Surface Harvester: no ground con...

[Kelderek]

Does anyone know what the rest of this message is on this drill? I'm guessing the word there is "contact" and it thinks the drill isn't reaching the ground. I thought it might also be "concentration" or something indicating there's no ore at this location (despite what my resource scan showed me).

Edited June 12, 2015 by Kelderek

[n0xiety]

Yup no ground contact. Next time just play it safe and place it as close to the ground as you can. Or just test at Kerbin on launchpad

[Kelderek]

That's what I guessed. And don't worry, this was just a hyperedit test and not the real thing anyway.

[Superfluous J]

In a pinch, you MAY have been able to raise your landing gear.

...and hope your engines didn't break

[Kelderek]

As this was just a test, I will just go back to the VAB and make the adjustment there. But the landing gear thing would probably work, those mammoth engines are pretty tough.

I was mostly just frustrated that the message on the drill was cut off and I couldn't figure out a way to make the entire message show up. I even tried turning on some debug settings in hopes that extra data on the tooltip window might expand its size, but that didn't help.