Insects!

[Vertibird]

My colonists and my animals run into insects occassionally. Game slows down to normal speed , my animals go down and die and this happens often. Its a bit annoying when I dont have the power to clean caves from insects. Any tips?

[Elementium]

if it is natural insect from caves, build wooden wall + door or just wall.

If you build doors disallow it to preven people from going in.
Know that insect react to weather and can destroy wall if they are indoor with unbearable temperatures

[Païtiti]

Limit their area. You can quite literally tell them not to walk over to the insects. Safer is to enclose the entrances to those caves with walls.

[Hykal]

1. Build door
2. Forbid door

[Markus Reese]

The main weaknesses to bugs are fire and they are melee.

Fighting bugs in open ground is a death sentence, but they will try and run straight at you. So first tip is try to build a choke point to funnel them.

Second is because they cluster and are underground? Fire is friend. If you can, get a couple pawns to toss molotovs or incendiary into where they spawned. Even if just tossing on rock to build up the temperature. Be ready to fall back on your chokepoint fast so dont be too close.

If you can get them burning, heatstroke start, but even better if you can start spontaneous combustion of them.

Then as they come at you, make them run through fire too. If you can grenade, even better. DONT use really low rate of fire weapons like snipers. Lots of targets, weak armor, so go for pure damage.

[Vertibird]

Thanks all! Problem is currently I have only bows. Insects dont seem to like me constructing something near them. I guess best option is disallowing cave entrances.

[Païtiti]

Originally posted by Vertibird:

Thanks all! Problem is currently I have only bows. Insects dont seem to like me constructing something near them. I guess best option is disallowing cave entrances. :presidente:

The issue with disallowing is that pawns on mental breaks might wander in it. I've experienced it time and time again that pawns on any binge break go and consume the insect jelly near the hives and dont care whether doors or zones are forbidden. That is the real threat to your pawns. Therefore you need to wall it off. Building a door does nothing as you could just zone the area out in the first place.

[Vertibird]

Originally posted by 123:

Originally posted by Vertibird:

Thanks all! Problem is currently I have only bows. Insects dont seem to like me constructing something near them. I guess best option is disallowing cave entrances.

The issue with disallowing is that pawns on mental breaks might wander in it. I've experienced it time and time again that pawns on any binge break go and consume the insect jelly near the hives and dont care whether doors or zones are forbidden. That is the real threat to your pawns. Therefore you need to wall it off. Building a door does nothing as you could just zone the area out in the first place.

Didnt know jelly is considered a chemical.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Vertibird:

Didnt know jelly is considered a chemical. :spiffo:

It's not. If they're in most kinds of mental breaks, they'll ignore their food allowance settings and the forbidden status of items and go eat the jelly near nests if there isn't anything else to eat when they're hungry. Or, for food binge, if there's just nothing else to eat.

[Vertibird]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Originally posted by Vertibird:

Didnt know jelly is considered a chemical.

It's not. If they're in most kinds of mental breaks, they'll ignore their food allowance settings and the forbidden status of items and go eat the jelly near nests if there isn't anything else to eat when they're hungry. Or, for food binge, if there's just nothing else to eat.

Thanks! Going to wall of insect caves