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You are descending to your outpost with running ISRU, and it rapidly builds core heat from nowhere (catch-up when going off-rails) and goes boom? "No ground contact" appears and disappears randomly, because surface detection of the game is challenged? Landed your 500-ton refinery on a "dead spot" of Pol? Oh, no. Your engineer went to the outhouse for a minute, and your ISRU production rate lowered in twenty times. ISRU TWEAKS Heavily inspired by @Markelius https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/138756-112-no-overheating/ , distributed under the same license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Is made to stop that weird behaviour of stock mechanics by Module Manager magic. Even with mods. This is fairly simple. Patches can be used separately. Module manager is a dependency and you can get it here https://github.com/sarbian/ModuleManager, but looks like you have it already. No_overheat patch will look for any parts with modules, producing malicious CoreHeat. You will need no radiators for converters, processors and harvesters affected, they will not need to warm up and to blow up. RTGs are covered. Radiators will still be needed to operate NERVA-alike engines and in hot environments. No_engineers will remove stock 5% cap on effeciency of converters and harvesters, they will run on their nominal effeciency, harvesters will run depending on resource abundance. Your things will work like it`s 4-star engineer onboard, everytime, even on probes. Drill_collider makes drill collider 25 kerbal meters long, this is a dirty "fix" to fight bugged surface detection. But you still have to point it to the ground and to be landed. Mod support: Wild Blue Industries-any: Just works. For all parts, hopefully. Please tell me, if not. USI - any: no_engineers respects and preserves fancy USI effeciency and traits system, so you need specialist kerbals or you need automatic drills and automatic modules. Heat and colliders are patched as usual. Any custom parts with stock or USI/WBI modules are patched automatically, so stockalike mining extension, KPBS, MRS, Contares, rovers, etc are compatible. KSPIE: parts with stock modules are covered, parts with WasteHeat use WasteHeat pseudo-resource, no need to fix, you still need radiators. Extraplanetary Launchpads uses its own heat implementation for smeltery, own drill modules and unmanned production part, nothing to do here. 3rd party parts with stock modules are supported. You will need engineers to build stuff. OSE Workshop: Converters are covered, unmanned workshop is already present. Ground Construction: Converters are covered, you will need engineers to build stuff. Kerbalism: does not simulate heat, nothing to do here Near Future Electrical uses its own module for reactor, you still need radiators. SIMPLEX Resources, CRP, planet packs, new ISRU recipes, etc: compatible. Only drills, converters or generators(e.g. RTG) are affected, only heat and engineer requirement is disabled. Support: I will want to look at your save folder, namely craft files, and your KSP.log from the root folder, if something goes wrong. Special thanks to Markelius, Roverdude and SQUAD. DOWNLOAD LINK https://spacedock.info/mod/2469/ISRU Tweaks

I am trying to build a refueling station around Minmus and I both times I landed at my spot, my drills said there was no ground contact. I thought they were placed pretty well so I started tinkering with them on the launchpad and got the same errors no matter where I placed them. I built this contraption quick just to make sure it wasn't an issue with my launchpad or my ship: https://streamable.com/utuj5y None of them work. I've restarted the game and all that, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've tried somewhere around 50 different placements and only one drillomatic jr alternated on and off every half second. I can't figure out how to fix it.

I have an ISRU design I've used a bunch of time. I put one down on Pol. I was having trouble getting enough ore to keep everything running and come out ahead, but other than that, it was working fine. I jump away (letting it run) and come back. I haven't gotten anything so I left click on the drill and it says "no ground contact". It was working before I left. I is clearly in the ground? Anyone know what's up? Here is a picture