Biter Battles — Docs
Everything the server and the website do, how the in-game bot fits in, and how the
game is actually played. Maintained in a public repository — anyone can fix it:
every page below is Markdown, and anything wrong in it can be corrected with a
pull request that a human reviews.
📝 Contribute on GitHub
🎯 Gameplay
How Biter Battles is played — goal, evolution, threat, builds, combat, mistakes.
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🎯 Game basics — goal, evolution, threat, difficulty
What you are trying to do, the two numbers that drive the biters, and what difficulty actually changes.
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🚪 Joining the server, spectator, trust, basic chat
How to connect, spectate, pick a side, earn blueprint trust, and the chat commands you need.
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🌱 New-player strategy — defense first, then offense
Where to start as a new player: defense priorities, offense basics, and team etiquette.
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🏭 Builds & production — burner city → power → smelting → oil → lasers
Production guidance from burner city through power, smelting, mixed ore, oil, nuclear and lasers.
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🔥 Combat & survival — flamers, walls, threatfarming, spit-dancing
Weapon balance, the flamer wall, threatfarming, dodging spitters, and a support-player checklist.
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🎖️ Special games & captain games — variants & etiquette
The special-game variants admins can spin up — free items, moats — plus a recap of captain games.
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📚 Suggested research orders
Research phases and two concrete tech orders, plus rules of thumb for what to research.
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⚠️ What not to do — common mistakes
The common new-player mistakes that waste resources or annoy your team, and what to do instead.
🤖 In-game bot
askbot — logging in to the website, every in-game command, the Factorio chat commands worth knowing.
📈 BB Bets
The prediction markets — coins, AMM, order book, liquidity, fees, the API.
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💰 BB Coins — wallet, transfers, history
The soft currency you earn for time spent on the winning team — how it is earned, where to look, how to tip.
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📈 BB Bets — prediction markets
Polymarket-style binary and multi-outcome markets paying 1c per winning share — the tools, the mechanics, the in-game commands.
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📊 BB Bets trading guide
Shares, prices, the AMM and the order book, LP fees and the LVR maths, creating a market, resolution, and the full command reference.
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🤝 Loans — borrow from another player, repay with a fee
Peer-to-peer coin loans — the flow, the 10% / 20% fee, the red flag, and how garnishment works on default.
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🧾 BB Bets — how the betting system actually works
The full walkthrough of BB Coins and the prediction market — what it does today, how it got here, and where we know it is weak.
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🤖 BB Bets API — programmatic trading
REST + WebSocket access to the BB Bets engine for scripts and bots — tokens, endpoints, errors, rate limits, curl examples.
⚔️ Captain games
The weekly organised PvP — picks, roles, bonus rates, draft analytics.
🏆 BB League & BB Cup
The permanent ladder and the tournaments — signing up, matchmaking, Elo, rules, glossary.
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📘 How BB League works
The permanent ladder — signing up from three surfaces, automatic matchmaking, what happens when your game fires, and how League Elo moves.
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🏆 BB Cup — format, duties, scenario and rewards
The 3v3 tournament rule book — Swiss format and scheduling, what each player has to do, the starter pack and difficulty ramp, the rewards.
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📖 Glossary — the words used on the tournament pages
Slot, mark, commit, common slot, anchor band, gate, rescue, joker, bye, forfeit, lock — every term the grid and the bot use.
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🤖 BB League API — matches, Elo, live, gamble
Read-only JSON access to the BB League — match list and full match detail (production, per-player, splits, minute history, Elo), leaderboard, player card, live match, coin gamble.
🌐 Server & site
The server itself, the stats pages, tips for new players, credits.