This is literally your second video and I already consider you one of my favorite KSP KZfaqrs.

I've spend a four digit amount of hours in KSP and I sure have seen a lot. But I don't think I've ever seen such a horrific death.

No, you've got it all wrong. The train is just so happy to be the star of the video that it can't stop wagging its tail.

I think you were getting the wiggle from the wheels in the rear having their own power- causing it to wiggle at joints. The rear has less mass, and it can push itself faster.. And the path of least resistance to move forward is wiggling side to side. Turning down their power or turning it off would potentially help it.

These videos are my favorite thing, longer journeys with lots of cool events along the way. Plus you are entertaining to listen to and have nice editing

You are actually correct about shunting, as shunting is the act of moving train cars around the railyard to get them connected into their proper consists for the next haul.

I no joke rewatched 3:30 3 times and it got me every single time, I just can't get over it, I just can't edit: 4 times now

I commented this on your south pole video like 15 minutes ago, but regardless, you have a criminally small audience. Your production quality is great and you deserve much more than 300 subs. Even if you haven't posted a whole lot yet, I think you should be getting more attention.

The speed snake thing is a thing that happens IRL with poorly balanced trailer setups. Every trailer needs to have 60-ish percent of its weight, at least, in front of the frontmost axle. Your trailers are set up on two axles which makes them inherently unstable. Think of a trailer's wheels as "drag" and the weight as regular mass - you need the center of drag behind the center of mass for an aircraft to be stable, and the same goes for the trailers. If you have successive trailers on the back of other trailers, you need to make sure that the additional weight of the trailer is supported close enough to the axle that the majority of the trailer's effective weight is still *in front* of the frontmost axle. Point is you should only have rear wheels on your train cars. lol.

Overall 10/10 would recommend watching

I believe that speed snake thing that's happening is because you have the center of mass of each car somewhat behind the center of the wheelbase. Like how the center of mass is averaged by the location of each part and how much it weighs, if you average the location of each wheel and put a mark where the average position is, the center of mass needs to be in front of the center of contact with the ground, that way the wheels are dragging the mass, not the mass dragging the wheels, or you get that oscillation.

At least, without the DLC, I don't have access to hinges, and so I can't even think about trying this.

honestly i can't get over how compact that plane is, i have no idea on how to make anything in KSP that's even remotely complicated

Slevey suffered that really bad Gmod death, rip in ripped.

She got hit by a Kraken-based-anti-personnel rifle

Also the issue of not being able to take off might be due to the positioning of your back wheels. Since your main elevators are in the rear of the craft, they're trying to push the back of the craft down to move the nose up, but it's not going to be very effective if they have to fight the landing gear. Move the rear landing gear to just behind the center of mass and it'll be a lot easier to take off.

Nice vid, well done. I thought that your problem with the swaying of the train looked familiar, so I did some digging. Turns out that this is a problem in real life as well, and trucks towing heavy loads need to be aware of the phenomenon called "Trailer Sway". This is a problem caused by weight distribution in the towed object. I'm not an expert or anything, but typically, people avoid the overcorrection force of the trailer by having the center of mass as far forward as conveniently possible. In essence, the mass should be placed upon the tongue of the trailer and forward from the axel There are many examples of this phenomenon that you can find online. This is not to say, of course, that other forces were not causing or helping this problem, but I believe the main culprit is Trailer Sway.

Your videos are honestly better produced and recorded than some of Matt Lowne's stuff, and the voiceover kind of reminds me of early Scott Manley style. Really happy to see a good new KSP creator in fucking 2022. Keep it up man.

i've been into this game for the better part of 10 years. i've seen a lot of shit. a train on kerbin is not one of those things.

Love your videos so far! I think you are going to start blowing up, i can just see it!

I may check two of them during back base, one in a valley- northern the desert, another on mountain ranges of north-west KSC (40N I believe) docking two or three crafts on land is my furthest, but you built it with at least 20 m/s. What a creative man 👏

Awesome video man.

Keep up the good work! You have a lot of potential here

That train car/plane contraption is sick dude

3:10 in the next 20 seconds a series of events occurs consisting of a small wiggle, followed by a ritual to summon the kraken, then the kraken consuming it's sacrifice. Horrifying.

This was fun, great video!

These videos and this channel deserve way more views/subscribers than it has. The content is amazing keep up the good work👍

Nice video, I really like your train design.

awesome video! love the content you produce!

love that face-crushing landing

Nice vid, thanks. I built a train a while ago that I got about half way to the north pole. The technique I used to have a stable train: 1 each car is a separate vessel with a single axle on the rear, the front of each car is supported by the preceding one. 2 the rear of a car has a 'hoop' made of cubic, and the front has a hook 3 the train is spawned all connected together by seperators "shift-offset" to the side with some clearance between the hooks and loops and ground supports for kraken prevention 4 stage all the seperators and ground supports at once, all the cars settle on each other, it may take a few tries 5 you can hardly use motors on the cars so you need a real locomotive to pull it, it's not a metro, it's a real train. 6 braking is done by having feet on the front of each car that get lifted when the hook and loop tension up from the pulling. and drag when you slow down. done with hook geometry. I made a train that was something like 40 cars long with this technique but the longer it gets the less likely it will last. Cheers!

I saw you on Reddit when you were driving to the south pole, subscribing to your channel was a great decision, keep up the great content!

Man I was just looking for a craft design to make a tank transportation locomotive but I just liked it so much that I forgot about that 😂 subbed!

You do all the fun little things I wish I did with my playthroughs, I love this game to death and played it for an unhealthy amount of time. Thank you for these lovely videos

Just found your channel, hope you keep making videos your delivery is so fun!

i wasn't ready for that funeral... my heart

The music gives me nostalgia, great videos so far

“ever so delicately” *lands face first and bounces*

i really enjoy this wacky ksp videos but i imagine it’s really taxing on you do to this stuff very impressive

This channel is great!

I started driving a small rover to each tree and monolith and setting up a small research station there. I switched to using a small airplane because I can fly at 5x the speed and not worry about flipping. I gave up after nearly 2 dozen.

Tip for your planes: how hard it is to get off the pad is almost entirely determined by the placement of the landing gear. Try putting them closer to the center of mass and it should be easier to rotate.

Now try to build a hovercraft and go to the South Pole from the space centre Also subbed before 1K club remember us when you blow up

To get the plane-car off the ground easier, you need to put your rear landing gear further forward on the center of mass. This will allow the plane to pivot around the CoM when you pull back on the stick. It's not pivoting now because it can't. You are fighting against the weight of the vehicle which is all forward of your wheels.

She got out because after only a few minutes she knew she should have decided to just walk back to station from the first monolith. LOL

As a train and kerbal enjoyer this is one of my favorite videos

lol... Holy Hell... the way that Kerbal (Slimy? sp?) was yeeted into the ground by the Kraken was both (very) slightly disturbing and really funny. I liked your response to it.

Welp rip our boi and rip the run

The video I had no idea I needed.

300 subs in 3 days... man... this channel is great.

mad respect

Congrats on 1k subs man!

@6:20 -- Set back wheels a bit higher inside fuselage than front wheel(s). This gives a 1-10 degree "natural angle" and planes like this lift off on their own :)

That's pretty impressive

ok but now you gotta BUILD a train to each monilith thats right, just one big snake across the planet

Subbed, thanks!

All that Thomas the Tank Engine have finally forces the algorithm to join my two interests and show me this video.

I wish you had more subs your vids are so good.

The fucking speed snake got her!

Try to make a train with a TGV type cars. There is less wheels. Intstead of two carriages holds one car, in TGV train, there is olny one per train car. More stable and less stress at speed

8:55 “ever so delicately” *ireny slams into the train plane at like 10/343rds the speed of sound (or like 10 m/s)*

You may need to shift the weight of the train cars (and possibly the locomotive) further onto their rear axle.

The speed snake a very interesting name for the Kraken.

Btw "shunting" is when you push a train cart with out be couple to it. But at least you tried :)

3:25 I think she took "from dust you came to dust you will return" literally. I can't stop thinking about this death this is just so sad.

dude you are my new favorite KSP youtuber. don't know how i didn't find out about you sooner

the only secret is that the train can drive without consuming electrical energy

I love this.

I guess some fish aren't meant to be caught, that thing was fishtailing like no tomorrow!

GREAT vid! Glad I got recommended you! Remember me at 1 Mil ok?

WTF I also did the same thing 2 weeks and had all the same problems awesome video man.

bro I love this I tried a similar thing in ksp pls keep making vids I could see this getting big one day 👌

This guy has hearted and replied to every comment, he is amazing Nice job

that might have been one of the most gruesome deaths i have ever seen.

cool train

The speed snake might be because the center of mass for each train car isn't biased forward

if you want your convertible plane to take off smoothly you need to put the landing gears right behind the center of mass putting them infront will make it topple making it too rearwards will make it too stable

just yesterday you had 500 something subs

Great shit made me giggle

9:09 she smacked head on the train Delicately.

i realise this video is a year old at this point but a tip from one Kerble player to another, if you reduce the suspension on the landing gear you had on your little plane and might of had enough weight on the back to point the nose up and allowed you to take off a little quicker and without the need to find a bump ;)

You are the literal Sonny Evans of KSP

"Ever so delicately" *smacks into side of plane at 5 m/s*

This guy needs more subscribers he is underated

all i have to say is hi and this is extraordinary content

The whole train in the front, the one that houses tha main kerbal is a locomotive, but the thing that is on the locomotive that actually has the kerbal inside is, I think a train cab.

Speed Snake ? That's no snake you are witnessing, it is one of the Kraken's tentacles wrapping itself around your craft.

i love the adventure time type music

LOVE

I think the Kerbal committed suicide after realizing she has to sit in the back of the train driving across the planet. While speed snake is throwing her around. xD

Ive heard others refer to the speed snake as "the krakening" or even "the hydra"; tho in this case i think speed snake is the most apt descriptor cuz youre actually snekkin across the land. This is a known occurence that happens when one has a long enuf structure that travels fast enuf. And judgin by it affectin such a small train, in gonna guess it was made even worse by the loose connections between the trains which let it move a bunch more

So from my *expertise engineering* the wobble may be due to the couplers not having and anti-oscillation measures. Along with that it could be caused by power being transmitted to the rear wheels. Try having secondary cars that do not have any drive train power. Finally, your plane; you might have an issue with taking off due to lack of flaps providing the upward thrust you need.

Maybe do the connections & wheel placement more like how trucks have them?

There's a goodb reason for sitting in the front of the roller coaster is to keep the butterfly stomach feeling at a minimum. The searing in the back is for experiencing more of a fun ride. None of it has to do with being "cool." Maybe that's a personal thing you have.

when it comes out of coarse

I want the kraken to be an actual interdimensional creature that breaks things and steals Kerbals in the sequal.

Nice

I love that people are still have derpy fun in KSP in 2022. With elevators in the back of the plane, to rotate and take off, you're essentially pushing down on the back of the craft and rear wheels are a fulcrum. Get too far behind the center of mass and it'll take way more force than you can provide to make enough torque to rotate skyward. Get the wheels behind the elevators and it becomes physically impossible. Two easy ways to solve it: move the rear landing gear closer to the center of gravity and hope you have enough clearance to avoid a tail strike or add canards which would pull the nose up instead of pushing the tail end down. For the speed snakes, try biasing the weight balance in the cars slightly forward of their geometric center. and maybe stiffen up (or completely disable) their suspension.

How you put this out so quickly after the first one astonishes me. Make sure to take breaks!

I think the issue with your plane not taking off is because you placed the landing gear too far back, it preventing your from pitching up.