i'm trying to attack a hive tile and the game crashes when trying to generate a map for the encounter. I'm trying to troubleshot and understand the issue and i was wondering where to go to check for bugs. In case there's some faq somewhere that explains common issues, to help with the troubleshootting

Works with multiplayer mod?

It is not possible. Only an empress insectoid type can spawn insects that you can take with you.

Hello, can anyone tell me how to use insectoids from artificial hives in raids and caravans? Is it even possible? Is there any expansion or mod that makes this possible?

Is it intended that your tame insectoids can get addicted to royal jelly? Since they have different biology from humans and jelly is targeted at them, you'd think it should be safe for them.

Figured it out, I didn't have a hive yet. Once i built that it worked as intended.

I am having an issue where I have to expand the hive area 1 cell at a time. When I try to drag the box it doesn't work, anyone had this issue?

@Cevlar
Consider using the Jelly sacks evolution on your insectors.

I have managed to build a basic hive and the bugs have built some walls, but despite me having the materials in storage and the blueprints on the map, a sorne hive or a creeper will not be built. Is there something I am missing or it might be an interaction with other mods? Years have passed and still have not seen any of the faction events.

I enjoy the recent changes a lot, but I miss a lot from insectoids 1, such as the milk beetles and spiderweavers. Is it possible that these can make a return somehow, or are they doomed to the void (unless another modder can somehow revive them in the future)?

I am indeed constantly fighting when using the queen storyteller. FIGHTING MY FRAME RATE. In all sincerity it's has been nothing but war caravans and bulk goods traders flooding my colony non stop. sometimes three of four oft hem a day. my frame rate tanks and so does mt tps. I'm not even two in game weeks into my colony.

How are you supposed to manage the Insectoid Xenotype jelly consumption? They eat a ridiculous amount of it over any other available food, starving out my insects, and if they don't eat it they die. The structures just can't produce nearly enough for even 6 of them, let alone them + a hive, and there's no way to limit how much they eat to a certain amount. Any advice would be appreciated cause I just can't seem to find a way to keep up with their appetites

This is an odd request, but is there any consideration for a 'medic' insectoid (possibly giving the 'basic hive' another unit to produce) and/or geneline? It's painful having to either mass forbid medicine to insectoid troops or watch your doctors tend to brain damaged insectoids for days on end.

Hey which of the raid type events, such as the burrow siege, can happen on a non infested map tile?

I have no idea why but i just started a brand new colony and the bug storyteller has sent me at least 20 caravans withing the first few hours xD

nvm i never even had it it seems. huh sorry

big important question, can i run this *alongside* the first one?

Imagine if there was a Vanilla Factions Expanded: Super Earth

My megascarabs aint doing anything why could that be?

@Nickolok I agree! Maybe it could feed on filth but if it doesn't have any filth it runs out of "food" and stops, then has to be given jelly to start it back up?

nvm sorry I'm slow as shit I didn't know u needed insects to make it lol

Does anybody have a problem where they can't construct creeps and hive walls/doors?

If you have two maps (such as with SoS) can you decide which one will get raided from Han Horde?

Why are like a million bugs spawning every time I do a round from the storyteller and form the thumpers it lags my game out

Chitin is a textile-style stuff. Not a metal.

why i can't craft a plate armor made of chitin? i want to do a tribal run against insects

I really need a little cleaning bug for my insectoid colony!

The insectoid ship wrecks are scattered throughout the map, and I don't even have a simple way to clean them up. I think there should be a one-click demolition option after the raid ends, just like with mechanoids.

@Shawn The Derplock ye I actually stopped playing with this mod because it's unbearable, they are far too common and just flood your entire map plus cleaning them takes ages. I will stay tunned if they touch something about it tho, the mod is awesome

ive noticed that SOS2 and whatever mod adds the Black Hive adds artificial hives for their bugs. is there a list of other mods that do the same or are those the only ones?

Is there any way to speed up the spread of jelly floors?

Please let us deconstruct infested ship chunks

The hunters dont actucaly go out and hunt automatically do they? You just have to control them I assume?

Any chance that creep could be configured to count as floor? I have a tribe of insectors that is upset because their ideogram room is unfloored. I was hoping that adding the precept that made them like creep would change this, but it doesn't. I suppose I can remove all the nearby creepers once they get everything around covered, then build floors, but it breaks the vibe. I feel like the altar room is the one they should INSIST on being creep

any way to reduce the amount of "infected chunk crash" events? Randy seems to love them and just perma spam them

how tf do the hunter insectoids work

For some reason when I’m using the wave storyteller it spawns a million bugs that fill the map and lag my game does anyone else have that issue?

Can World map infestation be disabled?

l really want know why removing destruction botton from ship ruins event, l have to click destory botton again and agian and agian..., is there any way to solve it?

after reloading a save my bugs show up in the animals tab and have to be constantly trained is this intended behaviour or did i mess it up somehow`?

Messing around with custom scenarios, trying to make one with the hell pods from the prebuilt scenario and through testing I've found the hell pods are tied specifically to the scenario instead of the "New Squad" type. I'm realizing, however, there's little to no information I can find on what the "New ____" Player Faction types actually do for any of the Vanilla Factions Expanded mods. Is there somewhere that information is recorded? Obviously things can be figured out via trial and error, but it'd be nice to know things like starting tech level, starting techs researched, backstory categories, etc like we can find on the wiki for the base game scenarios like Arrivals, Tribe, and Research Expedition.

Would it be a bad idea for player owned hives to have a gizmo in their UI to limit the roaming area of its spawned insectoids?

Really like Han Horde-mode, just wish I could hide some or all parts of the UI, make the interval between waves semi-random (say a wave every 2-7 days) and either disable or customize the chance of gaining a tech after each wave (or even adjusting the chance for each activity state separately).

Can I add it to an existing save without consequences? (Swarm near the settlement and so on) And can you create a farm? I have the ideology of the underground, we want bug meat

I also dont seem to get the roaming insect world map event. im going to try and find the culprit

i tried loading biomes! caverns first and the problem persists :(. the only way i can find the other bugs is at hive bases. though royal variants seem to spawn from burrow sieges

I have Biomes, Biome raids will prioritize caravans it seems, but also naturally won't spawn other Insectoids really (sometimes but it seems to weight vanilla and Jelly pots higher) Hive raids and the like are still spawning all them, but normally see vanilla primarily. So maybe?

i could try removing it or changing the load order.

could it be that Biomes! is destructively patching our raid group makers?

are the raids not guaranteed to have different genelines? cause ive only been seeing sorne and biomes! caverns bugs