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[db48x]

I have a lightly-damaged light ion engine installed and active, and an undamaged light ion engine in my inventory. It let me scan the damaged one, but when I selected repair it took the one from my inventory instead.

[Maurog]

Are you sure the one in your inventory was undamaged? It can go down to like 76% integrity without changing color from "undamaged green".

The repair console only allows picking items from the inventory to scan and repair. It never gave me the choice to pick an equipped item.

[db48x]

Hmm, that's certainly a possibility.

[Kyzrati]

Maurog is right, you can't repair items that are attached--they must be removed first. (I might change that, actually, but I'll have to go examine why I made that decision in the first place.)

It took the one from your inventory.

[biomatter]

Yeah, you have to unequip things if you want to repair them. One of the consequences of this is that it costs matter to reattach - maybe that's what you were going for?

Also for everyone else, repairs can critically fail - I've had parts permanently disabled by a bad repair. Watch out! :O

[Kyzrati]

Yeah, you have to unequip things if you want to repair them. One of the consequences of this is that it costs matter to reattach - maybe that's what you were going for?

Very good guess, that might've been what I was thinking, since unlike fabrication you otherwise don't have to expend any matter. There might have been more to it as well...

Either way, yeah, messing with any machine can be dangerous is some way or another =p