The Black Hive insectoids can be butchered to get Black Insect Chitin, one of the best leathers in the mod. Raids can be deactivated using Mod Options, for those who think it is too much of a challenge.

The Black Hive periodically starts raids using Megalice, Mammoth Worms, and black versions of the three base insectoids, Black Scarabs, Black Spelopedes and Black Megaspiders, the two latter of which use ranged attacks. Nowadays remnants of the black hive roam in the RimWorlds, a latent menace to anyone using advanced technology. At the beginning, you often tend to be rather slapdash and build things wherever, as quickly as possible. It takes a little while to get used to laying stuff out in RimWorld. By far the biggest yet, this is full of handy tips on laying out what could be an ideal base. The Black Hive were the best of the best, an insectoid hive so vicious and so terrifying that any mechanoids with half a brain would just flee when encountering them. Welcome to the fourth topic in our RimWorld guide. All insectoid were created to fight mechanoids.