General Kraken only breaks a few parts of a spacecraft which may then collide and result in explosions. General Kraken or The Kraken mainly occurs during interplanetary travel. This is a list of bugs that are attributed to the Kraken bug but are actually the result of physics glitches.
The high velocities caused floating-point errors in the code which caused parts to be slightly misaligned or misplaced on the ship which would in turn cause the physics engine to detect the parts breaking off or colliding.Ī fix was implemented in 0.17, involving offsetting velocity to the universe around the vessel meaning that the focused vessel will always be at a low speed. The cause was that KSP prior to 0.17 would move the ship in space, instead of moving space around the ship. The bug could be triggered by moving at high velocities in the game. The Deep Space Kraken was a famous bug and is namesake of other bugs in Kerbal Space Program. Since the original bug was fixed, "Kraken" has become a symbol for many bugs, which are often not related to the original bug. The name Kraken comes from the legendary deep-sea creature that supposedly attacked and sometimes destroyed ancient sailors' ships, a good analogy for "something" unexplainedly attacking and destroying players' ships. The Deep Space Kraken was the name given by the community to a bug prior to version 0.17.