Vehicle Clipping Through Ground

[TacoWaffleMan]

My craft has loaded in with the majority of the craft under the surface of Mun. It consistently explodes when disturbed in any way. Despite numerous attempts to free it, it would appear that the craft is forever trapped just under the surface. (I'd upload a pic but I don't know how.) If anyone could shed some light on my struggles please do, thank you. 

[4x4cheesecake]

I have 2 possible solutions for this problem (probably just for PC):

1) Quick and easy

Open the debug menu (alt + f12 or ctrl + alt + f12), go to the 'Cheat' section, enable 'no crash damage' & 'unbreakable joints'. Then switch to your rover and he should plopp out off the ground without any explosion. Solar panels might be broken anyway.

2) Complicated but your rover will be perfectly fine

For this solution, you need to edit your savefile. Best case: Create a new savegame with an specific name, like 'rover rescue'. You will also need the name of your rover, so if you don't know it, go to the tracking station and write it down, then close the game.
Navigate to 'your_KSP_Install_folder\saves\name_of_your_career,science,sandbox-game\'. You will find your 'rover rescue.sfs' savegame in this folder. Open the file in a texteditor and search for the name of your rover. You should find something like this:

		VESSEL
		{
			pid = ...
			persistentId = ...
			name = name of your rover
			type = Rover
			sit = LANDED
			landed = True
[...]
			lat = 13.789885945062496
			lon = 145.55871006793572
			alt = 401949.66047789052
[...]

The last 3 values in this example are 'latitude', 'longitude' and 'altitude'...you want to edit the 'altitude'. Just add 3 - 5 to this number, in this example this would be 'alt =  401953'. Now all you have to do is to save the file and reload the 'rover rescue' savegame in KSP. As soon as you switch to your rover, he should be slightly above the surface of the Mun and all parts should be fine as well.
 

Edited July 12, 2018 by 4x4cheesecake