Using Every Engine to Get to Laythe in Kerbal Space Program

[@baconwizard]

FYI some of the engine variants have vastly different sizes, the “poodle” engine has a *long* mode that could help

[@user_asdf1234]

Yes

[@RandomizedRandom]

the engine name is funny

[@sparklygames71]

I did not know this

[@MrOliPantz]

*L O N G*

[@Eidenhoek]

poooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodle

[@fork9001]

12:44 There is a setting in the game called “extended burn indicator” that tells you exactly when to burn the engines to get the most precise burn. Not turned on by default for some reason and not as precise as guidance mods like mechjeb but very useful for transfer burns and long burns in stock ksp. And, if you’re fine with not playing full stock, there is a mod called “bettertimewarp” that allows you to time warp at whatever speed you want. Physics warp to 16x speed for low thrust burns with ion engines or nuclear engines can cut down the time needed for burns by a lot.

[@1mariomaniac]

Better Timewarp is a godsend when using nuclear or ion engines 😆

[@Speedwars]

“The engine was pretty weak” *Is the most powerful engine in the game*

[@nicoro8872]

no, the jet engines only have like 120 or 180

[@StoneBox_761a]

@@nicoro8872 what are the most powerful engine in the game then?

[@sankang9425]

@@StoneBox_761a "Mammoth" with 4000kN

[@StoneBox_761a]

@@sankang9425 cool.

[@springchilli4481]

*weak

[@That1Gal3.141]

I'd like to see a rocket where every stage is separated by a fearing, like a russian nesting doll

[@Greaseoverwatch]

The matryoshka rocket has to be done

[@bernardoramos7842]

That would be cool

[@Vinnie_728]

fairing

[@That1Gal3.141]

@@Vinnie_728 I knew I misspelled something, I could tell what, thanks

[@bearsgeography8330]

@@That1Gal3.141 capital r in "Russian"

[@mumblety]

imagine if nasa tried to launch a rocket like that.

[@hello-kp3qr]

heh

[@sapozhnikkonnik1839]

bro did u time travel?

[@hello-kp3qr]

@@sapozhnikkonnik1839 what i was thinking

[@victorkim1807]

@@sapozhnikkonnik1839 I think mumblety is a patreon and they get to view the videos before everyone else.

[@sapozhnikkonnik1839]

@@victorkim1807 oh ye forgot that exists

[@captainstroon1555]

Drinking game: Each time he says "I ended up", take a sip

[@AnUnfortunatePotato]

Im dead 4 minutes in.

[@eskeline]

harder difficulty: each time he says "ended up"

[@oliverlemley9343]

Its not *hic* so bad *hic*

[@jonathonasmith]

I played this

[@shitpostingsandwhich]

I actually accidentally ended up doing this

[@phancyphysics8240]

Mortimer Kerman: Alright kerbals, we need to prepare the budget for next year. What do we got? Wernher Von Kerman: I've been thinking of a new engine design we could- Gus Kerman: We don't need another engine design! My machinists can barely keep track of the dozens of engine types we have to make. Bill Kerman: I agree with Gus. We should streamline the manufacturing process to produce only engines used in our next rocket design. Jeb, your the pilot, so what engines do you think we need? Jebediah Kerman: ...

[@cadenbarnfather1434]

Y E S

[@isse5321]

Bonjour, M. ancien "moteurs" sont coulure noir et "logo jaune-noir" sont surmontés plus que 20 années. Je panse qu'il est temps de changer " la couleur" !!! La couleur "vert clair" est génial ! Il est très résistant à chaleur et je sui sur que vous utiliserez prochaine 500 années ... Je suis sûr que cela aiderait beaucoup dans les prochains préparatifs . La concentration de pigment pendant le mélange m'est déjà connue. Je suis à votre disposition.🧠👀🚀

[@charliedavidson4925]

The beauty of good writing has truly been revealed.

[@j-bob_oreo]

you're

[@anieldevans8056]

You should try and make a rocket that stops and drops a lander at every planet in one trip

[@di5ea5eairsoft6]

Lol I just commented that

[@spicynoodle8870]

I just love these KSP and challenge videos where you try to force real engineering onto video game physics

[@user_asdf1234]

mmm.. black hole?

[@yami_the_witch]

this somehow worked out better than I thought it would. Also looking at the whole thing, if you hadn't thrown away those awful xenon engines you might've been able to land back on kerbin

[@ReidCaptain]

Potentially. I think more aggressive gravity assists would have done it too, but I ran out of time to try again.

[@yami_the_witch]

Quite understandable, having time for some new Projects is better than extending an already 16 hour recording session any longer.

[@achyutjagadeesh8985]

Engine plates are the soltion to the problem of unequal heights! they have stadard sizes instead of conforming to the length of the engine. It also allows you attach more engines to the bottom of a fuel tank. Literally the best part in the game

[@theneonbop]

I really recommend the Planetshine mod, a lot of people use it and it allows you to easily change the brightness of the dark side of planets

[@kennyxkazuki713]

12:56 The poodle engine has a second variation with a single larger nosecone All you have to do is change the color for some reason

[@maxboskeljon6440]

Yoooo i love ksp! Youre definitely my favourite youtuber. Keep it up!!

[@diotcoke]

if you're worried about SRBs hitting your craft, use sepratrons, its the entire purpose of the sepratron

[@enochofmi]

From the perspective of Laythe's inhabitants, you pulled up into orbit, launched four missiles at them, then left.

[@LobsterBisque13]

Always a good day when Reid uploads :)

[@hawkeyealvarado999]

2:52 in the video where you only used monopropellant to make a rocket you got your rocket to hover in place for about a second by activating your landing gear to launch you into the air, you should try making a hovercraft like vehicle using this method. :)

[@kman6004]

This gives me an idea, I wonder if you could land a Kerbal on ALL of the moons in the system with ONE rocket. I have no idea how easy/hard this would be. It might even require mining for fuel, who knows.

[@tonyhakston536]

10:48 the entire problem was that it WASN’T weak.

[@ilikespagett1514]

2:54 i know this video is 2 yrs old but you could've changed the poodle to be single bell so it's longer

[@AgentNos]

Man, I'd love to see you play From the Depths, not for making engines out of cannons and stuff, but just because you can make some mad looking vehicles in it

[@donkey1021]

I love how he is starting to upload a lot more! Keep it up! 😊

[@jughead221]

When I play this I always use more than 8 types of engines

[@ReidCaptain]

I like using 1 lol

[@niggacockball7995]

@@ReidCaptain gives me horrible flashbacks to the monopropellant video...

14:20 "Sir, we are detecting a massive object emerging from hyperspace"

[@cameronbracken3228]

When making aircraft, it’s important to ensure your main source of lift is a fixed wing. The reason most of your laythe probes were nigh impossible to control was that your primary lifting surfaces were being used for control. I’d consider disabling the pitch, yaw, and roll for the winglets you used as main wings for those and see if they function better.

[@zainabumer4526]

There are tanks for 3.75m engines and the poodle engine has a second configuration which is taller

[@goiliath9s496]

I died when the lander sunk a laythe and they just went “I was really happy with that successful landing”

[@Roaxial]

that's a lot of engines

[@mumblety]

quite

[@hello-kp3qr]

time traveler

[@Lrofmaulol]

> adds stacks of decouplers to "even out the height" > wonders why the rocket is floppy

[@hello-kp3qr]

hello reid captain, love your KSP videos!

[@ReidCaptain]

Hey, thanks!

[@mitchelparker9132]

This man not only used every engine, he visited multiple planets as well!

[@forg3214]

For the first landing, you could have rightclicked the vector and turned down the gimbal limit, it would have been able to land

[@uattias]

14:19 that was a great jumpscare!

[@aerodynamickerbal]

2:55 The Poodle has a different variant that is taller, so you could use it instead. Anyways, great video that cant be done on Enhanced Edition!

[@cadenbarnfather1434]

cries in enhanced edition

[@aerodynamickerbal]

@@cadenbarnfather1434 Im obviously on Enhanced Edition too. A craft this size will make my PS4 run at negative FPS

[@cadenbarnfather1434]

@@aerodynamickerbal same as mine i recently got the making history pack so my console does backflips with 5 meter parts

[@Orion_TheProto]

the most kerbal rocket.

[@Glimmerglint]

If you hit the arrow in the top left while you are building, it brings up different ways to sort the parts - one of them let's you sort by diameter, so that would help you find the right size fuel tanks for those engines you couldn't see them for

[@bakbak4960]

you ended up doing a lot of things lol nice video tho

[@Ro_Gaming]

"Decouples, decouples, oh look it's another engine" -this Rocket

[@SpeedyHOI4]

this is the very definition of "MOAR BOOSTER!"

[@A_Typical_Plant]

legends say those two landers are still in jool orbit

[@BlackholeYT11]

Shocked at how well all that worked, haha

[@darknessblades]

Now the next challenge: Ditch a Kerballian on every planet/moon. and have them survive. Sign up now, its a 1 way trip.

[@undeadhomie1001]

have u done a video where u visit as many places as possible? like land and leave each place till ur outta fuel or wreck? if u complete them then try to return home maybe?

[@ThatBoiOnLaythe]

Something with Hitchhiker storage containers. I love them, 100% favourite crew capsule. Why? Idk. It just looks kinda cozy in there.

[@cadenbarnfather1434]

useful for space stations and large bases.

[@Black-vo2tv]

You should apply this same concept but in Besiege. Make a machine or car using every mechanical part?

[@trentcard]

"probe cores, conserve a little weight," the vector engines:

[@cinfdef]

Have you considered landing on every planetary body in one mission?

[@valecasini]

2:55 If I'm not wrong the second mode for the "Poddle" is very similar to the "Skiff" one

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

This is such a cool and innovative game.

[@ir0ncat_]

alright now make a rocket that uses only one of every part in the game

[@I-l-t-p-v]

I don’t know why it’s so satisfying when he said nose cone

[@KyleJohnson-ny7uu]

All the original ksp players are tearing their hair out watching all your videos...

[@brollowgaming]

"The more tanks the more "DIFIIULT" it is to get into orbit" lol

[@freelandaerospace]

You could use engine plates instead of the separators, and right click on them to change the length of the shroud. This means that there wont be a difference in heights.

[@di5ea5eairsoft6]

You should make a mothership that has little ships or landing craft and have to land at least one ship on every planet

[@HumbleBeing5255]

Can you try to land on any celestial body you like, just by using mass drivers?

[@starballanimations976]

oh god this looks HIDIOUS i love it

[@ampoulgon8716]

Ah, the old attage "just add more boosters"

[@hello-kp3qr]

time traveler

[@ampoulgon8716]

@@hello-kp3qr reids discord go brrrrr

[@eldarad]

My personal highlight here was the Laythe jump scare

[@philippey4918]

to make it more efficient and more aesteticly plesant, you could have done a mothership that has many landers with different engines that would be used to go all around kerbol

[@kadebrockhausen]

Create a rocket designed to fly to, land on, drop off a small base onto, and then take off from every single planet and moon

[@elisteele6481]

At 2:16 you could use engine plates and set the heights to be the same

[@forge_gamer5174]

Go to Moho using only spark engines and it has to be FULLY reusable. (Optional: reaction wheels are aloud)

[@lengthorwidth]

Moho might be a bit too much

[@BioFox08]

Make a rocket or plane with EVERY part

[@TXstudios9334]

Launch a space station that is huge around Jool

[@Capital_snack69]

Might do it

[@zacharyward171]

12:11 Correct me if I am mistaken but shouldn't it take less fuel to get to Jool considering Minmus' weak gravity and you're on the edge of Kerbin's SOI?

[@eldarad]

Say hello to the Oberth Effect

[@OlympusMons25]

If he had fallen from Minmus' altitude to a low perogee around Kerbin, then that would have saved him lots of fuel in his burn.

[@buzzytrains9037]

idea: make the slowest possible rocket without running out of fuel

[@mustoskiff1321]

Now you also gotta make a rocket with every part in the game.

[@JoyDaBeast]

Video idea: make an airplane and circle the world

[@CreativeEQW]

Imagine trying to launch a rocket with every part in KSP

[@brollowgaming]

Challenge: When he says "As you can see" you do five push ups.

[@qewbe]

The swivel engine is more efficient in a vacuum than the reliant but less efficient in the atmosphere

[@spiritoffire7432]

Idea: Make a rocket using only the Sepretron! Heck yeah

[@Bsd_baba]

if this guy is about to crash in real life on a rocket he´ll just save and reload

[@inserttanjiromeme5496]

The Rocket should be named "Lord chungas"

[@mohrizkyk]

as a programmer I know what spaghetti code look like. but as a kerbal engineer this is the first time I saw spaghetti rocket.

[@hurnal6198]

This is the most kerbal thing ever 🤣🤣🤣

[@epicsealdog4925]

I like how hes doing all these challenges and im struggling to get on minmus

[@tommyb1088]

Kerbal Space Program at its finest.

[@among-us-99999]

Reliant is more efficient at sea level, while swivel is more efficient in a vacuum

[@kunalharmalkar4436]

make a rocket with reverse staging i mean bottom part is payload

[@ethanspaziani1070]

I love these kind of experimental things will you try to do something crazy like this my favorite kind of content

[@pao_xD]

NASA's banned rocket

[@BZBURGR]

I'm surprised he could keep up with where to put things and what rockets were already put down.

[@Browthpdd]

Day 13 of asking Reid Captain to try space engineers. ps: great video i always wanted to try this lol

[@nnerd]

Why do you always use airplane cockpits for your rockets? there are much lighter options like the Mk1 and Mk3 pods

[@arandomcommenter412]

It looks like some sort of post apocalyptic rocket attempt

[@violent_shadow]

can you do a mun and or minmus landing with ONLY SRB's? or maby duna?

[@NotaTechGuy177]

How far can you go in KSP using gravity assists?

[@ReidCaptain]

A few

[@nikkiofthevalley]

@@ReidCaptain I think Spencer meant how far can you get, not how many can you execute.

[@jerrysanchez5453]

Alot of people have trouble getting off earth.he just slaps all the rockets on and gets it no problem

[@hudsonmerlina6825]

Omg Only 15 people Reid is big POG

[@ThatIsALakeSir]

this is what happens when you let a physcopath design a rocket

[@benjaminbau9240]

Use engine plates instead of decouplers to have the same height

[@resiknoiro7506]

could yoy do something with just that tiny solid rocket fuel engine?

[@tonyhakston536]

5:28 thats a solid fuel rocket.

[@cadenbarnfather1434]

the lander or the clearly obvious jet complete with intake because last time i checked SRBs didnt have intakes

[@notatimelord21]

Are you working on the eeloo mission idea I gave you?

[@MuffinTM]

you make ksp look easy.

[@katqcentertainment8754]

Man that kinda look like a How To Basic food tutorial

[@deepsea_isopod]

bro made the loading screen rocket