Grid wide Block deformation on paste on grid

SE2 as of 1721 HST, 30JAN2025

Loaded previous grid to find nearly all blocks dented and had some level of damage. Attempting to replace or place blocks adjacent to these leads to instant crash however generates no crash report.

Hi started building a palette of useful blocks in .50cm and .025cm grid sizes for use in future builds and after about an hours play the previously built blocks started to appear damaged/ distorted as if there was collision damage although there was no collisions in the game, have attached pics/ log file

Video proof: https://youtu.be/wQ5VLseOA4w

Unlisted video on youtube because file size is too big. (32 second video)

Once I leave the game after some building and then come back in the next day, allot of both the heavy and light armor blocks are deforming everywhere around the ship.

Does armor need structural support to avoid this? How does armor mechanics work? Is this supposed to happen?

This is on a very large ship of over 300k blocks so far.

thanks,

George

The general gist is what the title says. I was building a ship, then at one point noticed that part of my hallway was deformed. Then I explored further and found that huge parts of the grid were all deformed.

Game version: 1.2.200.4730 (Steam)

World on Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469479399

When the error occurred: I was focused on building and didn't see the deformations start appearing in real time, but immediately before I first noticed, I had been doing a fair bit of repeated pasting of a module blueprint, as well as partial copy/pasting. I did see other mentions in Discord of people encountering similar issues when partial copying, particularly with detail cubes, which were definitely present in the module I was messing with.

Possible oddities of interest:

- The grid I'm building on is rather sprawling, because I started from the Polis 1 station to use as my construction hangar, and have been building my ship attached to the same grid as the station. Don't know if that's related to the cause, but I'm probably going to try and isolate it better in the future.

- The blueprint I was repeatedly pasting in when I noticed (so not guaranteed the cause, but likely) was a bunk bed, which I originally created from a partial copy straight out of the Red Ship in a different world. After my first iteration, I ended up modifying it, creating a new partial copy in this world, and pasting that in several times in place of the originals.

- I reloaded earlier autosaves a few times to try and figure out more precisely when it started, but I it seems like I no longer have any backup saves from pre-deformation. Take this next statement with a grain of salt, but it felt like when I went back to the same autosave multiple times, the deformations actually got worse each time I reloaded. I'm not sure if that's actually true or if I'm just noticing more of them now than before. But if I can empirically reproduce that impression I got, I'll be sure to document it here.

I know there aren't as many cut and dry specifics as I'd want there to be, especially if I were the one on the receiving end of a ticket like this. I'm not expecting you'll have a precise fix for my save or anything, but if this is a larger mystery affecting others, then hopefully I can provide you with some useful context.

Whenever placing normal block and partially copy and pasted grid pieces on my ship, all of the blocks on the ship just deform as if they are damaged for no reason. So far the only way to repair the "damage" is to place blocks over it to set the geometry back to normal, but even that causes more deformation on other areas of the grid. One thing to note that I noticed, when placing a block, I saw a brief fire/explosion effect flash on the screen where I placed it. However, I have only seen it once so far, and this is a issue that I've been dealing with since the launch of SE2.

- One thing I'd suggest adding is a creative mode tool that allows players to reset the deformation of all blocks to their default state. This can be used by players as both a quick fix until the problem is completely solved, and a quality of life tool for people repairing their crashed ships in case of an accident while building.

World link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3469979443

Image of deformed ship:

I created custom heavy armor slope for greebling - when i place it, it damages nearby armor blocks or even some blocks that are further away.

I seem to have discovered a bug that has only affected this one ship that I have been building (blueprint attached). The armor blocks on it randomly get damaged and deform. If I replace the affected blocks, it fixes those blocks, but they quickly become damaged again a few minutes later. I have cut and pasted the grid and the problem persists. World file with the ship (the big grey one) also attached.

melt down try to send screen shot this is crazy ltry to fgure out please help me

wrapping look at the picture it crazy

SE2 started doing something strange. The problem is highlighted in the last half of my stream from the other night.

All of the armor blocks on my space station have been forming ripples on its own over time, no blocks are being destroyed by them, but they are getting more and more distorted just from the station existing. Its very strange.

just making you all aware of a possible huge bug. Here is the link. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2531335738?filter=archives&sort=time

I just found a rather critical bug regarding grid damage repair. If you try to delete blocks that are damaged on a gird, even if the damage was small, the damage will often spread to other parts of the ship even opposite of the side that took damage.

This is reproducible. Take any ship and just do a small amount of ramming damage to the side of it. Remove the entire side and copy/paste the undamaged side to the damaged side (or replace manually, doesn't matter). The damaged side might appear repaired but when you look on the other side of the ship opposite the damage there is suddenly damage that appears that wasn't there after impact.

I first noticed this issue after a large ship had a tiny dent from a tugboat. I repaired the damaged spot but blemishes appeared permanently. Even if I delete the whole half of the ship and paste the other clean side they'd still appear like there was some type of damage memory. I kept building on the ship and noticed that now damage was spreading to all internal armor and even appearing on the opposite side of the ship where the small impact happened. And when I'd delete and replace armor, internal spaced armor which wasn't even touching the exterior was getting massively damaged. It eventually spread through the entire ship and I've now deleted about half the armor from this damage spreading like wildfire and have to scrap that build.

With this wildfire damage bug, if a grid takes damage you might as well just delete the thing rather than try to repair.

I have 2 videos reproducing this issue and wish I was recording the previous 2 times where this happened in even more drastic ways and I encourage you to test this on your end because something is massively wrong here.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/1c5n5ujk56z3von5wwb97/APhADEE9FmnWmvl1smr9iYs?rlkey=8ci2okmochgibaucb8nep5bv1&st=bajseoqu&dl=0

I have the Max PCU limit mod installed, I made save a copy of a build I built in the world, saved it as a blueprint and then pasted it in and built on top of it.

Today, as I loaded my save, I noticed damage all over the hull of one of my ships. I know I didn't accidentally use the debug tool or ram into it with another ship, so how it occured is a mystery.

The deformations I've noticed in the world is set on the grid that was blueprinted and built on top of later. Another grid I blueprinted and pasted into the world (Also made in that same world) had some warping as well. Unfortunately, I've since deleted that grid.

This is a workshop link to the world. It's unlisted on steam but I hope it shows up. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3552664212&searchtext=