FACTO-1: Fixed hives producing excess entities an a area

changelog.txt

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Date: 29. 12. 2021
     - Removed chance of hive outside resoure chunks on settler structure creation
     - Separated mod setting into printing settlers building and ai spending points
   Bugfixes:
+    - Fixed Hives spawning excessive amounts of entities
     - Fixed chunkPack nil in processNests (Thanks Skallywaggz for the report)
     - Fixed random generator seed overflow (Thanks NeveHanter for the report)
     - Fixed removing chunks could index outside processQueueLength (Thanks thecheat789 for the report)

libs/ChunkProcessor.lua

@@ -24,11 +24,13 @@ local chunkProcessor = {}
 local chunkUtils = require("ChunkUtils")
 local queryUtils = require("QueryUtils")
 local mapUtils = require("MapUtils")
-local constants = require("Constants")
+-- local constants = require("Constants")
 
 -- constants
 
-local CHUNK_SIZE = constants.CHUNK_SIZE
+-- local CHUNK_SIZE = constants.CHUNK_SIZE
+-- local HALF_CHUNK_SIZE = constants.HALF_CHUNK_SIZE
+-- local QUARTER_CHUNK_SIZE = constants.QUARTER_CHUNK_SIZE
 
 -- imported functions
 
@@ -179,28 +181,19 @@ function chunkProcessor.processPendingUpgrades(universe, tick)
             local query = universe.ppuUpgradeEntityQuery
             local position = entityData.position or entity.position
             query.name = entityData.name
-            local foundPosition
-            if universe.NEW_ENEMIES then
-                foundPosition = surface.find_non_colliding_position(universe.buildingSpaceLookup[entityData.name],
-                                                                    position,
-                                                                    CHUNK_SIZE,
-                                                                    1,
-                                                                    true)
-            else
-                foundPosition = surface.find_non_colliding_position(entityData.name,
-                                                                    position,
-                                                                    CHUNK_SIZE,
-                                                                    1,
-                                                                    true)
-            end
-            setPositionInQuery(query, foundPosition or position)
             unregisterEnemyBaseStructure(entityData.map, entity, nil, true)
             entity.destroy()
+            local foundPosition = surface.find_non_colliding_position(universe.buildingSpaceLookup[entityData.name],
+                                                                      position,
+                                                                      2,
+                                                                      1,
+                                                                      true)
+            setPositionInQuery(query, foundPosition or position)
             local createdEntity = surface.create_entity(query)
             if createdEntity and createdEntity.valid then
                 registerEnemyBaseStructure(entityData.map, createdEntity, tick, entityData.base, true)
                 if remote.interfaces["kr-creep"] then
-                    remote.call("kr-creep", "spawn_creep_at_position", surface, position)
+                    remote.call("kr-creep", "spawn_creep_at_position", surface, foundPosition or position)
                 end
             end
         else

prototypes/buildings/ChunkScanner.lua

@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ local function generateCollisionBox(scale, entityType)
 end
 
 local scales = {
-    ["trap"] = {},
+    -- ["trap"] = {},
-    ["utility"] = {},
+    -- ["utility"] = {},
     ["spitter-spawner"] = {
         [1] = 0.70, [2] = 0.83, [3] = 0.96, [4] = 1.09, [5] = 1.22,
         [6] = 1.35, [7] = 1.48, [8] = 1.61, [9] = 1.74, [10] = 1.87
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ for si=1,#subTypes do
     local st = subTypes[si]
     if scales[st] then
         for t=1,10 do
-            local scale = scales[st][t]
+            -- local scale = scales[st][t]
+            local scale = scales["biter-spawner"][t]
 
             data:extend(
                 {
@@ -114,7 +115,8 @@ for si=1,#subTypes do
                         corpse = nil,
                         timeout = 1,
                         trigger_radius = 0,
-                        collision_box = generateCollisionBox(scale, st),
+                        -- collision_box = generateCollisionBox(scale, st),
+                        collision_box = generateCollisionBox(scale, "biter-spawner"),
                         selection_box = nil,
 
                         picture_safe =