Is this a bug or a one off?

[MSG ANIMOTAKU]

Hey there guys, so I ran into something interesting but wasn't sure if I should post a bug report on it or not; so I thought I should ask here first.

I had just got my "fueling probe" on a close intersect with my "Mun base living quarters", which needed refueling before making the burn to meet the Mun. So I fast forward to the encounter and then begin making adjustment burns to dock my fueler to the living quarters. After a few minutes, I was doing the last burn with my main engine to close the distance between them before switching over to RCS. I got within 3 km, then 2 km, and as soon as I got within 1 km my living quarters just exploded! I then went back to the space center and then to the tracking station, switched to my "living quarters', hit the "Fly" button, and when it switched me to the space craft my game froze and then crashed. Which it did again when I reloaded and tried to fly it a second time. It had been in a Kerbin Orbit for about 10 in-game days and had been fine until I got within 1 km, but then it went boom. I had it secured with struts and even test landed it on Kerbin a few times; as well as driving it around the space center, being as it had wheels to make connecting it to other parts of my base easier. So I'm horribly confused as to why it just exploded all of a sudden. There wasn't any debris or anything.

I haven't tried to reproduce it, I'm not sure that I could. What do you guys think, something I should report or just a one-off random thing?

[Sapphire]

It's not just you. A lot of us have had random exploding. Back in 0.19, I had an entire base on Eve just explode as soon as I got close to it with a new rover. I was not pleased.

[Scotius]

Yup, Kraken ate your ship. Unfortunately physic engine is twitchy sometimes.

[jjwb22101]

Yeah, I had a station in orbit around Duna explode in .20. Needless to say i was really bummed...

[Pixel of Life]

I've had many, many spaceplanes explode in orbit when I entered them. One also blew up when I approached it with a refueler.

[Johnno]

There's really no reason to report it unless you have logs or a save file which could reproduce the issue. If you just report it by saying 'this happened' all we can really do is read what you wrote and say 'that happened'.

For this reason it's good (crucial) to have backups of your savefile, and to quicksave occasionally. The other day I spent an hour to troubleshoot someone's exploding station to the point that it didn't explode, but that's pretty much all we can do at the moment. With enough information the issue can be reported though, but some issue are already known and being worked on, so a workaround to save your work is really the only doable thing.

[FITorion]

I've never had this happen. Do you have any mods installed? It seems like most problems happen on moded games and I'm wondering if this bug is mod related as well.

[rottielover]

I feel your pain. I had a Kethane base on minmus, when I got to within 1km I watched it explode under me.

The funny part was that the Cupola (sp?) went rolling and went straight down a hill. After landing I went looking for it. Ended up going to map view to find it a couple km away, still rolling.

Maybe I'll look for it tonight, might still be rolling along.

[MSG ANIMOTAKU]

@FITorion Nah, no mods. but it seems it's fairly common issue anyway so no worries.

As for everyone else: Thanks guys, I really appreciate the feedback. I thought it was funny when it just exploded out of no where, and it's not much work to put another into orbit. I didn't care much about my save anyway, I was more concerned with the bug in general and what might, and apparently has happened to some people with more to loose than my self; all I have to worry about is school, so I can only imagine how bad it would suck to come home from a bad day at work and then have your whole freaking space base explode. Like what happened to sapphire for example. But as long as it's a known bug then all is good. Thanks again, glad I didn't waste the developers time on it.

...space kraken ate my ship, hehehe. I learned of the real dangers in space today.