I've noticed that every few take-offs, my starship will rapidly ascend into orbit for no reason. This didn't bother me until I read a comment that implied that going into orbit would reset your extreme weather survival timer. Because this milestone is already frustratingly time-consuming enough, I would like to not be thrown into space unwillingly and void the time I have spent waiting around for time to pass.
This bug is recorded in a bug report log here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/2/360672137535982278/)
Originally posted by Orbital Launch Glitch:
On occasion, using the launch boosters to enter flight from ground will cause the ship to rapidly gain altitude (resulting in instantaneous orbit).
It is also noted in the report that there is no known fix for this, but I'm thinking there has to be some kind of circumstances that cause this.
From what I've seen, it looks like every time this has happened, it's been during a storm of some type on whatever planet I am on. Can anyone confirm/refute this? Any other observations are welcome, too.
Best Answer
I believe that I have been able to reproduce this behavior fairly consistently by landing close to and facing a large mineral deposit and then harvesting it. You don't need to be on it nor clipping through it (or any other terrain), and I am not sure if harvesting is required.
It may be that the launch thrusters move you forward into the terrain deformation (harvested deposit) and then the auto-altitude routine that prevents you from crashing into terrain uses your current (excessive) vertical acceleration to make the correction.
The work-around is to make sure you park so the deposit is not in your front-facing field of view.