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Four Corners

Four colonies in one nest, each with its own water.

Size
About 6 × 6 × 1⅜ in, two-part (top + base)
Colonies
4 separate colonies, about 2¾ sq in each
Ports
8 × AA-01 (a port and a vent per quadrant)
Model 04 Four Corners

Four Corners holds four separate founding colonies in a single unit, about 6 × 6 × 1⅜ in. Each quadrant has the same layout, turned 90°: a hydration chamber over a water well, a queen chamber off it, two small chambers toward the outer corner, a port and a vent.

Each quadrant has its own lid and its own cotton cup beneath a printed-hole Hydration Insert. The four separate cups keep the water sources isolated, preventing mold from spreading between colonies. An open moat runs through the rim between quadrants, so a gap under any lid leads outside, never into a neighbor. A heat-cable loop around the outer ring gives every quadrant the same warm edge and humid center.

Four colonies, kept apart

From above. Each quadrant is a nest of its own.

Top view of Four Corners: four separate quadrants, each with its own chambers and water well

  1. The same chambers, four times

    Each quadrant has the same layout, turned 90°: a hydration chamber, a queen chamber off it, and two small chambers toward the outer corner.

  2. A water well each

    Its own cotton cup under a printed-hole Hydration Insert. There's no shared reservoir, so mold in one colony's water can't reach another's.

  3. Open moat between quadrants

    It runs through the rim with double walls on either side, so a gap under any lid leads outside, never into a neighbor.

  4. Four separate lids

    One clear acrylic lid per quadrant, so you open one colony at a time.

  5. A port and a vent, both AA-01

    Two sockets per quadrant, so a colony can take a Link to a Scout and another to an outworld. Four Links come in the box.

Four Corners with its four clear lids on, one over each quadrant
Lids on: one per quadrant, so the other three stay closed.

Water for each quadrant

Taken apart. Each quadrant has its own cup of wet cotton under a floor printed with holes.

Four Corners taken apart: four clear lids, four Hydration Inserts, the top with its chambers, and the base with the cotton cups

  1. Four clear lids

    Acrylic, one per quadrant. Lift one to feed or check a colony without disturbing the rest.

  2. Four Hydration Inserts

    Floors printed with holes, one over each water well. Moisture rises through them from the cotton below. Spares: the Hydration Insert.

  3. The top

    All four quadrants' chambers in one part, with each quadrant's sockets in its outside walls.

  4. Four cotton cups

    One under each well, wetted on its own. No shared reservoir, so one colony's water never reaches another.

  5. The base

    The second of the two parts. The top sits on it, over the four cups.

How to keep the nest damp, not wet

Every quadrant alike

Four colonies in the same conditions, so you can compare how they grow.

Chamber depth map of Four Corners showing four identical quadrants around their water wells
Chamber depth map of Four Corners showing four identical quadrants around their water wellsShallowerDeeper

  • Same space

    4 separate colonies, about 2¾ sq in each. The depth map shows the same chambers at the same depths in every quadrant.

  • Same warmth

    Heat-cable loop around the outer ring. Every quadrant gets the same warm edge and humid center.

  • Same water

    Four identical cotton cups, each wetted on its own. A clean Hydration Insert swaps into one quadrant without touching the others.

Link each quadrant your way

Each quadrant has its own two ports, so every colony can have its own setup.

Four Corners with a Scout on a Riser and a Frontier S set up at one quadrant, the other three empty (sold separately)

  1. A Scout on a Riser

    The founding chamber, lifted to the quadrant's port height and joined to it with a Link.

  2. One quadrant in use

    The colony's nest, with its own lid and water.

  3. A Frontier S

    The outworld, on the same quadrant's other socket. Its Link comes in its box.

  4. Three quadrants free

    Room for three more colonies, each set up the same way when you have them.

  1. The Scout Riser with its side supports

    A Scout on a Riser

    For a colony that starts in a Scout. The Riser lifts the Scout's port to the quadrant's, and a Link joins them when the colony is ready to move up. Add the Scout in the setup below.

    $4.00 with a Four Corners $10.00, up to four

  2. Model 03 Frontier S with the feeding port in its lid

    A Frontier S

    An outworld for one quadrant, where you feed. Its own Link comes in its box.

    $28.00 with a Four Corners $34.00, up to four

  3. Four Corners Settlement: four colonies around one Four Corners, each quadrant linked to its own Scout and Frontier S

    All four at once

    The Four Corners Settlement: this Four Corners with four Scouts on Risers and four Frontier S, plus their plugs and spare floors.

    $299.00, $26.00 less than the same pieces in one order

    See the Settlement

Build your setup

Tick what you need for the colonies you have now. Pairing and add-on prices apply automatically.

  • Four CornersComing Soon · Date to be announcedThe nest, with four lids and four Links in the box.$96.00
  • $28.00$34.00
  • $24.00
  • $4.00$10.00
  • $4.00$6.00
  • $5.00$10.00
  • $4.00$8.00

Your setup · 1 item

$96.00

Coming soon: Date to be announced.

To scale

Side on, at true relative size: a Scout on its Scout Riser, the Four Corners and a Frontier S.

What's in the box?

Everything that ships with this item.

How it connects

Ways to build

Real connection plans with the pieces to add together. Kits count as one priced item.

Four Corners + four outworlds

Give each separate colony its own Frontier S.

04One quadrant onlyRepeat separately for each…Link03Its own Frontier S

Pieces to add

  • Each quadrant is a separate colony, not necessarily the same species.
  • One quadrant links to its own Frontier S; repeat independently for all four. Four Corners includes four Links, one per quadrant.

Setup total: $208.00

Cannot add setup yet: Four Corners: Coming soon: Date to be announced.

Fits its ports

Specifications

Size
About 6 × 6 × 1⅜ in, two-part (top + base)
Colonies
4 separate colonies, about 2¾ sq in each
Isolation
4 separate lids, open moat and double walls between quadrants
Water
4 separate cotton cups, one per colony, beneath printed-hole Hydration Inserts; no shared reservoir
Ports
8 × AA-01 (a port and a vent per quadrant)
Heat
Heat-cable loop around the outer ring

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