Just wanted to know if it was normal, or if I had a mod doing funky stuff.

I got copper biter nests spawning on water, which keep spawning spitters.

Kind of cheap for a Pelagos start when you can't really defend yourself beyond "place turrets and hope there won't be too many"

Because i am talentless bird they look like regular spitter repainted to copper color, but these are copper biters, and Their nests generate only on water.

If you have too much of a problem with them then there could be 2 things happening:

1. You are probably generating too much pollution.
   Let me explain:
   Pollution on pelagos are EM waves. They are generated by all electrical devices and generators.
   But Biochambers, Diesel machines, Calciner, and burners don't generate pollution here at all because of that fact, and planet is balanced around them.
   I should make tips and tricks for pollution, it is unique in how it works
   Diesel machines generally don't also require copper so except for things like science lab, and oil rigs, it is possible to build a base that almost don't generate pollution at all.

2. I messed up the numbers a bit.
   But as far as testing goes soo far you are one of the first people reporting this issue
   If you don't fight the planet it should not fight back, similar to how you can beat gleba without defending plantations if you keep spore cloud at the same size.

If it is because unique pollution, then I am sorry, i will add this to tips and tricks in next update to make it more clear

no, I completely missed the special pollution.

It was just a bit brutal but then again that's what I get for doing a k2so+pelagos start ahah

I Agree that it is brutal if you play as usuall, but is should be fine if you look at pollution cloud from time to time and focus on burner into diesel tech
Fuel leech is helpfull

If you feel some diesel machine is missing (some machine that could be usefull) then let me know

I nerfed pollution a bit, and added poisonus ammo, it should be a bit easier to defend base and use limited amount of electric machines

Big Bertha has found was useful against biter nests. So np on my side :)

Is that artillery?
I was planning to add poisonus artillery shell to have some way of producing ammo locally

Is that artillery?
I was planning to add poisonus artillery shell to have some way of producing ammo locally

Yes. i dont remember what mod but its good and keep the biters away.