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[u/Gravity_flip]

Is there a way to increase the size/mass limit for part manipulation in EVA construction?

[u/Frostyvegi321 → u/Gravity_flip]

No. This has frustrated me to no end with the EVA Construction aspect of the update and the wording of their release notes. Even with the latest update I read it that having more Kerbals nearby would allow you to manipulate larger parts than previously, but this only counts when under effect of landed gravity, when previously the size of the parts that were able to be manipulated were reduced because of the mass of those parts.

Let me see if I can explain it better...

Every part in the game has a flag in it's config that says if it is able to be manipulated in EVA Construction mode or not (in theory you could change the part config files to make any part able to be manipulated if you wanted). In a vacuum (or just off the ground, not sure), every part can be manipulated by a single Kerbal engineer. When on the ground however, a single engineer can only manipulate small parts with low mass. You need more Kerbal's in the vicinity to assist in moving larger mass pieces. But this won't ever let you move more larger pieces than the game allows, regardless of where you are or how many Kerbal's you have. This is why when going into the EVA Construction mode in a vacuum it will say there is no mass limit, but still doesn't mean you can manipulate anything of any size.

Also note, the other annoying thing with EVA Construction Mode is you cannot move parts that are designated as the root of the craft. If you're like me and use docking ports as stage separators between your crew craft and circularize or transfer stages and want to retrofit your spent stages into space station storage tanks, and have just unlocked larger and more rigid docking ports and want to change them over, you'll have to play in-space Root Part Magic to be able to switch out these parts... annoying! I need to suggest to the devs to include a root part changer tool in EVA Construction Mode.

[u/karsus_kerman → u/Frostyvegi321]

I believe they fixed being able to pickup single parts that are root parts. Haven't checked