Captive biter spawner

Captive biter spawner

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Recipe
10 + 15 + 10 + 1 + 100 → 1
Total raw
10 + 15 + 10 + 1 + 100
Map color
Health	350 455 560 665 875
Resistances	Fire: 0/70%
Stack size	1
Damage	90 117 144 171 225
Dimensions	5×5
Energy consumption	100 kW (food)
Crafting speed	1 1.3 1.6 1.9 2.5
Pollution	-1/m
Buildable only on
Spoil time	30m 38m 59s 48m 57m 1h 15m
Spoil result
Module slots	0 slots
Prototype type	assembling-machine
Internal name	captive-biter-spawner
Required technologies
Produced by
Valid fuel

Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

A captive biter spawner is a special production building that is initially unlocked on Gleba and is used to produce biter eggs. A captive biter spawner has no module slots, is unaffected by beacons, and cannot be connected to either circuit or logistic networks. A captive spawner cannot be removed by the player or construction robots, but can be destroyed via weapon fire, at which point it will spawn a small biter.

Biter egg production

These buildings are solely used to produce biter eggs, for which they are the only source in the game. Producing biter eggs does not require setting a recipe nor providing any ingredients other than a constant influx of fuel in the form of bioflux. A captive biter spawner can hold a maximum of 100 biter eggs, which they produce at a rate of 5 eggs every 10 seconds, or 0.5 /s. The production cycle continues when the output slot is full, even though no additional eggs are being produced. Biter eggs held in the output slot will not start to spoil until removed.

Obtainment

They can be obtained in two different ways. They can be "built" by firing a capture bot rocket at a biter spawner on Nauvis, which will slowly transform the spawner into a captive one. Alternatively, after reaching Aquilo and researching the relevant technology, the player can craft captive biter spawners themselves, which can be manually placed. While in the player's inventory or another container, a captive spawner has a spoilage time of 30 minutes, at which point it will turn into a behemoth biter.

Food consumption

A captive spawner will lose health at a rate of 1/second, unless fed with a supply of bioflux. If a captive spawner's health reaches zero, it will transform back into a normal spawner and will have to be captured again.

Previously captured and then starved biter spawner cannot be targeted by turrets, personal laser defense or spidertron's automatic rocket launchers, but it can still consume pollution and spawn biters which are affected by the evolution factor.

Bioflux is used for food. One item of bioflux has an energy value of 6 MJ, and since the captive biter spawner consumes 100 kW of food, each item of bioflux will last for exactly one minute. With one normal quality item of bioflux lasting for two hours before it spoils, this means that 120 items of bioflux of the same age may be consumed by a single captive biter spawner before any of them spoil.

Quality

Captive biter spawners with a higher quality level will not yield higher quality biter eggs.

In case a captive biter spawner reverts back into a biter spawner for any reason it will retain the quality it had as a captive biter spawner. This resulting spawner will spawn biters of the same quality, which will have the capability of forming expansion groups that will also retain their quality level upon successful expansion - creating more quality biter or spitter spawners, and even quality worms. Failing to contain such reverted spawners can lead to the planet becoming populated by higher quality enemies.

History

• 2.0.7:
  • Introduced in Space Age expansion.

See also

• Gleba
• Enemies