New Mobile Lab stuff for 1.2

[cephalo]

Ok, I built my first mobile lab in 1.2, and I see a couple of new things and I'm wondering about the state of labs these days. The wiki is still outdated so far.

What does the 'level up kerbal' button do? Do scientists gain xp in the lab now?

The lab seems to be the first available part to see biomes on KerbNet, but requires a 'qualified scientist' on board. Can that be any scientist?

Last time I played, multiple labs on one craft did not work at all. Is that still the case?

Edited October 18, 2016 by cephalo

[magnemoe]

Kerbals don't have to return to KSC to level up now, however one difficulty option is to require that an lab is prescient and you press the upgrade kerbal button. 
Has not it on myself and it hopefully work if kerbal is on the same craft as lab and you don't have to put them two and two in the lab. 

I guess its any scientist, however enginers and pilots will not unlock this. 

In 1.13 multiple labs worked but was a bit glitched, sometimes it would not put experiments in one of the labs, you could also only use one experiment once for entire craft. If you undocked the experiments used on the first lab could be used again, common issue on interplanetary ships I tend to equip with an lab and transporting bases who also had an lab. 
 

[Aegolius13]

Hardly seems like the lab needed more power upgrades.  Maybe I'll just use the other features but no crazy OP data processing. I'd be happy if instead if that feature, it would allow you to get full recovery credit for your experiments.

Edited October 19, 2016 by Aegolius13
Removed kerbnet thing you already mentioned

[Blaarkies]

4 hours ago, Aegolius13 said:

Hardly seems like the lab needed more power upgrades.  Maybe I'll just use the other features but no crazy OP data processing. I'd be happy if instead if that feature, it would allow you to get full recovery credit for your experiments.

But this can only happen while the lab is in the same binome as the science...otherwise we just stop by LKO from every Jool trip to pass the experiments through the lab(that seems pointless)

[Allocthonous]

10 hours ago, cephalo said:

Last time I played, multiple labs on one craft did not work at all. Is that still the case?

This was not the case in 1.13, or at least it wasn't if the labs were parts of a space station that were launched separately and then docked.

[cephalo]

8 hours ago, Allocthonous said:

This was not the case in 1.13, or at least it wasn't if the labs were parts of a space station that were launched separately and then docked.

So if you build a space station with two labs, can you put the same science in both of them and get 4 scientists going?

[Allocthonous]

7 hours ago, cephalo said:

So if you build a space station with two labs, can you put the same science in both of them and get 4 scientists going?

You had to have separate copies of each individual piece of science. So if you had temperature readings for space near kerbin, you could dump that in one lab, and then if you took the same reading again or with a duplicate instrument, you could dump it in the other. But yes, both labs running at once.