Extensive deformation of grid

Ben Roberds shared this bug 19 days ago
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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.

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