Is there a way to get rid of or otherwise refuse unwanted wanderers?

[Duban]

I just lost my Polar base because some wanderer that was useless (couldn't haul, construct, or mine) walked in and started consuming resources without contributing to the colony :-/.

I had the perfect map, the perfect base, everything just came together perfectly except for the fact that I ran out of food just before the first crops came to harvest. All thanks to this wanderer and an eclipse.

Is there any way to avoid this fate in the future?

[Limdood]

kill off the wanderer?

seriously though...as you started to run out of food, euthanize them or, to avoid the mood penalty, stage an "accident" (melee a boomrat, stand in the cold naked, etc.).

As a bonus, you could live (unhappily) off the human flesh from butchering the wanderer.

When a wanderer comes in, you can't refuse them because they're saying they are putting their trust 100% in you.  Nothing says you have to be worthy of that trust...

[LanMc]

Hmm, good idea for a mod!!!   The ability to tell an unwanted colonist to get lost.  Yeah, I would use that. 

[anexiledone]

Couldn't you just arrest them, then release them?

[harpo99999]

unfortunately (in this case) the release will be back to the colony, not to the previous grouping, so it boils down to
(1) kill (mood penalty),
(2) send out with (poor or worse) dirk to hunt thrubo/wild pig/rabbit/squirrel (double win with this one if the succeed then you get food, if they die pawn dead with possible angry pack of animals coming to attack and kill colony (probably rabbit and squirrel(but squrrel is te fastest and hardest to hit animal) are the best to attack on other side of map)while pawn alive should be highest hunting),
(3)i f you have a pirate ship contact is to arrest the pawn, then contact pirate ship and sell pawn(mood penalty for selling pawn)

[Spectre]

The most reliable way of killing a colonist without a mood penalty is simply drafting them, walling them in somewhere and just waiting. I found any other method tends to other colonists trying to save them or taking a major mood debuff. These days I just build a wall around them, wait for them to starve to death and butcher the body.

[A Friend]

Dev mode,

Destroy tool,

Click on pawn.

[Duban]

unfortunately (in this case) the release will be back to the colony, not to the previous grouping, so it boils down to
(1) kill (mood penalty),
(2) send out with (poor or worse) dirk to hunt thrubo/wild pig/rabbit/squirrel (double win with this one if the succeed then you get food, if they die pawn dead with possible angry pack of animals coming to attack and kill colony (probably rabbit and squirrel(but squrrel is te fastest and hardest to hit animal) are the best to attack on other side of map)while pawn alive should be highest hunting),
(3)i f you have a pirate ship contact is to arrest the pawn, then contact pirate ship and sell pawn(mood penalty for selling pawn)

For #1 & #3. The problem is that it's an Ice base so everyone is on the verge of emotional collapse from the start until I can get set up. There's no way I could afford an emotional penalty at  this point in the game.

For #2. Polar areas are completely barren. There are literally no animals to hunt or attack. If I could hunt then I wouldn't be on the verge of starvation like that.

[Limdood]

if its an ice base, thats easy.

Step 1, strip wanderer.

Step 2, turn off doctoring on other colonists

Step 3, draft wanderer, go for a long walk outside.  Bonus if you stay close to base to body is easy to retrieve.

Step 4, after the collapsed wanderer dies, turn doctoring back on.

No mood penalty, free clothes, weapon, and human meat/leather

[SpeedDaemon]

The most reliable way of killing a colonist without a mood penalty is simply drafting them, walling them in somewhere and just waiting. I found any other method tends to other colonists trying to save them or taking a major mood debuff. These days I just build a wall around them, wait for them to starve to death and butcher the body.

This! I'm still waiting for lava, so we can do the Dwarf Fortress, "Look! A masterpiece lever we made just for you! Please give me a second to close this fireproof door before you pull it..."

There have also been a few times I've had to reprimand my construction workers (with lavish meals) after they negligently walled off someone's bedroom door while they were sleeping.

[DoctorNick]

Okay, is there a way to deal with unwanted wanderers that doesn't devolve into being a brutal sociopath?

[A Friend]

Not wanting to be a brutal sociopath

This is the way Rimworld was meant to be played, you heretic.

Kid friendly alternative: Find an abandoned cryptopod and stick him in there, then forget about him forever.

[harpo99999]

The most reliable way of killing a colonist without a mood penalty is simply drafting them, walling them in somewhere and just waiting. I found any other method tends to other colonists trying to save them or taking a major mood debuff. These days I just build a wall around them, wait for them to starve to death and butcher the body.

This! I'm still waiting for lava, so we can do the Dwarf Fortress, "Look! A masterpiece lever we made just for you! Please give me a second to close this fireproof door before you pull it..."

There have also been a few times I've had to reprimand my construction workers (with lavish meals) after they negligently walled off someone's bedroom door while they were sleeping.

you DO have a chance to create this effect, 1 have a fairly small (minimal free space) room with several either geothermal power plants OR the hot sides of several airconditioners set to cool the other side to very cold, draft the colonist you do not want and locate in the HOT zone, then forbid the stone doors s othat they can not get out, then on the cool side turn on all the airconditioners so that the outer LARGE area cools off and the hot room gets VERY hot (should be possible to get over 300 c  with the aircon method using enough aircons into a small enough room)

[LanMc]

Okay, is there a way to deal with unwanted wanderers that doesn't devolve into being a brutal sociopath?

I'm with you. 

Someone made a wonderful mod!!!  [A12] Mind Altering Device (v1.0) it's just MAD!

I haven't gotten it installed yet, but will today...  It allows us to switch up a colonist's traits!  So yeah... we might be able to do something with the useless now... that doesn't involve behaving like a psycho sociopath and dreaming up new ways to slaughter them. 

Ya know... some of us Like our pawns!   

[milon]

Kid friendly alternative: Find an abandoned cryptopod and stick him in there, then forget about him forever.

Truth!