How to fix: Ship disappeared. Please help.

[Aurite]

I am at Cydonia. Used the ship services tech to upgrade my 350K custom ship (swapped out reactor to a better one). Now my ship isnt on the launchpad and I cant get it to spawn there.

My other ships will spawn there though. There are no errors in the shipbuilder. Unable to fast travel to the ship or to anywhere else unless I change home ship. I cant go back to a save before I upgraded the ship as I have done things on Mars and the next furthest back save is many hours back.

Things I have tried:

I have quit out and reloaded several times.
Changed home ship back and forth several times.
Changed home ship and left system.
Lots of swearing.
Modify ship back and forth up and down.
Going in and out of Cydonia and an abandoned mine to see if it loaded when I exit.
Add/remove parts in shipbuilder.
Verbal threats to waterboard my computer.

[Dankaar]

Was the ship one you stole/"liberated"?

They do that sometimes. There's no fix ATM. It's better to customize ships you buy or the game gives you, not ones you steal. The ones you buy/are gifted tend to be more stable.

[Aurite]

dammit. It was a pirate ship I took, does this mean it will continue to bug out?

[LeftIsBest-James]

I find ships only disappear if consolecommands/mods make them exceed their size limits.
Try adding a paint-job to a component(modificaction action) and testing again.

[LeftIsBest-James]

Originally posted by Aurite:

dammit. It was a pirate ship I took, does this mean it will continue to bug out?

Did you register the ship yet?

[dollars202]

Naw it's a known bug, stolen ships will go good bye when they get customized then you land or are in certain ports. Only way for this not to happen is to never mod them in the first place. They will even disapear if you are using another ship if you have modded it in any way. I lost 3 ships i stole at one time this way because i did some small changes in the ship upgrading them.

[Aurite]

The ship does still appear in the ship list. When I have the missing ship as my home ship I can use the ship inventory - but the ship is not on the landing pad and I can run through where it should be. I have a quest and the quest marker is where the ship should be. My dissapeared ship still shows up as a ship I can mod/build etc.

I dont have any mods and I have not used the console at all.

So its like the ship is there but I cant see it, touch it, interact with it at all. When I home a different ship the new home ship is there immediately and works fine.

So what do I do? do I have to sell it off or something? Or is there any way to get my ship back?

[Aurite]

any fixes?

[Silentios73]

The only thing you can do is sell that ship. I had the same problem where my ship would go to my 1st outpost all the time.

They way I solved it is by selling that rogue ship and start again with a cheaply bought ship.

[jonnin]

vanishing ship is caused by double modifiy when you don't clear out the misc section between. Sell all the misc items before modifying a ship and it should mostly stick around. If you swap ships to frontier or something you can take all from cargo and swap back should bring it back into play.
There are any number of ship bugs right now, though. I just had a 250k ship revert back to its 10k version, all mods and money lost, just poof it was once again a crimson fleet junker. It also locked me out from entry at the bay though I could fast travel to it and be inside. About 25% of the most common activities are prone to catastrophic failure. Combat works, but outposts, ships, homes and more are all subject to reset/vanishing stuff/failure.

[Aurite]

so do you mean walking through the ship and taking everything not nailed down or just not having anything in the ships hold thats misc?

I have started to get CTD now aswell. Doing a verify files atm.

[Aurite]

still stuck with this, any fixes known?

[Knight_Kin]

new game?

[sarcastic_godot]

Originally posted by Aurite:

so do you mean walking through the ship and taking everything not nailed down or just not having anything in the ships hold thats misc?

I have started to get CTD now aswell. Doing a verify files atm.

No, you don't have to collect everything from your ship. Just go to the Trade Authority console conveniently located next to each ship technician, and "sell from ship" all the clutter in the "Misc" tab. Not the Digipicks, and maybe other items you had before and want to keep, e.g. medical injectors or e.g. (if you have one) your mascot plushie...

CTDs happen every now and then, and verifying your game files never hurts...

[jonnin]

yea clear the misc tab from sell from ship, or you can even just 'jettison' the stuff, it poofs away even if on the ground. Its worth about 1000 credits for 4 or 5 rooms worth give or take specific modules. Its also heavy: you will have garbage like weight lifting equipment in there, so don't let this mess pile up.

I think ima have my wife knit me a wilby. Anyone know how many colors they come in? Ive seen green, blue, red, and maybe others, lost track.