What should the next "going to _____ using only ______" be?
@Roaxial2 жыл бұрын
going to the moon using only decouplers
@Whyareyouhere-w7z2 жыл бұрын
going to pol only with nucliar
@cloaker98312 жыл бұрын
Going to duna with kraken engines
@HowToSpacic2 жыл бұрын
Ions to duna
@johnfkennedy-official2 жыл бұрын
going to pol using only reaction wheels
@calvingarbacik2722 жыл бұрын
I can imagine the media circus if NASA tried to put that makeshift crew capsule into space
@astron46062 жыл бұрын
I think the FAA would laugh when they saw the design
@vsetenjoyer2 жыл бұрын
@@astron4606 FAA certification? What's that?
@astron46062 жыл бұрын
@@vsetenjoyer The Federal Aviation Administration, you have to prove your vehicle is safe to them before you can do crewed flights irl
@vsetenjoyer2 жыл бұрын
@@astron4606 No no, I know I was making a joke.
@cushion35412 жыл бұрын
@@vsetenjoyer a traffic light that never changes from red
@johnfkennedy-official2 жыл бұрын
i cant wait to see the insane things this man will do when KSP 2 comes out
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
Whenever that may be lol
@nickwilson34992 жыл бұрын
The insane thing would KSP 2 actually releasing
@lonkthesoupknight13152 жыл бұрын
KSP 2 got canceled the studio went bankrupt sadly
@lonkthesoupknight13152 жыл бұрын
Maybe some day...
@achoman93822 жыл бұрын
@@lonkthesoupknight1315 wtf
@mohammedmunir64192 жыл бұрын
Stratzenblitz75 did a video lag-busting the game recently, and he found that the fuel crossfeed system: the way the game handles many engines using fuel from many tanks at the same time is horribly broken. and this can be worked around for high part count crafts by keeping the engines always only able to see/drain 1-2 tanks at a time. This could be of use if you ever run into a laggy situation? i hope this could help in the future.
@F34OIFJ34OIFJ2 жыл бұрын
The parachute was actually useless weight. Kerbals on external sits can deploy their own parachute and it would allow you to glide pretty well
@Austeja608 Жыл бұрын
Maybe he played earlier version
@alertlucasalexander999422 күн бұрын
@@Austeja608why would he have? he has no mods
@Jacob-bi1oq2 жыл бұрын
I love your system of just putting kerbals in space and completely stranding them
@remixedpixel29052 жыл бұрын
the ultimate challenge: go to eve and back with only RCS
@gilliandiannamcleod191Ай бұрын
no jool 5
@oasntet2 жыл бұрын
You should look up how to do hyper-symmetry. It'd save you a ton of time when trying to place hundreds of engines. Also, when you are 3.5km above the mun? That's the best time to burn prograde to maximize the oberth effect and slingshot much further.
@oasntet2 жыл бұрын
@Aaron If you are already planning to use the Mun for a gravity assist, you might as well also burn at Mun periapsis, rather than much later, say at the periapsis of the largest body (the sun). I almost always do this and save hundreds of m/s getting out of the home system (Rhode, in my case).
@thomashalm8585 Жыл бұрын
@@oasntet Wow wow slow down i got lost
@theIargedude2 жыл бұрын
casually taking just shy of a year to land a trash can on a giant rock
@flafik2 жыл бұрын
Instead of using multiple engine stages you can use one line of engines connected using fuel lines and drop emty tanks, way more optimum and weight/lag reducing
@Tzizenorec2 жыл бұрын
It pays to also drop some of the engines when dropping empty tanks. The only time you really need the extra engines is for getting into Kerbin orbit. Also... you don't really need fuel lines anymore. Just change the settings on the decouplers to allow fuel throughput.
@redbaron86702 жыл бұрын
One option you could have use (whilst using the method where you copied and pasted the same fuel tank + engines 2:37) would have been to use fuel pipes to drain the bottom tank into the uppers one, and to use all the engines of the rocket. When the bottom tank is empty, jettison it with its set of engines. That way your thrust/weight ratio would have been fine, and the craft would have been simpler
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
Yup, would have been good!
@SephirothRyu2 жыл бұрын
@@ReidCaptain People often call this "Asparagus staging" and it is indeed very useful in KSP.
@jonmab69902 жыл бұрын
It would have worked, but the horrible crossfeed mechanics would make the lag horrible
@SephirothRyu2 жыл бұрын
@@jonmab6990 The lag is absolutely tiny when compared to the lag of adding THAT many "extra" engines.
@jonmab69902 жыл бұрын
@@SephirothRyu I'm talking about when it's used at a large scale, such as an eve return mission. I'm not really concerned with smaller crafts
@andrzejdudson99002 жыл бұрын
I never played kerbal but i love watching this series, especially rescuing the lost guys on other planets
@MaxGuides2 жыл бұрын
It bugs me so much that you don’t just fire up all the engines on launch and use fuel priority to drop tanks.
@bcrides16392 жыл бұрын
this
@macdjord2 жыл бұрын
One way you might have been able to save some parts: enable fuel crossfeed on the decouplers, activate all engines at launch, and ensure the fuel priorities on the tanks are set so the bottom tanks drain first. Then you don't need nearly as many engines on the bottom stages.
@frostedpancake5322 жыл бұрын
Reid actually using an efficient engine for once! (:
@hphp314162 жыл бұрын
But pointed at fule tanks
@eekee60342 жыл бұрын
ISP in vacuum: 290 Spider 315 Mammoth :) The little engines just aren't efficient. The Ant is the best of them in vacuum, but it's only equal to the Mammoth.
@Jonah_Reed2 жыл бұрын
I love how this guy has like a 5 second intro and just gets right into content
@Noah_7s2 жыл бұрын
you should bring all the kerbals back home with one rocket
@drake522 жыл бұрын
nah that's a job for the blunderbirds
@AzureTempest6 ай бұрын
What would be interesting but would definitely be a marathon would be rescuing all the stranded kerbals using landers of the same type as what stranded them there
@cosmicbananas80842 жыл бұрын
This has actually helped me in ksp I did not know that there was a thrust to weight ratio thing in a menu and I struggle with gravity turns so thanks
@VercilJuan2 жыл бұрын
bro it's been 3 years since that update how did you not know that
@petersmythe64622 жыл бұрын
You actually can use the seat as the main control point. I do it all the time with aircraft, rovers, and really anything that needs to be small and lightweight.
@Fely27752 жыл бұрын
01:00 barely getting off the launch pad? bro, check yo stagin`! u got a chute pulling u down
@chrisakaschulbus49032 жыл бұрын
If you're making your maneuver node you can hover over another body (like mun) and see periapsis and apoapsis if your trajectory in close enough to it. You can even have this display toggled by right clicking on the numbers iirc. Then you adjust the node and see the values change.
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
Didn't know it was togglable, that is handy. Thanks!
@Radical_Larry2 жыл бұрын
@@ReidCaptain if you focus a planet or moon you're adjusting your encounter with and zoom in close you'll be able to see your periapsis and trajectory. Useful for making fine adjustments to your trajectory from far away!
@persiee31762 жыл бұрын
I have a challenge for you try fly to moon without engines. With sling, catapult or something, i dunno.
@persiee31762 жыл бұрын
This is mostly a joke, but if you can do this it would be cool.
@bartoszkola6212 жыл бұрын
One question...should it land safely or just perform a lithobr(e)aking with rapid planned dissasembly?
@serendipity-tilde2 жыл бұрын
kracken drive :p
@grande19002 жыл бұрын
Decouplers and an EAS seat
@isaacmayer-splain89742 жыл бұрын
He said fly to the moon, not land safely.
@boahnowers8 ай бұрын
9:21 when making maneuvers you can double click the body you are going to while adjusting your maneuver to better see what your orbital line will look like after you enter it’s SOI
@JohnDoe-pb5ks2 жыл бұрын
You could have saved a few extra dv by staging the faring as soon as you broke 70k meters. The faring was almost half a tonne.
@bobjoebo89332 жыл бұрын
I live in the matrix. I was just watching his video of rescuing Jeb and wondering when he would rescue the others. I can tell the future!!
@toweringhorse20542 жыл бұрын
Could’ve saved even more weight by just having the kerbal parachute
@TK--ch9jl2 жыл бұрын
Try to transport as many kerbals as you can, but with 1 engine. It can be any engine, but it has to be 1
@NotHereLookAway2 жыл бұрын
And no refueling*
@TK--ch9jl2 жыл бұрын
@@NotHereLookAway yea, that would be difficult
@AdamHolland-Adz2 жыл бұрын
Great job! Now you've stranded a Kerbal on another planet with no hope of rescue. 🥳🥳
@SephirothRyu2 жыл бұрын
Asparagus staging would have helped a lot here.
@maxboskeljon64402 жыл бұрын
LETS GO! Ksp is definitely my favourite series of you
@brollowgaming2 жыл бұрын
going to every planet with ant engines
@logicbuilder12042 жыл бұрын
You increase the symmetry over 8 by taking a single part, doing a symmetry on that, then doing a symmetry with that, then put the part you want to have the higher symmetry with on it.
@TomClarke19952 жыл бұрын
All I ever look at is the thrust to weight ratio and the Dv budget. That tell you whether or not you can get to where you need to go. Also helps to have a moon base to launch from.
@among-us-999992 жыл бұрын
Spider has worse vacuum ISP, but better sea level ISP than Ant
@neuronoc.73432 жыл бұрын
Brotip: Look up the KSP symmetry trick, it makes the rings look prettier and makes the construction take up much less time.
@Roaxial2 жыл бұрын
were you planning on going to eve from the start or did you decide to go there when you noticed the orbits lining up?
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
Before I launched I had to wait for a transfer window, but the way it lined up was far closer than I was expecting
@MrEpyLeptik2 жыл бұрын
And now you've got to call the BlunderBirds to rescue the poor Sonpond Kerman
@susq_3452 жыл бұрын
1:40 research "ksp symmetry glitch" that will be helpful
@Drefar2 жыл бұрын
Now I want you to make an asymmetric rocket and no reaction wheel usage. And A limit of 4 parts of tanks and 6 parts reaction control rockets.
@Drefar2 жыл бұрын
Your destination is a 2 parter the moon to collect a kerbal and landing on an asteroid the smallest 1.
@kaigdoa893rhkpp2 жыл бұрын
Quick tip, when making stages in atmosphere an ideal twr is ~1.2-1.3 (you can view that by right clicking the stage on the staging bar)
@SomeCertainMycorian2 жыл бұрын
Crew:How am I suppose dot get back home? Reid: that’s the near part, you dont
@Vinnie_7282 жыл бұрын
loving these kerbal videos! here's a quick tip, there's a setting to increase the minimum brightness so you can see in the dark.
@kalebbruwer2 жыл бұрын
When you're planning maneuvers you can select a planet and there will be a "set focus" button. You don't need to suffer like this
@Starmarack2 жыл бұрын
Seriously. That looked so frustrating when it didn't need to be.
@thomasdepraetere26412 жыл бұрын
I think if you'd have focused on the moon, you would see you eventual trajectory in the sphere of influence of the moon. That way you could have predicted if you were going to crash without trial and error.
@TheHutchy01 Жыл бұрын
That device at four minutes was the Green Goblin's dream
@VraerynDaDragon2 жыл бұрын
After that mun slingshot sequence...I tried that once and it worked flawlessly. First try. Did I...did I just get lucky?
@AWESOMEANCHOVIES2 жыл бұрын
Use r to switch to mirror mode, also click the little circle for hexaganol attatchment mode, its just better
@sohamsengupta6470 Жыл бұрын
Alternate title : sending a kerbal to kerbonaut jail with maximum efficiency
@ThatBoiOnLaythe2 жыл бұрын
SpiderRocket SpiderRocket doing all the things that SpiderRocket does
@Swagmaster075 ай бұрын
Brother, spider engines probably don't eat much fuel, you could have gotten a small tank and ant engines for reduced weight more TWR, I got 2500 m/s delta V with the small fuel tank, and a pug engine for my probe. (You ended up doing that later, good on you) And why did you still bring a Kerbal if you had a probe core? Bruh, Kerbals have weight too.
@ReidCaptain5 ай бұрын
Kerbals are cool
@BinaryArmorOnline2 жыл бұрын
You had BETTER save my boy Sonpond
@Backup_Punter8 ай бұрын
Lol this is awesome. I have a challenge. to go to duna and land safely, and if your feeling up to it, return to kerbin
@cejic21992 жыл бұрын
ur ksp vids are enjoyable
@eineschlangemacht39072 жыл бұрын
please try to build an missle launcher that can succesfully hit targets while flying
@whiterunsteward74772 жыл бұрын
no way. 20 gigs of ram.
@AUTISM.GAMING2 жыл бұрын
* casually places parachute bigger than the crew mate on the small rocket*
@htomerif2 жыл бұрын
If you find yourself using a bunch of the exact same engine setup and dropping tanks you should really set up fuel flow priority and cross flow and just drop the tanks and save yourself the weight of the engines.
@gooberuploadsinc3 ай бұрын
reid has never heard of symmetry
@actusclimat47172 жыл бұрын
Imagine ksp 2 to be very optimized for huge ships !! It would be amazing 😍
@notatimelord212 жыл бұрын
I have a challenge for you try fly to eeloo with the spark engine
@ReidCaptain2 жыл бұрын
Cool
@iamnobody9001 Жыл бұрын
I struggle to get to Minmus and you come along and use those tiny engines to get to a planet I don’t think I’ll ever get to. What’s sad is I’d make fun of these challenges and say something like “Now get to orbit without any fuel or engines” Except that’s been done. Someone has achieved orbit by only using decouples… You guys are insane
@draysoncrook4898 Жыл бұрын
Now get off eve
@Cona-vh7vi2 жыл бұрын
Ok but now you have to bring the Kerbal back using only tiny parts
@elementalgolem54982 жыл бұрын
this brings back memories of when everyone did this😂 they used to have to mass and aerodorce, their small size made them "negligible" I guess😂 and well you had 1000 of em and the craft still weighed nothing
@tales9476 Жыл бұрын
I wonder... for high part-count challenges like this - would it be better to simply enable fuel-transfer through the decouplers, and re-use engines across stages? You would probably need to add some fins to the bottom to stabilize the craft, but the weight savings from having fewer engines, plus the performance benefits of reducing the number of engines - I think it would work out better.
@anoniemw.2222 жыл бұрын
Next video, rescue a kerbal from Eve
@isaacandersen12 жыл бұрын
Imagine the failure rate on a rocket with this many individual parts.
@notjebbutstillakerbal Жыл бұрын
Fail rate: 98%
@isaacandersen1 Жыл бұрын
@@notjebbutstillakerbal just like Soviet moon rockets
@tctrainconstruct25922 жыл бұрын
Next time: spider-only rescue mission
@scringle2 жыл бұрын
Symmetry glitch would have really helped here…
@shadanzar4 ай бұрын
Ant Engine based space craft looks so mutch like space X one
@JohnClark19842 жыл бұрын
Take a kerbal to land on vall and back to the kerbal space center. The challenge is that your tank to engine ratio must be 1:1
@Otacanthus2 жыл бұрын
I don't know a lot about ksp. But I like spiders, and this video was interesting!
@Idonthaveausernameyet2 жыл бұрын
I have no idea what he's talking about but God do I love it 😄
@flazzorb2 жыл бұрын
Tip thats too late to help you: Have all engines fire at launch and have pipes push fuel up between stages so that each stage lasts longer than the last one.
@elektro8602 жыл бұрын
now try getting him back with monopropelent engines
@VAMPastro2 жыл бұрын
kerbal rescue mission doing only spider engines now
@kaanitoplays2 жыл бұрын
Omg first time seeing this game 😱wow it is awesome 👍
@admiralfluffy422 жыл бұрын
I only watch this channel for the KSP content
@chrisball73352 жыл бұрын
Carbon foam with mushroom leather for the seats
@calesk5362 жыл бұрын
you can only use each part once
@iLikeShelbyCars2 жыл бұрын
Explosives Make an orbital missile Make an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Make a interplanetary missile
@tbomb692 жыл бұрын
You can get to the moon with only the spider engines but I can’t get there at all
@reedsterling57852 жыл бұрын
Love your content!!!
@maxis_scott_engie_maximov_jr2 жыл бұрын
Now get the Kerbal back to Kerbin.
@divizion82672 жыл бұрын
you can fine tune a manuever to an encounter by focusing on the planet. the orbit is much easier to see
@chrisball73352 жыл бұрын
wanna build my quantum vacuum ionacoustic glass space lobster idea
@Espen_19952 жыл бұрын
"I had no lag so Im going with this design" Most players have been there xD
@RileyMarkley2 жыл бұрын
You can use the 64x symmetry glitch to make placing the engines easier.
@KenJagers2 жыл бұрын
Instead of having ring after ring of engines, why not use a single ring of engines on the top stage. Then just drop the fuel tanks below them as they empty. Just rig fuel transfer so the bottom of the rocket empties first. That way you're not carrying the extra weight of so many engines only to drop them and ignite new ones.
@Hexagonal_Crank2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the orbital trajectory said I was going to slam into the moon but I was pretty sure that was just a graphical glitch. That’s a pretty ripe sentiment 🤣
@donston56242 жыл бұрын
I had no idea the kerbal could explode! XD
@datbubby2 жыл бұрын
"probably or else i would have posted this video" lol
@robertharris60922 жыл бұрын
Ok. Now do this but return back to kerbin.
@TechGuy.2 жыл бұрын
Make a car in kerbal space program using kerbals as wheels
@litterallyjustwater2 жыл бұрын
How to get to eve? Spider engine. If that don't work, use more spider engine
@likeiscream2 жыл бұрын
Love these!
@Acent_Luna Жыл бұрын
Ant engine ssto?
@gsquared87302 жыл бұрын
Using only Xenon engines to get to Ike or using only Rhinos to get to the mun
@alertlucasalexander9994 Жыл бұрын
It takes about 900 m/s to leave Kerbin and 100 to get to Eve. You burned 250 m/s when you were close to Eve‘s orbit so you were very inefficient.