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Since 2.0.27: Small egg rafts no longer absorb pollution because they will never produce stompers or strafers

If you hover the small egg raft though, it still says that its going to absorb pollution to spawn wrigglers

Also, they still try to expand - you can see good expansion candidate chunks around them, but they never spawn wrigglers that actually expand

This means its possible to kill all normal rafts but leave the small ones behind and enemies will stop expanding/attacking your base

Bumping this issue instead of creating a bug report; I'm like 99% sure that small rafts aren't even spawning wrigglers anymore, let alone sending expansion parties.

I think I preferred small rafts absorbing pollution and sending wriggler wave, but I see why the 2.0.27 changes were made. Though as-is, these small nests never seem to have ANYTHING guarding them, so the only enemies you need to kill for them are the ones that spawn when the raft dies. Surely this isn't intended and the small rafts should be spawning a few wrigglers to guard them?

Obviously less important once you clear them out and normal nests expand into the area, but makes getting your first few eggs very easy.