I have a bug with a fuel tank

[king of nowhere]

Ok, so I have this big ship with over 1000 parts, and that may helping the problems. the thing is, it seems some fuel tanks are detached from the ship

Here is the ship, minus the docked shuttles

while huge, it's nothing particularly strange.. there is a central body, and 4 S4 tanks attached to it, and two of those have another S4 tank. the tanks are attached laterally to each other.

Here, though, you see that when you select the top tank, there is no fuel transfer option available. indeed, there is no fuel transfer between that and the rest of the ship. not even if i select the option to ignore crossfeed rules

Indeed, after fuel runs out in the top tank, the engines attached to it stop working (they are active and they had been working until a moment ago)

reloading back some saves, i discovered this bug was there since ship assembly (EDIT: but when i launched back the central body, it works. it was introduced sometimes during docking of the other subunits).any suggestion on how to fix this?

Edited January 5, 2021 by king of nowhere

[Snark]

Moving to Gameplay Questions.

[Anonymous49]

On 1/5/2021 at 10:04 PM, king of nowhere said:

Ok, so I have this big ship with over 1000 parts, and that may helping the problems. the thing is, it seems some fuel tanks are detached from the ship

Here is the ship, minus the docked shuttles

while huge, it's nothing particularly strange.. there is a central body, and 4 S4 tanks attached to it, and two of those have another S4 tank. the tanks are attached laterally to each other.

Here, though, you see that when you select the top tank, there is no fuel transfer option available. indeed, there is no fuel transfer between that and the rest of the ship. not even if i select the option to ignore crossfeed rules

Indeed, after fuel runs out in the top tank, the engines attached to it stop working (they are active and they had been working until a moment ago)

reloading back some saves, i discovered this bug was there since ship assembly (EDIT: but when i launched back the central body, it works. it was introduced sometimes during docking of the other subunits).any suggestion on how to fix this?

i think it is a actual bug, or maybe there is a decoupler or a heat shield or whatever between it that doesn't allow fuel crossfeed, and also did you hold alt+right click when clicking on the 2 modules?

[king of nowhere]

no decoupler, no heat shields, no whatever. the fuel tanks are attached directly to each other.

yes, alt-right click.

[Terminal Velocity]

Well I don’t know because I never have done a fuel transfer because I build craft that don’t need to

[bewing]

Yeah, it's a bug in the current version.

[king of nowhere]

17 hours ago, bewing said:

Yeah, it's a bug in the current version.

can it be fixed?

is there something that can be done to make it less likely to happen with another craft?

[bewing]

Not really. You just need to do fuel transfers while you burn to keep the tanks full.

[Anonymous49]

On 1/23/2021 at 9:35 PM, king of nowhere said:

no decoupler, no heat shields, no whatever. the fuel tanks are attached directly to each other.

yes, alt-right click.

well it happens sometimes for me but when my engines are firing it usually allows