Hive Commander

Leave your engineer life behind and become the director of a biter hive. Absorb wild biters at nests, grow your network across the map, research the hive-only tech tree, and take the fight back to the engineer. Full RTS-style unit control is integrated: select, group (Alt+1..9), and command your swarm, order reinforcements from barracks and the Mutation Altar through a real production queue with ×1..×5 speed scaling, and send them to war through pheromone lures or Pheromone Vents. Features: - Play as a hive director with no body — command your swarm from a god view - Pentapod-style pollution economy: absorb biters, spend on buildings and science - Full unit management (integrated Unit Control): selection, movement, attack, patrol, hold position, follow, and 9 hotkey groups - 4 biter tiers (tanky melee), 4 spitter tiers (fragile ranged), 3 pentapod classes (wriggler / strafer / stomper) - Production queue at Barracks and Mutation Altar: pause, cancel, ×1..×5 speed with fair refund - Hive Supremacy, Pheromone lures, Pheromone Vents with attack-group dispatch - Fog of war that remembers only what your units actually saw - Demolish hive buildings from a button in their GUI, or send a biter to tear them down with Alt+Right-Click - Full Space Age integration: pentapod units, Gleba-inspired visuals

Hive Commander — a Factorio 2.0 mod where you leave your engineer life behind and become the director of a biter hive.

What this mod adds

Play as a hive director with no body — command your swarm from a god view.
Pollution economy — absorb wild biters at nests, spend the pool on buildings and science.
Full RTS-style unit control (integrated Unit Control): selection, movement, attack, patrol, hold position, follow, and 9 hotkey groups (Alt+1..9 to assign, 1..9 to select).
4 biter tiers (tanky melee) · 4 spitter tiers (fragile ranged) · 3 pentapod classes (wriggler / strafer / stomper).
Production queue at Barracks and Mutation Altar: pause, cancel, ×1..×5 speed with fair refund.
Hive Supremacy, Pheromone lures, Pheromone Vents with autonomous attack-group dispatch.
Fog of war that remembers only what your units actually saw.
Demolish hive buildings from a button in their GUI, or send a biter to tear them down with Alt+Right-Click.
16 custom technology icons and a full hive-only research tree.

How to play

Press Join the Hive (or Reject the Hive to opt out). Both are permanent, two-step confirmation.
Place your Hive seed somewhere with plenty of wild nests in range — the hive feeds on their young.
Biters drift in, walk onto the hive, and fill your pollution pool.
Build Hive Nodes to expand, Hive Labs to research, Barracks to recruit, and the Mutation Altar to upgrade.
Take the fight to the engineer with pheromones and supremacy.

/hm-help prints a full in-game summary at any time.

Requirements

Factorio 2.0
Space Age expansion (for pentapod units)

Credits

Built on top of Hive Mind Reworked by Stalin, with full Unit Control by Klonan integrated, and pentapod assets from Space Age by Wube.

Licensed under MIT.