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So I have built a 7000 men colony, and a pretty steady amount of supplies, industry and alien factories going. Then I let a few more settlers in (around 20) and left my laptop for a quick break. When I got back I was already out of water and everything greyed out. I immediately imported a large sums of food and water, but I noticed that my colonists just compeletely stopped working, even after 10 minutes of enough food and water. Fire drill and rationing wont help as well. Because they stopped working at farms and condensers, I eventually run out of money and they all died.

Is this some sort of bug?

looks like all the smart ones are dead

Kind of. It's known that approval can sometimes tank with very minor adjustments. When they get unhappy, they don't work, and when they don't work, you don't produce food, which makes them unhappy, so they still don't work...and around and around the cycle goes until everyone dies. It's like watching dominoes fall over.

Sometimes you can turn it around. It's hard, but can be done depending on your circumstances. Paying them all $200-300 should get their happiness up enough to get back to work. Unfortunately not everyone has that much cash.

Firedrill like you said can sometimes help, but must not have in your case.

Worst case, they all or almost all die, make sure you have fixed the original problem (not always clear) and that you have some landing pads and new colonists will come in. Deactivate the non-essential buildings so they go to food/water production first, and incrementally scale up to where you were.

Sorry for the loss! If you start over, feel free to use my charter and I'll send you a bunch of resources. If you want to salvage and just need some food/water/resources/cash, message my charter with what you need and I'll send it over. My charter should be in my signature.

Good luck!