Like shown in the launch cinematic, a procedural damage system like if a booster exceeds max-q and rips a hole in the side of a tank causing it to leak. Another example if a debri hits the engine bell is bends the bell and changes its performance or disables it entirely. It would be hard from the fact that people part clip…a ton.
#Procedural damage
buoyant ridge
ebon flax
would be a cool mod tbh
would incentivise planning ahead in case of disaster
e.g not having your lander be one stage but two so if the lower bell gets wrecked, you can still ascend or abort early on like apollo
tulip wolf
this is definitely outside of the scope of the stock game, but there's been some work done on a mod like that that has part degradation and failures, etc.: https://discord.com/channels/1078696971088433153/1287204534363492353
sadly seems like the development is either paused or stopped, because they left the server recently