[solved] How do you get the Dawn Ion drive to work with KSP Interstellar Extended + Fuel switch?

[Hoozemans]

As the title asks.

I've tried the stock craft included in the game, and they don't produce any thrust.

I've thrown together a bunch of capacitors, batteries, reactors, solar panels, xenon tanks and ion drives, and they produce a few micronewton of thrust at first, quickly dropping down to zero, with barely any power or xenon consumption.

Is there a special trick to it, other than selecting propellants matching the ones you're actually carrying, and providing plenty of power?

Edit:

Hang on, found something here: 

Working on it.

Solution:

Right here:

 

Edited May 24, 2021 by Hoozemans

[Vanamonde]

Thread moved to modded support, and good luck with your issue. 

[Hoozemans]

So the answer to my question was right here:

Turns out it was not a lack of RTFM on my part, but an actual bug.

I went to the ./GameData/WarpPlugin/Parts/Engines/IonEngine/ folder and restored the backup that was there:

machoozemans:~ hoozemans$ cd /Applications/KSP/1.11.2_Kolonize/GameData/WarpPlugin/Parts/Engines/IonEngine/
machoozemans:IonEngine hoozemans$ ll
total 24
0 drwxr-xr-x   5 hoozemans  admin   160 May 23 22:50 .
0 drwxr-xr-x  56 hoozemans  admin  1792 May 23 22:50 ..
8 -rw-r--r--   1 hoozemans  admin  1578 May 23 22:50 IonEngine.bak
8 -rw-r--r--   1 hoozemans  admin  2145 May 23 22:50 IonEngine.cfg
8 -rw-r--r--   1 hoozemans  admin  2336 May 23 22:50 Upgrades.cfg
machoozemans:IonEngine hoozemans$ mv IonEngine.cfg IonEngine.cfg.KSPIE-upgrade
machoozemans:IonEngine hoozemans$ mv IonEngine.bak IonEngine.cfg

Restarted the game, and the ionengine was back to normal.

[FreeThinker]

I will restore the config in the next release.