king of nowhere

was time acceleration at 100000x, over several game days? then it's a different issue from what i had, and not as easily fixed. at this point, i suggest using the cheats to do something similar to your intended goal. You could bring a rocket engine of appropriate power and strap it to the back of your rover, with a tiny fuel tank. activate infinite propellant in the cheats. drive the rover around. pretend it's the wheels. sometimes, those kind of solutions are all you can get

i had the same issue with OPM. it's a bug that happens sometimes, i called it the ground contact bug because, in addition to wheels not working, mining drills also give a "no ground contact" message. by my knowledge, the problem is intermittent and disappears randomly after time warping for a few days. at least, when i was mining, the message would appear and disappear randomly. with a rover, time warp at the highest speed would often work.

i am not familiar with them. how powerful are they compared to stock? can you show me some numbers? a tank wet mass and dry mass, an engine mass, thrust and isp?

i am not familiar with that modded part. is there anything else inside the cargo bay that is clipping into the ore tank? (asking because i've seen some mixed cargo bay/fuel tank modded parts that have a cargo bay with a fixed fuel tank in the center) do the ore tanks show outside when the cargo bay is closed? if the answers are no to both, then i'd say it's some very minor clipping, and it's ok i'm wondering why you are taking great pains to hide those four ore tanks, when there are a half dozen others outside.

i used a similar route for my circumnavigation as well, except that after the easternmost crater i cut to the north to visit the cave complex too.

Part 10: The Donut massif A circular massif with a hole roughly in the middle, the name practically wrote itself.

there is a way to use kebalism without the science. i have already done it, i don't remember how but i can link you to where i asked for the same instructions; it's just a couple pages back i'm copy-pasting the whole conversation for your convenience

goes for every chemical process, it consumes something and produces something else. if there is no room to store the produced resources, it can dump the product and keep going, or it can stop. you have to set it in each case. it's the most common cause of something not working. it means kerbalism doesn't work with that planetary pack. i'm not sure if there are other issues, nor if it's easily fixable or not.

Nope

i managed to spot eve, while it was at the closest approach, using the bigger zoom. even then, it was hard to find and hard to distinguish from background sky. i wasn't expecting that duna or jool would be visible, given the premise, but i trust if others say they have seen them

yes

so, it's purely graphic? yes, mods that only change the textures are perfectly fine, the game mechanics are not altered in any way

i heard many people mention that mod, but i don't know what it does. can you describe?

I suppose you are asking for the science record, because in the basic challenge, as long as you land on all five moons, you can do anything else you want. So, if you drag an asteroid in Jool SoI, and you get samples from it, will it count towards the Jeb category? I have to say, that's a brilliant idea. However, after some consideration, I decided that it should not count. The challenge says you return science "from the Jool system", and the asteroid comes from outside the Jool system. Also, I don't want to encourage some crazy recursion where people may feel that they need to bring an asteroid, and a comet, and a magic boulder asteroid, and whatever else to Jool in order to do the challenge properly.

Part 9: The Rooftop of the World Not the most imaginative name, but this massif contains the highest mountain on Kerbin.

hard to say what you want to do without pictures, but autostruts help with any problem of moving parts. if autostruts fail, regular struts work better.

the only way is to edit the file. don't stop reading, it's not difficult if i managed it with minimal skill. open game folder, open gameData, it's where the game stores the mods. there are kerbalism and kerbalismConfig, inside those are a few config files. they can be opened with a text editor. one of them should contain science data. you can use a specific time (in seconds) as search key. like, i don't remember any exact number, but say for example that the science jr takes 10 minutes 40 seconds to complete, that's 640 seconds, search 640, there should be few enough of those that you can scroll all instances through the files. once you find where the science data is stored, change the experiment running time to 1 second. at least i hope the duration of the experiments is stored inside those config data like most other values. of course, do save copies of any file before editing, just in case.

Part 8: Theseus, hold my beer! The Labyrinth is really an extension of the Gouged mountains, but here the range becomes larger, and the single file of paraller ridges turns into a maze of nearly parallel canyons, with short passes connecting them. I could keep crossing the ridges, but after the Gouged mountains I had enough of going up near vertical walls, I decided I'd navigate the maze instead.

abslutely yes, especially since you could get away with an ion engine in the low gravity. nonetheless, a walking robot grabbing the ground at each step is way cooler If I ever make it, I will call it Kerzinga. I call dibs on the name

i was wondering the same, for an even harder task: a circumnavigation of statmun. it's a tiny moonlet from the whirligig world planetary pack with a peculiarity: its rotational speed is greater than the escape speed. you can't stand still on the equator, you'll just be kicked away from the ground into escape orbit. i was envisioning a walker robot with claws for feet or something like that. it's one of those challenges in the back burner of my brain

blank lines is what happens usually when you deactivate commnet, but in that case all probes should authomatically have control and transmit science. have you tried restarting the game? do your probes have control?

Part 7: The Gouged mountains After some flat polar ice cap, I find another major mountain range, made of thin mountain crests parallel to each other. They must be crossed perpendicularly to the orientation of the crests, going up and down multiple times.

during my kerbin highland circumnavigation I encountered some particularly beautiful terrain I'd like to share with the community the mission plan now entails going up and down each and every one of those crests, which probably marks me as either a masochist or suffering from some compulsive disorder...

what's a mass driver?

my circumnavigation of kerbin through mountains has found some of the most beautiful terrain ever i like driving in such terrain, which probably makes me some kind of masochist