When I detach anything from a station it converts to a large ship

Floofy Redhead shared this bug ago

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I started a Creative world to design my next ship, and flew to an asteroid to build a station as a construction area for it. The first time I encountered it it didn't seem to be caused by severing something, but now any time I remove a block that splits the grid the entire thing converts to a large ship, and because it's embedded in terrain at several points it drifts away. I'm on the latest PC build. I can't provide a save file because I have a couple mods, one of which adds blocks, but I first encountered it before the ship had anything modded on it, in this case, T and + shaped conveyors as well as 3 block long ones. I screwed up my design just slightly and now I need to move a pair of blast door encased H2 tanks one block over. Problem is, those blocks connect on only 4 sides and the structure splits easily, and every grid split triggers the bug. Likely able to be replicated by building a very large station, building the beginnings of a ship big enough to be a good mobile base, then cutting off some small bit of its frame. Even one block will do it. The ship I'm building is still part of the station, it's attached at 2 points at the front end by a line of blocks.

Supposedly this was patched almost a year ago, but here it is now.

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Ondrej Borz ●

Hello, Floofy Redhead,

sorry to hear that you are experiencing this issue.

From the text it seems like issue/wrong setting of your world, though. Can you please check in the Advanced options your settings of Unsupported stations?

It should be like this:

ON - unmerged parts stay in STATION status (ships using merge block, disconnecting grid by deleting the connecting armor block)

OFF - unmerged parts are automatically changes into SHIP mode (ship using merge block, disconnecting grid by deleting the connecting armor block, sub-grids on pistons, hinges etc.).

If this issue will persist after changing the setting of Unsupported stations correctly, I fear I would need more info nevertheless. The save file would be best, as you can understand, so I can check the behavior in your exact environment.

Thanks in advance for your reply and possibly for any new info/saves you can provide.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

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Floofy Redhead ●

While that did work, the issue here is that the entire station converts with the setting off. Whole thing. Would I be able to provide my save if I made a copy and removed the modded conveyors, which are the only modded blocks? Also I'm pretty sure something wonky goes on if the bug is triggered with the setting on, because whatever happens to cut-off pieces in the code is being applied to both sides of the cut, i.e the whole station plus the ship attached to it.

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Ondrej Borz ●

Hello, Floofy Redhead,

sorry for late reply.

Yes! Any save would help. :) Please provid what you have where the issue can be observed.

I don´t think that the modded conveyor should change this behavior, so if you can delete those and share this file without modded blocks (and still experiencing the issue there), that would be the best! Anyway... even when sharing whole save with these blocks still in, it´s definitely better than having nothing in my hands :)

You can access your save files by typing %appdata% into your Windows search bar and you will be redirected to the hidden Roaming folder. After that just follow: \Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves. There should be a folder with your SteamID and your saves.

Please zip the file and attach it here. If you are having difficulty attaching files you can optionally use Google Drive. When sharing a google drive link please make sure it is set to be downloadable by anyone with the link.

Also if you are making some "special" steps when triggering this issue, a video showing your steps that I can follow would be nice. Or you can write it in the list: 1. first step, 2. second step and so on.

Looking forward the files. Thanks for it in advance.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

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Floofy Redhead ●

Oh, I never even realized I got a reply and wasn't expecting one anymore. I've long since completed the ship in Creative and flown it off, but given that it's Creative I should be able to teleport back to the station since I marked it, try to recreate it, and, hopefully, teleport back to the ship. But there's also been the big Warfare 2 update since then.

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QA KeenSWH ●

Hello, Engineer!

Because there is no new comment from you, and we are unable to reproduce the issue on our own, I will close this thread now as outdated.

If you or any other player will experience this issue again, please make a new thread and provide all needed info there.

Thank you for understanding.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

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