lower green border. It completely seals off the bottom of the board, preventing your ants from reaching any of the red, purple, or orange tiles forming the tomato body. Because ants cannot skip over barricades, your initial paths must carve through the nearest green tiles first.

Space management is your greatest concern on this board. You have only five waiting slots above the tray. Connected boxes appear in this level, linking pairs of colored blocks together with a rigid bar. When you select a connected pair, both blocks move toward the waiting area simultaneously, claiming two of your precious five slots at once. If you pick a block whose color cannot currently reach matching food tiles, that block sits completely idle. Fill all five slots with stalled blocks and the run ends immediately.

Start your run by focusing entirely on the outer green perimeter closest to the nest. Look at the tray and select the available green blocks, including the connected green pair that commands an 18 count along with its partner. Tap the green blocks to send your worker ants marching straight upward from the nest into the bottom edge of the decorative frame.

As the green ants chew through the lower boundary, the green border begins to disintegrate from the center outward. The numbers on your active green blocks tick down rapidly from the mid thirties down toward zero. Once the central segment of the bottom frame vanishes, the lowest line of dark purple and deep red tiles at the base of the tomato becomes fully exposed to the open room.

With the bottom barrier dismantled, choose a red block and the dark purple block showing in the tray. The red block drops into a waiting slot and begins feeding worker ants directly onto the exposed crimson skin at the lower rim of the tomato.

At the same time, purple ants crawl into the shadow area on the lower left curve. The red block counts down quickly from its starting value down toward single digits, while purple steadily eats upward. This dual attack chips away the entire bottom shelf of the fruit, giving your colony wider lanes to reach the inner layers. Keep an eye on your waiting slots so you do not crowd them while waiting for these lower paths to widen.

Now that the lower right flank of the tomato is accessible, select the orange blocks from your tray. In the tray you will find orange blocks with counts around 30, 31, and 35. Selecting an orange block dispatches ants toward the bright orange patch situated on the right side of the fruit.

Your orange ants quickly take a massive bite out of the tomato, eating inward and upward. As those orange tiles disappear, they reveal the pale yellow highlight tiles nestled right in the center of the right cheek. A yellow block can now be brought into an available slot to feed on those sunny tiles. Because the orange tiles cleared out a large pocket, both orange and yellow ants work side by side without causing path congestion.

Continue your push through the right side by deploying another crimson block alongside an active orange block. The orange block counts down toward 12 and then into single digits as the remaining highlight tiles vanish.

The crimson ants swarm into the newly revealed red meat inside the fruit. This creates a gaping hollow in the right hemisphere of the tomato. Your waiting area should currently hold a mix of red and orange blocks steadily ticking down, with at least two slots remaining completely open. The removal of this large section breaks the tomato into two distinct zones, allowing ants to enter from both the bottom and the right flank simultaneously.

Shift your attention over to the left side of the tomato where dark purple and deep red tiles still form a thick wall. Select the purple block from the lower rows of the tray. Your purple ants stream up the left opening, devouring the shaded skin of the tomato.

As the purple tiles disappear, the count on your purple block drops from over 30 down into the teens, eventually clearing completely. This opens up direct access to the remaining red core from the western side of the board. The tomato is now hollowed out from both sides, leaving only the central vertical column of red pulp and the green stem foliage above it.

Pick the remaining red blocks from your tray, including blocks with values such as 21, 11, and 4. Since the red core is exposed on three sides, ants pour in from multiple directions. The crimson numbers melt away in seconds.

During this sweep, watch out for the green leaves forming the tomato crown. As the red tiles beneath the stem disappear, the leafy green top is finally untethered from below. You will also uncover tiny yellow flecks and the lingering outer red lines of the top frame. Make sure your slots stay uncluttered as the final red blocks exhaust their counts and vanish from the waiting area.

With the tomato body completely destroyed, only the green foliage at the top and the upper horizontal border remain. Select the green blocks, including the connected green pair remaining in your tray.

Your green ants climb up the cleared floor, bypassing the empty space where the tomato used to sit, and begin chewing through the leaves. Once the leaves are consumed, the ants continue upward into the upper horizontal green border. The numbers on your active green blocks drop from 21 and 18 down toward zero, stripping away the entire upper boundary of the board.

Only a few stubborn decorative tiles remain along the topmost edge, primarily the thin red accent lines and a few isolated dark or yellow specks. Pull the final low count red blocks and dark accent blocks into your open waiting slots.

The ants scurry to the very top edge of the board, consuming the final red flourishes. The last numbers hit zero, the waiting slots empty out, and the board clears completely to complete the stage.

The critical turning point in this puzzle occurs during Step 1 when you clear the lower green border. At the start of the level, the tomato is completely untouchable because the green perimeter forms an unbroken barrier across the bottom of the screen. Committing your early green blocks to that bottom strip might feel like you are ignoring the main fruit, but it is the only move that establishes an entry path for every other color. Once that bottom wall crumbles, your purple and red ants can finally reach their targets, transforming a locked board into an open playground.

Finishing the Remaining Food

The endgame requires strict discipline with your color selection. After the tomato body is gone, you are left with the green stem, the upper green border, and thin red framing lines. It is tempting to grab whatever block is sitting on top of the tray, but you must ensure your green blocks enter first to wipe out the foliage before attempting to clean up the red accents behind it. By letting the green swarm finish its job on the upper frame, you leave an unobstructed route for your final red blocks to mop up the remaining tiles without stalling in your waiting slots.

The biggest hazard on this board is pulling red or orange blocks into your waiting slots before an open path actually reaches those colors. In the opening seconds, red and orange make up the vast majority of the pixel art, making them look like attractive choices. However, because the green border isolates the entire fruit, any red or orange block you tap will immediately freeze in a waiting slot. Since you only have five slots, wasting two or three of them on unreachable colors leaves you with almost no room to cycle through the green blocks you genuinely need.

Another major trap involves the connected boxes. Linked blocks take up two waiting slots at the same moment. If you already have two or three occupied slots and you tap a connected pair, you will instantly fill the tray to capacity. If those connected blocks cannot immediately expend all their ants, your board becomes gridlocked and you lose. Always ensure you have at least three empty waiting slots before activating any connected box, and confirm that the path for that color is already wide open.

Lastly, be mindful of the transition from the tomato body to the upper stem. Clearing the red core happens quickly once paths open up on both sides, which can cause players to tap red blocks in rapid succession. If you queue up more red blocks than there are red tiles remaining on the fruit, those excess red blocks will sit in your slots unable to finish until the very end of the stage. Count the visible red patches carefully and allow your green blocks into the queue early enough to handle the top leaves.

Conquering Colony Flow Level 1317 comes down to peeling away the puzzle layer by layer, beginning with the green outer frame before carving through the juicy tomato interior. Keep your waiting slots clean, handle connected boxes with caution, and always make sure a clear pathway exists before picking a color from the tray. If any specific timing or block choice feels tricky as you play through, check out the video above this walkthrough to watch the exact winning order in action.