Decane
Artifacts sometimes spawn/respawn under the terrain.
Very informative. :)
Yep, it's a known glitch. From 'Bugs still in the game' section of SRP Readme:
Artifacts sometimes glitch into terrain, making them unattainable.
I suggest reading it, because I've already 'reported' three bugs that Decane already knew about.
One of the most 'popular' place to have this bug is 'Fault' archianomaly near machine yard. This one:
Sparks on the terrain are made as holes in the first layer, that show us the second layer. That's how the anomaly looks from inside:
A little speculation from my part (I don't really know artifact spawning mechanism): artifacts don't really spawn under terrain, they may spawn in different layers of it. I am not really sure, but the game may spawn artifacts on the lower layer instead of the upper one. Or they may spawn correctly and then fall due to some glitches.
Either the way, there's nothing Decane can really do with this, that's an engine bug.
I believe this is caused by a bad spawn vertex (in all.spawn) rather than a physics engine glitch. I started working on a solution to this at one point in the past but parked it to work on other issues first.
