Trying to repair a crashed ship asks for a blueprint (Posisble BUG?)

[FluffyXai]

After searching around I cannot find any information and this is annoying.

I've loaded up the game after not playing it for ages and tried to go about doing something I very much enjoyed before - finding crashed ships and repairing them.
Except when I try to repair the parts, nothing happens, A button (Y on the controller) basically gives me a quest objective to get the parts needed, but also tells me that I don't know the blueprint and that I need to go to the technology researchers at the centre of the anomaly.
Well, I did that, and can't figure out how to find the blueprints I need because as far as I can tell they don't exist? Unless I'm missing something.

For example, the first part I tried to repair was 'burnt-out compressor'
when trying to repair it and pressing Y I get a quest objective that told me to gather some parts, and also tells me "Burnt-out compressor blueprint not known."
I tried to do another one, and now for that part it's telling me "Melted Fuel Cell Blueprint Not Found"
Etc.

I think I saw someone talking about something like this happening and that it was a bug, but there was no solution. that was the only relevant page I could find by digging.
What can I do, if anything, to fix this?
Is it because I'm using a pre-existing character?

[Jaggid Edje]

That's very bizarre, and also not normal. It's not a 'new thing' in the game. Repairing crashed ships is pretty much the same as it has always been, requiring raw materials like activated copper, gold, platinum, ammonia, paraffinium, etc. etc.

Sounds like you are actually 'pinning' the damaged part though, which I never do when I repair ships. I just gather all the materials needed and then repair. I see no need to 'pin' it (which is what adds the quest objective). Have you tried doing it without pinning?

[frazzled]

When you first start, your first mission is to repair your starter ship. That mission sends you to get a Hermetic seal, needed to repair your pulse engine. That can later be crafted, but you don't start with that blueprint.

Are you sure you aren't just on that first mission?

[Jaggid Edje]

@frazzled, he actually gave the name of one of the 'blueprints' it is telling him that he needs, "Burnt-out compressor". That's the name of a damaged part that you would find on a crashed starship.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Are you using mods? This sounds like a issue with outdated mods. OP said they have not played in long time, so they may have had mods they forgot in the game.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

When repairing a crashed ship, most of the "repairs" are just to get a free slot again. The broke red part is not an actual thing. More of a immersion facade to give the impression there was a part there.

It will tell you what mats you need to collect to get the empty slot back. There are a few standard parts (usually in the top row) that can actually be repaired and will exist as a working part once repaired.

It is being honest that no "burnt-out compressor" BP exists in the game because it is not a real thing that you can build. Basically, just follow the instructions on what mats are required for each slot to be "fixed".

[Guyver8]

1) verify the integrity of the gamefiles in steam
2) if you have any mods installed, delete them (you haven't played for awhile so your mods will be almost certainly outdated

NB. if neither helps and you're determined to repair (rather than just scrap) you could use the save editor to fix that slot

[Mathias Giovanni]

If you click on the damaged part normally three or maybe less requirements pop up. Normally materials. Like copper, sodium and more exotic types thrown in.

I haven’t played in awhile but I’m unsure if it requires wiring looms. Microprocessors or such. Wiring looms I believe must be bought. But many other items can be bought or crafted. On the anomaly there is a console between the exo-vehicle and multi tool merchant that lets you purchase the ability to manufacture components. I think you can also get the schematic from guarded manufacturers on planets but it RNG. Those sound be the buildings with the locked doors and sentinels guarding it.

Of course it helps if you know a bit of the local language otherwise you won’t know what option to pick when you access the computer.

Maybe post a photo link of what your issue is if you are still having issues. Someone here will help you figure it out.

[Geldric™]

It sounds to me like when you press “Y” you are PINNING the task and the game cannot help you complete the task because there is no blueprint for that broken tech (which there isn’t).

Moving on, as already mentioned, to repair a damaged or broken tech, when you click on the item, it will display two or three easily obtainable materials.

If you had posted a screenshot, a lot of the guesswork on our end would have been eliminated.

As an example (and no I don’t readily have a screenshot, I’m not the one with the problem ;) ) the icon with three yellow tubes requires 150 Parifinium and 10 Pugneum to repair it. I could quote others but I believe I’ve made my point.

Good luck with the repairs

[FluffyXai]

Originally posted by Jaggid Edje:

Sounds like you are actually 'pinning' the damaged part though, which I never do when I repair ships. I just gather all the materials needed and then repair. I see no need to 'pin' it (which is what adds the quest objective). Have you tried doing it without pinning?

Ah I didn't realise that's what I was doing but that sounds right. It's just htat pressing the button that I think is supposed to repair it does not. and I've tried other buttons too, that was just one thing I tried to hit to see if it would work.
But A, X etc doesn't work. I've tried using the keyboard too but no buttons seemed to affect it that way either.

[FluffyXai]

Originally posted by frazzled:

When you first start, your first mission is to repair your starter ship. That mission sends you to get a Hermetic seal, needed to repair your pulse engine. That can later be crafted, but you don't start with that blueprint.

Are you sure you aren't just on that first mission?

Nope I'm quite a bit in, well past the starting missions. I've repaired a bunch of ships before, just now when coming back to the game it seems to not let me initiate repairing the part.

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Are you using mods? This sounds like a issue with outdated mods. OP said they have not played in long time, so they may have had mods they forgot in the game.

I actually am fairly certain I am not using mods. I was actually just thinking before I loaded it up that I wanted to look into seeing if such a thing did exist (good to know it does!) but I don't have any as of yet.

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

When repairing a crashed ship, most of the "repairs" are just to get a free slot again. The broke red part is not an actual thing. More of a immersion facade to give the impression there was a part there.

It will tell you what mats you need to collect to get the empty slot back. There are a few standard parts (usually in the top row) that can actually be repaired and will exist as a working part once repaired.

It is being honest that no "burnt-out compressor" BP exists in the game because it is not a real thing that you can build. Basically, just follow the instructions on what mats are required for each slot to be "fixed".

Yep that's pretty in line with how I understand it! That is what I think is happening. it seems to be getting confused at the 'crafting' process here and thinks I'm trying to craft the listed item, not repair it.

It's interesting that this was not a ship that already existed before I started playing again. went to a whole new system and used nav data to find this crash so it's not like it's broken for having existed before some game patch.

Originally posted by Guyver8:

1) verify the integrity of the gamefiles in steam
2) if you have any mods installed, delete them (you haven't played for awhile so your mods will be almost certainly outdated

NB. if neither helps and you're determined to repair (rather than just scrap) you could use the save editor to fix that slot

1) I will definitely try that thank you for the advice.
2) nope no mods.
3) I didn't know there was a save editor! but if all else fails I'll try that.

[FluffyXai]

Originally posted by Mathias Giovanni:

If you click on the damaged part normally three or maybe less requirements pop up. Normally materials. Like copper, sodium and more exotic types thrown in.

I haven’t played in awhile but I’m unsure if it requires wiring looms. Microprocessors or such. Wiring looms I believe must be bought. But many other items can be bought or crafted. On the anomaly there is a console between the exo-vehicle and multi tool merchant that lets you purchase the ability to manufacture components. I think you can also get the schematic from guarded manufacturers on planets but it RNG. Those sound be the buildings with the locked doors and sentinels guarding it.

Of course it helps if you know a bit of the local language otherwise you won’t know what option to pick when you access the computer.

Maybe post a photo link of what your issue is if you are still having issues. Someone here will help you figure it out.

yeah that's what I expected to happen but where before it like, takes you to a side view of the ship or something, and shows an interface where you have the individual parts needed in separate boxes and can hold the button to lock them in (just like when you find a drop pod with an exosuit upgrade), now it just doesn't do anything.

I don't think it's an issue of actually needing a blueprint, the item I'm trying to repair is not actually a crafting recipe.
Also yes it did require a wiring loom (or at least the first one did) so I went and bought some but that's when I found out I couldn't actually repair the parts.

[FluffyXai]

Originally posted by Geldric:

It sounds to me like when you press “Y” you are PINNING the task and the game cannot help you complete the task because there is no blueprint for that broken tech (which there isn’t).

Moving on, as already mentioned, to repair a damaged or broken tech, when you click on the item, it will display two or three easily obtainable materials.

If you had posted a screenshot, a lot of the guesswork on our end would have been eliminated.

As an example (and no I don’t readily have a screenshot, I’m not the one with the problem ;) ) the icon with three yellow tubes requires 150 Parifinium and 10 Pugneum to repair it. I could quote others but I believe I’ve made my point.

Good luck with the repairs

Sorry I didn't know you *could* post screenshots originally, but I'll include a gyazo link in a moment once my game boots
The problem is though, and why I didn't include one, is that it's not that you can see anythign wrong by looking at it. it's the absense of soemthing that's the problem.
but here
https://gyazo.com/f2ec5bdc74a34dcdb0f75415fbff804d Can't click to add the material
if I hit X on the keyboard there it pins it like this https://gyazo.com/150512f74d6132552eae4317eca7ebe5
https://gyazo.com/2fd0cb5075ba5c2cbb2d465ea8649ade

A short recording so you can see me clicking on it https://gyazo.com/55dd7a4741f8b5d5fa1f193e19061828

[Jaggid Edje]

It is still supposed to work exactly like how you remember it working in the past. All you do to bring up the interface to 'add the parts' with mouse and keyboard control is click with the mouse on the damaged slot. Then you click again on each of the 'materials required' slots in the interface that comes up to add the materials.

I'm not sure what the corresponding button is on a controller for those mouse clicks, but if you hover over it to get the tooltip it should tell you. What you are doing to pin it is a different button (it shows that button on the tooltip as well).

You can see below where I'm repairing a crashed ship, while hovering over the broken component it tells me in that tooltip to use Left Mouse to repair, or press V for repair instructions. V is what does the pinning, which is what you have been doing.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2902114941

edit: You posted screenshots at the same time as I did. It looks like your game isn't recognizing any keybinding for repairing as it's only showing you the option to get instructions and not to repair, very different from the screenshot that I posted.
That implies that either there is no button bound to the function in your bindings, or your game is definitely bugging out. Hopefully repairing files in steam corrects it.

[Geldric™]

YOU HAVE TO CLAIM THE SHIP FIRST

Edit: Yes, I meant to yell that. I can see the "Compare" button in your video

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Geldric:

YOU HAVE TO CLAIM THE SHIP FIRST

This is very true. I didn't even notice that it looks like the ship has not yet been claimed in his screenshots until you said this. In ALL CAPS no less.