Landing with my pod upside down...question?

[Dark Sceptor]

So when I have started the game in the Custom/Star System and when I land the pod is either tilted upwards, with the refresh screen on the ground, or once completely upside down. Is there any way for me to flip it over on it's feet?

[Dark Sceptor]

Landing with my pod upside down...question?

So when I have started the game in the Custom/Star System and when I land the pod is either tilted upwards, with the refresh screen on the ground, or once completely upside down. Is there any way for me to flip it over on it's feet?

[FireFox]

Nope, you'll have to figure a way out to do that.

[Cor.]

If you arent too far into the game, and not in a really good spot, you can restart your game and see if you land in a better spot.

If it is 100% on its back, just leave it for now and use the equipment to build a little base with better refining to the point you can put atmospheric thrusters on it and flip it over with Gyro's and land it properly.

[Cor.]

I think you got double posted.

[Other]

Several ways.

- dig out a hole under the side that should be on the bottom until the pod falls/rolls in. This takes nothing except the hand drill, and you probably need to dig out a bunch of rock from somewhere anyway to make ingots in the survival kit. Before the pod rolls, go into the control panel and set all the landing gears to autolock, so that they will catch and stop the pod before it rolls too far

- disassemble bits of the pod you don't need in order to build a gyroscope (somewhere inside the armor shell), and use the override controls function on the gyroscope to roll the pod (again set the landing gears to autolock so it stops when they touch the ground)

- build a jack (one or more pistons, optionally with a hinge somewhere and a magnetic plate on the end) pointing down off the side of the pod that should be the top, and use that to push against the ground and roll the pod over

If you have the tech progression system enabled in the options, you may need to build and grind down some other blocks first in order to unlock the gyroscope and pistons. You also may have trouble finding enough of some parts (likely small tubes for the piston strategy, large tubes for the gyroscope), since the survival kit in the pod can't make them; there are a few parts on the pod that have some of each, or you can chase down unknown signals and grind those down for parts.

[Rox]

Fundamentally this is a common problem caused by bugs or deficiencies in the game, and as such it's permissible to use the ingame admin tools to correct it, and majority opinion agrees with this view despite the other players answers here :P

[ShadedMJ]

I use survival with admin tools, cut the pod with ctrl-x, paste pod back in with ctrl-v while aligning to gravity or planet.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, it's possible but you will have to build your first Respawn station with the needed to build all you will need to Engineer a good solution to flip it back on the right side.

That said, I just do the steps to spawn at a better area :

Keep in mind we can take control of where we want to spawn, a good trick to build the Respawn station at a easy Biome first and avoid lightning problems on start.

-> Hit F5 while in the First respawn ship to respawn at another area.

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- If that F5 trick is not working, happens when playing with "Auto-respawn" enabled and/or "Auto-save" enabled :

1 - Turn OFF the Survival Kit on the Drop Pod (so you will not auto respawn there).
2 - Hit the backspace key to "kill" your character and open the Respawn screen.
3 - Select the same Drop Pod to land at another area.

4 - Redo the above till you land at a Easy Biome or Rich ore spot of the game.

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Note

Rich ore spots = Where all ores can be found close to each other, some areas have all ores within 1 Km.

Easy Biome = Where the Ore Detector block is not needed because we can see the ore spots with the naked eye on the soil and no "Bad weather" so no lightning.

Medium Biome = Green grass Biomes because it is harder to see the ore spots on the soil and those have lightning that can damage your creations where you will have to build lightning Rods and Safe Zone.

Hard Biome = Where there are more lightnings with bad weather and where the ore Detector block is needed.

[Capt Fuzzy]

Originally posted by Dark Sceptor:

So when I have started the game in the Custom/Star System and when I land the pod is either tilted upwards, with the refresh screen on the ground, or once completely upside down. Is there any way for me to flip it over on it's feet?

If i'm really into the moment, and this happens to me, which it does from time to time, I will mine enough stone to make at least 4 pistons, 6 is even better.
Once I can make the pistons, I attach them to the pod in such a way as to allow me to roll it back upright.
If I'm not in the 'mood' for that, then I do as ShadedMJ mentioned, cut/paste my pod back in upright with Admin Tools.

[Dan2D3D]

Tip

Gyroscopes set to "Override" Max can flip a car on its wheels when upside down but you have to turn it OFF fast so it will not keep rotating.

[Dan2D3D]

I should have specified :

Better land on a flat terrain to avoid filpping over and that is where the F5 is used.

but landing on a bad terrain adds a different start so different gameplay.

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Planets have different Biomes that gives us different gameplay.

I recommend to start on the Moons to have all ores very early in survival, Moons have all ores -1 that is Uranium but can be found faster by exploring the asteroids at about 30Km around all Moons.


Edit
Sorry for my bad English, I did corrections here and there.

[Dan2D3D]

Note

I have merged your similar discussions to avoid duplicate answers.

[Grat Dalton]

This pod landing issue seems to be more frequent lately. Having to back out to main menu & restart a new game is amazing wast of time.

[Dan2D3D]

Originally posted by Grat Dalton:

This pod landing issue seems to be more frequent lately. Having to back out to main menu & restart a new game is amazing wast of time.

Don't exit, the F5 key is used to respawn at a better area and faster than save exit.

[Dan2D3D]

I will add :

I must hit F5 up to +/-10 times to land at a Rich ore spot of the game.

(read post #8 for more details)


EDIT
Sometimes I am lucky and hit the F5 only one time to land at a better area.