Went to claim ship, it disappeared.

[Agro, Died, Etc]

I've had similar issues of entities models loading in but the game not letting me interact with them, but I was just about to finish repairing a ship and brought back the final piece for repair and it just wouldn't let me interact with it anymore, decided to do a restore point reload and now the ship just refuses to load in, even if I go off planet and come back, where it's suppose to be is nothing except a chunk of invisible wall that I can't run through.

How screwed am I?

[dysamoria]

Excavate under it, quit, reload. See if that helps. It helped me turn a non-interacting Sentinel Interceptor into a working object.

[Agro, Died, Etc]

Can't, someone claimed a base site right next to it, so I can't dig terrain.

[Lindy Bomber]

Originally posted by Agro, Died, Etc:

Can't, someone claimed a base site right next to it, so I can't dig terrain.

That is probably the problem. There seems to be a bug with crashed ships within a base radius or near a player created landing pad. The game seems to get confused and treat the ship like a NPC ship.

[笛野めのん]

If someone has built a base near the crash site and has a landing pad, try the following
1. lower the boat to the "ground" (not the landing pad) a short distance away.
2. get off the boat. Data will be saved.
3. load the most recent data. When you can operate, look around to see if there are any NPC boats on the landing pad.
4. if there is a ship, rush down and run up to the pilot of the NPC ship, talk to him and negotiate a price for the ship. (Do not exchange them)
5.He will give you a repaired boat for free. Let's be grateful.
It doesn't always work. Also note that the NPC ship will take off immediately if you are too slow.

[Agro, Died, Etc]

It's a damaged sentinel ship, I just needed to throw the last component in it to get it working, there's no NPC to talk to for it, no landing pads at the base built nearby, it's a cheap shack with nothing in it.

[笛野めのん]

Originally posted by Agro, Died, Etc:

It's a damaged sentinel ship, I just needed to throw the last component in it to get it working, there's no NPC to talk to for it, no landing pads at the base built nearby, it's a cheap shack with nothing in it.

It is possible to repair the sentinel ship for free (I have experimented), but unfortunately this method does not work without a landing pad. Try turning off Network -> Multiplayer in the in-game settings, go to another star system, save and reload, then go back and see if the ship shows up.
By the way, the recovered crashed ship will reappear in about 3-5 days.

[Lindy Bomber]

Originally posted by Agro, Died, Etc:

It's a damaged sentinel ship, I just needed to throw the last component in it to get it working, there's no NPC to talk to for it, no landing pads at the base built nearby, it's a cheap shack with nothing in it.

I saw this during the expedition at a small base with a near by landing pad. The landing pad may not be required to trigger it.

If you have a restore point before it took off try switching Steam to offline mode. If that doesn't work stay offline and look for another crashed interceptor. If you find one you don't like still take the brain and convert it to a harmonic brain then abandon the mission. This will save you a step when you find the one you want.

[GenSec39]

Just forget and move on. There will be other opportunities to grab a sentinel somewhere else. If you wanted exactly THAT ship - also not a problem. Just write coordinates of this system or drop base computer somewhere and come back little later with another beacon. There will be more camps and more crashed sentinels.

It is a common issue if you are trying to get a sentinel during an expedition: there are too many people around. Some of them could claim ship faster than you, or block the site with their structures. Had same issue twice during the expedition, literally nothing to worry about.

[RustyNail]

Not the same exact situation; but the three instances of invisible sentinel ships I encountered (no invisible barriers), the ships were invisible from the moment I first approached their locations. I've also had a a ship that I could not interact with/claim.

Saving/exiting, reloading, then checking the ship has sometimes worked for me. The process is very tedious and annoying at best.

Unless the ship you're after is "special" in some way, I agree with those who suggested moving on to greener pastures. Odds of finding an A-class are pretty good,,, I've found 4-5 of them out of 40-50 the sentinel ships I've located. Grab the brains... the ones you don't need to harmonize can be refined to, iirc, 2300 nanites per 10 brains.