How many kerbals have you killed already?

[Custard Donut (In Space)]

I desperately tried to keep my Kerbals alive but I had my first death on a landing at Duna - I was trying to give a stranded Kerbal something to do and someone to play with by giving him a rover, and on the parachute assisted landing the rover shattered and the Kerbal in the rover plummeted to his death..

Every time something like that happens i feel sad, i've been scared of putting my kerbals in aeroplanes ever since i killed one when trying to land a plane on the runway, i make ejector cockpits for just about anything i fly now, rocket,plane or otherwise, that's the great thing about KSP, if you want to take your Kerbal's safety seriously you can.

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

3,...

Jeb, Bill & Bob

[WillHop]

Every time something like that happens i feel sad, i've been scared of putting my kerbals in aeroplanes ever since i killed one when trying to land a plane on the runway, i make ejector cockpits for just about anything i fly now, rocket,plane or otherwise, that's the great thing about KSP, if you want to take your Kerbal's safety seriously you can.

I actually was quite sad as well! Especially as I had made a point on keeping my Kerbals alive, making an abort system etc. Whatever ship I next build is going to be named after him though

[The Destroyer]

Okay, seriously... do the prime trio actually come back? This is desperately important information.

Yes, all the time eventually. That is, in 0.20. Dunno about 0.21.

One. Then I got pissed that it was permadeath and stopped playing the game.

It's permadeath now?

All come back unless you change the difficulty setting in the save file.Then none will come back like I did.

To answer the question though I have killed a grand total of 4 Kerbals.

3 died (Bill, Gilming, and Decas)due to a botched rescue mission rolling down the mountains of Kerbin.

1 (Bildas) died from trying to land a plane on the 3 furthest out island. He almost made it too.

I stranded Jeb on the closest Island by accident.

Wait... difficulty?

[Motokid600]

3 so far. Jen ( Jeb* but..there should be female kerbals ) Bill and Bob. It was stupid though. After seperating the boosters I switched views to watch them fall back down ( wanted to make sure they fully destruct I'm playing with unlimited debris this time around ) but apparently the main ship despawns and kills all the kerbals if your not focused on it...dumb. is there a way to up the draw distance?

Edited July 26, 2013 by Motokid600

[The Destroyer]

3 so far. Jen, Bill and Bob. It was stupid though. After seperating the boosters I switched views to watch them fall back down ( wanted to make sure they fully destruct I'm playing with unlimited debris this time around ) but apparently the main ship despawns and kills all the kerbals if your not focused on it...dumb. is there a way to up the draw distance?

Romferer lazor system. Dunno if it's updated yet

[Aladran]

None so far, but I have some crew to recover from a useless SpaceStation, thing might go wrong on the way home

[bigdad84]

Jeb and Bob well technically the game thinks I did, when in all reality, their craft didn't load up because I accidentally removed a mod part.

[kfc1314]

I lost 1, in a car crash

Don't ask.

[Jarin]

Assuming you don't "hardcore" it up, how long does it take for lost kerbals to show back up? Do you have to make room for them by clearing out the recruiting center?

[CptNuts]

I lost one brave Kerbonaut in the process of testing an experimental super sonic Jet plane. I lost control over the plane due to high altitude flame out and was unable to regain control. It was moments before splahsdown that i realised that this plane, of ALL my designs, had no emergency Eject Systems installed.

To reminde me that failures like these will inevitably cost lives, i did not revert to space plane hangar. That was a sad day at KSC.

[Rainbowtrout]

In 0.21? None. I'm careful now.

All together? 70-something.

In the demo, I crashed manned rockets into the tower for fun.

IN MEMORIAM

Billy-Bobgas Kerman

Dilming Kerman

Gilcott Kerman

Countless others, Including 10 Jebs...

[HockeyToad28]

None! Most of my launchers are stable and rarely malfunction or break apart for no reason.

[Shania_L]

So far in 0.21 just the one, Bill ... ironically he was rescueing Jeb who had landed only 80km short after he ran out of fuel on the way home in an experimental aircraft.

The worst part was that the rescue plane he died in did have an eject system, and it saved Jeb, but Bills cockpit hit flying debris as the plane broke up. There is now a memorial flag identifying the debris field for future generations.

[loiske]

I killed jeb jetpacking in 3k in mun and not watching my vertical velocity :'(

[Coneshot]

3 so far. Jen ( Jeb* but..there should be female kerbals ) Bill and Bob. It was stupid though. After seperating the boosters I switched views to watch them fall back down ( wanted to make sure they fully destruct I'm playing with unlimited debris this time around ) but apparently the main ship despawns and kills all the kerbals if your not focused on it...dumb. is there a way to up the draw distance?

I lost Bill like this, while doing an apollo style Mun landing, Bill stayed in the CM while Bob and Jeb landed.. while they were landing the CM mysteriously simply vanished(despawned) along with Bill.

[Travisfv]

I lost Bill like this, while doing an apollo style Mun landing, Bill stayed in the CM while Bob and Jeb landed.. while they were landing the CM mysteriously simply vanished(despawned) along with Bill.

I smell a government coverup!

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

I've lost one

That god damn infinigilder warp drive wouldn't have worked anyway

[Rappasi]

I lost Bill and Jebediah, when i ran out of fuel when trying to land to the Mun and i crashed to the surface..

[BeefTenderloin]

None, actually! I've started a new permadeath run. I came /very/ close to losing three Kerbals on a Mun mission, when the lander impacted at 70m/s, leaving only the capsule to tumble down the side of a crater! A rescue craft brought them back, where they were recovered by plane. They have since performed a Minmus mission, and left many a flag in their wake, telling their story.

[Beachernaut]

I've managed to keep them all alive so far, but Jeb is stranded on Mun waiting for rescue.....

[Death Engineering]

Zero. My "test" launches are all probes and any risky kerballed launchers now have ejection/abort systems. The onnnnnnnnnnnly way to fly!

[DangerDave]

I lost Bill like this, while doing an apollo style Mun landing, Bill stayed in the CM while Bob and Jeb landed.. while they were landing the CM mysteriously simply vanished(despawned) along with Bill.

So is it just not possible to split a ship into two separate parts like that? Mostly, I'm curious if you would have been able to do this if you had staged it differently or something.

[Bengsch85]

So is it just not possible to split a ship into two separate parts like that? Mostly, I'm curious if you would have been able to do this if you had staged it differently or something.

It is possible as I did the exact thing today. Bob made 6 orbits around before Jeb and Bill took the lander back up to dock and come home. Must have been a physics glitch.

[jpem]

Jeb did a barrel roll while still on the runway.