AVP Alien — 0.2.0-fork

The hive is no longer a spawner with a queen attached. It builds, feeds itself, grows through generations, sends out raids, and fights other hives.

⚠ Breaking

• Update BLib to 0.3.0-fork. The mod will not load on the old one.
• Old hives don't carry over. The hive system was rewritten. Old queens are put to sleep instead of deleted — wake them with /avp_alien debug hive wake_nearest_legacy_queen, wake_legacy_queens_in_area <radius>, or wake_all_legacy_queens. Use list_legacy_queens to find them, kill_ instead of wake_ to clear them out. Needs permission level 2.
• Spawning changed. Wild xenomorphs are now gated by hive territory, and blocked inside a hive's own slab.

⚠ Don't wake a queen near your base

A hive claims 19×19 chunks — 304×304 blocks — and carves a 16-block-tall slab through it, clearing everything in the way. Under an empress, 23×23 chunks.

You need to be 150+ blocks clear in every direction. Most bases sit entirely inside that.

Fit an Inhibitor first — it severs a settled queen from her hive and cuts her claim to one chunk. Capture stops the loss, it doesn't reverse it.

Read the Xenobiological Survey first. Every player gets one on join, and it covers containment properly.

What's New

• 7 new castes — Carrier, Chrysalis, Ravager, Razor Claw, Harbinger, Empress, Burster. All in four strains, plus the Royal Cocoon and Empress Ovipositor.
• The Empress — an apex layer above the queen, with her own emergence, and her own exile.
• Living hives — they build rooms and corridors, gather and spend biomass, grow through molt stages, send raiding parties and convoys, and contest territory with rival strains.
• Capture a queen — Capture Chain and Inhibitor, for a queen that's genuinely down.
• Irradiated rebuilt — not new, but they build hives now, with their own resin family and mechanics. Part of the AVP: Human compatibility.
• Head trophies & head shields — every caste in every strain. Block a spitter's acid with one.
• Dismemberment — lose legs and crawl, lose arms and fight differently. A head is fatal.
• Jelly & brewing — Irradiated and Scourge jelly, a Jelly Vat, and four new brewable effects in all four forms.
• 13 new status effects, 36 advancements, a Resin Container, a hive boss bar, and the Tracker / Tracking PDA.

Changes

• Hives are data-driven — raid waves, molt profiles, unit costs and more all live in editable data files.
• Much larger resin building set across every strain.
• Animations rebuilt across every caste.
• Aliens now treat sentry turrets as a real threat.

Bug Fixes

• Xenomorphs T-posing while building
• A missing animation freezing the client
• Egg carriers freezing and piling up
• Queens laying eggs with nowhere to put them
• Hives finishing without enough egg chambers
• Praetorians crawling constantly indoors
• Recovered old-world hives dying on load
• Immersive Engineering / ATM10 crashes

Removed

• Resin vein and web recipes (all four strains). The blocks remain — they're hive-built now.