Hi

An user of my mod notice that custom race spawning huge visible "chunk-scanner" biter on enemy unit's death. I'm trying to dig the cause. But I'm not able to see how that happens. Any help to fix it will be appreciated.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/enemyracemanager/discussion/62cf6dbb522333469269d81b

Why not to play with no New Enemies if you need that mod in your game? Similar issue for another mod was already placed here. No matter how many fixes apply in the end a conflict will appear. Use mods changing different game aspects, avoid mods changing everything (like K2, SE, etc.) or play only those mods.

I suggested him to turn off Rampant since the Rampant AI don't apply to the custom races anyway. I just want to see whether that's a quick fix. But since you say another mod has similar issue, I assume the issue has been here for a while.

Hm, but I didn't say it about Rampant AI, I'm about Rampant replacing units, spawners, worms, when New Enemies option is On.

Perhaps your guess about general Rampant AI is correct as biter unit death triggers wave of biters activities in nearby chunks. And I see in mod code such enemy unit prototype, but no idea what it is used for, it's not seen by player normally... better ask Veden. Or you can search in mod code yourself when such unit is generated/spawned. I prefer to keep away from analyzing pheromones logics and things alike in Rampant code to not destroy interest in mod biters magic behavior. :-)

ya. It's Veden's question. The Rampant code is magic to me and I won't change anything that I don't understand lol. I see chunk-scanner-squad units are used in its AI code for surface.find_non_colliding_position(). But I don't see how they spawn and how those units became visible under my mod.

OK, it's killing me, so I have discovered it through full mods list.
The issue can be visible in the game with Rampant mod enabled only.

Care to provide steps to reproduce the problem and/or a save?

I don't have steps, but I'll provide a save: https://file.io/lt2sMNlADQPn
The save expires: Feb 28, 2023 9:56 PM

It's with dropped other mods, without other units spam, and in editor mode.
To start just select the "Time" tab, and click "Play" button there.

Possible issue: I think we somehow got spawner-spitters and/or spawner-biters with the unitSet and/or result_units map field that has these two problem units. Check these small spitters/biters there under leviathans paws there.

I'll try to process those fields in functions (rampant sources) and filter them out to test it.

Also, I've temporary set LARGE values for pollutionToAttack (34028234663852890000000000000000000000.000000) and distractionCooldown (4294967295) to ignore chunk scanners to be generated randomly somewhere in nests.

@saaadel That file link says it has been deleted.

let me re-upload it somewhere

Try from the Google Drive's folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VWoFJREQGBJF7SikQsYLHGR4YctiF9HI?usp=share_link

P.S. Happy New Year ! =)

Thanks for the report, the units in question are no longer apart of the mod and you should not see those units any more