I might not be the best storyteller but I do have an ongoing widow hive of sorts going right now.

My current colony is built within a advanced biome mechanoid tile. So prospects on both additional colonists and food were rather bleak. Two weeks into the colony and a black widow struts in, attempting to siege the newly founded beast burrow lodge. She fell and was subsequently imprisoned. If only I had known how cunning she was.

Down, but certainly not out, she set to her old ways ( turns out her backstory was a former leader of a fertility cult ). Almost immediately my main pawn fell for her charms and they became lovers within the first talk session, predisposition him to want to take her in. After joining it snowballed quickly; I have never seen a pawn become pregnant so quickly and consistently, nor seem so ravenous. They "get lovin'" nearly twice a night, which leaves my main pawn exhausted most of the time. She also seems to birth triplets or quadruplets whenever she does give birth.

The population exploded over the course of a single year,. It went from three colonists to nearly fifteen. Needless to say her new hive is turning out spectacularly.

Oh, cool! I've been a bit intimidated by the mechanoid biome. Been thinking about moving my current established colony after teching up some more (I'm currently doing a playthrough in an Advanced Biomes volcano region).

And that is... one heck of a widow. I didn't put anything specific to the Transcendent Desirer background that would encourage that sort of behavior (though they do tend to have high social). Very fluffy, though. I dig it. Imagining all the widow silk you'd get from that many Widow pawns is intimidating.

The widow silk has not only been a great source of income but also was a godsend for early play on the biome. You can't place walls onto exposed piping but you can lay down widow flooring which, funnily enough, allows for heavy construction ( i.e walls ).

IT may have been some crisscrossing strangeness from the FORBIDDEN mod, but I think it works in favor of a once fertility cult leader, who is soon to be a strong bionic thanks to the boost toward psychic sensitivity granted by the brood mind.

As for living in the biome, yeah.. It's rough. I recommend something that allows you to construct pots to plant in as I needed the spots from medieval times to grow any food.. before that I subsisted on pilfered food from caravans and the meager rats that wandered in. That was, of course, before the widow showed us the way of human meat soil.

Hmm. Alright, cool! Thanks for the tip.