KSP: Building a DUNA Base!

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Destination Duna:
• Destination Duna
Mods:
Gameplay: Kerbal Engineer Redux; Better Time Warp; Camera Tools
Visual: Scatterer; Environmental Visual Enhancements; Stock Visual Enhancements; PlanetShine

[@elfinplatypus1341]

"I don't want to put Kerbal lives in danger" literally 40 seconds later: "We can just banish them to live on Moho, who cares?"

[@sea_otter3734]

Ha

[@cheesehat6420]

Me... I do...

[@cheesehat6420]

Lol jk

[@Voyager_137]

You have to safe them. So they can life somewhere else Like Moho

[@emilianozamora399]

TO THE MOHOLE

[@dincirkic4974]

Me: hears Duna Brain: party time

[@spacejace4738]

Din Cirkic same

[@luminxgd7451]

i dont get it

[@pyey2133]

“Yeet this thing into duna’s atmosphere” 😂😂

[@delicate6930]

Lord & Savior, Cheesus Crust look at your name

[@_Michael_17]

@@t2hk_ bruh

[@t2hk_]

@@_Michael_17 the guy deleted his reply ages ago

[@logicalpetrol2721]

200th like

[@vibrantvista3470]

Smoked ham

[@swantofficial6050]

I would really like to see you doing a low solar orbit space station!

[@ajbishop1220]

he has done one, it just had a very eccentric orbit so it doesn’t burn up

[@jacobwoods497]

@@ajbishop1220 I think he means low orbit as in, like, maybe half of the previous altitude

[@no1dea261]

Physics have left the chat Ep 2891 of being late to comment

[@MisterRelatable]

@@no1dea261 wrong game, this is KSP, you're SFS.

[@no1dea261]

@@MisterRelatable Nobody asked Literally

[@mosesdrubahadur3255]

This man just sent a whole base to a planet. I can't even get a rocket to the moon ._.

[@liamburgess3385]

Keep at it, you have a lot of enjoyment ahead of you

[@theterminalstupidityvariet1629]

Moses Drubahadur I can’t even get off the ground

[@willvanspronsen1087]

Me too

[@willvanspronsen1087]

Nate 1747 how? It’s the easiest thing in Ksp. How can you not do it? Here’s a tip. Less weight, more thrust

[@willvanspronsen1087]

No I can get off the ground

[@bevan9661]

who wants another KSP movie? *literally everyone puts their hand up*

[@superflypule4484]

ME!

[@diamondmcgaming2866]

Le me

[@chaos6839]

Minä!

[@greatnate3816]

🖐️

[@harrymack3565]

🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

[@stanleybowman-hood6194]

Laythe’s closest counterpart is Titan

[@averyjonesmith6379]

just switch the water and oxygen with methane and more methane lol

[@will108]

Europa is a much closer counterpart. It has a water-ice surface and an oxygen atmosphere.

[@cranjusmcbasketball2052]

Will wouldn’t Vall be Europa, since it’s also covered in ice?

[@will108]

​@@cranjusmcbasketball2052 That's a valid argument, but Jupiter's moon Callisto has a surface made from ice and rock and an extremely think atmosphere. If I had to choose a direct counterpart I would say that Callisto is Vall's closest counterpart.

[@will108]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callisto_(moon)

[@jackdevenish6609]

Happy new year everyone! Who else can’t wait for actual proper base building in ksp2!!! 😄

[@diamondmcgaming2866]

Me

[@daspotato895]

the part I can't wait for is Jeb having a brain fart and accidentally leveling an entire colony on Duna.

[@FrikInCasualMode]

@@daspotato895 So, basically Tuesday?

[@CardZed]

@@FrikInCasualMode no, you meant friday. Jeb always fuck everything in friday.

[@erickpulido4578]

@@daspotato895 jeb sneezes Levels Laythe colony Jeb: giggles

[@ghjkl816]

1:20 I almost got a stroke trying to follow the rotation you made there...

[@honeyroastpenut]

You have by far the most entertaining and whimsical commentary style on youtube and I really appreciate your content!

[@captaincomrade8056]

The discord server is really helpful and friendly. I strongly recommend it

[@matrick1356]

timewarp solves everything, gotta remember that. You heard it from matt and danny.

[@antoniskazou]

Pro tip: when making stations or bases that require in orbit docking I use two Jr. docking ports instead of a regular one so it's always perfectly aligned

[@Fireheart318]

Antonaros I tried that but it didn’t want to work for me. I’m in the process of making a mod that adds alignment teeth to docking ports, so hopefully that’ll work. I’m gonna call it Docking Port Overhaul or something

[@antoniskazou]

​@@Fireheart318 That's a pretty cool sounding mod actually, I would totally download it

[@willvanspronsen1087]

Antonaros umm.. everyone knows that

[@willvanspronsen1087]

Fireheart318 I like ur user name. I love Warriors!

[@MattLowne]

Yeah but in the video I stated that I wanted it to be realistic for a kerbal to transfer between modules. They wouldn't fit through a Jr port

[@benjaminshanley718]

"first video from the decade, watch out "

[@oobanoobaisterrible]

I’m glad that squad is going over the content in the game and making it nice and polished. Next stop: slay the kraken!

[@SpaceDave-on8uv]

Reported your comment The kraken is love The kraken is live

[@alexsiemers7898]

I think squad is just polishing the game before they retire it’s development, and let KSP2 take over.

[@paulschwartze8924]

Next series: Dying on Dres?

[@theambergryphon4266]

yes

[@thomastardif4456]

and Its just Matt building a deep space ship with as many Kerbals as possible and crashing it into Dres

[@alexsiemers7898]

Dying on what?

[@ricehathirohito9588]

Alex Siemers he meant space. I think....

[@byrondeleon3911]

And some others if possible: Mission Moho Tylo Tour Vall Vacation Hop to Bop Paradise Pol Escape to Eeloo

[@astronomical4763]

Wot a great way to start the decade! An amazing and hillarious ksp video by Matt Lowne!!

[@CRS1578]

Decade starting off great!

[@PunkWyrks]

The integrity and attention to detail that you put into your work is inspiring! Great stuff!

[@hdavidritscher3774]

Happy New Year! I love KSP and play almost every day. Love watching videos like this. One small problem: This is the last year of the Teens decade. The new decade begins on Jan, 1, 2021!

[@greyson8111]

As much as I love your channel there is something that you said that wasn’t true, there actually is a laythe counterpart which is one of the moons of Saturn Titan. From the images of the JWST telescope scientists were able to identify a large desert, methane lakes, oceans, a south and North Pole, changing weather seasons, clouds and a thick atmosphere. There are also a few moons of Saturn with thick ice covered oceans that could have life. Also great video!

[@dennisd7]

I'd really appreciate docking port angle snapping in vanilla, every 15 deg or something.

[@whitedawn2122]

Or attach them to a rotor or servo

[@asingularcheesepuff6383]

I highly recommend the mod "dock rotate" for this exact reason. It simply allows docking ports to spin like a rotor when docked to another port. It's not so useful if you have breaking ground, but you can use it to perfectly align space station / base parts when assembling them. And it doesn't add any new parts, so if you uninstall the mod all of your crafts will be fine.

[@Coli2603]

Dude Guess what

[@unfortunate_moth7454]

HI!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

[@clairedigance-fisher6517]

Thanks for the design. I took the basics of this and made some modifications here and there. These included a docking port on top of the towers to land another ship onto for refuelling, a docking port on the underside of the central tower to be able to swap out the rocket and the monoprollent tanks on the arms and the fuel towers withe parachutes on them are fixed so i can keep them without risking ejection to be used as an initial refuelling stock. I also have a 3rd rocket setup for attaching 10m heat shields to the underside of the 4 outer modules when i send this thing to places like eve.

[@anderslolle2147]

Love how you keep good form and take jabs at everyone leaving kickstages in orbit. We have to keep LEO neat for the future!

[@apollo6968]

You should make a ship with a lander that can go on flying forever, just slap a drill on the front and mine asteroids to refuel when you need to. In theory, you never have to stop flying and can land on every body you want

[@ryanspence5831]

How about skip laythe, tylo and eve since they severely influence the design and would make it overpowered for any other landing and would also make it have an insane part count

[@apollo6968]

@@ryanspence5831 Sounds good

[@The56Kaveman]

Didn't know docking ports could withstand the pressures of reentry, I have trouble with them going kraken when connecting multi-stage ships. Great job as always Matt!

[@oofree4013]

That’s one nice base. Well done, Matt!

[@republicofluckteinburgpres1385]

I'm watching this video as I am slowly falling back down to Kerbin (1.5 ms speed wise), and this is for testing some parachutes and drogue chutes.

[@noe5054]

HAPPY NEW YEAR

[@tristankincaid7237]

Did matt just say “yeet”?!

[@horatioyen256]

this base looks so cool

[@Salluqu]

Hey matt love the vids, how excited are you for KSP 2, the colony builder seems so good.

[@ClaytonEvans56]

I've been really enjoying all your vids for KSP! I sort of watched this series a bit out of order, but you make a note about the limitations of the static mining bases in the Duna mobile base Rover vid of yours. Could you have kept the aerospike engines on the base and just refueled them with the fuel you produce to allow you to move the base around to other ore nodes on Duna? Not sure how the fuel production and refueling works just yet but it was a thought i had while watching this video. Keep up the awesome work! You make all of this look so easy! haha

[@gaujenietis]

Happy new year from Russia Matt! Waiting for new episode=)

[@ItsJustKrows]

I would say your content like this is more "late game inspiration" more than it's "for advanced players"

[@simond.455]

I almost screamed when you flipped the base over. 😱 That's usually when everything falls apart for me. Literally. 💥 I'm happy I got my Mun and Minmus bases down in one piece. Minmus Base even has piston legs to counter the slopes. 😎

[@lucassantana69]

7:00 Here in Brasil we called Gambiarra.

[@Joaocarlos-rs2in]

that's true kkkkkkkkkk

[@thebritishtwat1317]

My favorite part about this video is I was doing my own thing and not really listening to the video and heard off hand "we need ascape pods incase the kerbals contract Space Ebola" after that oh boy I was listening

[@ronniescott3041]

Yo Matt, you should definitely try out some planet packs, it'd be awesome to see you boss through a different solar system! Love the videos btw keep them coming

[@themightiestofbooshes9443]

Thank you, Matt! Very Dunar!

[@torbenellert9173]

Yeet them to Duna, or Moho IDK / Don't Demonetise. This is the sort of quality content I've come to expect. 10/10 would smash/like

[@TheScarletSeeker]

FYI that music video is what found me via the Algorithm which in turn got me to sub and become an instant fan. Keep up the good work Matt :)

[@antares8826]

Lathe gets a texture overhaul, so Matt: _Do it, make our dreams come true_ xD

[@worldbfr3e263]

23:02 Walkin' like Mr. Krabs

[@Usurperlicious]

Now that's what I call a Legend

[@curiosityspace9194]

you also inspired pretty much ALL of my ksp builds

[@adamantium1983]

The second rocket.... I was thinking to myself, how the hell is it gonna work but then Matt... makes it work... thinking outside the box or (inside the fairing).

[@vampirepeewit5858]

How about to save fuel and to save the space whales make a space ship with the kerbels which goes to Duna but doesn't land at Duna, just brush the atmosphere and drop the kerbels in some kind of suicide pod then heads home. (Think ODST from Halo). Loving the videos

[@ShadowAkatora]

Alright everyone, remember where we parked now. Next to the big rock.

[@Big-Alieu]

Finally a new one

[@sea_otter3734]

Happy new decade!

[@deuce-_-]

You could also try to use those inflatable docking ports to save space

[@RoboticUnderground]

I can't wait to see what you do. When KSP 2 is finally released hopefully this year.

[@Blake-Bushell]

Postponed to 2021

[@MarcWeavers]

walking station was hilarious :D

[@everydayhuman1543]

The Counter Part of laythe is Europa, Europa does have water on in, although it is under the insanely thick ice

[@arvindsuthar1763]

Matt: lets send a base on duna Me : *cant even land on mun* .please dont give me hope

[@usha3950]

Nope

[@kerbo312]

you'll get there! if you need any help feel free to ask me i willl share my discord

[@augustagajoshestep]

I like to visit Minmus first. Slightly more tricky to get there but much easier to land due to lower gravity.

[@Critex_]

I think I made a mistake by going to the Mun first

[@Critex_]

And I don't think playing on Xbox helped

[@salvadormendoza6606]

That was satisfying

[@gavindominico9595]

Matt: Doesn’t provide craft file Lazy People: Anger

[@javeronh.3996]

I think something that could work, for small bases like this, is put servos behind each docking port. then you can turn it where you want then lock the servo to try and hold it in place. not sure if it would really work but it might

[@GumballAstronaut7206]

i feel like what I would have (will do) Is launch the base all at once into orbit, then dock a trasfer vehicle to the base, then just launch it on a course to Duna. Saves me the head ache of fine tuning everything honestly :p

[@teamluapo8187]

Happy New Years EVERYBODY

[@littlecozgaming769]

I didn’t know that jumbo jumbo plays ksp!

[@davidrgilson]

23:00 Laughing the most I've laughed all week. Thanks Matt, you're great :-)

[@telimarkskierman]

You can just offset the parts attached to either side of the hinge to make it flush.

[@Bloxwess]

All of that verticle base stuff can be fixed with the planetary bases mod. I have found it to be very useful when building surface bases. Although I know you like using only stock parts so that might not be something you would use.

[@earth1364]

My theory is that the kerbal star is actually either a red dwarf or a orange dwarf star, and that all the planets inhabit the star's habitable zone. Giving Laythe the ability to have very similar living conditions to Kerbin.

[@CASA-dy4vs]

So your saying every planet in the game is in the habitable zone? If yes then Dunas ice would become liquid water maybe

[@earth1364]

@@CASA-dy4vs This is a comment I said a year ago. I don't know what mental gymnastics I had to reach that conclusion, but it has to be dead wrong.

[@you_lost_the_game]

Matt Lowne: *needs reason to make transport vehicle* Matt Lowne: S P A C E E B O L A

[@Aceman-zm7sx]

Fitting all those bases being put together reminds me of tetris

[@societalreject4]

"oxygen and water could not exist that far from the sun". Hypothetically it could depending on the mass of the gas giant, its proximity to it's moons and their mass. At least that's what universe sandbox says. Love your videos.

[@Auzifriend_]

Watching u has made me want to get the game

[@l9m241]

if we have Life on Laythe? We now have Demise on Duna? Hmm, that sounds catchy.

[@lilglilg5580]

Best Kerbal Space Program You tuber ive seen!!!!!!

[@niels_plays7606]

you should probably add this video to the destination duna playlist

[@anatoli25236]

Looking forward to Life on Laythe. The only place you can utilise jet planes to full potential on!

[@ImmortalAbsol]

I'd use surface bases to label easter eggs and other POI's. So I can set them as target.

[@nathanparcel6860]

Idk if he already did this or not but he needs to make a space cruise ship

[@thefallenraptor4005]

Happy decade

[@ryanfoley1544]

The decade didn’t end

[@stirlinghall6593]

It gives me great pleasure to here Matt say "chonk"

[@brindle3437]

At january 2nd 2020 a little bit ago when this was written was my first successfull maned mission on duna. One month on surface and 2800 science. Very proud

[@u_nuub339]

at the start of the video - static bases are fueling bases (sort of). you didnt even add a docking port for the extra ships to refuel, or a means of gathering the new fuel.

[@avantigaming1627]

Are there versions of those videos where I can watch the whole building process, not the timelapses? I find your buildings very interesting and i would love to see how exactly do you manage to do them. :)

[@kamilpeciak1543]

2020 belongs to the same decade as 2019 if im thinking straight

[@Ranillon]

You are right. Since there as no year zero (0) all years ending in zeros are in fact the last year of that particular decade.

[@pranavarvind4281]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020s www.google.com/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/english/decade Looks like you're wrong.

[@tsurutuneado5981]

Nah mate thats like saying 2000s kids are from the 90s

[@cheesehat6420]

What no

[@MattLowne]

Is 1990 part of the 80s or part of the 90s? The Decade ends when it ticks over to the next 0. 1980 was the start of the 80s, 1960 part of the 60s (this decade was epic because it ended in 1969 which has the sex number in it)

[@sharksquid4415]

Well another approach for this kind of base its to have a big pile of pieces, connectors and a rover, send them to Duna and after landing put the station together using the rover/rovers. i would like to see that or at least how you struggle doing it :)

[@TheXEskiimo]

I can't tell if Matt is referring to the Martian Program at Lockheed Martin, or if he's just pronouncing Martin as Martian. :p

[@LightningDragon79]

Thank You!!

[@Aremisalive]

I think he is mispronouncing it because searching Lockheed Martian on Google doesn't give anything.

[@murphyslawyer6187]

He's definintely saying Lockheed Martian, which gives me incredible Alternative Universe vibes.

[@01Peebee10]

Great inspirational videos.... I love designing and building rockets, I've managed my first couple of landings on the Mun and Minmus, when I say landings I mean crash landings but I'll take it. I cant seem to save my builds though, is this just the case or am I doing something wrong???

[@cdswild]

The faring is a lot more * inhales * THIIC!!!!!!

[@thatguywhowouldnotsharehis2062]

PICKLE

[@fleb727]

great work 👏👏👏

[@itsfishwriter6433]

Very nice :)

[@randycenson4400]

BEAUTIFUL, BRAVO BRAVO :')

[@pietraolegal]

I have an idea to make the next ksp vid, start building a super big space station, and when you will dock the last part, the part hit the station to fast and deorbit the station, with the reentry effects and the destruction fx

[@j0gski]

it wasn't as smooth as I intender - Matt Lowne's base and ShadowZone's Starship carrying cybertruck

[@Pob047]

Titan is thought to have liquid water oceans under a very big ice crust. It stays liquid due to the churn caused by Saturn's large gravitational forces. In my mind laythe is a titan analog :)

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

Just replace the o2 and water with methane.

[@TopNotchFactsToday]

Hey Mat! Love you're videos, do you have a video on how to build an easy mun base ? Cant seem to find it. Can you help??

[@Ravioli_-vd4wb]

KSP 2 looks really good may i suggest it

[@simurg7122]

Hi!

[@you_lost_the_game]

Matt,it's okay,you are a god we won't deny your power

[@jamesleduke873]

I'm kind of surprised you never tried one of the interstellar mods. I'd have loved to have seen you do an interstellar ark ship or something.

[@Cby0530]

You seriously can't have a more Gravity reentry than the Duna one in KSP.