Risking Cursed Mining Techniques to Land on Vall in Kerbal Space Program

I could look up a guide, but where's the fun in that.

[ReidCaptain]

Where and how should I strand more Kerbals?

[genmediainc.]

swapping a dart for a vector is... a lot. those monsters are some of the most powerful engines in the game and they have insane TWR to boot haha

[SpaceDogLaika]

MINING TIPS:
Use an ore scanner before landing, ore deposits/hotspots speed up ore collection!

[Zack_Taylor]

7:03 Unless you're using liquid fuel only rockets, (I didn't see any) that fuel from the wings is just dead weight because it doesn't come with oxidizer

[theencolony]

Here's some tips on using refiners:

1. Take an engineer with you, as you can get 25x multiplier by having a one on board.

2. Use the bigger 2.5m converter, as the small 1.25m converter actually discards 90% of the ore, and needs more cooling to work.

3. Avoid using the surface mount radiators if you can, as they only cool the parts directly beside them (Any part attached to the one they're attached to). This means any excess heat from one part can't be taken by the others, leading to possible overheating

4. Using the larger 2.5m converter and engineer, you can actually use fuel cells to power it! The fuel intake actually makes more than the fuel cells need, meaning you don't need to worry about low solar power from farther orbitd like Dres, Jool, Eeloo, etc.

[BlackholeYT]

Lander advice - short and squat legs beat tall, skinny and unstable! Also be sure to pack lots of battery! You can mine and process constantly if you have a lot of battery, use fuel cells, RTGs, or land on a flat polar region with a solar panel sticking up.

[phobospotato]

Thank you Bonnie! also you can recover vessels once on kerbin by pressing "recover" by highlighting your altimeter.

[tortellini]

Reid, in these videos you would benefit enormously from using the Oberth effect. When getting an encounter with another planet, it takes much, much less fuel to capture into orbit if you are close to the planet, so I highly recommend getting your encounters as close to the planet as you can before capturing in the future.

[Waffles]

You should look up the Oberth Effect, you had loads of burns done high in the gravity well that could've been much more efficient.

[RattusStatus]

You really need to use the Nuclear engines. They might have terrible twr, but they burn super efficient. Also solar panels on jool suck so you should use fuel cells or rtg.

[shikigami]

Finally, another kerbal video! Outstanding as always!

[kamilkoczurek]

You could’ve saved a ton of delta-v by setting up a proper Jool encounter. The 83m/s you had left would’ve been enough to get a Tylo assist that would get you captured around Jool without any subsequent burn.

It feels like I’m looking at one of my old attempts to reach Jool moons. Kinda nostalgic, ngl. :P

[calebpeyton]

That was very impressive, thank you Bonnie.

[dedeede]

Been waiting for more Kerbal, love to see you break it

[Flemmi]

you could have used the 83m/s in deep space to get a much closer Jool encounter, maybe even set up the gravity assist with it. I feel like this rocket was massivly overegineered, but who is to say that is not the best way to play KSP.

[leirdierdorff]

Get some visual mods!! Stuff like astronomers visual pack will make your game look much, much better.

[Shloomy_Shloms]

Imma have to call the Supreme Court about these methods

[barral]

I love how you are explaining the parts and the reason for their choice. Everyone else just does time-lapse builds and you can't learn anything.

[theIargedude]

imagine waiting for half a year for the gas pump to fill your tank

[picapupxy]

HIs sepratron idea blew my mind, I never thought of using those to help with re-entry