JH0104

Was...was the plan to explode them into orbit?

Ah, but I don't have EL installed, and I'm fairly certain the version of orbital construction I'm running is the one previous to the EL compatibility update that added ore - I had a warehouse with a load of parts in kerbin orbit, and didn't fancy them being reduced to 1/400th of their original quantity. I'll probably update kethane and orbital construction when I've depleted all my warehouses (or wait till .22 comes out and have a positive orgy of updating things and going "oh no, I've borked KSP"), but till then it's kethane only. That said, it occurred to me that landing a medium warehouse with a mining unit + 3d printer on the bottom, gets you fairly reasonable quantities fairly quickly at around x10 warp - and it's a hell of a lot easier getting spare parts modules from the surface of minmus/mun to orbiting warehouses than it is from kerbin. In the sense that most of my attempts at getting >50t of spareparts into kerbin orbit result in the lifter just falling apart on the pad (I think it's something to do with how heavy the parts are compared to their size on Kerbin, since I can get similar-weighing but 'bigger' payloads into orbit no problem). I might see if using the part cans as mini-warehouses still works though, that's a pretty decent idea for smaller vessels.

Lessons I really should've learned by now, #31: NERVAs don't take all that kindly to being landed on, especially with "ah, what's 0.5m/s between friends?" lateral movement. You will not go (back) to space today, Milrod.

You know what, I hadn't even considered that you could use multiple warehouse parts on the same ship - guess I just assumed you used the 150t or the 400t and that was it. Which is a silly assumption now I think about it, but not as silly as forgetting to put a space dock on your space dock. The thought of how many kethane runs I'd have to make to a >550t warehouse kind of fills me with dread, though.

Did I remember to...the...um. Well, how embarrassing.

This is an excellent mod, but I'm having a weird problem - at the launchpad with craft that have the spacebuilt part, the "Scan for docks" option only shows me the Munar and Kerbin orbital warehouses, when there's one out at Minmus as well (I know, I know, I like to get infrastructure everywhere). I've tried moving the minmus one into Kerbin orbit and it still doesn't show up, so I don't think it's just that you can't build at Minmus ever. Is there a limit on the number of docks you can have up at one time, or has my KSP/orbital construction just bugged out?