I want huge biter attacks

[adam_bise]

In the map generator advanced, there is an option to increase the biter attack group size. But it caps out at 50..

Is there a way to set this higher than 50 using a command? I want to create a situation where too much pollution would result in massive, overwhelming attack waves.

I would also like to know if I can set spawners to not absorb pollution as much, so that further spawners will send attack waves as well. It seems like spawners are the biggest pollution sponge.

I currently use death world + max group size 50 and starting area very small, but would like to make biter attacks several times more difficult. Ideally I want pollution to have a dramatically increased effect on biter attacks so that I am forced to be very cautious of pollution in order to survive.

[DaveMcW]

The game engine simply can't handle huge numbers of biters.

The only way to make very difficult attack waves is to use stronger biters. There are several mods for this.

[darkfrei]

You can add new nests with this console command:

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/c local surface = game.player.surface
for c in surface.get_chunks() do
	local position = surface.find_non_colliding_position("biter-spawner", {x=c.x*32+16, y=c.y*32+16}, 10, 3)
	if position and surface.is_chunk_generated(c) then
		surface.create_entity{name="biter-spawner", position=position}
	end
	local position = surface.find_non_colliding_position("spitter-spawner", {x=c.x*32+16, y=c.y*32+16}, 10, 3)
	if position and surface.is_chunk_generated(c) then
		surface.create_entity{name="spitter-spawner", position=position}
	end
end