Is anyone else having these problems?

[Kaboooom]

I have a normal moon lander with a normal launcher, I launched it, and before it got out of Kerbin's atmosphere the orbit on the map said I was going to escape Kerbin. I managed to do something and lower it enough so I could get a normal orbit around the moon, but the thing is, all of this was on my first stage. Normally, I would've been using my nuclear engines by now. I ignored it, and eventually was about to land on the moon before I had a chance to use my middle stage. So, I decoupled everything and started the landing process. When I was about to land, my moon lander went through the ground. I thrusted up and it went through the ground again, I tried to land again but the same thing happened. Eventually, I just gave up and let my moon lander drift through the mun's ground and then explode.

I have no mods installed, either. Are you guys experiencing this as well?

[Kaboooom]

Oh, well, this is rather disappointing. Hopefully a little more people will reply to this.

[Sapphire]

I'm sorry, but I can't help you. I haven't had this problem, but you could probably find more help in the Bugs & Support forum. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/forumdisplay.php/58-Support-Bugs

[Kaboooom]

I'm sorry, but I can't help you. I haven't had this problem, but you could probably find more help in the Bugs & Support forum. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/forumdisplay.php/58-Support-Bugs

Okay, thanks. Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum. Could a mod please move this to the support forum?

[khyron42]

This sounds like something's badly broken indeed. The prime candidate is a corrupted game install, and the first step would be to completely delete the game and reinstall from scratch (and rebuild your craft by hand rather than copy over the .craft file.) If the problem's still happening after that, someone needs to contact an exorcist.

[dlmarti]

The Mun surface is brand new, I suspect its the collision mesh.

[spikeyhat09]

download a new copy from kerbalspaceprogram.com . sounds like things are really screwed up

[msyblade]

if you could post some coordinates (or as near as you can remember) I'm sure a few of us would enjoy going to check it out.

[FITorion]

if you could post some coordinates (or as near as you can remember) I'm sure a few of us would enjoy going to check it out.

Incidentally how do you find and or use coordinates in a Stock game?

[NASI Director]

Check to see if you have Hack Gravity checked in the Dev Menu. Same thing happened to me, at least, not the Mun landing part.

[TheHengeProphet]

Incidentally how do you find and or use coordinates in a Stock game?

When in map mode, you can mouse over a landed object to get its coordinates. Not sure how to get them without a landed object, though.

[leax256]

maybe in the save file. it should store the coords somewhere.

[Epthelyn]

By the sounds of it you've got Hack Gravity turned on (Alt-F12, "Unhack Gravity" to stop that). At least, that goes a way to explain the escape from Kerbin's SoI before leaving the atmosphere. A craft designed for the Mun isn't usually capable of 3km/s in atmosphere unless it's ridiculously over-engineered.

As for the Mun landing, I have no idea. Providing coordinates has been suggested, but I don't think you can read off coordinates in a stock game without landing first (and landing is the probem). EDIT: Okay, but only in persistance.sfs and that's not in the format you get ingame. Mechjeb can work with that format though (I think).

[Jodo42]

By the sounds of it you've got Hack Gravity turned on (Alt-F12, "Unhack Gravity" to stop that). At least, that goes a way to explain the escape from Kerbin's SoI before leaving the atmosphere. A craft designed for the Mun isn't usually capable of 3km/s in atmosphere unless it's ridiculously over-engineered.

As for the Mun landing, I have no idea. Providing coordinates has been suggested, but I don't think you can read off coordinates in a stock game without landing first (and landing is the probem). EDIT: Okay, but only in persistance.sfs and that's not in the format you get ingame. Mechjeb can work with that format though (I think).

Actually, pressing alt+f12 and clicking "Show flight debug stats" gives you your ingame coordinates.

As others have said, make sure hack gravity is disabled, and tell us the coords of the attempted landing so we can do likewise and determine if it's a terrain mesh issue or that your save is corrupted.

Assuming hack gravity is disabled and you're still getting ridiculous exit trajectories, a fresh install would be best. If that goes away, and we find out it's a terrain mesh issue, then you should be fine. If we can't replicate your results, again, a fresh install should be gotten.