(Bug) Kerbals letting go from a ladder falling onto Terrain might still explode without reason

[Old Foxboy]

Hi there,

I build a vehicle with a horizontally flipped Lab (just above the ground, just the standard gear below it).

When EVA-ing a Kerbal from it and releasing the ladder, he fell down (as expected) and exploded besides the vehicle (as not expected). (The Hatches were to the side of the Lab, not towards the bottom).

So i guess there's still the Bug in there that made Kerbals explode when dropping small heights out of an unusual position.

And to add to the party, Kerbals EVAing sometimes start their EVA floating (ungrabbed) in low gravity, sometimes leading to very hillarious situations like being cannon-shot from the vehicle into open space or simply encountering funny unexpected situations.

Could you check the code? I guess this isn't intended at all. IMO, EVAing Kerbals should spawn grappled to their craft no matter what, and Kerbals dropping to the ground should not explode at such small heights.

[Joonatan1998]

This has already killed 2 kerbals for me.

It seems that landing a pod with the flat side down causes this.

[Murph]

I've had it happen to the pilot disembarking an Aeris 3A or Ravenspear Mk1 parked on grass at random spots on Kerbin, doing survey contracts, when they have needed to get out and poke the ground. Not a particularly frequent, or repeatable on demand event, but more than isolated incidents, frequent enough to be quite annoying and make me paranoid about quick save.