Landing gears dont auto lock?

[Mr. Night]

I have been having issues with landing gears not locking for a while now. This time im making a salvage ship with 3 arms with landing gears to grab important blocks. The landing gears are on the ends of the arms so it closes in a claw around the block. The gears are set to auto lock but they been up against the block now for over a minute and still havent locked. ive tried moving the arms away and then back to the block to grab it and it still wont grab. I tried a small ship to latch onto it with a gear and they wont lock to other blocks. what am i doing wrong?

[Lucifer69]

Ensure there's no movement from either grid, including rotation. Enable auto lock. You shouldn't have much trouble unless the tug ship is signifigantly smaller.

Can you upload the world with the list of mods? I can take a look for you, though I prefer vanilla so if there's too many mods then maybe not.

[Mr. Night]

there is a ton of mods. i took screenshots can i share those somehow? (never done that)

[Mr. Night]

or i can upload the world. to the workshop?

[Lucifer69]

Top left of the steam app. View, screenshots, then select the ones you took and add them to public. You can copy links to them here.

Sadly screens may not help as much, but it can at least give me/ us an idea of the design. A decent place to start.

To upload the world:

Launch Space Engineers
1) Go to main menu, click "Load World"
2) Select a world you want to publish
3) Click "Publish"
4) Wait until the world gets uploaded
5) Steam Overlay will open up and you can verify if everything is ok, set visibility, title, etc.
6) From this moment, everyone in the community can subscribe to your world, download it and play it

[Mr. Night]

sure something came up and i have to run. ill be back in about 10 minutes ill do it then thanks

[Mr. Night]

i uploaded the pictures but ill be right back

[Lucifer69]

Originally posted by Mr. Night:

sure something came up and i have to run. ill be back in about 10 minutes ill do it then thanks

I'm at work so it'll be a good while before I can help. Just make sure the grids you want help with have no modded blocks if possible.

If not possible then as few mods as you can as I'd rather avoid a laundry list of mods to add to the list of potential causes (I'll test without mods first anyways, and rebuild the grids if needed).

[Mr. Night]

its uploaded

[Mr. Night]

when i get back ill try to trim them down and upload a new copy

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, I got this problem with 2014 landing gears in one of my old saves

= >> I deleted the old landing gears and replaced with new ones to fix the problem so you may try.

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First thing to do when playing with Mods =

1 - Create a new NO Mods world, load and test to see if it is a Mod problem or a game problem.

2 - Create a copy of your save by changing the save name using the "Save as" feature.

3 - Withdraw all Mods in that copy (one at a time), load and test.

4 - Report to the Mod author when the Mod causing this problem is found, well if it is a Mod problem.


Edit

Sorry I made some corrections up there

[JDaremo Fireheart]

Make sure that both the vessel and what you're trying to dock to are the same faction.

[Dan2D3D]

Oh! Also > Safe Zone <

Landing gear lock is not allowed by default in the Safe Zone block options so double check the settngs or do this outside of the Safe Zone.

[Dan2D3D]

Looking at your last SE screenshot = I see that you are using a Modded landing gear so I would test Vanilla to be sure those work properly.

Your screenshot > You just have to open the Steam webpage of it, right click on it and select copy URL and paste it in here, like this :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1870577421

[Mr. Night]

thanks everyone ill try again tomorow and then see if it fixes stuff. ill post back here