Move kerbals in KSP - to save Jebediah from an unjust fate
I'm hoping for some help. I'm fairly new to the game so please bare with me. I recently reloaded a quicksave instead of creating one by accident. According to How would one undo loading a quicksave in Kerbal Space Program? it's likely I've now lost the old state (didn't leave in time)
But to add insult to injury I quicksaved at a time when I had gotten a big lander back to Kerbin and wanted Jebediah to take a soil sample. I wasn't sure if he would survive the fall so I saved it prior to letting go of the ladder. However in the reload Jeb appears about a meter to the left of the lander and promptly falls to the ground and dies. I can accept my lost progress after this save but given all his science (and life) I'd really like to bring him home. I tried tweaking the quick save but every reload had the same effect.
Any help or advice on where to aim would be hugely appreciated...
Thanks! Possibly relevent section:
VESSEL
{
pid = 1dab3465e53d4bc89125c16c2e51e410
name = Jebediah Kerman
type = EVA
sit = FLYING
landed = False
landedAt =
splashed = False
met = 7.90000000735745
lct = 2154667.37390431
root = 0
lat = 15.431993254746
lon = -330.337250733857
alt = 686.741724181804 <--- Tried editing this, nothing changed
hgt = 1.991011
nrm = -0.009900075,0.9233786,-0.3837628
rot = -0.6215439,-0.1967535,0.3950912,-0.6472049
CoM = 0,0,0
stg = 0
prst = False
ref = 0
cPch = 0.544
cHdg = 2.27
cMod = 0
ORBIT
{
SMA = 301069.766658943
ECC = 0.995174584633339
INC = 15.4319930748073
LPE = 270.000318325192
LAN = -59.082056632706
MNA = 3.14139282715152
EPH = 2154675.29390432
REF = 1
}
Best Answer
Another option that worked for me was to modify the Kerbal's state to set sit = LANDED and landed = True. The Kerbal was then fine when I loaded the quick save.
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If you want them back to life immediately rather than waiting, you can open your KSP game folder/saves/username/persistent. sfs with your favorite text editor, find ROSTER and change the crew members' statuses from state = 3 to state = 0 . This will instantly revive your Kerbals.How do I restore Kerbals from orbit?
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Answer 2
Unless you've turned off MissingCrewRespawn for your save, your dead Kerbals will reappear after a little while. If the only thing you're trying to do is keep Jebediah, you're already safe there.
If on the other hand you want that soil sample, CyanAngel's suggestion to turn off gravity and get to a safer position with EVA thrusters would be your best bet.
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