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Not sure if this was reported already, but I encountered a bug presumably connected with biter eggs hatching on a space platform.

One of my ships primarily transports biter eggs to Gleba. Since I had some issues with running out of seeds when producing overgrowth soil for the fruits its seems that some biter eggs hatched on the ship ... but not on the ship itself, but rather in space in front of it. There is no space plaform there and the biters are just hovering, constantly turning.

The ship does not seem to be affected by this and is still operating as usual. Besides the fact that these biters probably should tear my ship to pieces
instead, this seems to be mostly a visual bug.

I just saw this, but havent checked in on the ship for a while so I can't say how long these biters already have been there.

The game is mostly vanilla with only a Todo List mod. I attached the save. The ship affected is the first in the list (Phoenix)

Looks like eggs hatched while being delivered by the cargo pods, position where those biters are roughly aligns with the trajectory of cargo pods. I think spoil to trigger may need to be blocked when in cargo pod to avoid this issue from reappering.

I've "fixed" this for the next release for this specific scenario (spoiling in space).