Turned drop-pod into a small ship; left unatended because damaged; now gone! WTF?

[Monster]

Hi.

I installed the game last week, and I'm on my fist playthrough. Following the suggestion on a youtube video, I turned the drop-pod into a small mining ship, to get started quickly. Unfortunately, I managed to damage one of the truster, so had to go back to my base to get spare parts. I turned the power of the drop-pod off before leaving, just to save some battery. Now I come back, and it's simply gone. And since the game auto-save in between, I can't even recover it by going back to my last manual save. Tell me there's something I can do to prevent all my ships from randomly disappearing when I move away from them, because otherwise I may as well rage quit right now...

[kymsheba]

this has something to do with you turning power off and cleanup trash removal i think it happened to me once.

make sure you have a survival kit installed or a med lab or you can lower the trash removal feature to a smaller amount.

if i am not mistaken the above is what sounds like happened to you

[Monster]

Hi @kymsheba. I do have a survival kit. I can carry on with my base in it's current state. My point is, if my tiny ship randomly disappear for no reason, I can expect that a big ship that I would need weeks to build could do the same, and that would definetly make me rage-quit. So before I waste masses of time pointlessly on "disapearing ships", I want to know how to prevent this.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, this does not happen to me, I usually play Offline with Auto-save OFF = I prefer to use the "Save as" feature and create copies before loading.

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It "Teleports" my character when using the "Save as" in-game <> in the world = it will keep the original save intact and teleport me in the new save.

No mess and I never lose any of my creations doing so ^.

IF

you play MP = your stuff may get deleted so make sure they have power!

and I think there is a setting for deleting the respawn ship so that is a thing, too.

[Dan2D3D]

And I Blueprint on every new blocks I add when I am creating = never lose my shtuff!

[Dan2D3D]

Oh! I forgot

>> I must change the Save name when I use the "Save as" feature so it create a real usable copy.

[Dan2D3D]

Yes, here is the "Delete respawn ship option you should disable :

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1675710060

Under the "Optimal spawn distance" slider ^ = make sure it's OFF

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IF you don't see the world setting

> Must enable "Experimental" in game options from the main game menu

[Monster]

So, if I disable auto-save, and save manually, (which is my prefered way of playing anyway), I can work-around this issue, by going back to an old save. Also, if I "blueprint" my ships whenever I create/change them, I could respawn them (idk how to do that yet; must google...).

BUT, that doesn't answer the original question; why on earth would the game simply delete my ship? Does the game really consider anything that is "powered off" to be "trash" (and then the trash-auto-deletes removes it)? Are ships only "safe" when they use landing gears and are "bound" (I have yet to learn the exact SE "vocabulary) to a base or another ship?

[Dan2D3D]

"BUT, that doesn't answer the original question, why on earth would the game simply delete my ship?"

It is MP settings so do you play Solo?

[Monster]

I have experimental mode on, but idk how to get to that "advanced world settings" window.

[Monster]

I play solo survival; no "server".

[Dan2D3D]

1 - If you play Solo = better set the world > OffLine = nothing should be deleted in this mode.


2 - Advanced W Settings =

> Go to your loading Saves menu
> Select your save (highlighted) and click the settings button on the left
> a new page will open = click the "Advanced setting" button

Right there are the world settings

[RoofCat]

Originally posted by Dan2D3D:

Yes, here is the "Delete respawn ship option you should disable :

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1675710060

Under the "Optimal spawn distance" slider ^ = make sure it's OFF

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IF you don't see the world setting

> Must enable "Experimental" in game options from the main game menu :selike:

that checkbox is to have 10 respawn ships if you decide to die 10 times - it prevents previous one (or debris of that one) from disappearing when you pick new one afaik.

Ships despawn only when they lose power (=are turned off) and you go 500+m away. Also have less than 20 blocks or are in small grid. Large ships won't despawn even if left without power due to size afaik.

[Dan2D3D]

Ah! well I turn Off my cars and ship on planet Earth and go play on the moon = nothing gets deleted on my side.

So it must be a world setting

[Dan2D3D]

Oh! I always create Faction = that may help!?

[Monster]

Originally posted by RoofCat:

Ships despawn only when they lose power (=are turned off) and you go 500+m away.

OK. Wow. Really didn't expect that. If real life was like that, I'd have to buy a new car every morning!