KSP: FULLY STOCK Hanging Mun Arch Base!

Today I fulfil a dream I've had for several years, a dream which is now possible thanks to the brand new Ground Anchor part, that was added JUST this week! That's right - today, we'll be building a 100% FULLY STOCK suspended base below a Mun arch!
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This video is intended for audiences 13+ years old.
Chapters:
00:00 Anchor Delivery Rocket Build
01:46 Journey to the Mun Arch
05:32 Arch-Top Antics
08:12 Return to Kerbin
09:53 Base Build
15:20 Journey to the Mun Arch (again)
19:41 Hanging the Base
23:43 Base Shenanigans

[@MattLowne]

what 🤷‍♀ if 🧐 we 👫 kissed 💏 under ⬇ the 👉 Mun 🌛 Arch ♎ 👽 💑 Haha 😂 jkjk 🤡🤣😜.... unless? 😳😳

[@loveskngm31hstsdaily1]

FIRST! edit: video suggestion: going to the deepest point in the ocean on eve suggestion 2:cargo plane with a mk2 plane in it with an 0.625M plane in it suggestion 3: N1 ROCKET but actually historical and not a rescue craft like 2 kerbals and epic 2 capsoolz existance is pain ngl

[@LimeJuice0308]

UNLESS😳😳😳

[@jebediahkerman6819]

Why not? 😏😏

[@loveskngm31hstsdaily1]

@@jebediahkerman6819 epic

[@bokamannu]

Ok, I take my helmet off first. *dies*

[@gus8016]

What about a permanent base on the ocean floor of Eve? Not only would it be cool, but it would... be cool?

[@sida8972]

wouldnt it be hot seeing as the liquid would be at its boiling point

[@ducc3031]

🅱️ery cool

[@finewine1001]

what if matt used MK1 parts and other to make it look like a subnautica base

[@plushiez_show8827]

imagine the pressure

[@billybobthe9thjr786]

It has a tiny little sub made out of mk1 plane parts that docks with it to do surface missions and other science around the sea floor

[@recurvestickerdragon]

The most Kerbal moment of all time occurred at 28:50, with the clipping, escaping, flying through the solar panel, clipping again, escaping again, and planting a flag.

[@random_guy_on_the_internet69]

Yeah

[@Avetho]

Kerbals have survived spaghettification, proven by Danny's Theorem on Kraken Interactions and tested in Danny's First Time and Absurd Development web programmes. Fascinating stuff, their hyperresilient biology.

[@j.r.7339]

Lol

[@yeetus69]

@@Avetho as a danny viewer, I agree with your statement.

[@jeremyglass4283]

The high bay bar at Starbase has a glass floor! Perfect for your rambling point about glass floors!

[@cpthornman]

I was fully expecting a mun arch base using the new anchor part. Glad to not be disappointed.

[@LeftSideRight]

My KSP career has peaked - I've been mentioned by Matt Lowne!

[@bonesoneuropa1610]

how does this not have any replies also i knew you were gonna comment lol

[@tecanec9729]

Now, I need to know! Was your base "landed on" or "in space just above" the Mun?

[@LeftSideRight]

@@tecanec9729 It's "landed" at the Mun

[@lilwhitecrow]

Not mentioned in a very good way though

[@artemis-arrow3098]

congrats m8 :)

[@DeepProbe]

The docking process looks painful even in this edited state. "Vertical Velocity Controller" mod and SAS in "normal to orbit" mode could be a huge relief in such efforts. I've done some skycrane missions and truly admire your persistance, especially understanding that largest of my crafts for such flights was less than 7 tonns, and your station is around 50 (with engines and fuel), plus that huge mast at the top...

[@HeidenLam]

You don’t need a mod for vertical control, just “control from” a controllable part that is pointing upwards and go RCS. Also, pointing normal in SAS surface mode (or target mode) is a lot more logical than that in SAS orbit mode.

[@DeepProbe]

​@@HeidenLam Any "skycrane" / "precise hover" operation require control point pointing upwards (or downwards), so, this step you recomended made "dy default". Mentioned mod precisely controlling craft's main thrust for compensating gravity for hovering at specified height (or for vertical speed control / engine shutoff during final seconds of desending). As for "also" - thanks for forcing me to open game client and check for what is really written at markers. Ofc, correct one is "radial out", not "normal". But "radial out for orbit" have marker at navball (so you can see where you are going to allign craft to) while "radial out for surface" is markerless (yes, it pointing directly to zenith which far more convinient and neat, but with some control point setings you may find craft suddenly flipped upside-down at near zero height - and this event would be inconvinient at all) Nevertheless, thank you again for pointing my attention to to erroneous term I used.

[@SOFFtv]

@@DeepProbe got nothing to add other than this is why i love ksp players in the comments. 👌🏼😌 interesting read.

[@307Yerbua]

They should have called this extra update something like "Sticking the Landing"

[@Immortalcheese]

The big question is: if you reload the base from the tracking station, is it stable, or does the kraken load in with it?

[@MattLowne]

So far it's stable! I revisited the save later on to grab a shot for the thumbnail, and not a wobble in sight!

[@derangedoven7928]

that’s good

[@bazzybfg]

omg is that the famous ksp youtuber matt lowne??

[@dalel3608]

KASA: "How do we keep Mun dust off of our astronauts" Matt (and others): "Don't let them touch the regolith"

[@Turt3zyKSP]

I was gonna try this a while ago, didn't think it was possible so great job!

[@prolska]

Saw it in reddit

[@landsnes2278]

There is a new ground anchor part

[@XBlueBeam]

Wow hello turt3zy! Was just going to ur channel to watch u stream.. looks like i wont be needing to search after you!.

[@pandavey4973]

Found you Turt3zy

[@sudantarescosmonautics9422]

You can do it without the anchor.

[@Arae_1]

This is completely amazing Matt Good job

[@MrDispro]

"Drop the Base" got a whole new meaning today

[@owend7212]

would have been great if he threw in the royalty free dubstep

[@RT-bp1tf]

Wow, a fully stock hanging base on the mun arch. That's insane

[@ChristopherB.]

28:25 that kerbal stuck in the floor looks like half the kerbals in an average danny2462 video.

[@gsquared8730]

Hwhbl

[@Blob]

i think this is the first hanging base i’ve seen in ksp

[@billstrozberg3932]

Matt, for you to learn about Sake. It can be drunk hot or cold, but the type of sake is specific to be drunk either hot or cold. The cup also changes, for hot is the small round stone one. And for the cold is a square one.

[@jeremyglass4283]

Wait, don’t magnetometer booms not work on the surface of a celestial body? So what if they break, they’re useless anyways! (Although admittedly, a station dangling from a Mun Arch doesn’t seem like something designed to be useful either)

[@MattLowne]

yeah, I wasn't sure if they'd work, considering the base is suspended above the ground

[@sudantarescosmonautics9422]

@@MattLowne physically your base "hangs" between the ground and the space, but since the arch is part of the ground and you attached your base to it, the game recognises it as "landed". You can check it out from the tracking station.

[@gsquared8730]

@@sudantarescosmonautics9422 hreg

[@indisputablefacts8507]

I've got about a million hours of KSP played. I tell you, when I press 'a', I've got absolutely not the slightest clue what the ship on the screen will do. None at all. I have no idea how Matt knows what direction is craft is oriented in.

[@questioneverything4633]

Pay attention to the crew hatches.

[@Perseagatuna]

@@questioneverything4633 What if you're on the night side

[@Coli2603]

@@Perseagatuna pray, or just put on the lights

[@Perseagatuna]

@@Coli2603 what if I have no lights

[@RichsRidesandRestorations]

Career Mode contract: Expand “Untitled Mun Arch Base” with * 4000 units of liquid fuel * 1000 units of ore * At least 16 engineers

[@LaplaceVI]

4000 units of monopropellant* can't be having something kinda useful in the contract apparently

[@MrSpruce]

The Kraken is most intrigued by your base.

[@recurvestickerdragon]

It's gonna bat the thing around like a cat toy hanging from a scratching post

[@rbxless]

The kraken is under Jebediah's bed

[@tammypeters3520]

Jebs the kraken

[@recurvestickerdragon]

@@tammypeters3520 *Cocks pistol* Always has been

[@tengeriinmori]

Matt, please do a podcast where you talk about your life while getting side tracked every five seconds. Washing dishes is a blast with your stories filling the gaps 😆

[@shala_shashka]

@LordMightyTrousers anything relating to his medical training and current career are usually pretty hilarious

[@bragapedro]

6:28 i wonder if it would work if you placed the anchor upside down on top of your craft and then flied underneath the arch, so that it anchors to the bottom. might try that later

[@typryor2227]

Now this is what I subscribed for! Matt rambling about sake while construction on a mun base plays in the background!

[@yautjamerk9159]

Damn that's a sweet base. Great job Matt

[@simonpratt301]

Kerbal melts into the deck - The Kerbal-delphia Experiment!

[@sdalt14]

Fantastic pacing and humour, truely enjoyed this mission. Bring back the whiskey review for sake. Had me laughing the whole time.

[@yogimojo4685]

Thanks Matt, your docking was an epic mission and well worth including, as was seeing a kerbal feature in Jacob's Ladder ( I can see why you felt upset!). I usually pronounce sake with a hard a but however you do I raise my glass (which actually comes from a japanese tea set!)

[@Retrolizer]

Jerport Kerman: Gets off ladder Lostard Kerman: "I must go, my people need me"

[@LimeJuice0308]

*Laughs in Shadowzone*

[@fiveoneecho]

The way I was going to do a Mun arch base was by building a wide platform target that I would grab with a klaw instead of using docking ports. I was thinking it would be fun to free the pivot as well and let it swing around :P

[@ducc3031]

Absolutely SNATCHED it from shadowzone!

[@Muzz796]

I choked and laughed when you mentioned dropping the base you had built, that thought hadn't crossed my mind, but I'm glad you did 😊

[@prehistoricgames3432]

I envy you Matt you get 1.12 and I have to deal with enhanced edition's "quirks"

[@tomasebenlendr6440]

For hovering operation I would recommend "Surface" instead of "Target" mode for SAS, with "vertical out" mode. Then you can control your lateral velocity more smoothly (either by RCS or by short key presses of ASDW tilting your rocket slightly, "vertical out" mode then cancels perfectly the tilt, so that only small amount of lateral velocity is added (or subtracted)). It is not a big deal on the Mun, but it helps a lot when dealing with stronger gravity.

[@aaronlewison9297]

Matt is literally the human incarnation of Wheatly

[@orsiknightvr429]

i am READY TO SEE THIS EPICNESS

[@ratflakes3135]

Hm, looks like those kerbals need a rescue mission. HMMMMMM

[@bluumishh]

Gee the Kraken hits in in unexpected time and in unexpected places 24:58

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

I really need to try this with Infernal Robotics and Kerbal Attachement Systemn (KAS/KIS). Must be a way to do it with ropes and other stuff =)

[@betaraven1833]

Love the vids you really entertain us all thanks matt, also FIRST lol

[@dominic5386]

Yea

[@mikeksp9177]

Change it back! Also you missed a t

[@betaraven1833]

Lol ok

[@mikeksp9177]

@@betaraven1833 all is in order, have a good day

[@betaraven1833]

Matt hasn't seen this comment despite it being one of the first, big sad

[@luketherobloxnoob1026]

You can beat NASA in one step

[@samuel15097]

You should have a multi-part series where you build a GIANT space station. with like the 5-meter fuel tanks and a ton of crew modules, maybe even a giant spinning module?

[@MattLowne]

Tried that once. Kraken.

[@steve_rivers]

To help you out, matt, sake is made up of 2 japanese hiragana or katakana characters called sa and ke. They pretty much sound as they read. "Sa" has no 'R' sound at the end of it, and "ke" sounds more like 'Keh' than the kay at the end of okay. Hope that helps some, because you were making me cringe with laughter throughout the video. So thanks for that! :D

[@kaptain1477]

This gave me an idea to make flat runway on laythe so I can land rockets/ SSTO planes

[@kaptain1477]

@gay bowser I am going to be mad if they don't make this game utilize more cores and hyperthreading along with other hardware for KSP 2

[@mixenproductions8149]

I saw this on Reddit.

[@vennstudios9885]

Did you forget the grip pads For the scouting craft

[@lojo2603]

Great work!!!

[@zeckfive7574]

Love u matt

[@tsuyu2200]

Yes Matt, it is indeed pronounced “sah-kay” 「さけ」

[@tsuyu2200]

@Rex Rodgers yes and no. Some are mixed and designed to be served warm. Others are meant to be served cold. It depends what type of sake you get.

[@Crimsonedge1]

Sake is just a general term for alcohol in Japan. The drink you're referring to that we westerners think of as sake, distilled rice wine, is called Nihonshu and should be served in a glass stood in a small, square wooden cup called a Masu. The square wooden cup is to catch the overflow as the sake should be served to the point of overflowing the glass slightly. (A way to show your customer that you're not "underserving" your alcohol.) Its is also perfectly acceptable and within etiquette to drink the overflow of sake straight from the wooden cup. It could be frowned upon in higher-end 5-star type places but certainly at your local Izakaya where people are there to have a drink with friends and let their hair down. First you sip from the glass to lower the level from the brim so you don't spill it, then you drink the overflow from the Masu and then you drink the from the glass.

[@RufflesKerman]

Matt Lowne - "Kerbals - they're built out of a different building block than people." Cool hanging base! I think that the ground anchor is going to make things a lot more interesting...

[@jebediahkerman6819]

Bruh, if i tried to do this, the kraken would make the vessel have a seizure lol

[@Bob78]

I used it to make a gilly surface base that doesnt float away.

[@rbxless]

I might use it for a Pol base, the Kraken's home

[@Zepha21]

Ok here is what I would have aimed for straight away when trying to dock the station to the anchor module: get the station completely upright and turn up the thrusters just enough to achieve hover. and that's how the thrust stays. then i'd have used an all-directional RCS system to adjust position, yes also vertically. because the thrusters just hold me in palce, if i RCS up, i move just a little bit up and lose that momentum. that way i can be super gentle at such a difficult stunt. but you did it and i didn't, so good job, matt :)

[@questioneverything4633]

This vid reminded me to update ksp. Thank you! So glad I got the control point fox for the mk2 docking ports.

[@Draka721]

Every video of matt's is gold. Just gotta say, Not first.

[@Jacob-uq4zj]

A Matt Lowne video?? My days getting better and better

[@helplessdoggoyt6508]

That one kerbal at the end just decided he didn’t want to be there anymore lol

[@MrWjb55]

i love the docking and sake rant great vid

[@jaedondoro3169]

Ayyyyy

[@s_kill4789]

how do you have the eve mod in 1.12

[@janwesleyalipio8464]

i guess he forced it?

[@ReneMarek47]

Beautiful. Reminds me of the suspended Arecibo detector. Your way out is up, not down. We need some monster base above an active volcano or a deep abyss to dial it up to eleven.

[@NotTheHeroStudios]

Man I was so excited to watch this after my steam, and that I had to work for 8 hours... so finally I have arrived, thank you for the content

[@prathamr17YT]

Matt-im gonna speed run the russian space programs Me- wow next week soyuz speedrun Matt next week- im doing a esa space station and space ship 2 part video Me- where the hell is soyuz but ok a very good topic tho Matt this week making mun base Me-😡 complete the pending projects before adding more projects dude

[@loveskngm31hstsdaily1]

YES

[@safeish57]

that series is over, he only speed ran the space race not Russian space agency

[@prathamr17YT]

@@safeish57 but it would have been great to see matt failing to speak in russian accent and what about the esa 1 bro

[@safeish57]

@@prathamr17YT i wasnt talking about the esa station only space race speedrun

[@LimeJuice0308]

MATT CALL THE BLUNDERBIRDS FOR HANS KERMAN HE NEEDS DESPERATE MEDICAL ATTENTION IMMEDIATELY!!!!

[@senockwurst637]

matt is in vacuum also matt now that im in the air me wait a minute how does that work

[@burrrrrman]

I might have rewatched the drop part once. Or twice. Or five times... Love you Matt!

[@Evilducky200]

I always look forward to your Saturday videos. Its like the Saturday cartoons. Never disappoints :D

[@samueldoebler7085]

There is an underrated cliff side peninsula at eves North Pole that drops 3 km to the sea. Adding a cliff side base would be quite cool. It’s a true 90 degree cliff so I have no clue how you would get a ground anchor on it

[@spritefun9362]

Amazing as always!!!👽

[@MrFranklitalien]

fantastic build

[@eekee6034]

There's a tower in Portsmouth with a glass floor. I love it! There is or was a pub in Sheffield with a glass floor showing some historical industrial cistern or something, but it's pitch-black inside.

[@donaldneill4419]

The CN Tower in Toronto has a glass floor at 342m. I had to visit the bar first. BTW, great video - one of the glorious things about KSP is how often the line is blurred between the sublime and the ridiculous. Well done!

[@averagefalloutplayer]

I just came back to this channel after a few months i forgot how good you are

[@mrprogrammist8380]

cool, and I used this anchor to try to make a space elevator, but in the end I tore it out by the roots.

[@CyberSamurai4Life]

The CN Tower in Toronto Canada has a portion of its floor made transparent as well .

[@isaaczhao5941]

Matt: talking about sake Footage: something about space

[@mattlofgren1497]

Way to deliver right away!

[@craboo8668]

20:44 Ok but are we going to talk about how Matt just Tokyo Drifted a skyscraper on another celestial body?

[@aktivmeeel675]

Amazing how matt comes up with new stuff in evry Video realy cool idea

[@aplane9625]

I love yo channel and yo KSP videos are AWSOME

[@shawnfike2910]

Yes, the Grand Canyon has a glass walkway suspended over 4000ft (1200m) above the canyon floor. I've been there and it's awesome!

[@Talic29]

Your rambling this video was on a whole other level. Never change.

[@forresthumphrey3470]

Awesome video this week! I laughed out loud for real when the rockets diverged into the support beams xD

[@zethandrews3860]

yes the grand canyon does have one it's called the sky walk bridge and it's on reservation land, costs like $20-30 to go out onto but you can see straight down below you all the way to the bottom of the canyon, it can be a little bit disorientating but nice none the less.

[@assistanttotheregionalmana5810]

Awesome fairing on the base rocket, but honestly missed opportunity to go full kerbal and encase the whole thing. Who agrees? Petition to have Matt do his next videos with the biggest possible fairing!!

[@wyldcat9396]

I just noticed this video after watching the unfolding surface base one where you mentioned the idea XD

[@pumpkinh3d286]

I not watched your videos for a WHOLE YEAR 2 seconds in I can’t stop watching, can U keep doing awesome crazy missions

[@SFSAtlas]

Finally decided to start watching again

[@lightningtreesaver]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 🎂

[@torjones1701]

Cold Sake/warm sake depends on the season and the meal. During the summer, you're far more likely to be served cold sake, and during the winter, you're more likely to be served hot sake. And yes, it's pronounced sa-ke with the ke being pronounced like "Meh..." Certain dishes are also traditionally served with hot or cold sake, but they are also traditionally seasonal dishes, so I'm not entirely certain which came first...

[@sulochanareddy4883]

Reusable sounding rocket😂, sarcastic tweet I want BO to see it😂😂.

[@toasterpickles164]

The London Bridge has a glass floor thing too

[@kens884]

i watch you for a looong time but this video is the best idk why

[@life_days]

Matt you are a legend

[@shubzilla755]

The Willis (formerly Sears) Tower in Chicago has a glass box in which you can stand out over the street that's a quarter-mile below you.

[@callisto3116]

Very intriguing...

[@MadDog2k1]

Mun Arch? ... Quite the royal endeavour

[@Andrew-sv3ck]

That kerbal absolutely RKOd that solar panel