Breaking Ground DLC: Parts aren't present

[ReconXPanzer]

Hi everyone,

I've ran into an issue with the breaking ground DLC, none of the parts included display in the SPH/VAB, the category 'robotic parts' is present, as is all the stock craft that come with Breaking Ground, but the category is completely blank and none of the Breaking Ground stock craft can be loaded due to containing 'locked or invalid parts' and can't be loaded.

Clean (and new) install of KSP 1.12.2.3167, Breaking Ground 1.7.1, Making History 1.12.1 (both appear in the bottom-right corner of the main menu), attempted to completely remove KSP and then redownload to no avail.

Windows 10 Home 64 bit.

EDIT: Just to note, I've never had this issue before on previous versions of KSP/Breaking Ground.

A link to the imgur album showing screenshots of what I'm seeing can be found here.

Any help would be appreciated.

Edited November 14, 2021 by ReconXPanzer

[Staticalliam7]

Odd. Steam installation?

[ReconXPanzer]

6 hours ago, Staticalliam7 said:

Odd. Steam installation?

Nope, standalone from the main website, downloaded as a .zip

[Staticalliam7]

6 hours ago, ReconXPanzer said:

Nope, standalone from the main website, downloaded as a .zip

Ah ok. I was thinking that maybe toggling the dlcs on and off would work, but that only works with steam

[18Watt]

I've seen something similar to this, I'm on OSX.  Are the other parts showing up, like pods and fuel tanks etc.?

In my case I'm not sure exactly how I fixed it, I think I just backed out, re-entered the SPH, and clicked 'New Craft' to start building.  In my case none of the parts were showing up in any category.

In case this happens to me again, I'll be curious how you eventually resolve this.

Edit:  If nothing else works, I'd suggest re-downloading the .zips for the base game AND the DLCs, and re-installing the DLCs into the new base game again.  If you're like me, and immediately copy over save files and the config file, perhaps don't do that- just fire up the game as-is and see what happens, and then start pulling old saves and configs and stuff over if needed..

Edited November 14, 2021 by 18Watt

[ReconXPanzer]

4 hours ago, 18Watt said:

I've seen something similar to this, I'm on OSX.  Are the other parts showing up, like pods and fuel tanks etc.?

Yes, all of the parts of the base game + making history expansion are present, it's only the parts that come as part of breaking ground that aren't present.

The parts all seem to be there in GameData -> Serenity and there are entries for them in the PartDatabase.cfg

4 hours ago, 18Watt said:

Edit:  If nothing else works, I'd suggest re-downloading the .zips for the base game AND the DLCs, and re-installing the DLCs into the new base game again.  If you're like me, and immediately copy over save files and the config file, perhaps don't do that- just fire up the game as-is and see what happens, and then start pulling old saves and configs and stuff over if needed..

I'll try this again, previously I kept the .zip and just extracted a new ksp build, and the .exe setups for breaking ground, I'll try deleting them all and trying again, watch this space.

EDIT: deleted everything and redownloaded, no change. Parts from the base game and making history are all present, but none from breaking ground. The robotics category contains no parts and all of the stock craft included in breaking ground show errors.

EDIT 2: Found a solution, if I run KSP in administrator mode, the parts show up, I'll change the permissions for the affected files and we should be golden!

EDIT 3: Yep, all is good now, thank-you very much to everyone who chimed in!

Edited November 14, 2021 by ReconXPanzer