In Factorio do more biters spawn in multiplayer versus singleplayer?
I've been running a server and it seems like there are a ton more bugs to the point where it is dangerous to play on the server alone. Did we just get spawned into a rough neighborhood or do MP servers generally have more biters?
The settings for the server are for the "normal" amount of biters:
{
"coal": {"frequency": "normal", "size": "normal", "richness": "normal"},
"copper-ore": {"frequency": "normal", "size": "normal", "richness": "normal"},
"crude-oil": {"frequency": "normal", "size": "normal", "richness": "normal"},
"enemy-base": {"frequency": "normal", "size": "normal", "richness": "normal"},
"iron-ore": {"frequency": "normal", "size": "normal", "richness": "normal"},
"stone": {"frequency": "normal", "size": "normal", "richness": "normal"},
"uranium-ore": {"frequency": "normal", "size": "normal", "richness": "normal"} },
Best Answer
There is no difference between singleplayer and multiplayer enemy spawning while using equal settings.
More Biters will appear over time while the server is running, even if 0 players are online. That's configurable (there is a setting to auto-pause the game while no-one is playing).