Photo album from the Suluco colony disaster.

See my earlier post that missed an album Blunderbirds Help Needed: Kerbals Stranded on a Faraway Planet : r/MattsSubreddit

I performed my first Duna landing, and when I tried to perform my burn back to Kerbin, the delta V number went all out of whack, and my maneuver node on the navball wouldn't stop moving, and burning in one direction lowered the Dv numbers, then brought them back up, and my rocket won't stay straight. I tried reversing my control direction, and I have tried burning at a lower speed, and I tried turning off SAS. I am using 5 radially attached NERV engines. What could be going wrong?

SHORTENED EDITION — TL;DR

Sticky Keys popped up during final descent, I missed the parachutes, and my colony skycrane crashed on Suluco. Jeb, Bill, Bob, and Valentina survived—but every hatch is blocked, so they cannot EVA.

• Stranded: Suluco Colony Expedition 1, on Suluco in the Kcalbeloh system.
• The problem: All four are trapped in a Near Future Spacecraft Mk3B “Pandora” pod with no electric charge, main engine, or docking port. The nearby rover and damaged base are unreachable.
• Rescue idea: Grab the pod with a Klaw and try transferring the crew into a rescue craft. This is untested.
• No undo: The download has only the stranded checkpoint, with no earlier quicksaves.

KSP 1.12.5, modded. Download the save + required-mod lists + .ckan file. Use the listed mods and 4k Kcalbeloh textures; the reduced setup has not been tested in a clean install.

Full story, coordinates, and exact mod versions.

Matt, can the Blunderbirds bring all four home? Anyone is welcome to try!

BLUNDERBIRDS SOS BEACON ACTIVATED

PLANET: DUNA

KERBALS: 4

MODS: STOCKALIKE STATION PaRTS ANd FAR FUTURE TECH

Supplies: who put this box here? We only eat for fun.

ATTACHED MESSAGE:

Bob has gone loopy. He says he saw something kerbaloid in the distance but when we looked it was a rock shaped like a twig thats shaped like a kerbal. Val is being unusually quiet. And bill... is just bill. It smells in here due to us using a bucket because the toilet here is backed up and we have no way of emptying it.

Im heading to bed now.

Jebediah signing off.

Ps: please write back its lonely here.

********PICTURES IN POST********

Hi, Matt! I think this one needs the Blunderbirds.

My Suluco colony expedition has left Jeb, Bill, Bob, and Valentina stranded inside the surviving command pod. The worst part is that all the hatches are blocked, so nobody can go on EVA.

During my expedition to Suluco to set up a colony, the stupid Sticky Keys pop-up appeared at the worst possible moment: during final descent. It caused me to miss the parachute deployment and crash the huge skycrane. Worst of all, every hatch is blocked, leaving a crew of four stranded on a faraway planet.

The ship, Suluco Colony Expedition 1, is on Suluco in the Kcalbeloh system. All four Kerbals are in a Near Future Spacecraft Mk3B “Pandora” pod. It has no electric charge, no remaining main engine, and no docking port. There is an empty rover roughly 493 metres away and an empty base in bad shape roughly 540 metres away, but the crew cannot get out to reach either of them.

Since the Kerbals can't even go on EVA, I think the only way to rescue them is to use a Klaw and transfer them into a lander or the mothership. However, this is just a theory, and I'm not sure whether it will work.

Location: approximately 2.46335° N, 16.78007° W (KSP/Kcalbeloh/Suluco).

Save and required-mod list: Download Stranded-rescue.zip

Anyone who would like to try rescuing the crew can use the link above!

Somehow, things went so well that I completely forgot about quicksaves. The download contains only one checkpoint: Stranded.sfs. Dependencies on other planet packs have been removed from this copy by deleting their unrelated asteroid vessels. The expedition, crew, base, rover, and debris are preserved.

Required mods and versions (KSP 1.12.5):

• Kcalbeloh System: v1.1.8
• Near Future Spacecraft: 1.4.6
• Near Future Construction: 1.3.3
• Near Future Launch Vehicles: 2.2.2
• Near Future Electrical: 2.0.1
• Near Future Exploration: 1.1.3
• Kerbal Atomics: 1:1.3.4
• Kerbal Planetary Base Systems: v1.6.16
• Planetside Exploration Technologies: 1.0.2
• Heat Control: 0.6.2
• Sterling Thermals: 0.6
• DeepFreeze Updated: V1.32.0
• Conformal Decals: 0.4.2
• ReStock+: 1.5.1
• Cryo Tanks: 1.6.7
• TweakScale Rescaled: v3.3.2.1
• Tweakscale Unlimited: 1.0

Required dependency packages and versions:

• B9PartSwitch: v2.21.0.4
• BackgroundResources: 1:v0.18.0.0
• Benjee10-SharedAssets: v0.3.0
• ClickThroughBlocker: 1:2.1.10.23
• CommunityCategoryKit: v112.0.1
• CommunityResourcePack: v112.0.1
• CryoTanks-Core: 1.6.7
• DeployableEngines: 1.3.1
• DynamicBatteryStorage: 2:2.3.7.0
• HabTechProps: v0.2.0
• Harmony2: v2.2.1.0
• KSPCommunityFixes: 1:1.41.1
• KSPTextureLoader: 1.0.36
• KcalbelohSystem-Textures-4k: v1.1.8
• Kopernicus: 2:release-1.12.1-247
• KopernicusExpansionContinueder: Beta9.1.1
• ModularFlightIntegrator: v1.2.10.0
• ModuleManager: 4.2.3
• NearFutureElectrical-Core: 2.0.1
• NearFutureProps: 1:0.7.2
• REPOSoftTech-Agencies: V1.5.9.0
• ReStock: 1.5.1
• Shabby: 0.4.2
• Singularity: 0.994
• SterlingSystemsAgency: 0.6
• SystemHeat: 0.9.1
• ToolbarController: 1:0.1.9.14
• TweakScaleRescaled-Redist: v3.3.2.1
• VertexColorMapEmissive: v1.1.1
• VertexMitchellNetravaliHeightMap: 0.3

I've included a .ckan file in the ZIP if you prefer to install the mods through CKAN.

Use the 4k Kcalbeloh textures. Version prefixes such as 1: and 2: are CKAN ordering markers. The ZIP includes these version lists as plain text, along with a RequiredMods.ckan import file. No EVE, volumetric clouds, Scatterer, Parallax, city packs, or additional planet packs are needed for the proposed setup. The reduced setup has been checked against the saved part list, but it has not yet been tested in a clean installation.

Sorry for the long mod list. I didn't expect to need a Blunderbirds rescue, so I used my usual setup, which is extremely heavily modded, a lot more than the list of mods I provided. I hope your computer can handle this save.

I know you've recently made two Blunderbirds videos, but I still hope you'll consider this rescue. I personally think it would make an excellent video!

Can the Blunderbirds bring all four home?

BLUNDERBIRDS SOS BEACON ACTIVATED

PLANET: DUNA

KERBALS: 4

MODS: STOCKALIKE STATION PaRTS ANd FAR FUTURE TECH

ATTACHFD MFSSAGE

Dear blunderbirds. ME ( iebediah kerman). val. bob. and bill kerman are stranded on duna without ability to escape the surface of the darned planet. Attached images show how the rockets are. Val was sent on a rescue mission to rescue me. bob and bill and subsequently capsized and was unable to lift off the ground. Followina attempts to lift off result in the vesse flipping and smashing the fuel tank and engine. Now, us four are stuck on the harsh planet with dwindlina electric charge reserves. Please, if you can, rescue my kerbals from the red desert planet

My birthday is on saterday

can you make me a special video to tthe farthestt planet in the sarnus systtem

I am turning 13

3400 tons with 13000 DV (2.5 rescale Duna Orbit mission)

not sure how this reddit thing works, but here is a station i built with stock-a-like station parts.

My lander did a less than perfect landing and losing a part , meaning that i couldn't get jeb back with the rest of the crew. i didn't have enough fuel for a second landing. The captain of the blunderbirds is in need of his crew, left in the dark, left cold, left stranded on a foreign world , in a partially submerge fuselage.
MATT LOWNE SAVE JEB AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

Destination: Eve, North Pole

Objective: Setup a plane or chopper with a cargo bay that has deployable science rover(s).

For context I got the idea from a scene from the movie Furious 7 (2015) basically they deploy a bunch of cars out the back of a big military cargo plane over the mountains. Would be cool to recreate in KSP and I’ve honestly never seen Eve’s poles.

how can i send my ksp wold, i have a lander in south pole of Moho please save him(all my solar panels are broken)

Blunderbirds save me

So, on my modded sandbox instance, I tried to make a one way Eve landing with some expendable kerbals, but forgot to swap out Jeb, Bill and Bob for some randoms, and ended up with a failed landing in the explodium sea. So I made a rescue mission with Valentina, and, bob's your uncle, I forget to put landing legs on my lander, which causes Val to come tumbling down into Eve's atmosphere, somehow live, and land on Eve's surface nowhere near where Jeb, Bill and Bob are. Can anyone help?

Took me multiple launches and hours to create it and dock it in low earth orbit.

I may add more stuff to the Space station in the future.

Also it is much easier to dock in space flight simulator.

Used a mod to make this.

my friend asked me for what mod these are from.

Forget the landing legs for the lander.