Kerbal resurrection

[Jackissimus]

I killed Bill. It was not my fault. There was this mountain on Mun and the idiot wanted to see it up close. Well, he did.

Anyway, to my surprise, three days later he is back at KSC. Has this happened to you too?

[lammatt]

nah

i'm yet to kill a kerbal

(well i actually did once...but i save edit him back right after he died)

[annallia]

By default they respawn after a while of being MIA. I think mods like Crew Manifest have a permadeath option and there is another way to turn it on if you really want.

[Yarg]

They respawn

I kill them all the time

[Stankleberry]

Is there a non-mod way to turn on permanent death?

[RocketPilot573]

Is there a non-mod way to turn on permanent death?

Yes, I think you just change the "Mode" in your persistence file to a different number.

EDIT: Wait nevermind! Actually you have to change the "MissingCrewsRespawn" to "False".

Edited August 10, 2013 by RocketPilot573

[Stankleberry]

Cool, thanks!

[Tiron]

Yes, I think you just change the "Mode" in your persistence file to a different number.

*Buzzer*

In the persistent.sfs file, there is a section that reads thusly, by default:

DIFFICULTY

{

MissingCrewsRespawn = True

}

Change it to false to enable permadeath.

Default is true, there's presently no UI to change it (I think it's intended as a difficulty option for career mode, since you'd have to hire new crew to replace the dead ones, which isn't really a penalty in sandbox since hiring is free).

To manually ressurect a Kerbal (if you're impatient or something), you need to find the ROSTER section of persistent.sfs

It contains a number of entries that look like this:

CREW

{

name = Dudski Kerman

brave = 0.1149225

dumb = 0.1390823

badS = False

state = 0

ToD = 281289.261286799

idx = 0

}

The key thing is the state: 0 means they're on the roster but inactive, 1 means they're assigned to a flight, 3 means they're missing. If you change the state from 3 to 0 it'll flag them as being alive again.

ToD is Time of Death, which is 0 for a Kerbal that's never been killed, so you might change that too. It's not strictly neccessary, because you can end up with a ToD on a live Kerbal without editing anything if they were killed on a flight that got reverted. For some reason it doesn't reset their ToD when you revert.

As for the other stats, Brave and Dumb are Courage and Stupidity respectively (though I'm still pretty sure that Stupidity is backwards, because Bill's is high and Bob's is low, but I guess I could be wrong.)

BadS...say it out loud. That's the flag that makes them grinny almost all the time like Jeb (who has it set to 'True').

IDX has something to do with what seat they're assigned on a given craft, though I've not quite figured out the precise logic of that. It at least used to give the same IDX number to people on different flights, and I never could figure out how it kept track of who was on what flight. I'm slightly curious as to if they changed the way this one works a bit in 0.21 to make the new assignment system work, but I really have no clue.

Edited August 10, 2013 by Tiron