Great video. Also you don’t have to type “1” to turn things on, you can just click the little switch

24:55 "Another thing to note is if you go from the ice ejecta to lets say here it goes back to the moon first. I don't know why it doesn't go in a straight line." Kerbal Space Program player here. It could be that the map isn't actually spatial, but a token attempt at a patched conics deltaV map (go ahead and google for some visuals). this makes sense as "landed on the planet" is shown as a location that isn't actually on the planet, but beneath it at the bottom of the screen. In which case it's quite possible that the rocket is actually taking even a brachistochrone trajectory but it must pass through an orbital of the moon. That is - the rocket could be headed straight from the ice ejecta to the asteroid fragments spatially as you suggest, but in the process must exit the major gravity well of the ice ejecta and enter that of the moon before transiting to that of the asteroid fragments... which is what is being represented on the deltaV map.

Hm... Mining ore seems awfully complicated - especially as you get just dirty ore out of the mining operation. I think in that case your deep miners doing exactly the same are the better solutuin (as of yet). However ice-mining, that's where the real benefit is. Water ice especially (well... depending on which world you play on). But you can automate ore mining pretty much, you can get most gasses from the atmosphere or your greenhouse. The only thing you struggle with on most worlds is volatiles and especially water.

When I mined out a spot (of volatiles) the computer UI had a log entry that read: "Deposit is depleted. No further resources can be mined at this location." If I interpret this correctly, it would mean that there is a finite number of resources to gather in space. I was also on the Moon, and the site was in the first "Ice ejecta" that you also found in the video, which had 5 different spots for volatile mining in it. The spot that I mined out was scanned to the highest level (+25% mining speed, I think) and I got 201k mols of Volatiles in total (22 mols per unit of ice).

wow the mixed fuel system sounds real dangerous you're literally riding on a bomb.

Rockets can be automated with IC10 chips. Just program it on a laptop or a different housing, and then move the chip over to the rocket.

It wuld be nice to know how to program the rocket so that it scans until x percent and mines until depleted then moves on to another location of gold or iron or whatever and starts again, or returns home when depleted. I have no idea if that level of automation is going to be possible, but even it it has a way to turn on a light or speaker when an action is completed that would be a nice start like.

i would love to so a game like this made to be buidls with Meccano style ie you build and place every beam or post every plate or bolt screw pipe wires every single thing that needs to be done to build a real rocket and experimental materially ie an experimenter set for real science use, more or less if it works in the game, it works IRL

I wonder if addng more scanning units makes the scans faster, same for mining units.