Rescuing the Frozen Kerbals

[Merinsan]

I just experienced a bug, which has given me a new mission.

Bob and Bill got frozen on Minmus, while on EVA. They can't do a thing except EVA reports, surface samples and turning their lights on and off. I'm not going to leave them there though I have to rescue them!

I've already sent the first rescue ship, with a claw, but it has failed to grab a kerbal. They squeeze out and roll around. I suspect the ice that is freezing them is slippery.

I'm now preparing a new rescue mission, with rovers to scoop them up.

[Merinsan]

I've hit a new problem. I lack the parts to build what I need to scoop them up (structural plates). I've decided to try a rover, with command seats. If I get close enough, maybe they can jump in.

[Merinsan]

Once again, failure. The rover worked out fine, but Bill just didn't want to get on.

I might have to get some more science, to get the new parts, then send a box up and a bulldozer to pick them up and send them home.

[Xaelath]

I think that happened to me too a little while back. Except like this:

After he hit his head a lot of times because his rover tipped over a lot, he remained like that and I'm unable to do anything.

[CalculusWarrior]

I think that happened to me too a little while back. Except like this:

http://i.imgur.com/WDt38el.png

After he hit his head a lot of times because his rover tipped over a lot, he remained like that and I'm unable to do anything.

That happens to me as well. I suppose its a bug with the game.

[Xaelath]

I hope this gets fixed soon.

[Merinsan]

I reported it as a bug, and it turns out there was an update I needed to download (which I missed), to fix it. After download, they stood up.

I then used the claw to rescue them, I'll post some pictures when I get done with work.

[Merinsan]

As promised, pictures of the rescue. I only got final descent pictures unfortunately.

I was very surprised no one died in the making of these pictures...

[Tw1]

Nice use of the claw!

The bug reminds me of something that happened on my Apollo recreation last year.

http://imgur.com/a/vdR5f

It looks worse, and he went poof soon after, but at first he was in a similar state of being uncontrollable.

Well done on bringing them home!

[Felsmak]

This happened to me yesterday. It totally killed my Apollo mood.

Edited April 9, 2014 by Felsmak

[NASAFanboy]

This happened to me yesterday. It totally killed my Apollo mood.

http://i.imgur.com/HF8bgpe.png

Do you know what causes the bug?

I've limited my EVA-time to five minutes max no time warp and limited my EVA teams to two to keep losses from happening on the surface. For now, it doesn't seem to strike in space.

[Felsmak]

Do you know what causes the bug?

I've limited my EVA-time to five minutes max no time warp and limited my EVA teams to two to keep losses from happening on the surface. For now, it doesn't seem to strike in space.

It appears to happen whenever the scene is reloaded with the Kerbals still outside - they both froze when I returned to the landing site through the tracking station. I could quickload it back to a previous state where they were still inside the lander, but then I quicksaved after going back out to replant the flag, so when I for some reason decided to quickload it again, they just went back to being frozen. Irreversibly.

[StevenLawyer]

I've been running into this in 0.242 (x64). After Jeb gets thrown from an External Command seat on a rover, he becomes frozen. Further investigation reveals that he know longer shows as Jeb, but as debris from the rover. It's clearly a bug, since he were being deemed "killed", he should go the way all great Kerbal's do--"poof!"

P.S. You can edit the persistent file to resurrect your Kerbal: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/75586-Master-Thread-Unresponsive-Kerbals-in-EVA