Bug #24913
Updated by Dunbaratu about 4 years ago
I thought this was something I did wrong but after it happened consistently several times I decided to report it.
To trigger the bug: Land a craft on the Mun or Minmus - somewhere with low gravity and no atmosphere - and tip it over on its side as often happens on bad landings. Now scrape it along the ground a bit and tumble it a bit, as one often does when trying to get it back upright. Maybe a solar panel or two breaks _*[EDIT: Further investigation proves that you actually HAVE to break a solar panel to trigger the problem, and it must be one of the extendable kinds of solar panel - see others comments below.]*_, breaks, but otherwise the vessel still is intact and works. Now take off by throttling up when you get it to rotate facing upward a moment, as one often does to escape this situation.
When I do this, it seems to quite consistently leave the Vessel.situation stuck as LANDED, forever. While I am trying to take off and get back to orbit, the camera is shaking a lot (because it thinks you're driving along the ground at high speed, rather than flying up to space). It won't let you save the game (because it thinks you are "moving over terrain", again because of that landed status.) If on Hard Mode, it won't let you leave the scene (the buttons are orange indicating that leaving the scene will delete the vessel, again because it thinks you are moving across terrain when you're actually flying up to space). The only fix is to get it re-landed so it thinks you are stationary on terrain, then leave the scene to the tracking station and reload the vessel from there. Reloading the vessel makes it set the situation correctly the next time you launch.
I'd show a savegame of this but *I CAN'T* because one of the things the incorrect LANDED status does is cause it to refuse to save the game ("moving across terrain"). I can't save the game until I find a workaround that resets the status.
The only mod I have is kOS, but I got this to happen even when kOS wasn't doing anything. I don't think kOS is causing it. Most of the time when I do the above steps, I am flying manually anyway as I try to scrape the ground and tumble it upright or fling it off a crater rim.
To trigger the bug: Land a craft on the Mun or Minmus - somewhere with low gravity and no atmosphere - and tip it over on its side as often happens on bad landings. Now scrape it along the ground a bit and tumble it a bit, as one often does when trying to get it back upright. Maybe a solar panel or two breaks _*[EDIT: Further investigation proves that you actually HAVE to break a solar panel to trigger the problem, and it must be one of the extendable kinds of solar panel - see others comments below.]*_, breaks, but otherwise the vessel still is intact and works. Now take off by throttling up when you get it to rotate facing upward a moment, as one often does to escape this situation.
When I do this, it seems to quite consistently leave the Vessel.situation stuck as LANDED, forever. While I am trying to take off and get back to orbit, the camera is shaking a lot (because it thinks you're driving along the ground at high speed, rather than flying up to space). It won't let you save the game (because it thinks you are "moving over terrain", again because of that landed status.) If on Hard Mode, it won't let you leave the scene (the buttons are orange indicating that leaving the scene will delete the vessel, again because it thinks you are moving across terrain when you're actually flying up to space). The only fix is to get it re-landed so it thinks you are stationary on terrain, then leave the scene to the tracking station and reload the vessel from there. Reloading the vessel makes it set the situation correctly the next time you launch.
I'd show a savegame of this but *I CAN'T* because one of the things the incorrect LANDED status does is cause it to refuse to save the game ("moving across terrain"). I can't save the game until I find a workaround that resets the status.
The only mod I have is kOS, but I got this to happen even when kOS wasn't doing anything. I don't think kOS is causing it. Most of the time when I do the above steps, I am flying manually anyway as I try to scrape the ground and tumble it upright or fling it off a crater rim.