How to Scan for ORE | KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM Contract Tutorials

[@MikeAben]

Up Next: Extracting Ore - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iny7m42AftqJoMk

[@V8chump]

Man mike I hope you EXPLODE in popularity when KSP 2 comes out. Their reveal trailer from a couple years back has millions of views so I don’t think it’s too much to expect you to get hundreds of thousands

[@benjaminnevins5211]

This aged well.

[@Johndoutry4545]

@@benjaminnevins5211 lol dang

[@albertotr1]

Every one of your videos is fantastic, I couldn’t have asked for a better navigator on these starship voyages - looking forward to watching you on KSP2. This channel is primed and ready for launch to 1M subs!

[@jefflund9134]

been playing for years, hes answered more questions than anyone else

[@gunmaster2796]

I don't know why you didn't mention it, but maybe you didn't know, at 33:50 you can click on the window and move the target so you can pick precisely where you want the waypoint/ore%. It's not limited to only directly below the scanner like it seemed you were implying. Hope that helps someone. (And useful vid btw.)

[@Th3Mafia]

great video, awesome detail, like how you have very concise interface interaction tutorials, what to click to guarantee a user ends up the same spot as you

[@Ze_Techno]

Love your videos thanks for making them!

[@MikeAben]

Glad you like them!

[@scottwilliams846]

So I got a contract like this in my save, and I was designing a ship for it (I was modifying an old cargo ship to Mun) and then I decided to check up on my Mun base. That Mun base had the required ore. So that contract parameter was complete. I did some other stuff, then I went to my refueling truck which was on Kerbin and also had the right amount of ore. Turns out, that completed the contract. I didn't even get to do the mission for it.

[@TaterRaider]

Although I'm a year late, booster et al symmetry tip: build 1 booster completely, then click on the symmetry tool select how many boosters you want, click on the coupler, then place back on the main rocket body. All things in mirrored symmetry on said boosters will match up nicely this way. Hope this is helpful. EtA: If you are going to asparagus stage, you can then use remove from symmetry to make each its own booster and then rearrange staging to set up order and add fuel lines independently.

[@Daherrer]

i always enjoy this videos!

[@jzjzjzj]

Your videos are so pleasing woah thank you KZbin shorts!.

[@scottwilliams846]

When budgeting for any significant payload mass, even if the payload mass changes, I throw Clydesdales at it until I get a whole number of them that is just above my target payload mass and budget being able to do the entire mission carrying said dead weight, just in case I need to.

[@MikeAben]

I've done much the same for asteroid recovery missions.

[@scottwilliams846]

@@MikeAben in this one, you're budgeting for a changing payload. I budget for a constant payload at the heaviest it will be.

[@gregb.7533]

Playing the balancing act here - To save time at the cost of a bit more fuel could you simply build a return stage budgeted for a full return payload, empty containers and then build the rendezvous stage separately?? Perhaps I’m leaving something out as I’ve not attempted anything this advanced yet. Thanks for all the wonderful content and helpful videos!!!

[@MikeAben]

Yes. For that matter, I could have taken advantage of all the fuel researves on the Mun station to refuel the craft for the return journey.

[@dandeflavis7004]

I am currently working on a mining base on minmus with an orbital fuel station. I have a mining rover and a transport ship. I enjoyed the video, there is also 1 other ore scanner, before you get the narrow band, the Surface Scanning Module, it works fairly well after using the m700 to find a general location.

[@Freak80MC]

I started a mining base on the Mun but the Kraken blew up my miner :(

[@MikeAben]

A Mining base on Minmus is quite practical. I talk about the Surface Scanner towards the end of the video.

[@YoSoyFefo]

Nice job very helpful thx a lot.

[@Cato64IsFREE]

i do believe spread for parachutes does affect performance. i usually tweak it while in reentry so it takes less time to land. but put them back to 7 before landing

[@MikeAben]

Interesting. I'll have to test that out sometime.

[@Cato64IsFREE]

@@MikeAben idk yet but will descent be any faster in ksp 2 i’m impatient. maybe a possible bug fix is to make time warp function very differently from place to place.

[@ryanlee2619]

Your really good at building rockets…I’m a huge dunce when it comes to this game but ehhh I enjoy making janky rockets

[@OceanDrive321]

I see you are an incredible KSP veteran, I have a puzzle please. I play modded and got a contract to get seismic scan from water while landed (not splashed). Standing on a splashed craft in EVA makes me landed. But then even scientist can't run seismic scan. Is there a solution besides canceling contract? Thank you

[@OceanDrive321]

I found suggested water landing location, sorry

[@Fireheart318]

Idk if I got some weird glitch or if a mod messed with it but I got an ore contract before I had Advanced Science unlocked. Weird.

[@TleafarafaelT]

KSP2 makes me want to go back to KSP1 and do everything that i didn't... but i feel like i must wait and keep the will to play for KSP2, at the same time i know KSP2 will not have everything at launch, what a dilema ...

[@BB_Jo-e3z]

sadly, now you shouldn't

[@BB_Jo-e3z]

sadly, now you shouldn't

[@TleafarafaelT]

@@BB_Jo-e3z yeah that's sad

[@Caborrrl]

I thought that the "direction of the reaction wheel" didn't really matter in the game engine? Or what really doesn't matter is the vertical position of it in a vertical-only rocket? Do I have contradictory information? Awesome videos btw! Don't leave KSP at least not until KSP2 gets fully released please!

[@MikeAben]

Is this in reference to when vessels are docked? If so, then yes, it matters. On a single vessel it doesn't.

[@GeeYouEye]

As a bit at the end of the next episode, or maybe as a short, you should show the easy way to complete this contract: (Spoilers) * * * * The 1st and 2nd-4th contract items don't need to be completed in the same mission, probably because it's unrealistic to require a single craft to both mine and return the ore. So while you do have to send the mining vessel to the Mun and extract the ore, you don't have to return *that* ore. Instead, you can just build your cluster of ore tanks, set them full in the VAB. Then add a small engine or even a sufficiently powered-up decoupler underneath (depending on how much ore is needed). Go to the launchpad and the 2nd item will be marked complete. Fire the engine until it gets just off the surface, and then cut it out. The ore tank will fall back down, not explode, and then your landing contract item will be complete. Wait 10 seconds, and boom. Contract is done.

[@MikeAben]

Youch! I'll have to try that, though I probably won't be showing it in a video. Thanks for sharing, though.

[@KerbalAddict]

The way I would budget fuel is just have enough for them to be full the whole time😅

[@Nexsssss]

In ksp I’m really picky with my builds unless is looks aesthetically pleasing I won’t use it

[@John_Gillman]

You can use a deployable heatshield and sufficient parachutes and maybe landing engines to recover those boosters left in orbit to get those kerbucks back

[@ctbram0627]

You could speed up the necessary fuel calculations by making a copy of the ore tank carrier empty and another of it full. Then just swap back and forth rather than manually emptying and filling them multiple time.

[@grumpyoldman3812]

C'mon, Mike!! Part 2 already! I need that lander build!!!

[@MikeAben]

It's looking like I'll have it out Monday.

[@stardaggerrihannsu2363]

"When am I ever going to use optimization calculus in my real life.... Oh shite!"

[@drewbarrymoresdealer]

STRUTCO

[@dannyshort778]

please reply to my comment, it would be an honor to me

[@MikeAben]

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