KSP: Building a LAYTHE Island Colony!

[@MattLowne]

Verbal typo at 23:50 - I meant to say that the *engineers* have pale blue EVA suits, not the scientists :)

[@apratimtewari4288]

LoL By that I mean Life on Laythe

[@danypoa8474]

Matt can you please send me something to get my 60 kerbals for eve

[@jamjar8100]

hello

[@V0ID_Music]

Hey Matt. Would you ever consider doing an Elite Dangerous series?

[@jackwolfgram181]

I think you meant 28:50 not 23:50

[@thugshaker4]

Are we going to acknowledge how Matt Lowne is the ideal KZbinr? He doesn’t clickbate He’s very modest He has a nice relaxing voice He has great content He literally saves lives, because he is a healthcare worker. I mean like he is the ultimate KZbinr.

[@fartpluswetone8077]

Isn't he still a student?

[@thugshaker4]

I don’t think so.... in multiple videos he says he is working at a clinic.

[@johnhunter9383]

Faxx

[@hosamamawi7213]

@@fartpluswetone8077 ahhh he is 25 or 26 yo soo no

[@smggl64]

also he is not american

[@backfromtheash5882]

a cargo ship to carry the rover from island to island would be intresting

[@zechsblack5891]

A drive on cargi boat, using those alligator joints to lower the bow onto the beach like a D day ship would be fun

[@jimmysavile69]

Do this, Matthew

[@soup-flavored-soup6613]

Ye

[@Ahmed_Hasan_]

@@jimmysavile69 its matt

[@HondaAccord-zt9id]

Yeah I agree

[@SgtMcGee-dy2ds]

I believe that for laythe to feel more like home to the kerbals a moon should be put in orbit. Perhaps in a future episode lowne aerospace deliveries an asteroid to orbit of laythe. this astroid would not only be pretty to look at, but also be capable of refueling craft with ISRU equipment. Also Matt has very few videos playing with asteroids on his channel 😅

[@chickencosmix6331]

yes

[@CaptainJellyBS]

Oh that is a fantastic idea

[@space_beet9583]

yeah

[@CaptainJellyBS]

@He who will Definitely be named And then you could put an asteroid around that! Brilliant!

[@CardZed]

Yes.

[@henrypoole4247]

Please make a space station that has integrated escape pods / landers

[@txtce]

that would be so cool

[@admiralsand]

He did, in his movie green harvest

[@riot_baby2296]

I’ve had the idea to make a interplanetary craft that can have Landeros that land for little fuel and go back up with mining ore to make more fuel and therefore you can go everywhere

[@chesterwang3070]

28:10: Fill the ore tank to refuel stuff, like the SSTO thingy (Flying Laboratory Seaplane) you made more a year ago on for use on Laythe. Use it!

[@WTZWBlaze]

“Hey, can I send a land base to Laythe?” “Only a fairing-ful!” *pulls out comically large fairing*

[@asmolcade5818]

Underrated comment

[@WTZWBlaze]

@@asmolcade5818 Thank you, I appreciate it.

[@asmolcade5818]

@@WTZWBlaze wow, that reply was incredibly fast, especially for a year old comment lol

[@WTZWBlaze]

@@asmolcade5818 I just saw the notification as you said it

[@NYLEVEN]

You could maybe do a series with the comets, they're really interesting and I don't think you've done anything with them yet. You also mentioned last week that it was getting boring to go to the same place everytime so here's your chance to shake things up a little bit!

[@tfk_001]

Imagine if nasa had to deal with the kraken, game crashes, and the fuel transfer glitch.

[@rambard5599]

They could end up having to deal with the funding glitch, where they lose a significant part of their funding through no fault of their own, just because some politician is being stupid. (No, I don't know of any examples of this, but it *is* a thing that *could* happen)

[@onyxzheng347]

They have to deal with the politics glitch, the engine failure glitch, the human mortality glitch, and the ultra hard physics glitch. They also don’t have timewarp

[@morphabilitybillygoat8881]

At least spacex quick saves

[@erik365365365]

I would have gone worse than it already did!

[@agamjotbindra4875]

NASA has enough to worry about already. If this happined it would just Crash itself

[@helloimthemailman6566]

"it just looked really cool" a classic kerbal excuse for including something on the rocket that was completely pointless.

[@henry-rosenberg]

Yeah, I keep building SSTO's that look really cool, but cant manage to fly them, even one from the Workshop.

[@lucassantana69]

4:43 Estabilsh a colony on a empty island, nothing is more britsh than that Lets restart the britsh empire

[@rajatheking003]

I disagree. Claiming things that already belong to someone else is mote brittish

[@iainbagnall4825]

*British:* I claim this deserted island for the Queen. *Natives:* Dude can you not see we are here already? *British:* Do you have a flag?

[@davidjones6781]

They were always British... They just didn't know it yet.

[@danielwenzel3877]

Matt, Be ready for a Revolution!

[@blakem2902]

*whispers: It's free real estate.

[@meatiemugz1089]

Hey Matt, a boat would be a cool addition to the series :)

[@Lussimio]

Yay I was looking for some good ksp content and this came

[@ewansalvidge4835]

Glad a heard about this early from the volicity lake vidie on Wednesday

[@studiospace1677]

Planet Coaster Gang

[@alexanderm.7814]

That IVA toggle is a really awesome idea. Would definitely like to see it in KSP2 if that ever get's made

[@evanrichards3264]

This is the best part of my birthday so far. Thank you Matt!

[@ultra98000]

About the fuel glitch... The fuel pipes might be one-way, try using a dual setup to transfer both to and from expendeable fuel tanks.

[@Flyguy4500]

I like how Matt states all the facts like the oberth effect and transfer windows every video for new people

[@reagank.2268]

“Just for the sake of realism” -the person that launches entire orbital stations in one launch

[@Kaijun-Caple]

Kerbals: so how powerful do you want this rocket to be? Matt: YES

[@brockburton1998]

Matt my heart leaped when I saw this on my home screen

[@moontravellerjul]

this base was (imo) one of your best looking crafts yet! awesome work on the series as usual :)

[@Oskitiss]

For some reason I love it when the ferrings deploy

[@saxo19]

It's almost 3 in the morning here in Cali, I haven't slept a minute, and I should sleep for Starlink this morning but here I am. How's everyone's day/night going?

[@marsar1775]

Washington state above ya. Pretty swell. Freezing tho. Yourself?

[@saxo19]

@@marsar1775 eh not to bad in Cali, I'm lower in SoCal so it's kinda warm but not hot, just the perfect temperature to keep me from sleeping

[@marsar1775]

@@saxo19 somehow we need to combine climates, achieve perfect temperature

[@saxo19]

@@marsar1775 that is the most genius idea I've ever heard

[@marsar1775]

@@saxo19 wheres my magic wand...

[@fossil8184]

so glad this series came back, was so excited when they announced the revamp to laythe

[@thegamingidiots7012]

You actually did the correct thing when you exploded the RTGs in atmosphere. By you destroying them via atmospheric heating, you negated an amount of nuclear fallout. Good job Matt!

[@saitavr]

Your language has improved since you started the new series of space this week. Good job.

[@Sag3brush]

you know its a heavy payload when the video is almost halfway done and it's not even out of the atmosphere yet

[@minus118]

Watching these on Saturday morning while having my coffee is my favorite routine. Love all the content Matt!!

[@kittiphumphimjan7471]

Hello, I am a fan from Thailand.

[@racingmhf9157]

I'm from Brazil!

[@racingmhf9157]

@@nanni-buyerofcopper incrível!

[@MatthijsVDS]

Hello a fan from Thailand

[@5Puff]

Soo..want a cookie?

[@baguettefish]

Hello, I am a fan from France.

[@coling.4476]

Having self-discipline is so difficult. My last career games were all in hard mode, in which quickloading is disabled but quicksaving is enabled. So you can save along the way and not be allowed to load in the game. However, if some kraken attacks that is not your fault, you simply use the cheat menu (alt + f12) and enable quickloading. Once you load a save the quickloading is turn off by default.

[@vthegoose]

When I use 1.8 and 2.5 meter srbs I use the mite to separate them. I use sepratrons for the 1.2 meter boosters

[@ramiel7955]

I would like to see you make a underwater rover And the main points is 1. Can move underwater 2. Can dive to various depth 3. Make it smol but compact

[@Superbdul_1]

Underwater rover can move underwater Hmm the floor here is made out of floor

[@ramiel7955]

@@Superbdul_1 logic 100

[@Superbdul_1]

@@ramiel7955 heheh kinda...

[@adamsymborski1520]

As far as wholesome YT channels go, I'd say this one is damn near the top.

[@kimik-sb1bc]

27:47 I highly doubt the community would accept a change like this now, but I think Eeloo would be more interesting if it had a thick, cold atmosphere - like Titan, but a standalone planet. White or cyan skies would look pretty good I think. It'd make Eeloo feel like a proper frozen world instead of just a glorified ball of ice, and from a gameplay perspective there would finally be a low gravity/high atmospheric pressure combo.

[@batuhankavak4796]

"Building a Laythe island colony" A real british.

[@BrandonJSSCOOLEO81]

Person

[@ub6o7]

*Britian

[@elgemin]

@@ub6o7 *Brittlesticks

[@lolaerospace5257]

The bug is because you have install astronomers visual pack or an external mini AVC module you need to remove them.

[@samspence687]

11:18 oh my god I wasnt paying close attention to the shape of the rocket as you were building it and when I saw this I died laughing

[@Idontknowwhattocallmyself]

“I lost track of where that tangent went a long time ago, guys” Happens every time

[@chickencosmix6331]

this is good and all but when are you playing RL ksp

[@Sjedtm]

But matt this is all good and well but when ate tou becoming a ksp2 dev

[@studiospace1677]

He doesn’t like it because he feels it’s no longer KSP

[@txtce]

@@studiospace1677 what do you mean

[@xzznnn845]

@@txtce too realistic? I don't know either

[@txtce]

@@xzznnn845 well was looking at the website and look soooo good

[@evanm6739]

You are so good at building! Very creative

[@frog1443]

Cool idea: Make an extra terrestrial airport/runway on laythe or a cargo ship with a runway for mini jets

[@derschredder5559]

Do you mean an Aircraftcarier ?

[@terran9264]

I’m building my first mun base, using a crane to assemble everything. I’ll just say that I became great friends with quicksave and quickload lol

[@Khalrua]

I would like to see some structures or buildings that don’t even need a real purpose. Put a little aesthetic village there. Would be really cool

[@Eric__J]

Love that island, have been using it for landings on Laythe for some time since it's equatorial. My name for it is "Airstrip One".

[@stephencullina3692]

Fly a bunch of little planes/jets to laythe, all attached to a central body. The center part could detach on the surface and be a terminal and then you can use the jets to explore or as an Air Force

[@didan470]

You should build an amphibious vehicle, like an amphibious tank!

[@pahlavi5312]

Wow that base looks really cool. I really like your builds and this one is probably one of my favorites!

[@lyncistso1111]

The jool's wateriest moon is Vall that is 100% water ice....

[@lyncistso1111]

@He who will Definitely be named Vall is the equivalent of the planet Europe and Europe is made of water and ice so Vall should be.

[@isaquest134]

@@lyncistso1111 ah yes planet europe

[@lyncistso1111]

@@isaquest134 the moon, but it remains a planet

[@lyncistso1111]

@He who will Definitely be named yes, underneath the ice layer, there might be oceans

[@isaquest134]

@@lyncistso1111 i know but you missed the name and the title. you said *planet* and *europe*. its actually a moon and its name is europa

[@proneturnip]

You could make a one of those arctic explorer boats with a helipad, or Lowne Island Speedboat Tours, or a nuclear submarine. the possibilities are endless.

[@FolgoreCZ]

Best idea for a base I ever had was using the "Kerbodyne Engine Cluster Adapter Tank" (the Saturn 5 bottom part), turn it upside down and use each of the four nodes as one "building" (Habitat, Science, Mining, and Crane). It looks like a small castle and is absolutely awesome.

[@The_Wanderer_is]

5:36 the base looks like a submarine it would be super cool to have a submarine on laythe

[@3ctjhseolere]

If Life on Laythe is made into an acronym, it might look funny.

[@BlastingRyan609]

*clears throat* L.O.L

[@LeonardoDaVinci01]

Planet Coaster Idea: make Lowne Island into an Theme Park.

[@jeffreygrotenhuis493]

An amphibious rover that could go from island to island would be cool!

[@Khalrua]

They should develop a robotics arm or something to that effect that lets you plant an item solidly in the ground like a strut with a docking port or something. You could build bases by lugging materials over from Kerbol

[@siriusa4404]

One of the more recent glitches (that were Hillarious): Danny 2462 found a wayto get to the sun, from the suface of kerbin!

[@everyweekmemes9178]

My favorite building in this series yet

[@jamoecw]

to do proper atmospheric landings and hit the spot you want without quicksaves and such you have to do a bit of calculation in your head, then have wheels or hopping engines to correct and deviation. hopping engines add quite a bit of weight most of the time, which makes things tougher. wheels tend to be fragile and so sticking your landing or having some mechanism to swap out your landing legs for wheels is needed, which again makes things a bit more difficult.

[@rafdaguy6103]

9:58 What an ungodly fairing

[@brycekornett8001]

You need to make a deployable sea rover where it can go down and dock with the sea station.

[@maccaronich]

I definitely would have liked the colony where the flag is! That would make a perfect interstellar spaceport. It even already looks like an airport there

[@eekee6034]

I had an adventure today! My main game is getting to be a bit of a drag; too much planning, too many flights, and it's all just progressing so slowly. I've started testing vehicles in a separate save game, recently including a little spaceplane which didn't turn out well, it had too much drag, but being small and mostly made of fuel tanks, it reached orbit with quite a lot of delta-V. So I went to Jool. :D I've got tons of experience flying and building, but this is only my second entry into the Jool system. There was no chance of capture without a Tylo gravity assist, but I have very little experience with gravity assists altogether. I tried and tried until I got the best capture I could... into suborbital trajectory... which I later realised was retrograde! Still, it was a very narrow ellipse, and I know from experience that means the craft will hardly be moving at all at apoapsis. The little delta-V I had was enough to reverse direction and set up a Laythe encounter in prograde. Now I had no idea what height to aim for, so I checked tutorials and then settled on a bit higher than recommended, 40km, because I would be coming in a bit quick from my high apoapsis. I was nervous! I made lots of quicksaves. I had absolutely no idea if there would be enough drag to capture, and if not, I'd be on a completely unrecoverable trajectory into Jool. Nor did I have any idea what the atmospheric heating would be like. It was -- just barely -- fine! :D I had to tumble to distribute heat which is not my favourite thing to do, but it does work well. And then the plane turned out to be super-stable. Perhaps it was all the drag at the back, where I had for some reason thought it would be neat to sheath a nuclear engine with a Mk2 cargo bay. (It wasn't.) Anyway, this plane's coming down, turning to avoid the night side and the big ocean which led into it, stable but with a poor glide ratio, and so it turned out there was only one place it could land. You'll never guess where it was... Lowne Island! :D I'm even down the same end of the island, completely by chance. So now I have to finish the big mining spaceplane I'm building so I can rescue Jeb. :D It'll be able to rescue him if it works at all; it's complicated and slightly peculiar as are many of spaceplanes. I'll tell you what, though; it takes a long time for a kerbal to run 2km; over 1/4 hour of constant key pressure with an awkward hand position. As small as the island is, I almost wish the big spaceplane had room for a rover. (It's not really big compared to some Lowne Aerospace craft, but does use Mk3 & 3.75m parts.) I'll just have to taxi the big spaceplane. It's got a wide track so it shouldn't suffer the same fate as my other big spaceplane on Minmus, rolling over when I turned too hard, losing canards and an engine. XD But I've rescued those kerbals already.

[@madisonruelle9074]

Matt, in regards to your frustration with the Jool SOI crash, I also get that. I think it’s something to do with the conic patch limit getting overwhelmed with so many calculations at once. I’ve have had good luck avoiding it by reducing the patch limit to 3 or 4 when fine-tuning my jool approach, then bringing it back to six once I’m in Jools SOI. Obviously not the same as a patch fixing it, but hopefully can save you some frustration.

[@rocketremity9571]

I would love to see you make a space port-base an the ground so that Kerbals have it easier moving from the space station to the Island base

[@collinlamont6357]

Idea for Vid: Do a Blunderbirds but instead of going to a crashed ship... do a ship that has an impending crash and rescue it!

[@chickenspaceprogram]

Isn't that _sorta_ what he did in the KSP movie "Into The Warp"?

[@collinlamont6357]

Its also a scenario

[@MartinMizner]

Matt: descending base without heatshield The base: Aaaaa!

[@bobjoebo8933]

PLEASE MAKE MORE LIFE ON LAYTHE!!!

[@profwaldone]

im realy realy looking forward to building interesting bases in ksp2

[@jettyboi3167]

matt, I love ur content. i could never be as creative as u

[@LimeJuice0308]

Top three best spin-off series 1. Life on laythe 2. Green Harvest 3. Destination duna Keep up the great work Matt

[@michaelwalsh6276]

You could have put a propeller or two on the back of the rover and some flotation devices on the sides, making the rover amphibious!

[@tacoboy5602]

hey man i cant wait for the next part oh that was 2 years ago

[@-looky-3092]

You HAVE to rescue your little quadrocopter from the laythe ocean!

[@j.r.7339]

Why didn't you use Pistons with the Grip Pads? They have a 50m/s crash tolerance and look really cool!

[@JaxonWX]

I like the progress bar for the construction

[@joshcornish9271]

Could you use the alligator hinges to slowly "walk" the base around?

[@kexm9921]

What about an amphibious rover? A rover that could go on land and sea would be amazing, not sure if it can be done though...

[@Pacca64]

Would love to see that career mode series!

[@zacharypanick4484]

Can’t wait to see what you build in KSP 2 !!

[@rasmusraita1357]

Ngl the base looking kinda fire no but really good job dude i also love your content and your the reason why i started playing this game im not close to your skill level and your blowing up my brain by the massive builds cus i probly never will be able to do that lov u :D

[@eventhorizon8439]

I know you lol

[@playzraita6162]

@@eventhorizon8439 nununuunununn i dont know you

[@sigma6656]

If you try a career mode i really recommend playing with contracts packs and an extended tech tree, (Near future, restock, etc.) maybe throw in a pathfinder or remote tech for increased difficulty.

[@rickotap3859]

Looks awesome, like always! makes me wanna live on moon or mars in something similar :)

[@TheHutchy01]

I enjoy how the Rule of Cool is just as important to Matt as like, rocket science and efficiency.

[@simonjarcho8066]

A cool mission could be a rescue mission where the space/land colony is the closest medical facility for a 'sick' Kerbal somewhere else in the system and you have to build a ship to get them and take them to laythe.

[@TheDrakenZ]

I honestly cant count the times I've tried right clicking the screen and dragging to try and get a different angle on your videos lmaoo

[@Grae1]

I yes im always here when you upload a KSP vid

[@jpase]

11:05 You know you can right click and put 4 attachment nodes on the plate rather than using those fuel tanks?

[@rileyg6107]

The intro should say Jools Moistest Moon just to annoy people

[@MitchCyan]

I can’t wait to here more about colonisation in KSP 2.

[@rejhrenovica9427]

it would be cool if you made a base or some habitat (maybe that one you made in yhe retro SSTO video, but like a base) on the shore of your island, with a little boad/speedboat. :)

[@tommybates1976]

you should make an amphibious roving base.

[@greatnate3816]

That what I was thinking about the rover it could travel on land and water

[@CURSEDvids]

My Kerbal Space Program won't load 😭 . Also make a ferry to transport the rover to land and to Lowne Island!

[@abeeinspace]

KSP not launching properly could be due to installation problems or incompatible mods. Try removing all of your mods, and then launch KSP. If that hasn’t fixed your problem, reinstall KSP from wherever you got it. If it launches after removing the mods, you have a mod problem. Add all of your mods one by one until KSP fails to load, then remove or check for an update to the mod that you just added back in

[@CURSEDvids]

@@abeeinspace Did this and it now works. Thanks!

[@charliedw8753]

You should build a giant rover that either can be a boat as well or can get picked up by a plane so you don’t have the problem of getting stuck at the seashore.

[@iwik4684]

i just had an idea to lihe on Laythe: make an escape rocket to the colonys becuse if some thing explode or something bad hapen....

[@mariner11]

i miss his ksp videos i hope he returns

[@MandMs05]

I play on hard difficulty so there's no quicksave for me. But so far I've only had one bad bug where after my first munar landing, my Kerbal fell through the ground and just instantly died. I also had a game crash while trying to dock but the game crash was actually really helpful and conveniently timed to be like a quicksave reload

[@Yes-ye6my]

You must be the one of best KSP builders ever I can only reach space and I'm having a lot of trouble landing on the moon

[@goldkat1]

Use a dedicated vehicle to move the rover to different islands, maybe a boat to try something new

[@ahordeofcatsme2230]

There's a mod called Trajectories that shows your landing path for a planet while calculating in both planet spin and aerobraking.