What happens when a follower dies? And thoughts on refuge attacks

[N7Ironclad]

Is there anyway to bring them back? I almost can't leave my base to gather resources because my 2 followers will get killed trying to fight attackers on their own. It seems like attacks either come too frequently or followers are not capable of defending themselves well enough. I did try having a pallisade and gate in front of the refuge but whenever an attack occurred, the gate would not open and the eldritch monsters were able to attack my followers and me through the pallisade. We could strike them back through it as well, but it was difficult without being able to see them through the wall. I think it might be good if stairs/ramparts were a little more accessible earlier into the game.

[ScottyP4]

Well in my experience with my single follower, when he went down during a raid on the camp, I had the option to "cleanse" my follower to bring him back up to health. If they are away from you I am not sure. And do you know if there is a way to better equip your followers?

As for the gate not opening, mine was being finicky during one raid, but running away from it and back to it opened it for me.

And I'm not sure if it is allowing stairs to be more accessible per-say, but rather..being able to harvest pristine wood more than 1 tree at a time. Because at first my one follower gathered a decent amount of pristine wood on his own, but now he just sleeps. If I tell him to build he will, but other then that he sleeps and idles.

[N7Ironclad]

I couldn't get either of my followers to craft anything from the Crafting Lodge. They constructed buildings fine, gathered resources fine, and the surviving one was doing a great job of purifying the corrupted wood in the Medicine Hut (seemed to give 1 pristine wood per craft). I've seen some threads about followers not crafting anyting from the Forge either. So far Pristine Wood hasn't really been an issue, but I'm having trouble finding enough Scraps to keep building/crafting with. I did cleanse the first mini crystal to the north and got a fair bit of Scrap there but it was only enough to build the Medicine Hut and partially construct a Forge.

When your follower "died", where was he located for you to "cleanse" him?

[ScottyP4]

He was just on the inside of my walls. It was actually a bit of work to cleanse him because he fell right where I was constructing something so it took a bit to get the "cleanse" notification, instead of the "assign worker" one.

So since I was able to cleanse my follower within my refuge, do you think in order to get that option it has to be close to that crystal in the middle of camp?

[N7Ironclad]

Got it thanks! When I started up the game today there was a wad of corruption coming out of my follower's body that I hadn't noticed yesterday. It looks like their body stays wherever they died until you cleanse them.