I've replaced this mod with a few mods.
- Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids 2
- Better Infestations
- Insectoids Evolved (Continued)
And for humanoid bugs, Insectors, Mantodeans, Big and Small - Xeno-Insectoid Hive.
I have all of the bugs that I could ever want to fight.
And no need for diva - modders that demand that the game be never updated again.

@Zaljerem
You are the second Mlie, man.
Thank you for your service, I hope you don't get into trouble with Steam or Ludeon by attempting to update this mod by going about it this way.

Hello, I represent a consortium of modders and mod users who would like to see RimWorld of the Apes and Starship Troopers Arachnids returned to service. I was wondering if you had a single-payment price to allow me to purchase the rights to the artistic and code content of the mods from you outright. Thank you for your consideration. Best regards, Jeremy "Zaljerem" Harris

1.5

Hello WalkingProblem! I'm here to humbly ask permission to continue this mod; it's great and deserves to live on, all credit to you of course. I understand this request is likely to be in vain, and completely ignored, but I wanted to try anyway. I hope all is well with you and yours.

Yeah, if the mod maker is gonna be a whiny baby and demand that DLCs and patches for RimWorld stop coming out just because he refuses to periodically update his mods, I'm gonna just unsub. Vanilla Factions Expanded - Insectoids 2 will probably come out this year, and it will be better than this mod ever was. And it will be kept up to date, too.

Miss this one. Always enjoyed it.

please update

Lol what a load of selfishness but within his right. "I prefer the game stays unupdated and purchasers of the product robbed from continuous improvements to game design so I don't have to maintain my projects". Got it.

Just to reiterate: Walking Problem stated this on his Discord - "Tentatively, I'm not gonna spend time on the mods as long as there is no guarantees that the mods can be forever be usable. I'm not gonna enslave myself to the developer's whim to updating his game that breaks every mod."

Further, He refuses to allow anyone to update his mods.

Will you be updating this for 1.5?

Can you tame these guys?

GIVE US 1.4

please give us a 1.4 version!

*The need to know more intensifies*

the only good bug is a dead bug

Please! I beg you! Update this Mod!

@jimmyal Someone please ping Mlie, then. Maybe he'll be willing to keep the mod updated, if Walking Problem has a problem with it (haha, pun intended).

@mlie to the rescue?

1.4?

That's a funny position to have honestly since Tynan has been beyond accommodating to modders. Even funnier since a submod for this mod is updated when the main mod isn't lol.

I'd understand if this was like Stellaris (RIP so many mods and my mod list) or something but it's really not

please update. i know updating your mods every time the game updates sucks but its pretty standard practice since the days of beta minecraft modding.

Walking Problem stated this on his Discord - "Tentatively, I'm not gonna spend time on the mods as long as there is no guarantees that the mods can be forever be usable. I'm not gonna enslave myself to the developer's whim to updating his game that breaks every mod."

Can anyone do an unofficial update or is that not possible?

I have sufficient reason to suspect that this mod has stopped updating, so I have to unsubscribe from this mod. Although this is regrettable, it is currently my only solution.

I am wondering if there is a way to replace out the default insects and replace them with these insects?

1.4 Please?

I really like this mod.1.4 Please!

1.4 would be nice

nice story (shame about the chickens for sure though) :)

btw this mod might be able to help a bit:
Mitz's Chicken Coop (Continued)
(i havent tried with "stuffs" but there might be a way to build at least a coop, using materials that are flame resistant, especially with other mods)

any chance of 1.4?
this is my dads favorites mod, not becuase he plays Rimworld, but because the one time he watched me play it, this mod ruined a 14 year run when tankers bombarded my base with blue artillery before 30 hoppers crashed through my massive indoor greenhouse and farm and torched it all within literal seconds, that was 300+ chickens GONE INSTANTLY... then jackass randy decided "hey, wouldnt it'd be funny if i sent 3 different spacer raids...."
he mentions that playthru every single time pc gaming comes up in a conversation and I just have to sit there like my chickens didnt deserve that.
yea i love this mod.

this is my favorite rimworld mod, please update.

Are there any plans for future updates? Forgive me for asking. I really like this mod.

1.4?

THE MOBILE INFANTRY MADE ME THE MAN I AM TODAY!

Nothing happened for me. I had fallen empire as the only other faction to try and maximise all events to be arachnids. I got simple 2 tiny bombardment bug events in over a year then I gave up.

I tried spawning them by development mode, and I notice that if you have an enclosure surrounding your pawns which they can shoot out of with the standalone heavy machine guns, you are immune to arachnid attacks unlike other factions who will break down the door.

Am I doing something wrong?

Can you add this mod to an already existing savegame?

After coming back to play Rimworld after half a year and spending a few hours trying to figure out the bombardier bug I reported back in November I finally managed to figure out what it was.
In the Races_Bugs.xml the bombardier bug's baseHealthScale entry was 0.01, this was causing some weird interactions with other mods because it was so low. I ended up setting it to 0.25 (the same as a squirrels) but 0.1 worked fine as well.

Is this compatible with Better Infestation and Armored floors?

hi i havent tried it but you might be able to tame them using this:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1769917767

Can we tame them?

Learned the hard way tht Anti air stuff/mods do not shoot at the bugs incoming. Learned a lesson this day.

Its a good day to die
when you know the reasons why
(war crimes, Organ Harvesting, profit)

In the picture of the colonists surrounded, how are they shooting over multiple layers of walls? Is that a special wall for this mod only?

I actually tried out my mod list if everything works but when i go to execute raid with points option nothing happens

Found some bug related to the bombardier bug. Upon one spawning in it kills the entire UI, and doesn't show up, if you can find where exactly it spawned in at and kill it then the bug gets fixed.
Found it via an event where they drop in from the sky. Tested out spawning them via dev mode, same issue.
Using the resurrect dev tool to revive a dead bombardier bug results in no issues.

@Silent Service - I suspect you can...

It would be safer (and definitely will work) if you also have the faction discovery mod (which is also now part of vanilla expanded) : https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2023507013)

In case I did something that actually needs to track the hidden faction of the arachnids

can i add this mid game to destroy my colony?

@un cophid - they dont appear via raids - they have their own specialised incident for each unique attack/tactics