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Artifact Hatch

Description:

• Alien artifacts are actually alien eggs! Deal with them before they hatch.

Details:

• Name: Artifact Hatch
• Category: SimpleExtension
• MOD Version: 0.13.0
• Factorio Version: 0.13
• Latest Released: 1 Jul 2016
• Dependencies: None
• Website: https://github.com/sparr/factorio-mod-artifact-hatch
• Author: Sparr
• Contact: sparr0@gmail.com
• Tags: enemies, biters, difficulty
• License: MIT License
  

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Download: https://github.com/sparr/factorio-mod-a ... 0.13.0.zip
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Does each egg spawn 1 biter? Do the spawned biters drop artifacts? Can the biters multiply if you just set some turrets near some artifacts and let them spawn/drop/spawn/drop?

Each egg eventually spawns 1 biter.

Spawned biters can drop artifacts, with the same loot table as normal biters.

If the average biter drops more than 1 artifact, then they will multiply if you don't collect the artifacts. However, the biters that spawn from an artifact will mostly be smaller than the ones that dropped them, and the smaller biters drop <1 artifact on average, so the multiplication should cap out.

What happens with artifacts on belts? Can they hatch?

British_Petroleum wrote:What happens with artifacts on belts? Can they hatch?

I don't think so. They should, but fixing that might be computationally expensive. I'll investigate.

sparr wrote:

British_Petroleum wrote:What happens with artifacts on belts? Can they hatch?

I don't think so. They should, but fixing that might be computationally expensive. I'll investigate.

Ah hmm. yeah that would be a deal breaker for me personally. maybe you could steal some code from those item pickup mods that don't bother with items on belts.

sporefreak wrote:maybe you could steal some code from those item pickup mods that don't bother with items on belts.

Not bothering with items on belts is what I'm doing already.