Small ship exploding

[Flashand]

Multiplayer, 2 people in game. one crafting his ship and myself /// by agreement no pvp .

I have just completed a ship and saved my game, i jump in the cockpit and give the drills a test spin. it works so i start to fly off. the drills explode, taking a portion of the ships hull with it. so i turn around and head back to reamake the drills thinking they were too close together. The cockpit explodes for no reason what so ever.

[Basho]

it could of course be a bug or something. or sabotage if you dont know the other player well.

but the thing that comes to mind first, without having seen the design of the ship in question, is that you put thrusters so that they intruded on the bounding box of the affected components, thus blowing them up when the thrusters were used.

i can only guess though. but make sure your thrusters are not sitting behind the bounding box of larger objects (mouseover the larger object with a welder or similar to see the box).

[Flashand]

i had believed that to be the issue so i moved the cockpit and drills away from the jets, alas that was not the issue and the cockpit again exploded takeing out the converoyer belts next to it. My nephew was watcheing (other player) and he was laughing becausse there was no reason to explode