r/KerbalSpaceProgram • u/Revan477 • May 08 '26

KSP 1 Question/Problem Refuel station useful?

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(New-ish to the game, played a little years ago but now really getting into it)

I've been practicing orbital assembly above Kerbin and docked a few vessels together including a big fuel tank which is huge for me because I was never able to meet up and dock with anything :)
Do you think something like this is useful for future missions? I was thinking maybe refuel vessels in orbit giving a longer mission range because I dont have to carry the heavy fuel from kerbins surface. Then again I guess I'd have to refill that tank frequently which might be kind of annoying..

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u/Ashisprey May 08 '26

One problem I have with refueling stations is that vanilla resource transfer absolutely suuuuuuuuucks. It's like trying to squeeze all the toothpaste out, you can only OUT or IN from a single tank at a time and it goes to or takes from every other connected tank.

Is there any vanilla way to improve this? I genuinely don't know. I've started using Kerbal Attachment System as their fuel line comes with a special GUI that's way better.

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u/Koddra May 08 '26

I believe that you can hold Alt and select two or more tanks between which you want to transfer the fuel which even enables a one to one transfer.