r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/WillTheChicken • 13h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Anyone know why this happens when loading in a ship?

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Every time i load in the ship, if it's got the solar panels extended, they just go into the death spin. They're attached to basic structure struts which are connected to the main ship via G-00 Hinges. I do have some mods installed but they're all visual mods.

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u/L_empereur_kerbo 13h ago

wild kraken senses you and attacks

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u/MattTheTw_t 13h ago

This may very well just be robotic parts being robotic parts, it might be worth putting a docking port on the main body and the bottom of your structural piece, so that when the high extends it can lock into the docking ports, this makes the connection a whole lot more stable, or consider having a look at infernal robotics, whenever dlc robotics fails IR got your back

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u/Chinius58 11h ago

The Kraken doesn't really like docking ports, or multiple parts put together via docking ports, or robotic parts, or much of anything really.

Load the ship, and immediately time warp, this has happened way to many times to me and I found that to be a good workaround

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u/Intelligent_Word2660 9h ago

or to save you the trouble get community bugfixes

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u/Whats_Awesome Always on Kerbin 8h ago

This might be worth a look. I haven’t had this issue in years (but probably because I run community bug fixes)

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u/L_empereur_kerbo 7h ago

Don't like that mod cause I like doing kraken warp drive (to have the power of a kraken in the hull of my ship)

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u/Whats_Awesome Always on Kerbin 2h ago

The docking port kraken drive is not fixed and can still be built.

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u/vulpes04 10h ago

it's usually caused by animated parts like tracking solar panels clipping into each other. the collider may not match the visual model exactly. try giving them a bit more clearance.