I've been thinking of doing a base just like this, but with a rotating gravity ring at the top because being anchored to gilly will stop the rest of the spire from rotating in the other direction
Top Tip. You can use the Kickback solid rocket boosters (empty, of course) for the best ratio between wight and rigidity for all your spindly-towery needs.
If you used 2.5km segments which is as long as i can conceive of somebody building, it would take 1146 segments to reach keostationary altitude on kerbin.
@@harmonyspaceagency1743 Just use a bunch of the fuel transfer lines. Although it may get difficult to do for a planet or moon with too high gravity for an engineer to jetpack up to place it. I suppose a ladder to heaven could be placed on the side lol
What's the height of the sphere of influence of Gilly? I wonder if it's close enough to make a gigantic single tower to the edge from the surface? It's probably not, but I don't know for sure.
I think there's a glitch where if you stack extremely long vessels in a specific way, with the root part out of physics range, they will freeze and allow building arbitrarily-large structures. Someone used it to build a bridge across the Dres canyon.
Longtime lurker that came here for the KSP but left smiling from the MTB commentary. End of the day the best MTB is the one that gets you off of the couch! Glad the hardtail is working out!
My favorite parts of these videos are the little day-in-the-life-of-Matt segments haha. Mountain biking is the best, started on a hardtail myself and have since upgraded to full suspension! Never going back, but I live in Southwestern United States so it's hardly every muddy. No need to worry about gummed up bearings ;)
Thank you so much for the KSP content, I love it a ton! I do hope you keep going with it, because you are one of few RUclipsrs I can rely on for KSP content :)
Lots of good KSP youtubers out there. I've found some when Matt stopped with his weekly KSP videos. Check out Mike Aben, Seymonsters, VAOS. Just some of my favorites, besides Matt off course. 😁
Just keep holding out there till KSP 2 Matt. I'm feeling a lethargy similar to the minecraft community with KSP. Content creators are treading ground they have for a decade, over and over. Few new frontiers are able to be explored, even with mods. With minecraft, the creators, even with mods and new updates, are visibly getting worn out. I hope for Hytale to reinvigorate them - I know that KSP 2 will be similar for the KSP community, and is thankfully coming much faster.
I'm seeing the lethargy too. I wish my game was ready to show; crazy spaceplanes which absolutely put their individualistic styles ahead of efficiency, but the refuelling infrastructure they need is still very much in development. Also, I take far too long developing each plane - or other strange vehicle - and my pc needs a massive upgrade too. Edit: I forgot, Hoffman KSP Engineering is doing interesting things with KAL controllers, but he's not a regular uploader. And there's Carnassa who at least sounds enthusiastic...
@@harmonyspaceagency1743 If you go to the KSP forums, you can check out the dev diaries and show and tell sections categorized under KSP 2. They're doing some awesome stuff with planets.
Here's a mission I have tried in the past, but I couldn't get it to work: take one of the big SSTO's with the Mk. 3 cargo bay, and see if you can fit an Eve lander in there. Not fully reusable, that's a pain in the ass, but that only the lander gets discarded.
Finally Finally !! you installed the waterfall engine plume mode, in the past, I was struggling while watching your KSP Profesional videos without this realistic mode, but now it's different, So thanks and keep using that mode so I can enjoy your videos❤❤❤
I wish ksp had some sort of auto leveling part for base building. Like, a part you place on the ground or on a ground anchor and the some robotics in it automatically levels a platform on top of it that you can build on. That would be a lot easier than trying to eyeball it when building with the kerbal.
I’m also a mountain biker with bad sinuses in winter! Though it’s dry here in Los Angeles “winter”. Have you ever tried a xylitol sinus rinse? I used to get chronic sinus infections after every cold or bad spot of allergies. Has been life changing for me. Saline in a nets pot helped with allergens, dust, etc, but the occasional xylitol rinse the last few years has let me breathe better through my nose than any point in my life.
If anyone wants to know, the sounds matt has for the mastodon engines are I think from a mod called rocket sound enhancement (someone fact check me on that), the mod basically enhanced all the engine sounds, as per the name. Also nice video Matt, hopefully we'll see another one next week or smth else.
Really cool! I think another cool idea to do with the anchors would be to make a base that hangs like a bat from the top of the cave (not sure which one but i know that there is a cave on one of the planets) EDIT : i looked it up, its on tylo (: EDIT 2: i just realized, im not sure if the ground anchor can be placed upside down, so maybe try the asteroid grabing arm, not sure if it can atach to planets tho
Grabbing arm and the anchor are unfortunately not able to grab the underside of the Tylo cave. It can sort-of be done in a similar way to my Mun Arch base, where it hangs over the mouth of the cave.
In regards to the sound, are you sure it's a problem with the recording? I have found that my KSP often stops playing engine sounds mid-game, and I have to restart it to get them back. I also use waterfall etc. so not sure if it's the stock game or a mod, but it happens regularly and is very frustrating. Love the base, btw🙂
Hey Matt, have you ever thought about actually building bases. Not a single launch base, but have them be built modularly on the surface using wheels and the ground Anchor parts and much like how real ones may be built in the future when we go to mars.
It would be nice if spaceships could be launched from the tip of that thing. The idea is that the rotation of Gilly would be amplified by the height of the tower, basically making it a very big trebuchet.
Hey Matt, I've built a mun surface station, but everytime i switch to it or load a quicksafe the Kraken comes and destroys it. Is there any way to avoid this? Because it would be pretty sad if it's just lost forever.
I might be the small niche that enjoys your KSP content and MTBing, but I'm curious what hardtail you're riding lol. I started about 6 months ago straight to a full sus, but I've been thinking about getting a hardtail
Hey Matt, love your builds. and I have an Idea I am simply not capable of doing myself. Make the spice collectors from dune either a copy from the movie or your own idea of them. would be so cool having a massive rover on duna and then have a deployable collecting unit to pick it back up to either orbit or another location on duna. could be a chance do use the ore scanner again. Love your work!
I already had made a gilly base a few days ago, I also made a mining vehicle with only rcs thrusters to go mine and bring back loads of ore so that I can continue to make monopropellant and keep the base operational.
This is an awesome build idea! Almost inspires me to put one of these sort of "air traffic control" towers on each planet, to role play interstellar transit regulations. Wow this is a nerdy comment lol
You should leave the sound off whenever outside of an atmosphere. Since sound waves require a medium to propagate. I think it would be a cool feature, just a suggestion though.
Hey Matt! I'd like to know your views on making a series in a different planet pack like GPP or beyond home? I think a series like that would make a good bridge series until ksp2 releases as in ksp1 you've kinda done everything there is to do
I just found out using the Better time warp mod you can set Physics warp to negative numbers causing and Huge explosion and lots of speed on the surviving parts... You should try a mission with this challenge in mind! Oh yeah I also forgot to add that after you set to the negative speed you need to open the pause menu after you press the < key or whatever your Go backwards in time warp setting is. Last thing it needs to be mounted to the ground with heavy fuel tanks and no engine.
Can you teach me about gravity assists? Thanks.
Hi Marcus! I love your videos!
Hi marcus
Lol good one
-Spacecraft flies around planet
-Spacecraft gets yeeted
Actually laughed out loud at this.
And hey, if he's actually not joking, Matt is certainly the one to ask!
Nothing better than waking up on a weekend to a new video from, Matt!
Yes
when its already evening where i live
nothing better than staying up till 3am to a new video from matt
Agreed.
@@dtdumb a ksp video no less
I've been thinking of doing a base just like this, but with a rotating gravity ring at the top because being anchored to gilly will stop the rest of the spire from rotating in the other direction
Neat idea!
That's what I thought he was doing with the Mk2 pieces
I want to make an inflatable airlock base
Wouldn't Gilly just start rotating with it?
Given enough time the force of the ring will start rotating Gilly
Top Tip. You can use the Kickback solid rocket boosters (empty, of course) for the best ratio between wight and rigidity for all your spindly-towery needs.
in b4 stratz builds a 10km tower
Not Clydesdales? Interesting. Incidentally, someone; I think it was stratz, built a spinlauncher using extremely long fairings for arms.
@@eekee6034 Depends if you want 1,25m diameter or 2,5m of course. Since he used 1,25, I went with Kickback.
@@FolgoreCZ Ah, that makes sense.
Love a good KSP vid before bed! Cheers Matt!!
Same exactly for me
"Before bed"
Me: °_°
*"Before bed"*
Me: *THERE WILL NOT BE SLEEPING*
make a tower so tall that the top is in orbit. also, you could use it as a refueling station that has a refinery at the surface
Get this to Matt or stratenbliz75 :)
If you used 2.5km segments which is as long as i can conceive of somebody building, it would take 1146 segments to reach keostationary altitude on kerbin.
would you have to do fuel transfer a bunch of times to get it up the tower?
@@harmonyspaceagency1743 Just use a bunch of the fuel transfer lines. Although it may get difficult to do for a planet or moon with too high gravity for an engineer to jetpack up to place it. I suppose a ladder to heaven could be placed on the side lol
@@harmonyspaceagency1743 If the only fuel tanks are at the top, "in orbit" then the fuel from the ISRU should automatically be generated in orbit.
What's the height of the sphere of influence of Gilly? I wonder if it's close enough to make a gigantic single tower to the edge from the surface? It's probably not, but I don't know for sure.
Its impossible
Technically, with enough dedication and struts it's possible
@@ilpi7216 and graphics cards that might burn out
I think there's a glitch where if you stack extremely long vessels in a specific way, with the root part out of physics range, they will freeze and allow building arbitrarily-large structures. Someone used it to build a bridge across the Dres canyon.
@@the-Ryimax Physics stop rendering once a part is 200m away from the root part
Longtime lurker that came here for the KSP but left smiling from the MTB commentary.
End of the day the best MTB is the one that gets you off of the couch! Glad the hardtail is working out!
11:20 loved the Seth's Bike Hacks quote lol
ayyy, someone else caught it
Just had a rugby match against another school and it has been a very relaxing time watching this video on the journey back. Thank you Matt!
Nice The Eye of Sauron's tower you installed on Gilli. Not sinister at all.
My favorite parts of these videos are the little day-in-the-life-of-Matt segments haha. Mountain biking is the best, started on a hardtail myself and have since upgraded to full suspension! Never going back, but I live in Southwestern United States so it's hardly every muddy. No need to worry about gummed up bearings ;)
We missed your KSP videos, thank you for coming back.
Thank you so much for the KSP content, I love it a ton! I do hope you keep going with it, because you are one of few RUclipsrs I can rely on for KSP content :)
Lots of good KSP youtubers out there. I've found some when Matt stopped with his weekly KSP videos.
Check out Mike Aben, Seymonsters, VAOS. Just some of my favorites, besides Matt off course. 😁
Just keep holding out there till KSP 2 Matt.
I'm feeling a lethargy similar to the minecraft community with KSP. Content creators are treading ground they have for a decade, over and over. Few new frontiers are able to be explored, even with mods. With minecraft, the creators, even with mods and new updates, are visibly getting worn out.
I hope for Hytale to reinvigorate them - I know that KSP 2 will be similar for the KSP community, and is thankfully coming much faster.
I'm seeing the lethargy too. I wish my game was ready to show; crazy spaceplanes which absolutely put their individualistic styles ahead of efficiency, but the refuelling infrastructure they need is still very much in development. Also, I take far too long developing each plane - or other strange vehicle - and my pc needs a massive upgrade too.
Edit: I forgot, Hoffman KSP Engineering is doing interesting things with KAL controllers, but he's not a regular uploader. And there's Carnassa who at least sounds enthusiastic...
What was the last update you've heard about KSP2? Was it meant to come out this year?
@@harmonyspaceagency1743 If you go to the KSP forums, you can check out the dev diaries and show and tell sections categorized under KSP 2. They're doing some awesome stuff with planets.
@@WasatchWind thanks
Agreed.
its been about 4 years since i last played ksp and watched this channel, but holy shit the nostalgia from these videos are killing me
yeah whenever I watch his videos it makes we want to pick the game back up
Here's a mission I have tried in the past, but I couldn't get it to work: take one of the big SSTO's with the Mk. 3 cargo bay, and see if you can fit an Eve lander in there. Not fully reusable, that's a pain in the ass, but that only the lander gets discarded.
Hahaha i got the berm peak express reference!! glad ur mountain biking👍👍
Awesome! Feels like ages since I watched the last KSP video from Matt
Finally Finally !!
you installed the waterfall engine plume mode, in the past, I was struggling while watching your KSP Profesional videos without this realistic mode, but now it's different, So thanks and keep using that mode so I can enjoy your videos❤❤❤
Thanks Matt, hope you get better and it’s great to see some more quality Ksp content. My only question is: where is the whiskey review!
I wish ksp had some sort of auto leveling part for base building. Like, a part you place on the ground or on a ground anchor and the some robotics in it automatically levels a platform on top of it that you can build on. That would be a lot easier than trying to eyeball it when building with the kerbal.
K&K planetary base systems
Landertrons
Here are my mod recommending of this .
@@sneed2600 i've actually had K&K for nearly a year but haven't explored it much. I didnt know about this. I'll have to check it out.
I’m also a mountain biker with bad sinuses in winter! Though it’s dry here in Los Angeles “winter”. Have you ever tried a xylitol sinus rinse? I used to get chronic sinus infections after every cold or bad spot of allergies. Has been life changing for me. Saline in a nets pot helped with allergens, dust, etc, but the occasional xylitol rinse the last few years has let me breathe better through my nose than any point in my life.
If anyone wants to know, the sounds matt has for the mastodon engines are I think from a mod called rocket sound enhancement (someone fact check me on that), the mod basically enhanced all the engine sounds, as per the name.
Also nice video Matt, hopefully we'll see another one next week or smth else.
it's from the mod "waterfall"
@@MattLowne oh, hm I don't get those sounds with waterfall, kinda odd, but thanks for responding.
Now, send a bunch of long sticks, connect them, and make a extremely tall Jetsons Gilly tower; so tall that it will scrape Eve!
Really cool! I think another cool idea to do with the anchors would be to make a base that hangs like a bat from the top of the cave (not sure which one but i know that there is a cave on one of the planets)
EDIT : i looked it up, its on tylo (:
EDIT 2: i just realized, im not sure if the ground anchor can be placed upside down, so maybe try the asteroid grabing arm, not sure if it can atach to planets tho
Grabbing arm and the anchor are unfortunately not able to grab the underside of the Tylo cave. It can sort-of be done in a similar way to my Mun Arch base, where it hangs over the mouth of the cave.
In regards to the sound, are you sure it's a problem with the recording? I have found that my KSP often stops playing engine sounds mid-game, and I have to restart it to get them back. I also use waterfall etc. so not sure if it's the stock game or a mod, but it happens regularly and is very frustrating.
Love the base, btw🙂
I found it was a bug with CameraTools
I miss your KSP videos, but you're This Week in Space videos are great, so I'm not complaining.
What visual mods are you using?
Didn't expect you here 👀 anyway it's probably Astronomer's Visual Pack and Environmental Visual Enhancements
nothing better to finish a day with a video, matt
Hey Matt, have you ever thought about actually building bases. Not a single launch base, but have them be built modularly on the surface using wheels and the ground Anchor parts and much like how real ones may be built in the future when we go to mars.
It would be nice if spaceships could be launched from the tip of that thing. The idea is that the rotation of Gilly would be amplified by the height of the tower, basically making it a very big trebuchet.
neat idea, but it's not really tall enough for that and gilly's gravity is negligible anyway so it's just not needed
I love mountain-bikeing as well. Cool idea with the tower :o
I hope that ground anchors is something KSP 2 can really expand on.
I love me a great ksp video to start the day off. Nice! I love the idea! I built something similar recently but it was quite smaller.
Hey Matt, I've built a mun surface station, but everytime i switch to it or load a quicksafe the Kraken comes and destroys it. Is there any way to avoid this? Because it would be pretty sad if it's just lost forever.
I love the idea of an astronaut touching down, and picking up the ship with one hand to set down (in essence) a parking spot.
gilly moment
Glad to see more ksp content again!
I might be the small niche that enjoys your KSP content and MTBing, but I'm curious what hardtail you're riding lol. I started about 6 months ago straight to a full sus, but I've been thinking about getting a hardtail
Nice surprise to wake to with a purple sunrise irl, the man delivered 👏 well done!
Very nice and inspiring video, feels like the good old days when I started watching your videos
as im in Australia it is great to see a vid posted 45 mins ago
This man’s made the CN tower on a different planet
It's 4 am here, but ksp?!? Great start to the day!
Behold, the Gilly Space Needle!
i cant believe there exists on the internet a ksp x mtb community. fills my heart with glee.
Hey Matt, love your builds. and I have an Idea I am simply not capable of doing myself. Make the spice collectors from dune either a copy from the movie or your own idea of them. would be so cool having a massive rover on duna and then have a deployable collecting unit to pick it back up to either orbit or another location on duna. could be a chance do use the ore scanner again. Love your work!
Good on you for biking! It's a good hobby!
Finally the ksp videos are back! loving it
Been a while since I last played KSP, watching this video makes me want to play it again!
Seattle Space Needle:
IN SPACE!
I already had made a gilly base a few days ago, I also made a mining vehicle with only rcs thrusters to go mine and bring back loads of ore so that I can continue to make monopropellant and keep the base operational.
Count me as part of that small niche of MTB & KSP fans. And yes, I got the Berm Peak reference. If you ever want to start a MTB channel, I’d subscribe
That ended up looking dope
Thanks for the video, Matt!
I am so happy you started making ksp videos again
Im so glad youre back, You make me wanna play KSP a lot again
It may be short, but it's great. I still get excited when you make ksp videos Matt!
Ngl this is the best KSP video I’ve watched
I am inspired!
Maybe I could use ground anchors to make bases in the future.
That was amazing!
I think you were right that your videos needed more time and that they would improve.
It’s the actually in space needle
Love it, as long as I have your dulcet tones feeding commentary in my ear I'll manage without engine sound.
Hey mountain biking is awesome! Glad you're liking it, I am part of the niche this appeals to lol
"Something different but kind of the same" Berm peak, we love seth
This is an awesome build idea! Almost inspires me to put one of these sort of "air traffic control" towers on each planet, to role play interstellar transit regulations.
Wow this is a nerdy comment lol
"Something a little different but kind of the same" had me rolling. Glad to be in the proper niche to get it
gosh i missed the KSP videos nothing better than a Saturday with a matt video
The KSP videos are officially back! :)
Matt can do a voyager recreation by gravity assisting jool and escaping the sun's SOI, I did that once.
I unironically loved the commentary.
You should make a series, building a village on Lathe one launch at a time. Each building would have a purpose (drilling, refining, cargo etc.)
Instead of 'Space this Week!', it's 'Space Program This Week!'
You should leave the sound off whenever outside of an atmosphere. Since sound waves require a medium to propagate. I think it would be a cool feature, just a suggestion though.
Cool, now send a plane to Gilly
Awsome concept! Love the quality over quantity!
There he is the space brit is back and he's building more unique things
There is no audio because you are in a vacuum. Use your problems in your advantage😎
Nothing like a ksp video from Matthew
the leaning tower of Gilly!
Seattle would be jealous
I was just about to start my homework but then I saw your vid,thr homework can be delayed
What if you made the pin anchored to the ground but make it longer to make a space elevator?
It 'might' be possible, it just will take a long time. Potentially months
It would be cool to see some kerbals on the ground for scale.
gotta love that Seth's bike hacks reference
This is a certified 13 minutes ago classic
wow that was realy cool
Thank you Professor Lowne!
I love your kerbal videos. Great mission, keep it up
Hey Matt! I'd like to know your views on making a series in a different planet pack like GPP or beyond home? I think a series like that would make a good bridge series until ksp2 releases as in ksp1 you've kinda done everything there is to do
I do too. Something different to look at, some slightly different challenges...
Morning Lowne Crew
Hey Matt I used to challenge myself to build the ships manually instead of using craft files, but as usual great video!
I wonder how tall a space elevator to orbit would have to be on Gilly. :)
One day you should make a tall Multi-stage tower on any of the small moons like Gilly, Minmus, Bop, or Pol
"No sound anymore" the most realistic KSP video
You shouldn't be able to hear the rockets in space in the first place. Perfect timing.
Yeah I know about british weather, I played Frostpunk.
Eyyyy Berm Peakkkkk
I just found out using the Better time warp mod you can set Physics warp to negative numbers causing and Huge explosion and lots of speed on the surviving parts... You should try a mission with this challenge in mind! Oh yeah I also forgot to add that after you set to the negative speed you need to open the pause menu after you press the < key or whatever your Go backwards in time warp setting is. Last thing it needs to be mounted to the ground with heavy fuel tanks and no engine.
geo sync orbit is 42km on gilly, space elevator possible??? maybe on hall from opm which sync orbit is only 16km