Jurassic Nauvis
Nauvis was never home to bugs. It was home to dinosaurs.
Every biter, spitter, worm and nest on Nauvis is redrawn as a dinosaur or an egg clutch. They fight exactly as before; only the look changes.
The line-up
Biters: the meat-eaters
- Small biter: Compsognathus
- Medium biter: Raptor
- Big biter: Allosaurus
- Behemoth biter: T-rex
Spitters: the plant-eaters
- Small spitter: Young parasaurolophus
- Medium spitter: Parasaurolophus
- Big spitter: Stegosaurus
- Behemoth spitter: Triceratops
Their acid still flies, and it leaves from the mouth.
Worms: apatosaurus necks
Small to behemoth, a long neck rises out of its mound, sways, and strikes. Killed while hidden, only the mound and the top of its head are left.
Nests: egg clutches
Biter nests are clutches of cream, red-speckled eggs; spitter nests hold pale green ones. The eggs rock gently while they're alive. Destroy a nest and its eggs crack open, the shells scattering across the nest.
Each dinosaur is sized to cover about as much ground as the enemy it replaces, so a T-rex still towers over a Compsognathus. Every one has its own name and icon, in Factoriopedia and the kill statistics too.
Good to know
- Looks only. Health, speed, damage, attacks, spawning, evolution and pollution are all exactly as in the base game.
- Works with or without Space Age. Gleba, Vulcanus and the other planets keep their own enemies.
- Safe to add to or remove from a save: nothing is stored in it.
- Other mods that change biters' stats work alongside it. A mod that replaces biter graphics too will compete with this one; the last to load wins.
- A large download (about 170 MB): every dinosaur is rendered running, attacking and dying from 16 directions.
Credits
Dinosaur models by Quaternius ("Animated LowPoly Dinosaurs", CC0): https://quaternius.itch.io/animated-lowpoly-dinosaurs
Rendering, the worms' and nests' animations, the egg clutches and the mod itself by ThandirBH.