Rintrahhh Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 The cactus oddly enough can be found in the snow biome. I don't know if they are in other biomes as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adampd Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Bug repellant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivar Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 create a torch and swing it when a swarm attacks you, and they literally drop like flies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iolaus Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Adampd said: Bug repellant I said automatic, and bug repellent won't kill them only make them ignore me temporarily, I'd have to constantly use them causing a huge resource drain defeating the purpose, I'm talking about ways to kill them or get them away from my base while I build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iolaus Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 56 minutes ago, Olivar said: create a torch and swing it when a swarm attacks you, and they literally drop like flies. I said an automatic way, they don't just attack me they attack my crops which is another problem. I'm trying to get plant turrets for defense but these guys break them while they are seedlings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivar Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 yeah, that's the danger/issue those swarm brings. We have given up on automating defenses against them and are actually going to move out of the bog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UberFrequencies Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 For myself, I started killing them with torches (keep 2 in your quick menu and stack resources for repair, so you can use one while the other one is repairing), but you have to be in 3th person for hitting them (glitch?). After some time, you'll get a break. Submerge in water for emergencies (aggro stop). Eat white berries for stamina, cause hitting them while exhaust deplete your life. Find a nice spot (bog) near a teleport point and teleport to beach for primal resources (so you don't have to move a lot in the bog) then come back to your spot. (There's a nice spot on higher grounds with tons of metal behind the West bog teleportation. Survive and build till you can tame a dino. I tamed 2 x-raptors and since then, Insect swarms are a joke, annoying but easy. Mount your dino (raptors work for me) and the swarm will stop aggro. Wait like 2 to 5 min and they will automatically die and your good for a break. Take this time for levelling up or managing inventories Watch out, put your dinos on "passive" if you don't want to loose them while they are chasing something. But yeah, ride a dino and WAIT, don't attack Later, a frog could be useful too. Good luck. But don't worry had a hard time, but now I feel safe in the bog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UberFrequencies Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 For myself, I started killing them with torches (keep 2 in your quick menu and stack resources for repair, so you can use one while the other one is repairing), but you have to be in 3th person for hitting them (glitch?). After some time, you'll get a break. Submerge in water for emergencies (aggro stop). Eat white berries for stamina, cause hitting them while exhaust deplete your life. Find a nice spot (bog) near a teleport point and teleport to beach for primal resources (so you don't have to move a lot in the bog) then come back to your spot. (There's a nice spot on higher grounds with tons of metal behind the West bog teleportation. Survive and build till you can tame a dino. I tamed 2 x-raptors and since then, Insect swarms are a joke, annoying but easy. Mount your dino (raptors work for me) and the swarm will stop aggro. Wait like 2 to 5 min and they will automatically die and your good for a break. Take this time for levelling up or managing inventories Watch out, put your dinos on "passive" if you don't want to loose them while they are chasing something. But yeah, ride a dino and WAIT, don't attack Later, a frog could be useful too. Good luck. But don't worry had a hard time, but now I feel safe in the bog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iolaus Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 13 hours ago, UberFrequencies said: For myself, I started killing them with torches (keep 2 in your quick menu and stack resources for repair, so you can use one while the other one is repairing), but you have to be in 3th person for hitting them (glitch?). After some time, you'll get a break. Submerge in water for emergencies (aggro stop). Eat white berries for stamina, cause hitting them while exhaust deplete your life. Find a nice spot (bog) near a teleport point and teleport to beach for primal resources (so you don't have to move a lot in the bog) then come back to your spot. (There's a nice spot on higher grounds with tons of metal behind the West bog teleportation. Survive and build till you can tame a dino. I tamed 2 x-raptors and since then, Insect swarms are a joke, annoying but easy. Mount your dino (raptors work for me) and the swarm will stop aggro. Wait like 2 to 5 min and they will automatically die and your good for a break. Take this time for levelling up or managing inventories Watch out, put your dinos on "passive" if you don't want to loose them while they are chasing something. But yeah, ride a dino and WAIT, don't attack Later, a frog could be useful too. Good luck. But don't worry had a hard time, but now I feel safe in the bog. I run SP so I just went an grabbed two bug zapper mods until they get fixed, only being able to fight in 3rd person, their extreme aggro range, their excessive spawning, and them targeting Gachas and Turret plant seedlings, and dinos even set to aggressive ignoring them is just too much. I'm trying to build a large base and having those guys constantly forcing me to stop what I'm doing to deal with it personally is far too tedious. The whole point of this post was about me not having to deal with them directly and all the options sugested so far require my direct action. I have velonos that only aggro once they hit my or my plants even when set to aggressive, one was even in turret mode. I needed a dino or turret or structure that killed or stopped them and none apparently exist so mods are the only way to go right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMTKenna Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 I was thinking of getting buncha frogs and loading em down with stone n sitting em on walls or edge of cliffs up to my base. Havnt tried it yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UberFrequencies Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 18 hours ago, iolaus said: I run SP so I just went an grabbed two bug zapper mods until they get fixed, only being able to fight in 3rd person, their extreme aggro range, their excessive spawning, and them targeting Gachas and Turret plant seedlings, and dinos even set to aggressive ignoring them is just too much. I'm trying to build a large base and having those guys constantly forcing me to stop what I'm doing to deal with it personally is far too tedious. The whole point of this post was about me not having to deal with them directly and all the options sugested so far require my direct action. I have velonos that only aggro once they hit my or my plants even when set to aggressive, one was even in turret mode. I needed a dino or turret or structure that killed or stopped them and none apparently exist so mods are the only way to go right now. ....but yeah, your right. Even when they don't attack when on mount, they just don't stop spawning every 2 minutes. They need to correct that. It's way too much annoying and frustrating. I'm thinking of just quit playing till a new update arrives. Finger crossed.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UberFrequencies Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 13 hours ago, DMTKenna said: I was thinking of getting buncha frogs and loading em down with stone n sitting em on walls or edge of cliffs up to my base. Havnt tried it yet Good one, like it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iolaus Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 16 hours ago, DMTKenna said: I was thinking of getting buncha frogs and loading em down with stone n sitting em on walls or edge of cliffs up to my base. Havnt tried it yet The only problem is they could be just like the other dinos, all the dinos I've so far tried, Spino Velono, Magmasaur, Raptor, and Deinon, none of them will target these things without them being the aggressor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquistorm Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 I tried being inside a house, they find a way in and attack. I tried the tek forcefield, it seem to keep them at bay. Though I still see some coming in. I tried the passive/aggressive dino method. Which you have an aggressive animal set on follow with a passive animal. Like a wyvern on aggressive set to follow a tamed passive rex or bronto. They don't register the swarm unless they are attacked themselves. Plant species x. They attack them. Next I will try using a tamed ichthyornis or dimorphodon. Or multiple. But so far the best thing I find that works in some way is the tek forcefield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caleb68 Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 On 3/2/2020 at 1:41 AM, Adampd said: Bug repellant does this work for them? I was wondering about that, just haven't made any yet, seems I get swarmed every time I go looking for a bloodstalker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l4m3r Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 bug replant is working yes they dont will attak you with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fewcm Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 All I can come up with is getting in water, it has to be deep enough for you to be able to go under (and not breathe). Otherwise, I killed a swarm with my Stego, but I couldn't seem to harvest the swarm.Baryonyx can kill and harvest them. They also appear not to target you while riding a baryonyx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catasra Posted March 4, 2020 Share Posted March 4, 2020 Is there a way to get turrets to target them? My main issue with the swarms is at my base. Its the one of the best biomes to build in looking at geography, but the swarms make it impossible. While running around in the bog you can deal with them, but if you set up a base in the bog, expect non-stop swarms constantly attacking your tames. This causes terrible lag issues. The only solution that sort of works which I have found is a tek forcefield, but to keeping it stocked with element takes most of my time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquistorm Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 I want to share To be helpful to those who are struggling against the bog because of insect swarm. Have an ichthyornis or dimorphodon follow you. They will protect you if you ether hit the swarm or it hits you. They can take them out fairly quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirenMermaid Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Insect Swarms would be fine... If their spawn rate wasn't so constant (about 8 swarms every 10 minutes) & you didn't need to worry about logging off in your base for fear of being killed by them while offline. They can kill you while you are closed in by metal walls, as well as, destroy crops that are completely enclosed by a greenhouse. I do enjoy Genesis, regardless of the negative feedback and the toxicity one will receive for even saying that lol. The map is fairly new so I expect blue screens, lag ect. However, the swarms do seriously harness the players ability to establish in this biome, if anything, they almost prevent someone from being able to survive it. You need citronal in order to make repellent, yet I am unable to get more than about 10 grown without the swarms going inside of the enclosed greenhouse and destroying them entirely. I agree, they are easy to kill. But man they are bugging the crap out of me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fewcm Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 I've been growing the in greenhouse without incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St1ckyBandit Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 On 3/5/2020 at 10:55 AM, Aquistorm said: I want to share To be helpful to those who are struggling against the bog because of insect swarm. Have an ichthyornis or dimorphodon follow you. They will protect you if you ether hit the swarm or it hits you. They can take them out fairly quickly. Or stand in 2ft of water or ride any dino or use bug repellent. At this stage plenty of methods of dealing with them have been discovered. What hasnt been solved is the horrendous lag and stuttering they cause in the entire biome, rendering it a complete headache and often times an exercise in futility to get anything done there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PumpkinJaff Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 PS4 Insect Swarms When playing Genesis on PS4, I am constantly targeted by insect swarms and can't manage to even damage them with a torch, so I am constantly killed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferwirer Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 Flamethrower the only thing i can say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjskdjkfa Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Ferwirer said: Flamethrower the only thing i can say. They need to make a flame thrower turret... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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