Biter Buddies

Command Your Loyal Posse

Hatch your own biter and spitter buddies from throwable eggs, then lead a loyal posse that follows you on patrol, defends the base, and charges in on your whistle.

A Family Project: A Factorio 2.0 mod by a father and son. When I started playing Factorio with my son, he came up with the idea for this mod. We programmed it together and released it for everyone! Now 2 years later, we've made this new version together.

How it Works

Biter Buddies turns the locals from a threat into a posse. Hatch them, name them in your head, and bring them along — they're weird little monster friends who happen to be very good at biting things you point at.

Throwable eggs — Craft biter and spitter eggs, then throw them like grenades. Buddies hatch instantly on impact.
Command your posse — Use the Buddy Whistle (like a spidertron remote) to select buddies and send them where you need them — to scout, to defend, or to bite the wild ones who didn't get tamed.
Persistent companions — Your buddies stick around until killed. There's no artificial cap on posse size.
Science-gated progression — Unlock bigger, stronger buddies as you advance through the tech tree, all the way up to Behemoth bugs on Vulcanus and Gleba.
Multiplayer ready — Each player commands their own posse, so per-player ownership is fully supported.

Playing with Biter Buddies

Research Biter Buddies (requires red science) to unlock small biter eggs.
Craft your eggs and throw them to hatch your buddies.
Equip the Buddy Whistle (or click the toolbar shortcut) to issue commands:
Left-click/drag to select which buddies to command.
Shift+Left-click/drag to add to your selection.
Ctrl+click a buddy to remove it from your selection.
Right-click to send selected buddies to that location (if none selected, sends the whole posse).
Shift+Right-click to queue a move command.
Practice sparring: Press F9 to spawn a sparring partner so your posse can stretch its legs.

Console commands for testing

The console display can be toggled with the GRAVE key ( ` )

/c remote.call("biter_buddies", "unlock_all")   -- unlock all technologies
/c remote.call("biter_buddies", "give_eggs")     -- give 10 of each egg + whistle
/c remote.call("biter_buddies", "status")        -- show buddy tracking info
/c remote.call("biter_buddies", "count_all")     -- count all buddies on surface