Bob disappeared from persistent file

[Triple K]

Hey! New to the game and newer to the forum.

So I wanted to drop a rover in from high altitude near the north pole, and because of ships/debris disappearing after 2.5km it was hard at first, then I downloaded the Lazor System mod and increased it up to 22km. Things just got a lot easier, dropped the rover, got a perfect touch down, then landed the jet,recovered the jet. Everything was awesome, just untill the moment when I wanted to return to the rover, just to find out it was missing, with Bob Kerman inside it. He was listed Missing in Action, and I thought if I deleted him from the lost section in the building with all the kerbanauts he'd respawn, so I clicked the RED X next to me(I know, I know). So now he's nowhere to be found. Waited for around a month of ingame time, 2 days of real time that maybe he'd respawn, but nothing. Wanted to edit the persistent file today, just to find out he's not in it. Probably because of clicking the RED X, I know, but still, is there any way I can bring him back to my game?

Thanks for the replies in advance!

[ExplorerKlatt]

You could start a new save them open that persistent.sfs and copy paste Bob from the new one to the old.

[magico13]

Two options: 1) copy an existing hired kerbal and change their name to Bob Kerman. They'll get the orange suit and correct class because that's name based.

2) Start a new game and copy the Bob Kerman out of that save file into yours where all the other Kerbals are.

Either way should work, but I haven't tested.

[Tweety]

Hey there, welcome to the forums first and foremost

Absolute wild stab in the dark here but could you start a new save, look in the persistence file, find Bob and copy and paste into your current file?!

This MAY or MAY NOT be some code you need.

} KERBAL

{

name = Bob Kerman

type = Crew

brave = 0.3

dumb = 0.1

badS = False

state = Available

ToD = 0

idx = 1

CAREER_LOG

{

flight = 0

}

FLIGHT_LOG

{

flight = 0

}

It has been an age since I've messed with saves and stuff like this so I'm not 100%. Place it right near the bottom of your persistence with the other kerbals.

Hope this helps,

Tweety

Edit: ninja'd TWICE while searching for code!

Edited April 10, 2015 by Tweety
Changed Bob to 'Available', just for the ladies.

[magico13]

This MAY or MAY NOT be some code you need.

} KERBAL

{

name = Bob Kerman

type = Crew

brave = 0.3

dumb = 0.1

badS = False

state = Assigned

ToD = 0

idx = 1

CAREER_LOG

{

flight = 0

}

FLIGHT_LOG

{

flight = 0

}

Don't use that code exactly, but that's almost the correct block. The fact that he's assigned in that code will result in just killing him again (since no parts in-game will say he's in them). This code might work instead:

KERBAL
{
name = Bob Kerman
type = Crew
brave = 0.3
dumb = 0.1
badS = False
state = Available
ToD = 0
idx = 1
}

[Tweety]

Damnit I had literally looked at that part and thought to myself I needed to change that to 'Available' and then instead went about checking the rest of it...yeah...thanks for that catch magico

Tweety

[Voidryder]

You...killed...Bob... You killed Bob! You animal! You unfeeling, unforgiving, piece of used dental floss! You black-hearted monster of unspecified flotsam. You will pay. Mark my words you will pay.

[Triple K]

All riiight Bob's back in action! Thanks for all the help!

- - - Updated - - -

Well Bob's safe and sound at the moment, but my space center seems to be bugging now, especially the building with the radar dishes(can't remember the name of it), don't know why. Whenever I try to click on the aforementioned building, nothing happens, it's outline appeares, but that's it. And if I click the building with the kerbonauts, then exit, the whole space center does the same, not without the outlines and all. Any ideas?

[magico13]

Hmm. That's one peril of save file editing, sometimes it causes... problems. Did you copy Bob from a new save or use the code listed earlier? You could upload your output_log.text file (from the KSP_Data folder and we can take a look to see what's going on.

Does it work properly if you delete Bob's data from the save? If so, try hiring a new Kerbal and changing their name+courage+stupidity to Bob's instead of just adding his data in separately.