Spaghettifying Kerbals

[ProtoJeb21]

I'm pretty sure many people are familiar with this one glitch that "spaghettifies" your poor Kerbals. It was long thought to be lost, until two things happened on July 30th, 2016. The first is...well...

The second happened to me when I was visiting the planet 99d in Kumar's Dwarf Stars (because reasons). I had a large warp-drive vessel with two inflatable heat shields entering the atmosphere of that planet. However, everything except the capsule and one expanded shield survived the initial entry. 

Jeb "bravely" got out for reasons, but he got stuck in the shield for about a minute before being tossed out by physics. That's when he started spazzing and spaghettifying so much that he elongated into some glitchy abomination from 1 km to 13 km to 100 km to over ONE THOUSAND KM in only a few dozen seconds. Then the surface of the planet turned into a black hole as Jeb fell in and hit something 5.2 kilometers below sea level.

So, the Spaghetti Glitch is (kinda sorta maybe I guess) back! It is time to figure out more relating to this glitch and see how else it can be replicated, besides Danny's Transcendence Device and the evil inflatable heat shields. Also, feel free to share your own experiences with this glitch and others relating to it.

Edited July 31, 2016 by ProtoJeb21

[Snark]

Suggestion:  Just get rid of the "did you encounter this?" question, and add a "This has never happened to me" option to the "when did it happen" question.

'Coz right now, if I vote "no, this never happened to me"... it won't let me submit a vote unless I choose one of the options for #2, and "Other" seems misleading.

[Adelaar]

I can spaghettify my Kerbals at will, using various techniques. One way is to airdrop them out of a cargo bay, and at certain altitude, pitches and speeds they will collide with  the cargo bay and spaghettify. Another way is more difficult to explain, but comes down to the difficulty of climbing on a Rover, ending up inside a metal panel... Obviously, a fitting solution would be to spaghettify and end up with a km's long set of limbs... Very amusing 

[W. Kerman]

Never gotten this, not as crazy as nexter's lab or Danny.

[ZooNamedGames]

Just did it today as a Kerbal got kicked out of his command chair when another one jumped onto the rover and when he was knocked out, he got pushed into a metal plate which caused him to spazz and spaghettify. 

[Core]

I had it happen in 1.1.2, when a kerbal would hit the ground hard. He spazzed before suddenly vanishing in a puff of dust. I say it's a ninja vanishing trick.

 

in 1.1.3, it would happen upon impact, but the kerbals survived the 'ninja trick'. I was glad that they became more stable under those circumstances, since sometimes the kerbal survives better than the command pod in a crash.

[EpicSpaceTroll139]

Since kerbals became able to EVA I have yet to have an update in which I wasn't able to spaghettify them in some way, whether on accident or on purpose.

[LordFerret]

And they tell me I have too much time on my hands? Just wow.

I didn't have to build something special for this. I climbed the flagpole next to the launch pad. I fell from the top, inadvertently. I hit the base of the flagpole and the whole shebang exploded... my Kerbal survived however. I have no clue how, maybe he landed on his head? I then attempted to jump up onto the debris pile of the flagpole... it was then that my Kerbal turned into Elastic Man (spoken with deep resounding voice) and warped around in every direction on over to the runway, where he then hit the pavement and went poof!

 

Edit:
Ok, so I went and tested it out again. It works. If you fall from the top of the flagpole and land on your head, the base and flagpole will explode. If you don't succeed the first try, try again. Once you do blow it up, you'll need to walk into the crevasse in the debris as shown in the image below (spoiler) and hit the "F" key to 'climb' as you do... that should catapult you up and out. The distance varies. Sometimes you spaghetti in flight, sometimes when you hit the ground. It's a hit or miss kind of thing... so if you don't get thrown, circle around and walk back in again. Eventually you'll hit it lol.

Spoiler

I haven't achieved this yet on the main flagpole out in front of the Astronaut Complex. Maybe you'll have better luck?
 

Edited August 15, 2016 by LordFerret
test it out

[Guest]

The first time i got the spagehtti gltich was when:

I was using KAS and KIS to attach something a bit far. So I decided to use vessel mover but 1. The Kerbal turned into a ragdoll and 2. As soon as I moved, he became spagehtti.

I literalty jumped as soon as that happened

[nascarlaser1]

happens to me all the time in 1.0 (my current version) whenever my guy hits the ground at 20+ speed and survives. If he dies it does not happen though.

[JKerman]

I used a time control mod to slow down everything. I turned the delta-physics lock off and thevspazzing became more intense. I think it's because spazzing is caused by high position changes from one frame to the next. I'd really like to know what actually does cause the spazzing . You can see this sped up spazzing in my YouTube video.

 

[Windspren]

Landed Jeb on EVA on top of a green monolith at Minmus. Everything's fine, so I plant a flag. I switch to my lander, which is a couple hundred meters away, and suddenly the game starts lagging and my PC's fan turns on. I look over at Jeb... err, Jebs, at this point. Somehow, Jeb became duplicated into ~20 ragdoll kerbals, all of which are spazzing out and flying all over the place. Eventually, the framerate drops so low that I have to ALT-F4 and reload. I revert to a quicksave, and somehow the ball of kraken'd kerbals is still there, despite the fact that Jeb is inside my Minmus lander, which is still in orbit. I eventually had to delete the save after weirder things started happening, such as the kraken'd kerbals appearing at KSC every time I tried to launch something.

[NSEP]

I dont know exactly when or how but somehow, my Kerbal became spaghetti a circled around an area like 5x the area of the KSC,

[Helmetman]

The first time this happened to me when I started playing KSP in V 0.24 I thought my computer was getting attacked. I was immediately afraid my porn collection would be found.

I got kind of shocked the first time, not because I'm some sort of scaredy cat, but it happened so suddenly I was like WhaaAaAt!?
For a moment I thought that some kind of Demon took over my mind and reimaged normal reality. As if a psychosis in my mind was taking form.

Luckily I had explorer and google and quickly found out about the Kraken and buggy calculations in the core coding of ksp. Luckily I can still summon this darkened entity. I hadn't seen the spagettification for a long time...

Oh, and I was brainstorming what to eat for dinner tonight, this thread helped me out.

[RedPandaz]

On 9/21/2017 at 9:05 PM, Laythe Dweller said:

Landed Jeb on EVA on top of a green monolith at Minmus. Everything's fine, so I plant a flag. I switch to my lander, which is a couple hundred meters away, and suddenly the game starts lagging and my PC's fan turns on. I look over at Jeb... err, Jebs, at this point. Somehow, Jeb became duplicated into ~20 ragdoll kerbals, all of which are spazzing out and flying all over the place. Eventually, the framerate drops so low that I have to ALT-F4 and reload. I revert to a quicksave, and somehow the ball of kraken'd kerbals is still there, despite the fact that Jeb is inside my Minmus lander, which is still in orbit. I eventually had to delete the save after weirder things started happening, such as the kraken'd kerbals appearing at KSC every time I tried to launch something.

The Monolith was displeased with Jeb

[joacobanfield]

I turned off gravity and flew one kerbal into an interstage faring. Next thing I know, she's become a fine dish of spaghetti with assorted rocket parts.

[Julian.]

This Happens After Every Single Collision.