[.50.01 & .50.02] Custom Clan Combat Vehicles (new units and refits) are having their ferro-fibrous armor read as the Inner Sphere variety

[Insert25c]

Prerequisites and Pre-Issue Checklist

• I'm reporting the issue to the correct repository:

• MegaMek

• MegaMekLab

• MekHQ

• I've tested the issue against at least the latest MILESTONE version

• I've asked on the MegaMek Discord about the error

• I've reviewed the BattleTech rules and MegaMekLab documentation, and I've confirmed that something isn't working as intended.

• I've searched the Github tracker and haven't found the issue listed

Severity *

Critical (Game-breaking/Crash): The game crashes or a core feature (like saving, loading, or network connection) is completely unusable.

Brief Description *

13:34:36,951 INFO [megameklab.MegaMekLab] {main}
megameklab.MegaMekLab.initializeLogging(MegaMekLab.java:86) - Starting MegaMekLab v0.50.02
Build Date: 2024-12-30T14:34:16.149525500
Today: 2024-12-31
Origin Project: MegaMekLab
Java Vendor: Eclipse Adoptium
Java Version: 17.0.11
Platform: Windows 10 10.0 (amd64)
System Locale: en_US
Total memory available to MegaMekLab: 1 GB
MM Code Revision: 2bc80c102a745fedbb40039b75202ecdfcf4d8d2
MML Code Revision: 218b264
MHQ Code Revision: 28c61bbccb0f3c650181c33b74ad2bb654912eec

Attempted to build a custom Clan combat vehicle, but the suite is reading the Clan ferro-fibrous armor incorrectly. It is believed it is seeing the armor as Inner Sphere ferro-fibrous

Steps to Reproduce

[.50.01]

1. built unit with clan ff in MML = loads invalid
2. built unit with clan ff in MHQ: MML = same issue -> reported issue
3. swapped to clan standard armor to have functional unit

[.50.02]
4. refit clan standard armor variant to clan ff in MML = same issue
5. tried a fresh refit from a cached model = same issue
6. built unit from scratch with "new combat vehicle" = same issue
7. Instructed to try to, "Open the files in a text editor and change

<armor_type>
0
</armor_type>

to

<armor_type>
1
</armor_type>"

Both the 1Cr and "New Tank" were already written a 1s
8. instructed to delete the unit cache, and then try to load them = same issue

Operating System *

Windows 10

Java Version *

17.0.11

MegaMek Suite Version *

Free Text (type manually)

Custom MegaMekLab Version

.50.02

Attach Files

Clan FF armor issue units.zip

Contains the model that had to use standard armor and was built in 50.01 (MB 1C), the model that was refit in 50.02 from a cached unit (MB 1Cr), and the model built from scratch in 50.02 (New Tank)

Final Checklist

• I've checked to make sure that this issue has not already been filed
• I'm reporting only one issue in this ticket for clarity and focus

[pavelbraginskiy]

Fixed by MegaMek/megamek#6343.