[0.13.2] Game stops when spawners have no autoplace

[orzelek]

In RSO I tried to remove autoplace from spawners to disable built in spawning and control it by hand.

This caused an unexpected issue:
When biters try to migrate (thats my assumption) game will close with following:

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No entity prototypes are available for this building.

Attached save and RSO version that will cause this to pop up within few minutes from loading.

If threre is a way to remove default spawn without causing this issue please give me some hints. I tried setting richness multiplier to 0 but it didn't work for enemy bases/turrets at all.

[Oxyd]

Well, yes. Biter expansion uses the autoplace list to determine what buildings they'll build. If that list is empty, expansion makes no sense.

You can disable enemy expansion by setting enemy_expansion.enabled = false in map-settings. I think it is better for a modder to disable expansion explicitly in order to make sure that's really what they intended.

[orzelek]

Well, yes. Biter expansion uses the autoplace list to determine what buildings they'll build. If that list is empty, expansion makes no sense.

You can disable enemy expansion by setting enemy_expansion.enabled = false in map-settings. I think it is better for a modder to disable expansion explicitly in order to make sure that's really what they intended.

I figured out that much after finding some attributes in autoplace like evolution thresholds.
My issue was that I do want migration to occur. I only don't want the noise generated ones.
I figured out that if I set peaks to empty table it will disable the noise generator. If I set it to nil or break it in any other way (previous method would insert peak with -1000 influence) generator will fill whole land with objects in question (worms or bases). Spawning in field of worms is an interesting surprise