How often do biters attack?

[Gauron]

Im playing on peaceful mode soo far and decided that its time to use my defense grounds. I have attacked a biter base and the first wave came but ever since that, nothing.

They are pretty far from me so no pollution reaches them.

[Lunacy]

They only attack if pollution reaches their nests. Water, grass, and forests absorb more pollution so it'll take more pollution to reach nests that are past these terrains.

[Thryden]

Are you saying you're on peaceful mode right now? If so, they only will attack you if you attack them. They're never going to instigate an attack on their own.

[Gauron]

Originally posted by Bramblestar:

Are you saying you're on peaceful mode right now? If so, they only will attack you if you attack them. They're never going to instigate an attack on their own.

So even if i attacked them and they retaliated im not gonna see another attack?

Originally posted by Lunacy:

They only attack if pollution reaches their nests. Water, grass, and forests absorb more pollution so it'll take more pollution to reach nests that are past these terrains.

I technically burned down the entire forest surronding them but i guess this means that i might aswell just leave it as is because they are never going to attack?

[Lunacy]

Originally posted by Bramblestar:

Are you saying you're on peaceful mode right now? If so, they only will attack you if you attack them. They're never going to instigate an attack on their own.

Thought that was only up to the first attack and then it went to default?

[KatherineOfSky]

If the game is on Peaceful mode and you attack one group of spawners, ONLY biters around that group will attack back. If you want other spawner groups to attack you, you need to attack each group of nests individually.

[Thryden]

Originally posted by mastergauron1:

Originally posted by Bramblestar:

Are you saying you're on peaceful mode right now? If so, they only will attack you if you attack them. They're never going to instigate an attack on their own.

So even if i attacked them and they retaliated im not gonna see another attack?

Nope, you're not. That's what peaceful mode is.

[CPT Chthonbeard the Pirate]

If you choose to play the game with normal biters again, here's how attacks work:

As you pollute a biter nest it absorbs pollution.
*If it's less than 20 pollution per tick, it is not enough to spawn a biter and it all goes away.
*If it's more than 20 pollution per tick 20 pollution from the hex is removed.
**In either of the above cases the pollution removed is added to this spawner's internal counter.
***Depending on the evolution level, this spawner is trying to spawn X biter/spitter next. Once it reaches the pollution cost of that biter/spitter, it will spawn it and deduct the cost from it's internal counter.
****Please note that the 20 pollution per tick is per spawner, if you have 15 spawners in a single map tile, they can absorb 300 pollution per tick for 300 pollution points of biters per tick! It's still counted individually per spawner though.

Now you have a new biter/spitter that is not part of the base guard. For now he does not attack, he moves off to a rally point for a preset amount of time.

When that time expires, the entire squad at the rally point will start to move towards the next biter base closer to the pollution that polluted this base, ant trail style, and join that squad, until their timer expires, or they get to something of yours they can start chewing on.