"self-leveling" landing struts?

[strider3]

Since I've been trying to land on Duna for science gathering, I get the feeling there isn't a flat piece of terrain anywhere. I can land, tenuously, on a slope and get all my science and EVA done but, when I warp ahead in time to get my orbiter in a good position to launch my lander and rendezvous, I sometimes get the ugly noises that tell me my lander just fell over when I came out of warp. Sometimes I don't even get the landing completed because the lander falls over on the slope. Mun and Minmus were easy...light gravity allowed me to correct my landing area if it was too sloped. I don't have that ability on Duna without burning up my return to orbit fuel.

Is there a setting on the stock landing struts which will correct for uneven terrain? Or, lacking that, has anyone modded the struts to be "self-leveling"?

Vic (falling over on Duna).

[Geonovast]

I don't know of any self-leveling mods, but I think this will help with the tipping when coming out of timewarp:

 

[Flavio hc16]

The space station part redux has self levelling landing leg for 1.25-2.5 and 3.75 meters part

[Streetwind]

What Flavio means:

 

[Vanamonde]

Sounds like the problem might be with your lander design. Are you building them low and wide for stability? Example: 

[strider3]

I took a look at the Stockalike station parts but even with self-leveling, the footprint is very narrow compared to stock landing struts. I'll build a wider lander, methinks.

Thanks!

[strider3]

Vanamonde> How did you attach the 4 fuel tanks to the center? I can't quite make it out from the picture.

Never mind, I see it now.

Edited March 22, 2018 by strider3

[bewing]

BTW, if you use 3-way symmetry to build your lander, and then attach the legs in 1x symmetry to that -- then you can retract the legs individually to level your lander by hand.

[strider3]

Using the "wider is better" philosophy I built a new Duna lander. She's big but keep in mind that she's designed to explore all areas of Duna on this trip. I have an orbiting refuel station in low Duna orbit that I will refuel from.

 

And those Dart engines are awesome and solved the issue of having enough TWR to get off of Duna and still be efficient.

Edited April 5, 2018 by strider3