How to keep parachutes deployed whilst landed?

[EdwardB3020]

I was recently testing out landing spent stages for my rockets and I keep on coming across that parachutes tend to snap after touchdown which is bad for tall boosters that I might want to recover in one piece for say in a career mode save. Is there any way that I can stop this from happening and increase booster survival from a watery or land grave? Thanks in advance. 

Edited November 12, 2022 by CaptWhitmire

[Vanamonde]

What do you mean by "snap"? The parachutes will despawn after the craft touches down, but an engineer Kerbal can restore them. I don't know of a situation in which they might damage the craft. 

[EdwardB3020]

10 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

What do you mean by "snap"? The parachutes will despawn after the craft touches down, but an engineer Kerbal can restore them. I don't know of a situation in which they might damage the craft. 

Yeah, I meant despawn. Is there a way for them to not do that? And I mean when the parachutes despawn after touchdown and the booster crashes because tipping over. 

Edited November 12, 2022 by CaptWhitmire

[Vanamonde]

I believe you would have to mod your game to over-ride the standard parachute function. If you'd like, we could move this thread to the modding subs if you wanted to seek suggestions there. 

[EdwardB3020]

7 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

I believe you would have to mod your game to over-ride the standard parachute function. If you'd like, we could move this thread to the modding subs if you wanted to seek suggestions there. 

Nah I’m ok. I play on sandbox anyways. 

[jimmymcgoochie]

Parachutes will auto-cut if you’re on the ground and moving at less than 0.5m/s I believe, so your options are a) land at an angle so you never slow down that much until the booster is lying flat on the ground, b) beef up your landing legs and/or shift the centre of mass down so it doesn’t tip over, c) use a mod that overrides parachutes e.g. RealChute, or d) stick some powerful RCS thrusters on the top to force it to not fall over.