Move kerbals in KSP - to save Jebediah from an unjust fate
I'm hoping for some help. I'm fairly new to the game so please bare with me. I recently reloaded a quicksave instead of creating one by accident. According to How would one undo loading a quicksave in Kerbal Space Program? it's likely I've now lost the old state (didn't leave in time)
But to add insult to injury I quicksaved at a time when I had gotten a big lander back to Kerbin and wanted Jebediah to take a soil sample. I wasn't sure if he would survive the fall so I saved it prior to letting go of the ladder. However in the reload Jeb appears about a meter to the left of the lander and promptly falls to the ground and dies. I can accept my lost progress after this save but given all his science (and life) I'd really like to bring him home. I tried tweaking the quick save but every reload had the same effect.
Any help or advice on where to aim would be hugely appreciated...
Thanks! Possibly relevent section:
VESSEL { pid = 1dab3465e53d4bc89125c16c2e51e410 name = Jebediah Kerman type = EVA sit = FLYING landed = False landedAt = splashed = False met = 7.90000000735745 lct = 2154667.37390431 root = 0 lat = 15.431993254746 lon = -330.337250733857 alt = 686.741724181804 <--- Tried editing this, nothing changed hgt = 1.991011 nrm = -0.009900075,0.9233786,-0.3837628 rot = -0.6215439,-0.1967535,0.3950912,-0.6472049 CoM = 0,0,0 stg = 0 prst = False ref = 0 cPch = 0.544 cHdg = 2.27 cMod = 0 ORBIT { SMA = 301069.766658943 ECC = 0.995174584633339 INC = 15.4319930748073 LPE = 270.000318325192 LAN = -59.082056632706 MNA = 3.14139282715152 EPH = 2154675.29390432 REF = 1 }3 Answers
KSP includes a "Debug Menu", which you can access with Alt + F12. From within this menu there is an option to disable gravity. Once gravity is off, go to the Kerbal you need to save and use the EVA pack to gently lower them to the ground.
You can read more about the Debug Menu here
Another option that worked for me was to modify the Kerbal's state to set sit = LANDED and landed = True. The Kerbal was then fine when I loaded the quick save.
Unless you've turned off MissingCrewRespawn for your save, your dead Kerbals will reappear after a little while. If the only thing you're trying to do is keep Jebediah, you're already safe there.
If on the other hand you want that soil sample, CyanAngel's suggestion to turn off gravity and get to a safer position with EVA thrusters would be your best bet.
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