Insectoid problem.

[Yi Sang]

There are 30-32 hives, 38 megaspiders, 48 spellopedes, 48 megascarabs. No caravan nor group of people could help. I have 15-20 colonists, 6 of which have modern guns, 1 has a club, only 2 have proper armor. I tried bombing them, didn't work :( .

[Yi Sang]

Also they are devouring my fps plz help.

[The Blind One]

You accidentally let them grow this big right?

These buggers have a tendency to multiply rather quickly.

2 hives becomes 4 then 8 then 16 and then 32

[Ivarukฅ(^•ᴥ•^)ฅﾉ彡]

i had a similar issue, hoping that raiders would come in, but instead a caravan of people (with one of my colonist's ex wife) end up aggroing the massive group. that many is just incredibly dangerous. hmm. you might consider digging a place to fight them. if they can be bottlenecked somewhere it might be possible to fight that many.

[VitaKaninen]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

2 hives becomes 4 then 8 then 16 and then 32

They actually have a natural limit of 30 hives (I think). If you start with a few hives, they will multiply till they reach that number, but if you already have 30 hives and get another infestation, the old hives will start dying off till you reach that number again.

The OP says they have 30-32 hives, so it must have spawned with that many. He can wait a few days until they start dying off naturally, but I don't think the insects die naturally, so waiting won't really help make the fight less dangerous.

One solution is to build a large room around them at night while they are sleeping, and then build 10-20 coolers (depending on the room size) set to a very low temperature (-80 or lower) until they all go into hypothermia and move very slowly, and you can pick them off very easily. You need lots of power, and lots of steel and components for that strategy, though. In his case with 32 hives, it is probably much too large to do that unless the entire area is already underground.

Here is a tutorial on how to fight a very large infestation with only a few people. All you need is grenades, and a few melee (or animal blockers, if that still works):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBikWY8U74

[brian_va]

Probably a bit late for this to work, but try melee blocking. Put your armor guys in either side of a door with your best melee weapons. Shooters line up behind, up to 5 deep and you shouldn't get friendly fire, but that might be 4 deep. The bugs should bunch up at the door, letting you attack them more or less 1 at a time

If you have frag grenades and are willing to roll the dice, have them thrown a few spaces beyond the door to hit them when then jam up. That could get spicy though.

[MadArtillery]

The lack of armour is a problem but not insurmountable assuming it's even half decent. Depending on your tech quickly making some plasteel plate to get more blockers could be helpful. I usually have plasteel just lying around every playthrough so you may have some you don't have other uses for at the moment.

Since it sounds like armoured and skilled melee is lacking so the usual 3 people behind a door stat may need to be replaced with a tube with a line of guys in armour and everyone that can hold a gun standing behind them. Reducing the damage to a single bug at a time cuts the damage down a lot letting you kill vastly superior numbers.

Or you can just make a burnbox and roast the buggers after luring them into a flammable room with nonflammable walls and doors on either end. Bugs will start taking out walls when super heated if I recall correctly but a whole lot of crispy fried bugs on fire or heat burned will save a lot of bullets. Not a burnboxer so I'm sure someone else has more detailed advice.

[The Blind One]

The best strategy is to just build a insect cooking box that is 2 or even 3 layers thick around them at night when they are asleep.

Just pepper in some wooden items and set that puppy ablaze and watch them all burn into a nice toasty crisp.

Then once done, repopulate the same area with some furniture again and if you're extra diabolical, you can put in some incendiary IEDs. This way next time they are likely to spawn into the same location (due to the furniture there acting as an attractor in the infestation mechanics) and when they pop in they will walk on the incendiary IED instantly setting the insect cooking box off again. You won't ever need to worry about infestations again. They instant cook themselves.

[CthuluSquid]

Originally posted by Mr. Negative Balls:

There are 30-32 hives, 38 megaspiders, 48 spellopedes, 48 megascarabs. No caravan nor group of people could help. I have 15-20 colonists, 6 of which have modern guns, 1 has a club, only 2 have proper armor. I tried bombing them, didn't work :( .

orbital bombardment

[The Blind One]

Originally posted by CthuluSquid:

orbital bombardment

Bugs usually spawn in caves and underneath mountain roofs ... they don't care about your orbital bombartment.

Though I do respect your spirit of nuking it from orbit.

[Crabulon]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Originally posted by CthuluSquid:

orbital bombardment

Bugs usually spawn in caves and underneath mountain roofs ... they don't care about your orbital bombartment.

Though I do respect your spirit of nuking it from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure, after all.

[The Blind One]

Originally posted by Crabulon:

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Bugs usually spawn in caves and underneath mountain roofs ... they don't care about your orbital bombartment.

Though I do respect your spirit of nuking it from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure, after all.

But we're quite sure the orbital bombardment will do absolutely nothing sir.

I recommend we send in a strike team of our most elite troops ... possibly with flame throwers, because that'll be great when it sucks up the precious oxygen in space, and a few token females for moral support because who doesn't appreciate a strong independent woman being eaten by a bug?

[Vermillion Cardinal]

A reminder that the option to pack up and leave is always there if nothing works.

The lesson here is not to let hives grow uncontrollably if you can do anything about it early on, and the price for learning it might be your base.

[Edmund Greyfox]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

The best strategy is to just build a insect cooking box that is 2 or even 3 layers thick around them at night when they are asleep.

Just pepper in some wooden items and set that puppy ablaze and watch them all burn into a nice toasty crisp.

Then once done, repopulate the same area with some furniture again and if you're extra diabolical, you can put in some incendiary IEDs. This way next time they are likely to spawn into the same location (due to the furniture there acting as an attractor in the infestation mechanics) and when they pop in they will walk on the incendiary IED instantly setting the insect cooking box off again. You won't ever need to worry about infestations again. They instant cook themselves.

I do this when i build colonies in mountains. Dig a tunnel and hollow out a good sized room quite a distance from my base, give it a wooden floor, a couple piece of wooden furniture, a couple of incendiary IED's, and no light source (since they like to spawn in dark places).

You need to put several plasteel doors in the tunnel and build a fighting position on the far side of them though, as I've seen the larger bugs tear down several layers of doors or chew through walls trying to get away from the heat. It tends to use up a fair amount of wood, but it stops bugs from spawning inside my actual base area and kills most of them before they can break down the doors.

[Yi Sang]

Originally posted by VitaKaninen:

Originally posted by The Blind One:

2 hives becomes 4 then 8 then 16 and then 32

They actually have a natural limit of 20 or 21 (I forget which). If you start with a few hives, they will multiply till they reach that number, but if you already have 20-21 hives and get another infestation, the old hives will start dying off till you reach that number again.

The OP says they have 30-32 hives, so it must have spawned with that many. He can wait a few days until they start dying off naturally, but I don't think the insects die naturally, so waiting won't really help make the fight less dangerous.

One solution is to build a large room around them at night while they are sleeping, and then build 10-20 coolers (depending on the room size) set to a very low temperature (-80 or lower) until they all go into hypothermia and move very slowly, and you can pick them off very easily. You need lots of power, and lots of steel and components for that strategy, though. In his case with 32 hives, it is probably much too large to do that unless the entire area is already underground.

Here is a tutorial on how to fight a very large infestation with only a few people. All you need is grenades, and a few melee (or animal blockers, if that still works):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBikWY8U74

nope, it was 2 and it went over the limit :( I have managed to tank their numbers tho down to 6 hives but most of the bugs are still alive, most of them are bleeding out tho :)

[Yi Sang]

Originally posted by Edmund Greyfox:

Originally posted by The Blind One:

The best strategy is to just build a insect cooking box that is 2 or even 3 layers thick around them at night when they are asleep.

Just pepper in some wooden items and set that puppy ablaze and watch them all burn into a nice toasty crisp.

Then once done, repopulate the same area with some furniture again and if you're extra diabolical, you can put in some incendiary IEDs. This way next time they are likely to spawn into the same location (due to the furniture there acting as an attractor in the infestation mechanics) and when they pop in they will walk on the incendiary IED instantly setting the insect cooking box off again. You won't ever need to worry about infestations again. They instant cook themselves.

I do this when i build colonies in mountains. Dig a tunnel and hollow out a good sized room quite a distance from my base, give it a wooden floor, a couple piece of wooden furniture, a couple of incendiary IED's, and no light source (since they like to spawn in dark places).

You need to put several plasteel doors in the tunnel and build a fighting position on the far side of them though, as I've seen the larger bugs tear down several layers of doors or chew through walls trying to get away from the heat. It tends to use up a fair amount of wood, but it stops bugs from spawning inside my actual base area and kills most of them before they can break down the doors.

No mortar shells :(