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Biter Grinder

Biter Grinder is a content mod, use your enemies to expand the factory!

This mod will appeal to folks who:

• Want a deeper combat experience in factorio
• Would like a more complex balance between the player's relationship with the biters
• Just gotta have a secondary option for getting oil early game

Features

• Added Armoured Biters Compatibility (New in Version 0.2.7!)
  • This is for previous and new features!
  • They give 50% extra resources!
• Added Biter Traps (New in Version 0.2.7!)
  • New Tech, Recipes, and Items
  • Unlock Biter Traps after landmine tech
  • Biter Traps allow capturing various sizes of biters
  • Captured biters can be utilized for maximum resources
  • Biter Traps will auto place a ghost upon activating
  • A few other hidden features!
• Added Humidity Evaporator (New in Version 0.2.5!)
  • This building is making pollution to coast the biters out of their nests and attack!
  • There's 3 different speeds, 2 unique recipes, and a new tech to unlock it
• Evolution factor now increases the yield from biters (From 0.2.3)
  • The higher your evolution, the more biter fluid and blood you gain
  • Up to 4x at 100% evolution, this can be modified in the mod settings
• Added blood aquifer spawning (From 0.2.1)
  • This happens when enough biters die in the same area
  • Requires a pumpjack to extract
  • Updated Spawners, and Worms to contribute to the biter blood aquifer wells! (From 0.2.3)
• New Building Humidity Condenser (From 0.2.0)
• Biters leave behind a mist when they are killed
  • This mist will be absorbed by your humidity condensers nearby for some extra resources (From 0.2.0)
• Multiple tiers of biter grinder buildings from T1 red science to T3 blue science
  • Each of which has their own set of recipes to choose from and module slots
  • Which when attacked by biters will consume them and grind them up into useful fluids!
  • Even a full machine will still do some damage back to the biters trying to attack it
  • The higher the tier of machine the greater the resistances and health it has
• The larger the biter the greater the yield
  • Be careful though, a damaged biter will yield less fluid!
• These fluids can be used in various ways to obtain Ores and Oil with new recipes (see recipe tree image)
  • This adds an option to gain oil without having to leave your starter base
  • These recipes have a longer crafting time than most, be sure to double up or use modules
• Several new technologies have been added to progress through
  • These pair up with the military science tree (see tech tree image)
• New strategic options for base defense (see in game screenshots)
  • Your outer parameter is now an opportunity to gain more resources
    • Killing biters is wasteful, what new designs will you use to take advantage of this?
  • Will you destroy the nests? Or surround them and profit indefinitely?
  • Your outposts can now gain additional resources being deep in the biter territory

Notes

• All biter grinder levels are 100% fire immune
  • Have at thee with the flame throwers!
• There are mod settings for each of the recipe ratios
• Leave any feedback you'd like, I'm new to the modding community!

Bug Fixes and other change notes

• Version 1.0.1
  • Added compatibility with Industrial Revolution 3
• Version 1.0.0
  • Added missing tech link for logistics science to early game recipe
  • Now there is only 1 cage and requires coils!
  • Added coil tech for existing saves
  • Migrated other cages to the one cage
• Version 0.2.6
  • Fixed a bug preventing the uranium or blood to bio sludge 2 from working
• Version 0.2.5
  • Did some balancing and updated the defaults for the settings, blood produces less ore, grinders produce a bit less
  • Krastorio 2's Oil pumpjack can now be used on the blood aquifers! (Reach out in discussions if you have any issues!)
  • Made the pipes always available when placing the buildings
• Version 0.2.4
  • Fixed crash that can occur when adding blood to an existing aquifer
  • Increased pumpjack speed for biter blood by 5x!
• Version 0.2.2
  • Spitters now also create mist and add to the blood aquifers
  • The blood aquifers now save to your save file and are not reset on loading
  • Fixed the aquifer-blood-threshold and aquifer-blood-multiplier settings to actually work now, oops!

Resources

• All icons are from: https://www.flaticon.com/
• All sounds are from: https://pixabay.com/
• Tech and Recipe tree were created with: https://mermaid.js.org/