[0.17.x] [Need confirmation] Biters may spawn across water

[peekayy]

Hi,

My current game's base is protected by a "security perimeter" of laser towers guarding the intervals between lakes. The inside is explored and cleared of any biters. It was perfectly effective in 0.16.

Now in 0.17 from time to time I get attacks inside the perimeter. Those seem to come from newly created biter bases.

At first I thought my defenses were not strong enough and would let some biters go through. So i reinforced them. Biters don't even hurt the towers now \o/.
But the new bases keep apearing from time to time !

Looking closer on where the bases would pop, I noticed it always was near lakes where the opposite shore (outside my base) has spawners touching the shoreline.
So my idea is that the engine instead of spawning new biters in water, spawns them on the nearest available land block in the same direction i.e. the shore inside my base.

Anyone noticed such behaviour ?

[Klonan]

Can you provide a save game?

[peekayy]

So I spent a lot of time trying to reproduce it and provide you with a relevant save game. And it appears that with the new pathfinding a few biters from larger groups can make it through my defense and settle somewhere behind. So i was totally wrong

You can discard this report then !

[BlueTemplar]

Oh, yeah, biters go all-in now !
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