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@tymmathi If you read the instructions on the discord welcome page you would have seen that you have to react to the message to get further. Its a way to keep spam-bots out.
The count limit is how many can be on the map when they decide to split. So I assume you had 37 (lower than 40) when they split and got 74 as a result.

@Mile
Ah, okay.

@Chrispy Yes, it seems that since its technically a Hive its not a deconstructable building.

There's no way to get rid of the Slime!hive once you make it, unless you shoot it.

i think its a vanilla bug, or one related to other stuff. happends rarely, i´ve had it twice^^ always playing modded tho

@Krazyfan1 They are eggs for about one tick :) but there should not be 39 at once

Yeah, no eggs, just straight up babies.

@Krazyfan1 At once? In my testa it spawns 1-3 eggs per cycle. Turn on dev mode and you will see the timers if its some issues there

thanks.

Still, 39 spawning from a single orb at once is a bit much

@Krazyfan1 Its all defined in the xml so its easy to change with a patch if you want.
Its defined in the Mitosis-compProperties this way:
<splittingTimer>180000</splittingTimer>
<countLimit>40</countLimit>
<temperatureOffset>21</temperatureOffset>
<heatMultiplier>0.01</heatMultiplier>
<coldMultiplier>-0.1</coldMultiplier>
where count-limit is the max amount on the map.

Ah, so if i put them in a cold area, they won't reproduce?

@Krazyfan1 I think they are supposed to. But they have a limit based on temperature and total amount on the map so they wont overwhelm you

are they like minions? what sort of time scales are you seeing?

(my minions started off as a wandering event of about 12 minions, passing through , and i had to quickly tame as many as i could before they wander off the map, and this happened for a few events, and then i ended up with hundreds as each one gives birth to at least 3)

as soon as they are born, they immediatly start counting down to split into four new ones

Slight issue, they reproduce far too quickly.

this might be the solution to heat management issues in Save our ship 2.

if it does, pina kolrada's all around