Offset craft?

[R0DGAR]

Hello, I'm here because recently I have experienced something with many of my large ships. I enter to the ship and de parts are not inline any more, making them useless. How can I prevent this?

 

[jimmymcgoochie]

A few things can cause this, but there are some tricks that might help:

• Time warp briefly and stop it again, this often resets the alignment of parts which have moved. Might also cause some parts to glitch under terrain if you’re landed so watch out for that.
• Disable autostruts (requires a minor save file hack so have a backup save to return to if your edits go wrong!)- open your save file and change every instance of autostrutMode = Root, Grandparent, Heaviest, ForceGrandparent or ForceHeaviest to autostrutMode = Off, then reload that save. Autostrut target parts can change when docking/undocking and when fuel is burnt so reloading the vessel again will cause them to recalculate and this can bend the craft out of shape.
• If all else fails, use the game cheats to spawn a new, un-mangled copy of the ship beside the mangled one then return the mangled one to the launchpad and recover it; transfer crew etc. from old to new first.