This is a suggestion from the community, we have no clue about if something from here will make it to the actual game .

Hi, now in 2023 with the space expansion in mind, i'm thinking about this (AI, pheromone pathfind, at least danger pheromone) is it done in a separated branch, a work in progress, not planned, included in some mod ?

There are many ideas around pheromone controlled biter behavior and how to make them more interesting. One good starting point is https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=3440&start=30 What do biters do in their spare time? ...

... biter behaviour. What I was thinking is, what if biters functioned somewhat more like ants rather than mindless petrol huffers and used a sort of pheromone system? Ants drop pheromone trails to aid in building supply routes and spreading information about resource availability to other gatherers. ...

... love to see something done where a player can see what path biters took to get to where they got. One idea: biters leave behind a visible "pheromone trail" that dissipates over time when they walk. Or just something similar to the current Show Paths debug, but perhaps with a little ...

... be configurable. This idea can be compared to the Rampant mod, but it's far simpler, leveraging the existing pollution mechanic instead of adding pheromones.

They can smell your ass. It's time to introduce toilet paper and a shower to the game :D Greetings, Ronny That's not a bad idea. A pheromone capsule which let the biter think that the player is also a biter for some time. Maybe thats already in the game but only activated in peaceful mode. ...

rldml wrote:

steinio wrote:They can smell your ass.

It's time to introduce toilet paper and a shower to the game

Greetings, Ronny

That's not a bad idea. A pheromone capsule which let the biter think that the player is also a biter for some time.
Maybe thats already in the game but only activated in peaceful mode.

... by the field and loose energy and can do less damage the closer to the generator they go. Alternatively shields could be some form of mental or pheromone attack. Making the aliens simply not want to attack. It then should have no effect on projectiles. And groups of aliens would have a stronger ...

... by the field and loose energy and can do less damage the closer to the generator they go. Alternatively shields could be some form of mental or pheromone attack. Making the aliens simply not want to attack. It then should have no effect on projectiles. And groups of aliens would have a stronger ...

... Food dispensers that pacify attacking biters - they'll eat the food until they are no longer angry. When you create advanced foods you can create pheromones and encourage the biters to build bases on ore patches and mine the ore. You can tap into biter bases to generate electricity. The more well ...

... too close. The aliens newly realistic behaviour doesn't appear to change anything about how I play. Can I research the aliens, learn about their pheromones, detect them on the map, then predict and foil their expansion as well as lay false trails to lead them into a trap? Will this lead to interesting ...

I'm curious to try out the tick approach to maintaining the pheromone map.

Because every Factorio player must create a thread where he explains to devs how to properly make alien AI. :D Part I. Alien Pheromones and Hive Behavior. The suggestions to replace alien behavior AI with a distributed pheromone system have been voiced already on this forum. This is ...

Could be interesting... I point to viewtopic.php?f=80&t=3440 What do biters do in their spare time? (Pheromone pathfind)

... cause they can be tricked out so easy. See also https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=3440 What do biters do in their spare time? (Pheromone pathfind) For example: Dead biters can exhale a smell, that either let's enemies retreat/choose another path, or if it is unavoidable then ...

... ability to have more than a pollution cloud. See https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=3440 What do biters do in their spare time? (Pheromone pathfind). I think enabling modding is in any case much more useful, than stupid implementation. And I'm always for this way, cause it enables ...

... decisions based on it's neighbors behavior, thus giving rise to complex swarm behavior. Their primary method of communication appears to simply be pheromones. "Rampant AI" does implement some of this to what I think is great success, but I believe it could be taken further with spectacular ...

See also viewtopic.php?f=80&t=3440 What do biters do in their spare time? (Pheromone pathfind)

... ideas around new types of natives and natives behavior) I could live with thief biters as well... I think I recommended something like that in the pheromone pathfinding thread... where some biters might get attracted to certain resources/items which they think of as a possible food alternative.