Friday Facts #445

Cite as: Friday Facts #445
Original: https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-445
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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20260807110145/https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-445
Accessed: 2026-10-26
Licence: © Wube Software; all rights reserved. Quoted briefly for research.
Credit: Wube Software, Friday Facts #445 - The Biters Bite Back.
Notes: Friday Facts #445, posted 2026-08-07. A developer post on Wube's own blog; the byline on the page names the author(s). Read from the linked Wayback capture.

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Enemies expand: between 10 and 60 minutes apart, shorter as evolution rises (60 minutes at evolution 0, 10 at 1, on the curve −e² + 2e), a group of 5 to 10 units times 8 to the power of evolution (so 40 to 80 at evolution 1, at the default enemy base settings; 2.1 also scales it with the map's base-size setting) sets out to a chunk 3 to 5 chunks out from the enemy bases already there, where its members turn into new spawners and worms, one every 30 seconds.	`Build base behaviorExpansion groups were too small`	Code