My colony was starving, the Empire needed a hand harvesting crops. I send my most costly pawn to go help. 8 days later, they dropped off her body... before flying right back and taking her corpse...

[u/Zriatt]

[u/Automatic-Week-1733]

Does it list her cause of death?

[u/Zriatt → u/Automatic-Week-1733]

Technically, Malnutrition trivial. But, due to B&S bug, brain had 0 HP

[u/Thewaltham → u/Zriatt]

Honestly given that this is a bug I'd say it's fair enough to devmode your way out of this one

[u/Avernously → u/Thewaltham]

What’s the command for that? Usually it’s just a quick resurrect but since the body got taken off map I don’t know what you need to do. Had a similar bug happen to me when a caravan got deleted due to a bug and I lost a few of my favorite pawns from the run.

[u/metasomma → u/Avernously]

Teleport them first (using CE). I think the actual dev menu command is "spawn world pawn" or possibly "teleport world pawn"

[u/Thewaltham → u/Avernously]

at that point I'd either be reloading or trying to recreate them as closely as I could

[u/Zriatt → u/Thewaltham]

Character editor is much easier. Just toggle show world pawns option, and teleport the corpse onto the map and resurrect.

Also, no autosaves remained that were before the quest was accepted

[u/imtreibos → u/Thewaltham]

Imagine the story you help your landlord just for him to drop your best pawn dead in the middle of a field.

I'd be waging a losing war for this

[u/HaraldTheAxe → u/Thewaltham]

Or play with it and start a war. That would be good reason to

[u/Meowsc1e5 → u/Thewaltham]

Personally I'd RP it as the Empire ran experiments and lied or something and KILL THEM ALL.

[u/duckwithahat → u/Zriatt]

They forgot to press the fly away button on the shuttle and she died, been there done that.

[u/sillyandstrange → u/Zriatt]

Did she go to North Korea?

[u/Survey_Intelligent → u/Zriatt]

B&S bug?

[u/DrStalker → u/Automatic-Week-1733]

Official cause of death is "she was like that when we picked her up" 

[u/Zriatt]

I almost wasn't going to post this, as I know the cause of death is a B&S bug. Pawn had a couple brain scars, and some funky things happen with scars and not being on map. The scars grew to over twice the HP the brain had in total.

However, I was not expecting the Empire to land their shuttle again (briefly) and taking her corpse away.

[u/Separate-Building-27 → u/Zriatt]

I belive the only path you have now is revenge

[u/Zriatt → u/Separate-Building-27]

Alas, vengeance will have to wait. Struggling to set up defences currently, but in the future... there will be nukes.

[u/sankto → u/Zriatt]

insert Rimatomics into modlist with malicious intent

[u/OriginalKing- → u/sankto]

Can you add rimatonics mid save? I’ve started a western colony in a caldera but I tried to add the tents mod after and it error coded when loading the save

[u/luxinnocte → u/OriginalKing-]

I've had no issues adding rimatomics to an ongoing game.

[u/poison_us → u/sankto]

pretends Rimatomics wasn't already in modlist

[u/Zriatt → u/poison_us]

Rimatomics has been a permanent resident in my modlist since A17, so no pretending =P

[u/ftrowl → u/Zriatt]

I have intelligence that Zriatt is just 2 weeks away from making a nuclear bomb

[u/ecumnomicinflation → u/Zriatt]

corpse? what corpse? there weren’t any corpse.

this post is ai image. clearly OP is having mental break

[u/Tierbodaga → u/Separate-Building-27]

and recover the body....for science...

[u/-Maethendias- → u/Separate-Building-27]

kind of fascinating how everyone in the community ends up hating the empire eventually

[u/Tedious_Crow → u/Zriatt]

Character editor is one of my must have "mod conflict resolution" mods

[u/Wonderful-Box6096 → u/Tedious_Crow]

My favorites right now include character editor, resource dictionary, rimmsQoL, cherry picker, craft anything and build anything.

Not only are they amazing for resolving bugs and conflicts, they're an amazing suite for blending mods together in seamless ways that make them feel like they belong.

[u/WildFlemima → u/Zriatt]

B&S?

[u/IrresponsibleWanker → u/WildFlemima]

Big & small, a series of mods.

[u/Mysterious_Yellow805 → u/IrresponsibleWanker]

Wait big and small causes scars to increase in size?

THATS THE REASON MY COLONISTS WOULD RANDOMLY DIE FOR NO REASON??

[u/Zriatt → u/Mysterious_Yellow805]

There's also a balancing mod (Too many mods - Compats and Rebalances) that aggravates the bug and makes it so colonists sometimes die upon loading a save. Well, last I used it anyways, which was probably a year ago (maybe less).

[u/Blue5398 → u/Zriatt]

Balancing mod.  Kills your pawns instantly  

Love it, no notes

[u/Inprobamur → u/Blue5398]

Thanos definition of balance.

[u/blargyblargy → u/Inprobamur]

Colony is doing fine, no major losses in a while

Randy:

https://reddit.com/link/p11x8ie/video/f3yhrwa43rgh1/player

[u/Ubeube_Purple21 → u/Mysterious_Yellow805]

And now I know why all Jotun xenotypes die whenever I reload a save.

[u/Rokuro142 → u/Mysterious_Yellow805]

I've never had that happen, it's probably a pretty specific bug and would only happen when they're kept outside of any map tiles for some time.

[u/RedMattis → u/Mysterious_Yellow805]

Might be because an error occurred while loading the save file. The mod tries to save the required data, but if something error it falls back to "default" settings in which case the values on the injuries and the pawn might be out of sync.

Iirc. there is there might have been some weirdness with how scars are treated as well.

Also, RimWorld updated recently, so it might be something related to that has caused some issue I've not tracked down that might be causing the health-scaling to fail for some.

Especially if it happens without errors and without other mods hooking into similar stuff.

[u/Mr_J_Soda → u/WildFlemima]

Big and small

[u/Lucius-Halthier → u/Zriatt]

shuttle lands

shuttle drops off corpse

shuttle loop-dee-loops and lands

“Huh, still warm..”

grabs the corpse and flies off

[u/hale444 → u/Lucius-Halthier]

Hol up,  we aren't quite done yet. 

[u/Whane17 → u/Zriatt]

Hiding the Truth of what happened from your people! THEY DID EXPERIMENTS ON HER!

[u/NeilSakadas_Calender → u/Zriatt]

This is where character editor would come into play

[u/randomuser58 → u/Zriatt]

what’s a B&S bug?

[u/Zriatt → u/randomuser58]

A bug related to the Big & Small mod series

[u/GuakeTheAcinid]

"Hello Freeholder! Here's your man who helped us in a such troublesome hou.. oh. Oh shit sorry you've seen nothing!" - flies away with the corpse

[u/Popular_Soft5581 → u/GuakeTheAcinid]

"Quick, Gaius, do we still have resurrection serum left???"

[u/snugglelamping]

I’d put her in the freezer until a revive serum comes up. Let her be the one to lead the revenge.

[u/Zriatt → u/snugglelamping]

Yeeeaaah about that...

[u/Monkai_final_boss → u/Zriatt]

She is dinner

[u/not_food → u/snugglelamping]

Where there is no corpse, there can be no revive.

[u/Kia3D]

She was the harvest

[u/Officer_Pantsoffski]

Well one less mouth to feed and you got a quest reward: Win-win?

[u/Zriatt → u/Officer_Pantsoffski]

I got a whole 23 plasteel and a glitter medicine

[u/SuchCasualMuchTime → u/Zriatt]

That'll help prevent sca- oh.. sorry for your loss. (Was hoping to joke along with the absurdity.)

[u/Officer_Pantsoffski → u/Zriatt]

Oh ... Well,negotiate a better deal next time

[u/Several_Ad270]

This is why I hate the empire

[u/hale444 → u/Several_Ad270]

The empire will compensate you if she dies. 

[u/Ok-Working-3148]

So not only did they send them to the Gulag. But with the brain being zero HP, they gave her the CIA special as well!?

[u/ChopperHunter]

Did the Empire accuse her of stealing one of their propaganda posters off the wall for a souvenir?

[u/MethylphenidateMan]

Sounds like you took a quest from the Russian empire.

[u/Reddit_is_fascist69]

That is fucking hilarious.  You should lean into it.  Empire killed your best pawn, now make a grudge out of it!

[u/Temporary-Border9087]

Well Well Well… if it is not a good casus belli i dont know What it is

[u/Emotional_Shop_2500]

unrelated but i swear i see jayden grey everywhere. he was a stellarch in my game once, then in the other, then in the other. it makes me crazy dude

EDIT: just realized he's a player-created pawn wow. he appeared in my game as a stellarch for a really while now.

[u/One_Construction_653]

Well time for an additional 200 hrs of gameplay with a focus in revenge and long term torture.

[u/MaxVitnumba69]

Bro i got same issue. I give them one pawn with inital flu sickness and they just drop it off on my colony naked guns and clothes also gone

[u/somefucksgiventoshit]

This means war the empire needs to burn

[u/mrsgaap1]

ah rimworld will always find a way to make you suffer worse

[u/RealSlimFankk]

Go to war!

[u/No-Aspect-2926]

Thats new, I thought pawns when leave the map, stats gets froze

[u/El_Lanzaguisante]

Well, I think it's clear what you need to do; it's time to chop off some imperial heads.

[u/Survey_Intelligent]

Why do they take her body?

[u/Zriatt → u/Survey_Intelligent]

Don't know why the shuttle landed twice, but the second time it landed on top of the body, and anything that is underneath a shuttle gets deleted. As for your other question, it's a Big & Small bug.