Talk:Game Modes/@comment-73.164.28.80-20160602201856/@comment-70.95.12.240-20160826224424

If there was more than one player, there'd need to be an explanation, since practically everything in the game is explained to the best of Altera's and its products' abilities. My guess would be that all the players in the save would have landed safely from the Aurora. Any new players would just be people previously thought dead in crashed life pods, which could limit the number of players to a reasonable number, considering save file size and internet speeds. If you exit out of the save while other people are still in there, you're in hibernating mode; this means you can drown if you exit in water or be attacked and die. However, you would not lose any hunger or thirst if you're in bed; otherwise, you will, albeit slower than normal. As for dying, whenever you leave a base, it scans your full body (body plus inventory) and sends a copy of the data to your PDA. Then, when dead, your PDA sends what is both on your person and the body data back to base via matter waves (like radio waves, but with a lot more mass), where it recreates your body.