Bad landing - broken lander legs - repair possible?

[Silverwood]

Hello

I made a bad landing with my new lander and broke the leg on on side. I mean broke off!

Is there a way for an engineer to repair/ replace? I have tried to search but just can't find the right reply.

Thanks.

Keith

[bewing]

No. There are two stages of damage. "Damaged" legs can be repaired by a 2-star engineer, IIRC. "Broken" is unrepairable.

[Silverwood]

Ok oh well...looks like a rescue mission!!!

[harrisjosh2711]

7 hours ago, Silverwood said:

Hello

I made a bad landing with my new lander and broke the leg on on side. I mean broke off!

Is there a way for an engineer to repair/ replace? I have tried to search but just can't find the right reply.

Thanks.

Keith

You could potentially use KIS to replace it.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

Depending on the gravity where you are and the design of your ship, you may be able to pop it up in the air with other legs by deploying/undeploying them. Or failing that just thrust along the ground and try to pull up before parts start shearing off.

Either way, quicksave first!

[qzgy]

@bewing - I don't think there is a damaged state for landing legs, just broken. You may be thinking of wheels.

[bewing]

1 hour ago, qzgy said:

@bewing - I don't think there is a damaged state for landing legs, just broken. You may be thinking of wheels.

It may not be working in the game currently, but check the 2-star capability:

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Engineer

 

[qzgy]

Just now, bewing said:

It may not be working in the game currently, but check the 2-star capability:

https://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Engineer

 

Huh. I've never seen landing legs get damaged in-game

[bewing]

7 minutes ago, qzgy said:

Huh. I've never seen landing legs get damaged in-game

Me neither, but I don't use landing legs because of the Unity wheel bug. I use wing parts instead.

 

[Silverwood]

Ok thanks. In the end i used an earlier save and re did the mission. I don have the KIS mod installed and actually my engineers are still only level 1, so I dont think they could have repaired it. The 'crash' happened on Minimus, I dont know how but the entire craft just fell over! It is top heavy though.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

I feel like I've definitely seen landing legs get damaged in game, once they are they won't deploy/undeploy and they are stuck in whatever position they were in when they broke.

Maybe I'm wrong though and I just imagined it lol.

[Kryxal]

On Minmus, you usually have enough torque to be able to manage a liftoff of some sort regardless.  Spin it so the other legs will kick the engine up, extend and retract the legs, and follow the motion as it comes back down.