Spaceship Stuck "landed" While Suspended Far Above Surface

[TheJackWilliam]

While returning to my ship that was parked on a hillside from an excursion on Minmus, the vehicle bounced far into the air. After dramatically catching up to it and boarding it (while it was still falling towards the ground), I decided my time here was done. I then tried to reach orbit and return to Kerbin, but the game was weirdly shaky. After looking around, I noticed that the ship was still landed according to Kerbal Engineer Redux. I then rashly decided to go to the tracking station and return to see if the game would fix itself, alas this caused the ship to become inoperable, including button presses, and EVAs.

I have images of this that I can offer, if it will help.

Please fix this issue, I personally have to create a new game now because I now lack Valentina, and Bob Kermin (Jebediah is stuck in orbit around Minmus and I'm too lazy to retrieve him)

[steve_v]

28 minutes ago, TheJackWilliam said:

I have images of this that I can offer, if it will help.

Images are properly useless for debugging 99.9% of the time. What would be useful is the game log covering the time this occurred, as well as all the other stuff mentioned over here.

 

31 minutes ago, TheJackWilliam said:

Please fix this issue

You didn't provide any useful information, so there's no way to tell what caused it, let alone fix it. If you want the developers to see it, you'll need to reproduce it in an unmodded game and file a report on the bugtracker. Ain't nobody here but us chickens.
Did you search the bugtracker? Break a solar panel? What?

 

24 minutes ago, TheJackWilliam said:

I personally have to create a new game now because I now lack Valentina, and Bob Kermin

Meh, destroy the ship from the tracking station, then edit your save to revive the crew back at the astronaut complex (state = dead -> state = available). Much easier than starting a new game.

[DeadJohn]

You said the ship is inperabl;e

On 3/30/2020 at 9:43 PM, TheJackWilliam said:

this caused the ship to become inoperable, including button presses, and EVAs

Does the game completely lock up when you go to the ship (forcing you to quit and restart), or do any menu items still work?

If the game doesn't completely hang, try to change the ship's status to see if it if starts responding again. Make sure you have a backup copy of your save file, then take control of the ship and try to cheat it into orbit (using alt-f12). If that doesn't work, try to force-land the ship using HyperEdit mod.

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

If you want a quick and only moderately hacky fix:

Go into your KSP directory/saves and open persistent.sfs, then search through it until you find the 'landed' vessel. Change the following:

            sit = LANDED
            landed = True
... some more lines...
            alt = [a number]

to:

            sit = ORBITING
            landed = False
... some more lines...
            alt = [a number + 5]
            

And that should make the game think it's orbiting; it will also move the vessel 5 metres higher so it will actually be above the ground, but should float gently down and land properly.