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I have been playing multiplayer with my friends, and after 35 hours in game, we are almost ready to build rocket defense. We had the setting that aliens don't attack first, but when reading about rocket defense it said that the aliens would attack. So my question is, will the aliens attack when they have been instructed not to attack first, and what happens after "the landing"?

Alien attack on rocket defense is kind of bugged right now IIRC.
Source : https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... nse#p26856

You can build the RD without ever attacking the Aliens? How do you get the Alien Siencepacks?

You can play with aliens not attacking you first place - but defending themselves when attacked. That's the purpose of "Peaceful mode" on map generation screen.
They only attack you back when attacked themselves.

[Edit] Peaceful mode, not to be confused with peaceful mod, which is a mod that alters the game to remove the need to fight aliens at all, as it provides a way to build alien artifacts from ore.

Aliens only attack when you attack a specific hive, I have however discovered that running them over with a tank does not constitute an attack.

Another Quick question, I am trying to use some commands, but they are failing. Mainly when I try to use the refill resource command, it tells me that map does not contain one player so this function cant be used. Any advice?

Another quick answer :

Hold you cursor (hand) over the resource you want to refill and type: Source : https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... ds#Editing

Koub wrote:Another quick answer :

Hold you cursor (hand) over the resource you want to refill and type:

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 /c game.player.selected.amount=7500

Source : https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... ds#Editing

Thats exactly what I do. I always get an Error(string "game.player.selected.amount=7500"):1: Map doesn't contain 1 player, this function can't be used.

The map doesn't contain 1 player, if it's multiplayer there will be at least 2 players.

You need to use players[#] with # being the player number you want the command to affect.

I've read that in MP, player is an array. maybe you could try that ? [Edit] Doh Fish :p

Thanks for the help guys! I turned out to be player number 3.