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What do bitters actually attack? If they run across a solar power array out in the boonies will they attack it? What about a power pole? I know they attack bots and pollution emmiting machines but lets say I want to have a huge solar grid away from my base. Do I need to add protection like all other faucets of my base or is it on the list of non-agro items in the game? IE Solar panels, Accumulators and sub stations?

This game is awesome. I can not seem to get enough of it.

If enraged by pollution a biter will attack anything in its way - trees, stones, rail pieces, power poles, you name it will go in their rush to eliminate the pollution source.

If there is no pollution around biters may attack an object if it is in the place where they wish to build a nest.

But, if there is no pollution, and they are not migrating, then they won't attack anything unless it's within range of their senses and then only you, bots and turrets.

HTH

ChurchOrganist wrote:If enraged by pollution a biter will attack anything in its way - trees, stones, rail pieces, power poles, you name it will go in their rush to eliminate the pollution source.

No. Only if it blocks their way towards the pollution source or in rare cases where biters are enraged by pollution but can't find the source.

The main problem is. They will expand. You have to defend your outposts against that.
So you have to build defense towers - defense towers will aggro every alien around them

Nosferatu wrote:No. Only if it blocks their way towards the pollution source or in rare cases where biters are enraged by pollution but can't find the source.

Read my sentence again - that is exactly what I said!

ChurchOrganist wrote:

Nosferatu wrote:No. Only if it blocks their way towards the pollution source or in rare cases where biters are enraged by pollution but can't find the source.

Read my sentence again - that is exactly what I said!

No, he said exactly the same as you did.

ChurchOrganist wrote:

Nosferatu wrote:No. Only if it blocks their way towards the pollution source or in rare cases where biters are enraged by pollution but can't find the source.

Read my sentence again - that is exactly what I said!

The aliens aren't as aggressive as your sentence suggests.
They will not attack rail pieces on their way to the pollution source because rails don't block them.
If you place a power pole in open territory they will walk around it instead of attacking.
Power poles are only in danger if you place them in a dense forest.

Nosferatu wrote:They will not attack rail pieces on their way to the pollution source because rails don't block them.
If you place a power pole in open territory they will walk around it instead of attacking.

And yet I have experienced both these behaviours in late game.

To be fair they don't generally go for rail, but eating power poles is quite a regular occurrence.

For that reason there comes a point where I wall off territory at a point beyond the pollution cloud so they can't get to them

In my current factory, there's one problematic large pole on my main power supply along my rails, right next to an iron mining outpost that gets destroyed almost every time the outpost is attacked, i don't know own why the biters don't like that pole in particular, just that two or three brave construction bots give their lives as they try to repair it (stupidly)

The pile might block their path if there are other biters passing both sides of the pole and one buyer can't get past i guess, but it's still a pain to replace