Need a way to prevent infestation

[enragedcamel]

I know infestation exists as a way to balance mountain bases, but it's quite ridiculous that it doesn't have any counters itself.

The whole event is so ridiculous that I reload my latest autosave whenever it happens now.

Here's an idea: Ground Thumpers (300 steel, 6 components, require 1000W electricity)

Unlocked by researching Ground-Penetrating Scanner. Allows you to build thumpers, which regularly send seismic waves deep into the ground to keep the bugs away. Each thumper has a small radius (similar radius to sunlamp) that prevents hives from spawning in it.

Basically the opposite of thumpers in Dune (which were used to summon worms).

[ReZpawner]

If it hasn't been fixed yet, you could always build wires all over every surface, as this keeps hives from spawning.

In a related note, I would love to have what you're talking about, and I would also love it if we could build a thicker roof so we could avoid raiders coming in that way. How hard would it be to build a roof of plasteel anyway?