Everyone is dead and gone. The story is over.

[Hawksquill]

As a newish player I'm curious... does everyone play until the bitter end? Or do you start a new game when your 9 colonists are lying bleeding to death with no one to rescue them after they rashly decided to attack an insect hive collection they'd let get out of hand?

[keylocke]

you can continue until someone joins.

i think events like wanderers joining in have higher probability kicking in with fewer or zero colonists. so you can probably keep playing with a bit of patience.

[Silvador]

I don't know about now, but I've let a wiped colony sit for a while in previous versions. Set it to the fastest speed and just sat there... for well over half an hour. Nothing.

[mumblemumble]

Yep, also depending on the injuries, some colonists can recover from the ground from incaps. Its rare, but possible. I personally like seeing raiders tear apart what is left...

and I can confirm on alpha 13, its possible to get a wanderer when everything is gone, if a bit rare. You can also get a person fleeing raiders, which is rather funny, as who would they be talking to on the comms?

[stefanstr]

I quit as soon as my favorite colonist dies. (I almost always have a "POV character" and I rarely continue if that person is gone.)

[skullywag]

Depending on the storyteller they want you to be at a certain number of colonists

If youre on randy and youre colony dies try switching to cass it might trigger the wanderer a littler earlier.

[Mikhail Reign]

I guess that would be one of the few circumstances when having an animal trained for rescue would actually help.

[Shurp]

Probably not, because he'd get shot while coming to the rescue by whatever killed your colonists.

[Rahjital]

Not to mention that there would be no one to tend to the rescued colonist's wounds, and self-healing only happens in very specific circumstances (not too severe blunt trauma).

[Hawksquill]

Thanks for the comments everyone. Interesting to know.

[Mikhail Reign]

Probably not, because he'd get shot while coming to the rescue by whatever killed your colonists.

Probably not - remember it takes FOREVER for a rescue animal to do its thing.

Not to mention that there would be no one to tend to the rescued colonist's wounds, and self-healing only happens in very specific circumstances (not too severe blunt trauma).

Well if there are 9 downed colonists there would a change that one could get up. Having them in a hospital bed would increase the chances of more then one surviving long enough for the lucky one to save the rest.

But yet I agree this is a tiny possibility. I was more trying to think of a single situation where its worth spending the food to train a rescue animal.

[ChimpX]

Imho rescue animals aren't useful. I still train it, but only in order to get their handler's skill up.

[Listy]

If I get a colony wipe, I normally let it run until the thing that wiped my colony is done then spawn a new set of survivors using the dev console.

[Mkok]

I never reached an end for any of my colonies. I always get bored, or something breaks up, or new alpha is announced before I reach that point.