Kraken ate Jebediah – any way to resurrect him

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I landed on Minmus. Some parts exploded, but that's only to be expected, it's Kerbal Space Program after all. I got Jebediah EVA to take some samples, and Hell Kraken ate him. Screen got blank, altitude meter got 666,666 and then random, and after restart Jeb is listed as lost.

Is there any way to resurrect him? Probably save edit? I want him alive, and if possible I want him where I lost him – next to the ship he was piloting (a lot of science to bring back home). I have my persistence file backed up and it appears to be complete (minus Jeb) state of my universe at the moment of failure, so by editing him in I would be able to play as if bug never happened.

Best Answer

Never did that before, but I think you should be able to do it by manually editing the saves files. More precisely the persistent.sfs file.

There is a ROSTER category located somewhere down the file where you can find all your crew members. (Lookup their name!)

You can revive them by setting their state back to 0.

(Seems to be confirmed by http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/41891-How-to-revive-the-%28bob-bill-and-jebediah%29)

You can as well add Jebediah to the command pod. Lookup the ship's name into the file and locate the crew = x value. Change this to the number of crew member you want to add. Jebediah should be 0.

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