Can't place any new block on my ships in survivol

nicolas267s shared this bug 3 days ago
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I've been playing survivol for last couple of weeks and build pretty large ship. But today I noticed, that I'm not able to place any new block(projection) on any of my grids. Sometimes I get message that says something like: "Make sure that space for placing the block is free", but mostly it's just that denial sound.

I made a video.


UPDATE.

I have an update on this one. So previously I've been connecting this ship to Vallation Station with connectors. I did weld some blocks on my ship, while it was connected to the station. Now I came back there and found all those projections there where my ship was connected to the station. See the screenshot


Game version is: v2.2.0.2002

Replies (31)

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I managed to fix this by switching to creative mode, cutting and pasting my grids and then switching back to survivol.

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if your doors and other things are also not interactable then you just need to reload the game that should fix it

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Yeah, I know about that, but this is completely different problem.

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I experienced a version of this today after the .2002 patch.

Small station with ship grid attached. Move into NPC bubble prior to shutdown for the night.

Patch .2002

Load in, move station/ship out of bubble. Cannot place blocks on either grid. No error message.

Look around and see a dozen full armor blocks sitting back inside the bubble. Obviously I couldn't place them there originally, there are no holes in the existing grids so they weren't just lost...The blocks did not move back and forth as I moved the grids around either. So they were attached....but not really?


Workaround: debug menu, safe zones, set ignore safe zone to on, go into the bubble and remove the blocks. Turn safe zone back on. Placing blocks onto grid that is clearly outside bubble now works again.

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Exact same bug! I built a ship and then flew 40km from base. Wanted to do some modifications in space but it wouldn't let me place anything. When I came back to base, all the blocks I wanted to place were placed where I originally built the ship in the first place.

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Got the exact same bug. I noticed I went to put new thrusters on my ship they wouldnt attach. I turned around and saw a bunch of blue glowies (projection) in an area that the ship was located in not less than 5-10mins earlier. Went over and deleted these projections, came back to the ship and was able to place new blocks on my ship. I decided to do another test, moved the ship to a new location and tried to put a new block on my ship and same thing, the projects appear in the last position my ship was. So again I had to go to where the projects spawned, delete them, go back to the ship and I was able to add my blocks again to the ship. This is all in my survival mode, I have not attempted any of the debug suggestions here yet.

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How are you able to delete the projections? I can't seem to delete them but I maybe missing a control input way to do that.

Ah got it work, the hit box for one of them was just weird for some reason.

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I couldn't remove those projections just by clicking right mouse button on them, but when I hold and drag the right mouse button it they removed. I guess this row removal works somehow differently.

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either using a light block and right clicking on the projection with another block or using the grinder. I'll test it again tonight and let you know

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got into game this arvo, am building a mobile movable platform, attempted to add a block to it and the projection appeared a few meters away from where the platform was yesterday. Went over to the projection right clicked it with another block type and it disappeared. But now I have a new problem, the rest of my platform which Ive just started to weld, all the blocks were in a wire mesh state (only halfed welded up), now Im now no longer able to complete the weld on each block. the welder doesnt register any block there even thou its a solid mesh block.

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It sounds like there's two separate bugs here?

Bug#1 - The game allowed you to place new blocks and weld inside of the safe zone at Valation station.

Bug#2 - When you enter the game, you can place new blocks if you have not moved your ship. Once you move your ship, the game's building system thinks your ship is at the original location, no matter how far you've flown the ship since the world had loaded. When you place new blocks they are placed at the original grid location, not at the current grid location.

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Yeah your summary of the two bugs sounds correct. I experienced the second bug myself and am currently struggling to clear out the unwanted projection ghosts.

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I don't think anybody is claiming placing or welding inside the bubble. I think there is just a state tracking problem somewhere. Blocks added to grid and fully or partially welded up outside bubble ... but at some point during an automated quicksave or something the location and state is mucked up.

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After the recent bug-fix patch of the last 24hrs I also began noticing this bug. Its not that the blocks aren't placing, its that they're being placed in unusual spots buried inside the geometry of the ship I was working on. I noticed this because larger pieces were sticking out. They are also hard to clear because they can be placed multiple times in the exact same spot requiring multiple instances of requests to clear the spot.


This doesn't happen always, I can sometimes place a block where I want it, but its happening with a high frequency making building an exercise in frustration. Hope this helps the devs crush it.

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It's odd that Keen doesn't have people testing the releases. "Use Admin mode to start where you left off, so you don't have to start from the beginning again for this vertical slice release"


I've been through the complete walkthrough dozens of times. In my opinion, this vertical slice release shows the lack of quality control with so many bugs in the walk-through starting scenario. Bugs like this "can't build" bug should have been caught in testing before it was released due to the severity.

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This isn't a 1.2 release fine sir. This is a 0.2 development release.

We are the testers. This is ok.

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@Nunya what an utterly insane thing to write.

We paid for that game. The least thing we can expect is them doing their job. And propper QA is part of software development.


If their code has major security breaches, that brick you computer or infect it, you wouldn't say stupid things like "The customers are the testers" either, would you?

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Agreed... furthermore...they're already had everything figured out in SE1...it's beyond me that they manage to break something that's been absolutely solid for how many years.

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@Nico You have paid for a game in early access, this means that it is still under heavy development. In other words you've agreed to become a tester. If you don't like it you may stop playing until actual release, than you can complain. And they indeed are doing their job by releasing hotfixes and new vertical slices as promised.

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@R1PPA-C Keen are developing this game on completly new engine. And they are not just porting SE1 to it, they are trying to make a new game, a better one.

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Right, we are all testers, but they need to test before they release. This obviously was not done. Every patch needs to be tested before being released - it's a standard practice.

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@r1ppa-c and @superDK7 the number of bugs and jank in SE1 argues strongly against your point. and it as a former software engineer it is not surprising at all for new bugs to appear and testing in house vs testing in the wild often reveal different bugs. it comes down in many cases to expected use case vs. actual use case. we have simply found a use case that was not tested, that does not indicate a lack of testing on Keen's part as you are implying, simply that we have done something Keen did not do during their internal testing.

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It won't allow me place any modification on orbital ship. Before last patch I were able to modify Hopper. But I can't put anything on Sledge now.

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I'm having the same issue. I can build a new grid, but cannot place blocks or build on grids I've previously built on. The block placement is green, but nothing will actually place. The issue began for me on build 2.2.0.2002 that came out yesterday. I was very briefly able to get an error to pop up twice while trying to get the debug menu to open, and it said make sure there was enough clear space for me to build on, but there's nothing blocking the block placement, and I couldn't get the error to pop up again. I tried placing it everywhere on multiple grids I owned, and nothing worked.

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I finally found the missing blocks, in my first ship miles away.


Its seen that the block not place, but it place in other ship

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I also am having this issue on 2.2.0.2002. I built a new grid, and then went to add something to it a few minutes after welding it all up, and it created a new grid blueprint consisting of a line of blocks of the type I tried to place several meters away from the grid I was trying to build it on. When I tried building the blocks in a different spot, it kept creating a new grid blueprint about the same distance away from the previously erroneously created grid blueprint.

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Thanks, my mistake.

Sorry

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Today I got this bug again. Keen, please fix this!

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Moved my build ship and unable to place new blocks onto it.

Have read here, that others have reported that blocks are placed at first build spot, but that spot is now 100 of km/miles from my new location, so I can't verify this in my current survival game.


Also at random the game crashes to desktop claimig, that a bug report has been created and can be read from a log file, but no such a file is created.

Would be a lot esaier to attach such a log file here, if it existed.

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Videos attached showing the issue. We need more people to vote this up.

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Can't add any block to my ship. when I try, cpu is consumed, but block schema don't appear.

video and save game attached.


Link of video: https://youtu.be/BaMhUWnlIEw

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Logged in today, could in fact still place blocks ok, but definitely has some positioning errors. Screenshot shows a stack of hydro engines that were all placed at the same time; and prior to shutdown was all in the same stage of welding. Now ~some~ are no longer attached correctly or half welded.

The inability to place blocks has got to be a symptom of this misalignment with NPC bubble being a contributing factor.

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I've been fighting the same issue. I think it has to do with velocity when you get out of the cockpit/control. If I wait until it fully stops then it sometimes aligns projections correctly. Moreover the projections are no longer tied to the structure they are placed with so using pistons to print broke as well.

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I have also the same bug i could not add blocks to my starter ship and didnt recogize the block are position elsewhere. But i could build a blueprint ship from an earlier stage of the game.

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Hello Engineers,


The issue here is that the projections seem not to be attached properly to the Grid and as such, once the Grid is moved, the projections stay in the location they were placed.

I have reported this issue and attached this thread in our internal ticket (SE2-31940). We will address this issue in a next week's Hotfix.


Kind Regards,

Bartosz

Keen Software House

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Wtf is wrong with this building system?...I've just wasted 2 hours of my spare time trying to build a simple miner, landing gear wouldn't go down on my station platform so built a connecting block then detached when the ship was ready to support itself..fail...cannot continue building the ship, cannot attach any new blocks as it's just an empty Grid..tried pasting the blueprint...can't paste it due to the supporting blocks not being created anywhere.


Grind the whole thing down and try again this time with landing gear attached to the dirt...removed gear and support, flies ship briefly, park up to continue construction...guess what..no more blocks can be added..if I try to add them the blocks somehow go and place themselves where the original landing gear was in the dirt...wth is happening.

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It's still in alpha, they'll fix it, and it's better than some others; some crash to desktop every few minutes. Keep it up.

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It's a great game made by a great team, and they've been making great progress fixing bugs since it has been released. The game has been plagued with crashes to desktop, and they've been fixing them. Thankfully I've been lucky and only had one crash to desktop recently, but it a very common thing in this game, just look at their patch notes.


However, while it will eventually be fixed like you said, this bug is game-breaking, as it's time and resource-consuming to have to build a new grid every single time you reload the game if you are going to be doing any building or modifying. I understand the person above's frustration. I was building a ship at an asteroid, and I had to get off the game to go make dinner for my kids. When I came back and loaded my game again, I couldn't finish my ship. No rhyme or reason why things wouldn't place. I also spent a long time troubleshooting the issue, quitting the save/game, reopening the save/game, looking through the debug menu, trying to dig for logs. I spent several hours over the last couple days trying to figure it out, and the only thing I can do is build a whole new grid. I can't even siphon off my hydrogen fuel if I destroy the old ship to build the new one, and if I have to quit mid-build, I'll have to start over. It's game-breaking.

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Yep - this.


Game breaking and will play the role of "tester" until this is fixed. At it's core, this is game is a builder. If building isn't possible, then there isn't a game. Super happy to be a bug tester, but this is one where a hot fix sooner than a 7-day wait would be appreciated for those of us really enjoying the state of the game & trying to build out our ambitions within the constraints of the current game mechanics.

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Looked to me like it isn't necessarily the 'home' connector, but the last one you were docked to.. I've added a bunch more underneath the pad and keep the sledge docked there, and that's where the projections showed up. Kind of funny, I was around 30km away from base trying to temporarily slap a drill on the nose of it, nothing happening, no errors, or anything of the kind, kept clicking for a bit.. After I finished up and got back i had like ten drill projections stacked in the same location.

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same problem but the projections were projected about 50M away from where i've tried to add the parts.

i've tried taking the ship away from the starter base - there trying to place parts - i can only hear a beep noise and that's it.

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HA, this explains the random smelter i seen floating in space above valation station the other day.... wasnt until i found ground down a vital link between my cockpit and survival kit in my sledge that i realized i couldnt re-attatch the thing that the two issues are linked.

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Same here.

The way I see it, holograms have trouble attaching to grids. That seems to be the core of the problem here.


My hammer got damaged, but I can't really fix it as it would require attaching new thrusters to it. Can't really fly it in this state either, so this is a game breaking bug.


Loaded an earlier save... BTW remember to save every 2 minutes to a new file. You'll thank me sooner rather than later. Anyway, after loading, I started working on a blueprint I made in creative. If I can't fix the Hammer, I'll build a new one, right? Wrong!


After welding a few blocks, I accidentally bumped into the unfinished ship, and it started drifting. Turns out, the holograms aren't attached to the unfinished ship as they used to be. Yeah, so can't really repair or build anything until this bug gets fixed.

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Same here. on H2 Starter ship in survival. no mod.

https://streamable.com/e/lt877p

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I'm facing the same issue constantly.

My case: place few blocks on a new grid, build some of the blocks, then give a little push to the grid. As a result, built part is floating, but projection stays at the same place. All blocks placed afterwards are built on the same coordinates even if you fly pretty far away. Anyway, it is still possible to weld projected parts, because they are created in the target grid (attached).

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in my case those projected blocks end up at the last location the ship was docked, by landing gear or connector or crash site. you would have to go back to the last docked location and clear those projections before attempting to place another projected block

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The projections appear where ship is originally built/connected to station. cut and paste in creative and then going to survival does not fix the issue just resets the "original" connection point for the projections to appear.

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Yeah you right, just tested it. It seems to reset when I remove the last offset projection but after moving a ship it happens again.

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I have this issue, however the ship has NOT been welded while connected to Vallation Station, only modified while at the Starter Base.

I WAS able to modify the ship as of last Sunday (March 30th) so something happened between then and now. I have it all on Twitch atm.

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Hi Keen Team!

That Bug also affect Verdure Hauling contract where we have to bring all cargo containers inside the hangar, the incomplete Tug ship fell down by the Planet Gravity and detached from its projected blocks.


The workaround is to use the Sledge ship to complete the contract or paste the Tug ship if you have the Blueprint, that is what I did :

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In my case, I just build projection, so physical variant appears, and then finished welding on grid. So, I was able to finish this ship even when projection were broken the same way you show on screenshots

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Because the replies are all squished together, thought I would let you know they said this will be fixed in next weeks patch update.

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Wow. QA missed this one? I'll stop playing until I can add cargo space.

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Seems like bluprints are connected to world, not to individual grids. Lost my mind when i tried to create ship from blueprint and i thought that im somehow retarded because i cant stick blueprint

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I've found a workaround, all my girds were just labelled Grid, and I didn't realise you could double click where it says Grid to rename it, as soon as I renamed my station from grid, and started building a ship, renamed that away from grid... deleting the foundation block is now treating the ship as its own entity and I can build again...phew..hope this helps...edit...it worked once...I can add blocks on the second attempt but like everyone else the blueprint for the blocks are back where I first started building the ship..fuck me this is exhausting

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