overgrown drop pod??

[Rhodry]

overgrown drop pod?? What is going to jump out lol? really bad like mechs so kill it straight away or something that might benefit a arid scrubland biome?

[SereneK]

I got Cactipines spawning from mine. And I think insect jelly spawned next to the pod each time it spawned another Cactipine. I had Alpha Animals mod enabled.

The Cactipines were all in Manhunter phase and strangely the game didn't even let me rescue them after they were downed. So I used the dev tool to recruit them because they are good animals that spawn medicine every few days.

[kevinshow]

they are hard to hit so they usually get a few bites in before you take them out. however, if you rush over and deconstruct the drop pod before they can come out, then they are a non-issue.

I did try one time to let the pod just keep spawning them until their timer ran out, because I was wanting more sentient skin leather.

It wasn't worth the trouble of having to fight a new cactipine every couple of game hours.

It's better to find some for sale or go to a biome that has them and tame them, if you want to harvest skin or healing items.

[Cthulhu The 3rd]

So I know this is pretty much necroing, but I still thought I'd weigh in. If you are having trouble with the spawning buggers, I've found they seem to not be able to figure out how to break threw a wall or door...so I just built a small steel enclosure around them. I send my guys to deal with them when there's enough inside and then just go about my business. After all, why bother with them constantly annoying you when you can make it a nice little farm as you need area?

[Shades Mc'guy]

I had a desert play through that got absolutely ****** by these guys. I didn't consider it a threat encounter until the unholy spawn of what can only be assumed to have the heritage of Shrek and a porcupine. My problem with them is that they will bleed your colonists dry, and then spawn another one right after each fight because the spawn rate is pretty high (especially at an early game).
Don't screw around with these things, if one is spawned they'll just bleed a colonist into immobility one-by-one and there's nothing you can do about it. They're a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ way to slowly watch your colony die.

[Comrade Johnny]

Now, I know Ill necro this post twice now but I realized that a reliable way to handle this: If you play with minify everything you can just uninstall the drop pod and safely store it somewhere. When you want you can set it up somewhere again and it will safely spawn.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12L25OCLt7-X150xapLF60cJNbcT6dNBy/view
This screenshot is from my first enclosure but I later on expanded it with a long hallway filled with traps and turrets at the end and they can fairly easily handle it. And I dont think that some bug can survive an angry colonist with a minigun. Surprisingly enough I tried to kill them via heatstroke and these buggers are immune to that. And I DID heat the room to 78°+ so its kinda safe to say that these buggers can only be killed by bullets. But if you want to keep it and store it or set up a farm, minify everything lets you put it in storage and nothing will happen until you put it somewhere. Later I realized that my colonists could bring the uninstalled thing with a raid and then put it somewhere near the enemies and hide. It takes a while yes, but your colonists wipe the entire settlement without risking anything. And the few bugs that survive can be killed on range and you can just pick it up again. This thing was very useful. Also if you have a beefy computer you can draw a perimeter wall around your base, build a gate so your expeditions can still leave and then put the pod somewhere outside. Occasionally rush in, grab the jello and then get back inside and you have a very reliable way to ram raids into the dust. Also they draw away fire from your colonists so they are very useful imo.