Random explosion :(.

[Queengoth Sparklebitch]

A few weeks ago i built this mothership for my world, not especially huge about 3.5 million KG and it had a few working parts like a elevator and retractable doors and stuff.

Id not been near it for a while id been building over the otherside of my map and then this morning when i turned it on i looked over to where my ship was parked and it explodes.

Im about 3000 miles away so its nothing ive done and the powers off so i cant see how anything inside it is gonna explode theres no NPC ships near it, asteroids arent turned on, theres no warheads on board and no automated turrets on or near it.

Is this a bug or what? and is there a way for me to like... freeze the game or something so i can get over there before it explodes and create a copy.

[taeles]

About two hours ago I was rerouting some conveyor when something in the room exploded. Took out the refinery, reactor, six sections of conveyor tubing, the gravity generator, left a 3x3 hole in the floor and a 2x6 hole in the wall. I found parts of the explosion all over my sisters ship, and... well everywhere.

An hour after that I 'p' released a frigate and hit 'space' to lift off a platform, one of the landing gear exploded, killed me but thankfully only did minor scratches to the frigate aside from the obliterated landing gear.

[Queengoth Sparklebitch]

Bump.

Any help would be appreciated to save my ship :(.

[taeles]

My sister and I have been finding these occurances pretty amusing to be honest. We always hollar "Damn warranty expired on xxxxx!" when something blows. Our latest incidents :

1. She was flying her WInnebego (she really liked the starter yellow ship so we rebuilt it from itself so it wouldnt vanish and is completely hers) when the front left engine exploded. Killed her, she found the ship smashed face first in to an asteroid. Was fun rescuing it :)
2. I sat in a chair in our asteroid base, it exploded, took out one corner of the building I was in.
3. Just finished figuring out how to use connectors, I used my welding frigate to finish several ore drills at once. Reconnected to the station connector, started depositing all the unused materials when BAM right welding arm exploded. I respawned, found the frigate in a side passage of the asteroid still spitting out crafting materials through the connector.

-chuckles-

[Namdoolb]

SEToolbox might be able to save your ship. You could copy the ship using that without having to actually load up the world.

On another note, I've been encountering similar things since the last update. Landing gear seems to be randomly detaching itself, and I encountered a minor explosion that took out a downward facing thruster on one of my small ships while it was parked and powered down.
My ground vehicles also seem to randomly flip themselves over unless I park them with landing gear.

If I could venture a question, how far away from the start point are the objects when these things occur?
I ask because the save in which this is happening the most has my base a good 12km from the start point. I suspect that may be a factor, but I haven't had the time to corroborate yet.

[TTV.Slimmoo]

Interesting, on the weekend I was mining with my 5x5 drilling rig, (which had all of the thrusters inside the main perimeter of the ship) when something started to spark in the top right and then BOOM, I was dead and ore was everwhere. I thought that I had acidentally hit something while mining, but now I'm not so sure. However my ship didn't have landing gear on it. All that was left was 6 drills and the cockpit with the thrusters. So I lost 19 drills, 25 medium storage containers, 6 or more conveyor tubes, 3 or more coveyor blocks. Come to think of it the sparking would have happened near the top right medium storage containers.

Very interesting, looks like it's a good idea to save out anything you have build recently. Just incase.

[Queengoth Sparklebitch]

Thanks Namdoolb for your advice, i did manage to copy the ship over to another world without any explosions however it did fail to copy the doors attached to the pistons with it.

Is there currently some bug with pistons?.

My boyfriend who has this ship on his save also is having the same problem but he says that the explosion always seems to start in the cargo bay with the piston doors and elevator.

Its hard to judge exactly where it starts cause we're 3000 ish miles off when we load up but if it is the pistons i really wish they'd fix them because as cool as building a nice ship is its nowhere near as fufiling as seeing your perfectly measured doors open and a cargo ship fly inside.

[TTV.Slimmoo]

There is something still up with the pistons. I was playing around with them lastnight and everything was fine, until I closed them all up and they started shakeing and banging, it just got worse and worse until it was annoying me. Nothing helped until I tryed to dismantel one of them and then it blew up and killed me. It was kinda like a piston bomb, started small, built up over time and then trying to dismantle it is the trigger.

Before the last patch I remember some small ships would start bouncing in the same way when they were locked down with their landing gear. One of the guys I played with would try to unlock them but then it would explode.

[Petrothian]

I had that happen just now.... began when one of my blast doors blew.


is testing atm, disabling pistons and see if I can replicate it.

[Petrothian]

yep, is piston related.

disabled them and dismantled them, no massive chain explosions.

[Queengoth Sparklebitch]

Hope they fix this fast, i adore the game and i have lots of fun ideas i want to try with moving parts and stuff but theres no point in me even begining a new one if i cant implement them without explosions :(.

[LameWarrior]

In my old world I had an explosion after each patch. Once per week, I was loading my save and after few minutes something blew up without any reason. Pistons or thrusters. Now, I have a new world, because constant banging noise was driving me crazy (some other bug). Thursday is soon, so I'll see if something explodes there.
BTW, I just died randomly today. I was mining in my ship when I heard an explosion and died. I thought my reactor has gone away, but after respawn, I checked everything and found no damages or missing components. I just exploded without destroying anything in my ship... Maybe Michael Bay has joined Keen Software House?

[Queengoth Sparklebitch]

So i loaded up my SEToolbox edited save where id ported my ship over to with no problems the other day.

And this time it exploded before the loading screen had even disappeared, no pistons on it this time cause they didnt port over when i copied it using the toolbox.

This explosion appears to have started in the reactor rooms on both sides of the ship, none of the reactors were loose, none had explosives near them, im on creative so theres no even any uranium in them its a single line of reactors on top of a single line of batterys connected to a conveyor system which runs the length of the ship.

To make it even weirder only 2 reactors out of 10 in each room were blown up and they werent the nearest to anything they were 2 along from the inside and 6 along from the front of the ship.

This bug is ruining what for me is a great game. I will not be playing until its fixed as theres no point.

[Darkaiser]

Not necessarily just pistons. I have a merge block explode on a mining ship of mine but only when disconnecting it

[Simmons 2.0]

Just happened to me. First every piston on my large ships in my MP world exploded. About 30 seconds later every small ship landing gear exploded. Duplicated it several times with the pre-existing ships. While hilarious, not very conducive to building.

[Queengoth Sparklebitch]

Still not fixed after todays patch :/.

after finally managing to get into the game by disabling all my mods it still explodes...

I really love this game but for the love of god can you please fix the things we have before adding new stuff for you to break.