Can you Use Only Mammoth Engines to get to Pol in Kerbal Space Program?

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[@ReidCaptain]

I managed to accidentally strand a kerbal on Laythe when making this video, and I was thinking of saving someone stuck on another planet as well. Should we try an Eve rescue or a Duna rescue?

[@creeper2103]

Eve rescue, I promise it will be great

[@LobsterBisque13]

I think eve, since it would be more of a challenge, but either one would be great :)

[@coffemug630]

yes

[@snowboyz0825]

Perhaps, and I challenge you to do it with a helicopter rocket on eve

[@apersonwhoisalsohuman2014]

B O T H

[@BlackholeYT11]

Weird, I've had that "landed" glitch happen to me too, also on Pol. Fun fact! You can't time warp while it's happening, but I was still able to accelerate my craft all the way out of Pol's sphere of influence, which results in the biome tracker and science modules recording that you have landed ON JOOL (you move to Jool's SOI but the game still thinks you are landed). So by using that glitch there is an actual way to "officially" be landed on Jool.

[@ReidCaptain]

That's really interesting, wonder if you could have that happen with the sun too

[@Roach18]

You have preformed a Sesmic scan: "Hey! You have voided your warranty, you're fired!"

[@Pluranium_Alloy]

@ARevengeBroken Danny2463 Has already done that (using an asteroid instead of pol) in a video he titled "KSP Moments: How to Land on the Sun"

[@tctrainconstruct2592]

The first time when this happened to me was the Mun. I wonder if it's possible to exploit that to do some interesting stuff

[@ggjade]

neat!

[@theencolony5595]

Gotta love a rocket that's so over engineered that losing an entire booster is so minor you don't even realize

[@blacky6552]

redundancy is important!

[@EgTheBoi]

Furry

[@EgTheBoi]

Ew

[@OscarsClaws]

​@@EgTheBoithank you for this life changing piece of information

[@EgTheBoi]

@@OscarsClaws sthu?

[@dannypipewrench533]

0:41 It just rockets off the launch pad. Yes, that is the idea.

[@steavf9455]

At 5:44 we get to see the strongest shape for a rocket. Matt the Real Civil Engineer would be proud.

[@creeper2103]

Engineers know how efficient the strongest shape is

[@masterofdoots5965]

It truly is infinitely efficient

[@planet9292]

Matt lone?

[@masterofdoots5965]

@@planet9292 No

[@SunBear69420]

@@planet9292 lowne*

[@bobjoebo8933]

For video ideas I would still like to see you rescue all of the other Kerbals you stranded in some cool way

[@specil-k]

You don't say??

[@bobjoebo8933]

@@specil-k Lol I forgot what my profile pic was for a second

[@themadman5615]

0:56 It might be because I'm quite tired. But I swear the rocket looks like a one eyed penguin and I can't unsee it...

[@fighterjetlover55]

you are not alone on this

[@Triple88a]

back in the day i did a jool mission. farmed fuel and so on. went to nearly every single planet. I couldnt go to tylo since i didn't have enough thrust but visited the rest. long mission but was very fun.

[@jxq12]

Describe your mission in more detail, I'm interested

[@RailsofForney]

Please!

[@RailsofForney]

I’m all ears.

[@SephirothRyu]

Consider using Asparagus Staging next time, it works fairly well for these sorts of challenge.

[@cones914]

Asparagus staging?

[@patrlim]

@@cones914 look it up, hard to explain with text

[@cyancirclewithawhiter]

Asparagus staging is when instead of using lots of fuel tanks and detaching all of them after they are all depleted, you can have 1 tank, decouple it, next tank, decouple it, and so on. It reduces the amount of dead weight on your craft, thus increasing maximum potential delta-v. Hope this helped.

[@FinetalPies]

Feels like the drifting fuel tanks problem would benefit a lot from setting the decoupler force to 0

[@eb3yr]

1:00 if you put an engine plate above the mammoth and disable staging, you can attach a part below on the node that would usually be decoupled, and you can adjust the distance of this node. This is also how you stick decouplers below engine plates populated with multiple engines. It's really neat.

[@samuhnella]

(reads title) “Dang that sounds really challenging!” *turns it into an average playthrough somehow*

[@Darksteelflame]

Allways hyped when i see you upload. Keep up the good work :)

[@Darksteelflame]

@@littlejimmy5060 sounds like a you problem

[@AnAverageGoblin]

@@littlejimmy5060 if you watch challenge videos and throw a fit because you can't backseat them, then its a you problem.

[@creativecarveciteclimb5684]

Btw, you can adjust the ambient lighting brightness in the ksp settings. Though good job learning that burning with a lower periapsis is more efficient :)

[@Lithobraker]

Truly, this is a *mammoth* of an achievement. I've no doubt you had to do a lot of *trunkating* to make this viewable- to address the *elephant* in the room, that docking sequence must have taken an *ice age.* It sure is a good thing you had the *ivory* moon of Tylo to help you capture and escape! ...I'll *pach* my bags.

[@Namelessstew]

No

[@francescoragnoni8042]

You'd better...

[@nixyfoxgirl]

43.3068° N, 0.7668° W

[@Lithobraker]

@@nixyfoxgirl That looks pretty *Sus* to me.

[@samael4550]

@@nixyfoxgirlthank you for this forbidden knowledge, i shall make use of it

[@userseveneleven]

18:35 In that instance you could've just waited until you reached your apoapsis and burn retrograde. Doing so causes your periapses to decrease 10x more

[@calvingarbacik272]

RC finally made the strongest shape! Huzzah!

[@Boppin.]

"Because sometimes it is entirely necessary to kill a housefly with a sledge hammer"

[@johnathanegbert9277]

Ouch

[@draysoncrook4898]

5:20 now I can build it in Spaceflight simulator

[@satisfactioner8656]

I was just thinking that when your comment popped up

[@averyespiritu2480]

You can actually set the detachment power of the decouplers to zero so that the boosters don't move when you decouple the lander

[@pook21M]

I love your Kerbal Space Program videos keep it up!

[@GutsInBerserk]

6:40 The Kerbals watching two skyscraper-sized object with highly flammable liquid inside fall towards Kerban at god-knows-how-many meters per second

[@gamaray6136]

Your right That landed bug happens when you break a piece whilst landed on a planet (the light), it’s an annoying one

[@masterofdoots5965]

You just casually went to Eve to test it, meanwhile I'm struggling with the Mun

[@dottedboxguy]

i really want you to try and do some funky things in noita, should it be wand crafting or doing physics things (like an engine) in it using building mod, you decide

[@Bobbias]

Oh, yeah that could be fun.

[@luckylmj]

You should try space engineers, it seems like the kind of game you would love messing around in

[@bobjoebo8933]

Yesss!! I love KSP!!

[@ReidCaptain]

Me too, but these videos always take the longest lol

[@alongal407]

When ksp 2 comes out you should do using only interstellar engines to get to the mun

[@theholypeanut8193]

Mmm yes, engines for *INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL* to the moon.

[@scpguy1381]

This is the definition of “moar boosters”

[@baddgeeksquad]

Happy easter

[@polaproductions9014]

Use ] to switch to nearby probe/ ships

[@patrlim]

You can use square brackets to change which ship you're flying in game without going to the tracking station

[@dylansp4049]

That doesn’t work for me for some reason.

[@Izz4cc]

@@dylansp4049 It works when there are other controllable vessels within the physics range (the range where the vessel is rendered and simulated part by part)

[@ARockyRock]

those some big engines, wish there was a word to describe them.

[@adenhooks1295]

he did a mid course correction burn finally

[@Daniel-dp7ey]

This is truly the Kerbal way

[@brentsnocomgaming7813]

1:35 The way you flipped those adapters just gave me a headache. Congrats.

[@AYKED.]

This guy is the Nile red of kerbal space program

[@rurx784]

8:33 - Massive like the low taper fade meme lol

[@josephpentony4804]

One thing you’ve could of done is use thrust limiter settings on the engine. It makes it much easier to get a precise burn and landing, and is particularly useful if you have high TWR.

[@clayel1]

he did actually

[@josephpentony4804]

@@clayel1 I didn’t catch that. Still good advice.

[@Browthpdd]

Day 2 of asking Reid Captain to try space engineers.

[@Totally_Bonkers]

the mammoth engine is just a solid booster, liquid form. At least, according to the first minute of the video

[@bow-tiedengineer4453]

interesting similar idea: ants only to somewhere. See if you can strap enough tiny engines onto a rocket to get it to the min or something.

[@breawen]

0:56 i saw that and immediately yelled "it's hero time!"

[@coffemug630]

you can turn parts before placing them down with w,a,s,d,q,e

[@Totally_Bonkers]

that "landed" thing happened to me when i landed on minmus, the mun, and maybe duna for the first time, if i remember correctly.

[@97thGalaxy]

This is a perfect example of moar boosters

[@lionbryce10101]

I'm just watching this questioning the lack of asparagus staging

[@BingusTheWockis]

This ksp series is the most enigenir thing I've seen

[@rraaiin]

just a little tip, all of the green and black circle attachment points make drag

[@apersonwhoisalsohuman2014]

Great video as per usual

[@eekee6034]

Some real rockets roll just after liftoff so they can pitch in the correct axis. Perhaps this simplifies the automated pilot. It's in a Scott Manley video; someone asked him about it.

[@Madhav.321]

:58 It looks like a fat penguin with a single eye. 🤣🤣

[@matteomicari9559]

Hi Reid, I just wanted to give you an advice, if you wanted to switch crafts which are close, for example the two boosters, instead of going to the tracking station and selecting the one; just press the squared parenthesis. This one : []

[@ReidCaptain]

That is very handy, thanks!

[@Splinter-ge9pf]

@@ReidCaptain another piece of advice: you could have achieved the next stages by just using engine plates set to 1 engine

[@maxboskeljon6440]

YES! Definitely my fav game. So happy youre playing it again!

[@asher879]

Take a shot every time he says "ended up"

[@alertlucasalexander9994]

copied comment

[@teamruddy611]

15:46 that's called giving a landed state, it did not confuse the game in any way it hasn't been confused before.

[@ArcadiaShibe]

If your orbital trajectory doesn’t show up you can click maneuver mode and it will show your apoapsis and periapsis

[@danielvienburog735]

land to the pol with the biggest engine that ksp have

[@martin123vek-i7p]

NOW, land on tylo, using only ion engines

[@brollowgaming]

Man went to eve for a "test"

[@UndertaleAsrielDreemurr]

"It rockets off of the platform" Obviously, it's a rocket.

[@Bretaxy]

All of this.. to bring one kerbal to Pol... awesome

[@bigfloppa5259]

if you put the mammoth on an engine plate you could actually put a decoupler on the mammoth

[@jakep5451]

Take a shot every time he says "ended up" actually don't, your health is too important

[@Pretagonist]

If you are planning to carefully disconnect stages then don't use the explosive decouplers like that. Just use docking ports. You can use multiple ports to get the alignment to work automatically.

[@Thewall6110]

Or set the explosive force to zero

[@nerkdurgen5574]

me, pretending i know what he's talking about: hmm interesting

[@sirenheadbutnot]

Pol sounds adorable

[@GenBrony]

May I recommend trying to use the rigid attachment system and joint reinforcement mod? It eliminates the need to use struts on mega rockets like that, might help with future builds stability.

[@apolloaerospace7773]

You can do this with three, maybe even with a single engine.

[@RailsofForney]

2:56 I don’t know what he means by not having fuel considering he has over 2000 m/s of Delta V in his top stage left

[@glitchd4557]

5:35 ah yes, 12.5 m/s of delta V, so much

[@TheRustedShackleford]

You can attach to the bottom of Mammoth engines, you just have to use an Engine Plate. Good video btw

[@eekee6034]

I didn't have Making History for the first, I don't know, 4000 hours of my KSP time, and now I'm looking at your comment and realizing how much I've totally ignored engine plates because I'm not used to having them. But then a fairing base would work just as well, but I didn't know about the interstage nodes for ages so I tend to forget about them too.

[@TheRustedShackleford]

@@eekee6034 lol totally get that. I completely forget about all of the robotics for the same reason. After so many years with just vanilla, I learned to get on without them.

[@anshsgh6092]

howd i miss these

[@YMandarin]

in the end, you dont have to capture around kerbin with your engines, just the heatshield should be enough to break from interplanetary space in a single reentry

[@ReidCaptain]

True, usually I forget to add one and have to use fuel to capture, but I could have done that here

[@AndGoatz04]

Try doing a "no symetry mode" challenge [You can't use symetry tool]

[@johnathanegbert9277]

Except two-way (bilateral) symmetry

[@eekee6034]

If you enable snap, I guess you could make a symmetrical rocket without using the symmetry feature, but it would be a little bit tough. 2-way symmetry would make it too easy; see the rocket in the video. No symmetry at all would simulate what you get when building with a Kerbal on EVA.

[@mac-rn5gj]

i love the ksp vids

[@nevesharland4569]

get to pol with only spider engines

[@Shia-k2w]

Polan can into space

[@braverecruit7534]

This could be a “mammoth” task

[@johnathanegbert9277]

Badumtush

[@Nebula459]

This guy takes " In Thrust We Trust " WAY to seriously

[@yugimuto9763]

The lava lamp

[@ektoraskushe4666]

the mammoth engine is actually one of the fastest engines in KSP

[@cyantasks7129]

0:36 this reminds me of the rocket in ONI

[@parthjha955]

As a test, I went to Eve.

[@juanvega594]

Wanna try this as a challenge? Make a single stage rocket (yeah, not plane, it has to take off vertically) and get to a planet. Now, I've seen some designs and they use rotors which are from a dlc. I'd love to try to do this rocket myself but so far without the doc parts ( and probably because Im still very green in the game) I have failed. If you can do it then awesome. If you can do it without DLC exclusive parts then doubly so ^^

[@nikkiofthevalley]

That's an SSTO, and trying to make those not planes is nearly impossible to extremely difficult depending on what destination you're trying to get to.

[@juanvega594]

@@nikkiofthevalley yeah! that's why it's a challenge ^^.

[@ReidCaptain]

Honestly I don't even know how to approach that, but I've wanted to make an ssto for a while now

[@nikkiofthevalley]

@@ReidCaptain A tip from a person who's made SSTOs before: Use drills and refineries, it makes it so much easier and more efficient.

[@manvslife271]

You can actually do it in three parts, a crew module, a big 3.75m tank and the twin-boar engine. This setup has more than enough thrust and deltaV to make it to Duna and back.

[@tyloxon]

I didn't know this game could be so complicated...

[@IHaveYourAttention]

Hey Reid, a decent way to increase your Delta-v is to use asparagus or onion staging, I recommend you look into it!

[@gryphonpj4135]

NASA needs to hire this man

[@alertlucasalexander9994]

NASA would lose multiple astronauts and millions of dollars

[@RileyMarkley]

You should have used fuel lines on the ascent vehicle, make it better on the way up.

[@DudleyDoRightsRipsawFallsFan]

Now use Just mammoth to get to every single planet.

[@alertlucasalexander9994]

you said get to not land on

[@aarnealplayzgames9580]

*legalize mammoth engines* VRMMMMMMMM BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *rocket blasting off intensifies*

[@NeighMcNeighyard]

79 no wait, 57.68% of the entire video: So I attached a couple more stages

[@Velocity_22]

Land on Eve or where ever using only the first parts you get in science mode

[@theholypeanut8193]

No decouplers and no electricity.

[@islilyyagirl]

5:35 "12 and a half meters per second of deltaV"

[@EllieT]

I like your profile pic lol

[@SamiO-w2j]

hola. i love your videos:)

[@ReidCaptain]

Thanks!

[@johngreco8259]

try making a lander with the little eletric rockets

[@dorothydeese2048]

Tip use your wasd to move the part around

[@God-of-canine]

Every time we turn the engines on how cool does it sound?

[@robciubobciu]

14:51 it happend to me too after docking on the ground fliped

[@Rando423]

You do realize that you can use wadsqe to change what direction the object is facing