Poor little guy shows as Debris

[Zatie12]

He died when the rover did a barrel roll and now he's always here showing as "debris". Planted a flag to remember our good old friend!

[softweir]

What a weird glitch!

[CalculusWarrior]

Yeah, rover crashes seem to actually 'kill' kerbals, yet leave their bodies intact. Its happened to me several times now.

[KvickFlygarn87]

I *believe* this was fixed in the latest update

[Boomerang]

EVA'ing Kerbals on the ground or having them in command seats upon rovers is basically a death trap. Hard jolts while driving, falling out of their seats, etc all does that to them, looking perfectly fine but frozen as debris. And thanks to glitchy collision meshes with the ground, there are tons of places where just walking around normally makes them go poof. RIP Matt

Edit: Happens all of the time with the most recent version of the game.

[Zatie12]

Thanks for the replies folks! I've built a protective "roll bar" into my rover to protect future Kerbals in the event the rover rolls upside down. Matt Kerman has inspired quite a few safety improvements in my space program, we all learn from our mistakes after all!

[Xacktar]

I've had that happen before. I think that is what they label the Kerbal corpses they can find. *nods wisely*

[Cmdr. Arn1e]

This is simply rectified by opening up the persistance file and changing the 'vessel type' and name of the kerbal! had this happen a couple times now... think to the same poor kerbal too!

can be hard to find though... the find tool in notepad helps though!

[gooddog15]

bob had the same fate in a test save, after rolling over bobcats LRV

[Orionkermin]

I've had that happen before. I think that is what they label the Kerbal corpses they can find. *nods wisely*

As a wise kerbal once said: We are all just debris in the solar wind...