How to add Permadeath to your save file (Persistence)

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

Hello everyone.

Now that .23.5 is out and a lot of People are starting new savegames, I wanted to leave this hear.

I was always wondering why there is a "Lost"-Tab in the Astronaout Complex if Kerbals Respawn after a while if they died.

So I wanted to add Permadeath to my new Savegame to make it a little bit more thrilling.

Unfortunately it was quite hard to find informations on how to do that, what is why I am posting this here.

What it will do:

Kerbals that achieve the goal of a firey, squishy or puffy death won't rise out of their graves anymore.

They will only show up in the "Lost"-Tab forever but do not respawn.

This Setting is only affecting the Savegame you edited it to, other savegames are still "Vanilla".

What you have to do:

Look up your Save-File in your KSP-Folder.

Inside of it, there is File called Persistence.cfg (If I recall correctly)

Open this file with your Editor/Notepad (If you are using a Windows-PC)

Press CTRL-F to search for entries and look for "MissingCrewRespawn = True"

Change this into "MissingCrewRespawn = False"

And you are set.

Hope you enjoy the thrill.

Edited April 3, 2014 by MalfunctionM1Ke

[Doozler]

Thanks for this! I didn't realise this was off by default. I've only lost Jeb and Bob on my first lunar landing...but they came back!

I thought there was something magic about the orange trio...

[Javster]

There's "Dead" and "Missing in action" what is the difference?

[Lizard771]

This should be the normal configuration - The death a Kerbal experiences should be a tragedy. Also, there really have to be badges and stuff the Kerbals can earn.

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

In my opinion there should be a Slider in the Options Section something like this

1. All Kerbals that die will come back after a period of time.

2. All Kerbals except of Jeb, Bill & Bob will stay dead forever.

3. Kerbals will not rise from their graves

[NecroBones]

Hello everyone.

Look up your Save-File in your KSP-Folder.

Inside of it, there is File called Persistence.cfg (If I recall correctly)

"Persistence.SFS" and "Quicksave.SFS" are the two savegame files. You can edit just Persistence, as long as you don't hit F9 after loading into the game (without F5 first).

[Rabble]

There's "Dead" and "Missing in action" what is the difference?

How much the KSC has to pay out to kerbal's family. That and if their just "Missing in Action" I can't be sued for wrongful death which lets me take dangerous and unsafe liberties with rocket design.

[KASASpace]

Yeah, this would come in handy, especially when doing a permadeath series or something.

Plus, it is kind of Battlestar Galactica ish right now.

You know, the resurrection ship.......