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Just a quick teaser because I've been writing dozens of design pages for Insectoids 2. These are the new hives coming - some are geneline-specific, and the shape of the hive represents what the geneline coming from it is like.

Yes, they will be buildable by the player!

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J

Love it!

Shen D

Mushroom hive Mushroom hive

Steven

Oh no, Boomapedes

IronDawn (edited)

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2026-09-10 22:00 Will there be biotech integration?
2024-04-26 18:46

Dimitry Minchenkov

Oooh. So it will be a blend of driads and mechanitor's mechs?

lloki

Looking good!

OneSandyBoi

Huh… that’s a weirdly shaped hive, the entrance/exit raised off the ground? Almost like… it might lead to some flying buggers…

Spoder

Four new genelines? Seems like this is gonna be much larger than the original.

Screw Qidian

I've been missing my royal bugs. Can't wait to see them again

Limavian

Everybody is going crazy over anomaly but I‘m just excited for Insectoids Expanded and Insector Race

HeinrichK

Superearth command says flying bugs are traitor propaganda. But tha first hive tho!

ParaNautic

I thought that human built hives would be machines copy’s of the organic ones. Maybe a hybrid of the two.

Gustavo Righetti

Are they buildable or growable? would be interesting if you planted a specific cocoon that takes time and requires darkness to spawn these nests

Will

Can't wait for this, medieval VFE and the CE update to start my next run after I completed anomaly the other day.

Carles Ribas Costa

This has been my favorite Vanilla Factions Expanded mod for a long time. The insectoids felt like a genuine threat reminiscent of Starship Troopers. I'm really excited to see all the new content! By the way, considering we have fungi, insectoids, and the upcoming Vanilla Mining Expanded, is there a chance we might see Vanilla Races Expanded - Dirtmole in the future? It's my favorite vanilla xenotype, but compared to the other expanded races, they now seem somewhat simplistic. They are the primary tunneling race, and the vanilla xenotype doesn't fully capture that they were not just miners but also the primary world-builders.

Thomas Pyke

The "Shrieker Nest" looking one gave me a micro panic attack

Con

Never have I been more unironically hyped for lumpy bug hives

Yuggie

is there any way to add jumping insectoid? Like, he will jump towards a pawn to end him. Like 5-8 tiles jump.

Kuru Chilion

Oskar please save the insects, for Tynan has forsaken them

Sylant99

Will plasma weapons return or separate module?

Kira

Hoping Insectoids wind up even half as fleshed out as Mechanoids did!

Bernard C.G

Waiting for more Vanilla exploration expanded blogs 😔