Lost Caravan

[WAAAAAA]

So I decided to go check out some ruins since my sanguophage colonist had the wanderlust trait. I thought it would safe sending her and three other colonists with good combat stats since it said the ruins raider activity was "almost none". I get there and there's a huge battle between neutral people and raiders. They all kill each other but not before knocking one of my colonists down. I think where I made the mistake was claiming beds in the ruins for my colonists to rest up. I should've just reformed the caravan instantly. Long story short the ruins become "besieged" by a crap load of raiders. I try to reform my caravan with them taking nothing with just to get out of there. Instead they go into the ruins and just sit there. Shocker then that two get killed, one gets taken captive, and my sanguophage went down. Is there any chance of getting my sanguophage back and that other colonist? I have four colonists safely back at base, but to say that I am furious is an understatement. Every time it seems like I am doing good I have to go and do something dumb. :)

[Rosespanner Gregor]

i have nearly 100 hours on the game. i also own the console edition, which is different yes but the trailer for the console edition suggests that there might be a slight chance based of of that.

[Rosespanner Gregor]

but that is just speculation so take it with a grain of salt.

[MadArtillery]

Had that happen to me, lost 9 colonists in one ruins raid for an artifact when a massive 40 man raid spawned on the escape shuttle after people had injuries we were tending from some previous fighting. Had no way of dealing with a huge all melee wave with a bunch of people with injured legs, some still bleeding.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by WAAAAAA:

I try to reform my caravan with them taking nothing with just to get out of there. Instead they go into the ruins and just sit there.

I'm not sure I'm following here. Did you claim the map as a settlement? Normally on a mission map when you click reform caravan it's instant and everyone just poofs off the map with everything you selected, there is no packing or walking to the edge. You can't reform while there are enemies on the map though, what you do in that case is draft your people and move them to the map edge to the green border area, then they escape. You should be able to carry downed pawns to the map edge if needed, with a drafted pawn selected you can right click a downed pawn to carry them then move them where you want. Anyway point being in the future just draft and run to the map edge to get out of there, unless you settled the tile in which case you need to do the ol caravan gathering process. Also assuming your modded quest there wasn't doing something wonky.

Originally posted by WAAAAAA:

Is there any chance of getting my sanguophage back and that other colonist?

There's a small chance you can get a ransom event to get a captured colonist back. Check your social tab of your remaining colonists, if any of them had relations to the captured colonists you will be able to "track" what happens to them there, typically within a few days it will tell you they are dead and that's the end of it. If you are lucky you will get that ransom event though.