unfinished mun buggy contract

[Toenails10]

i took a contract to fix an mun buggy, all i need to do is weld the control seat to it and it will be good to go.
but the control seat is too heavy for my kerbals to put in their backpack to get it to the buggy.
i landed a craft with all the parts required, but can't figure a way to finish this out.
i don't really want to build a robotic arm/buggy just to get it there,
anyone else experience this contract and have a solution?
many thanks

[Happy Ant]

You just have to park your vessel close enough to the rover so you can take the control seat from your lander's inventory and attach it to the rover.

[Toenails10]

oh , i will try that, guess i was overthinking it, lol

[GunsForBucks]

My repair craft is a large rover... makes it easy to drive over the one I am repairing.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2327956349

[dunbaratu]

I think the challenge of these contract was intended to be how hard it is to land the vessel near the one in need of repair, or drive it to it. I don't think they expected you to carry the part in your backpack - just have the mission vessel and the target rover be very close together so both are within "construction radius".

[dunbaratu]

The hard thing I have about repairing rovers is how dang impossible it is to make the construction interface snap to the grid I want it to. The wheels won't snap right to an orientation that fits the parent part, even in 'local' rotation mode. And when you click the button to place the wheel part, it doesn't attach anything remotely like what it looks like it said it was going to do. I end up having to just put it in free-rotate (no snap) mode and slide and rotate things by eye hoping it's close enough that the steering will be correctable if not totally straight.

[andylaugel]

You can lay parts down on the ground. Then have your engineer walk closer to the rover, and pick up and move the part closer to the rover.

[Toenails10]

well, nothing is working, i had a rover in orbit already so landed it, drove right beside the unfinished buggy, tried to use engineer to place seat on the rover, on the ground, but nothing seems to work, i even brought a repair kit if i needed it to help.
possibly a bug happening because the new update has screwed many things up

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2348984821

[Harry_Robinson1]

Put the seat inside a capsule or cargo container and bring an engineer kerbal, and put your craft next to the rover. Do an EVA and stand between the capsule and rover. Press "i" and the kerbal will go into build mode. Select the seat on the left side of the screen and click where you need it to go on the rover.

Then just hope the rover doesn't spontaneously explode and start floating up into space because that's what happened when I tried to do this mission.

[Toenails10]

thank you Harry,
i was missing the "i" step, inventory screen i guess.
did exactly what you said, he welded the seat on and repaired the buggy, and it didn't explode!
cheers!

[Harry_Robinson1]

Originally posted by Toenails10:

thank you Harry,
i was missing the "i" step, inventory screen i guess.
did exactly what you said, he welded the seat on and repaired the buggy, and it didn't explode!
cheers!

You're welcome! Glad it worked out. :) Turns out the explosions were due to a mod so it should be safe if you don't have KJR. I also didn't realise the "i" step and was stuck for ages.

[GunsForBucks]

There is also an icon on the right side you can use. It looks like a cargo box but with an engineer out it changes to a crane.

[Seva]

I have the same contract. What else should I do with this buggy? I moved it to the destination area, but it's still not completed.

[GunsForBucks]

Originally posted by Seva:

I have the same contract. What else should I do with this buggy? I moved it to the destination area, but it's still not completed.

alt F12 to bring up the debug menu then auto complete the mission. Game is bugged for those contracts.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2300689007