Kerbal Space Program

There is about 700 m 'danger zone' above terrain on Pol. Moving in that space means danger of the ship randomly exploding due to 'collision with terrain'. Quicksaving on Pol below 700 m above terrain means almost certain destruction of the ship on quickload.

I prepared three quicksaves of a ship landed on Pol at various altitudes. In all three cases when loading the quicksave, the ship will first appear 700 m above terrain, then it will snap to the terrain level.

Reproduction steps:

• load any of the three quicksaves
• observe the altitude change during the load
• launch the ship in any direction
• quicksave below 700 m above terrain
• quickload

Crashing into terrain in flight is harder to reproduce - keep flying up to 700 m above terrain and the ship will eventually explode. I have not found any 100% reliable approach. Not sure what other criteria besides height need to be met.

In output_log.txt, the relevant messages are these:

Vessel Untitled Space Craft crashed through terrain on Pol
[00:00:00]: Untitled Space Craft crashed into Pol.
mk1pod (Untitled Space Craft) Exploded!! - blast awesomeness: 0.5
[mk1pod (Untitled Space Craft)]: Deactivated
[00:00:00]: Jebediah Kerman was killed.

The message is the same for crash from quickload and from crash when flying low above terrain

Notice that log messages used here differ from these used when the ship actually crashes into terrain. In such cases, messages are like this:

[00:24:47]: Mk1 Command Pod collided into the surface.
mk1pod (Untitled Space Craft) Exploded!! - blast awesomeness: 0.5
[mk1pod (Untitled Space Craft)]: Deactivated
[00:24:47]: Jebediah Kerman was killed.
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