My subassembly disappeared?

[asb3pe]

So I built a launch stage and saved it to Subassemblies. Then I built a lander, and grabbed the launch stage and put it underneath the lander. Then I decided to change the lander and I dragged it to the left side of the screen to delete it.

As soon as I did that, my subassembly that I had dragged out into the VAB became grayed out. I could no longer interact with it, move it, delete it, nothing. Additionally, the entire subassembly disappeared completely. In fact, the subassembly tab has disappeared completely, it's no longer there. I rebooted my game and its still gone. Why did this happen?

I experimented and it appears that dragging your capsule to the left side to delete it is a bad idea, it messes up anything left in the VAB?

Still experimenting, I guess if I drag a new capsule out then I can interact with what was in the VAB again. But I need my subassembly back.

Nevermind, the subassembly tab is back and so is the launch stage subassembly I built. Either I'm going nuts or the game is. I'll vote for the former.

Edited June 10, 2014 by asb3pe

[asb3pe]

Another question if anyone reads this... how come the fuel lines that I put onto my subassembly are broken when I grab a new copy? I always have to reset the fuel lines connecting the tanks together.

[Pecan]

A ship has to have a command pod, probe core or one of a few other parts as its root part. Everything else is, directly or indirectly, attached to that. When you disconnect parts in the VAB/SPH you can still move them around as the game expects you to either delete them or re-attach them, somehow, to the main assembly - and through that back to the root again. When you, instead, deleted the capsule there was no root part left and the game then refuses to do anything until you create a new one. As sub-assemblies can't be/contain THE root part the whole tab is hidden for the same reason.

At the other extreme - the fuel-line thing IS a bug. It can also affect struts and some other small parts and means you have to check whatever you add from a sub-assembly carefully.