Thurak

https://ibb.co/HgxDCRv - 3 slide gif of my current WOLF setup. Its moderately late game in KSP but early WOLF stuff, as it appears mainly useful for lategame. I found it takes a little to get your head around it but its really useful once you do as it completely eliminates so many parts for long term bases. As I am playing in career money is important as well, but essentially what is going on: Step 1: Scan some biomes on an interesting orbital body - I have scanned more places but for simplicity in the image it is filtered to midlands. To me something about free transfer routes along Kerbins surface feels wrong to me in terms of balance so I have decided to not use any WOLF stuff on the surface of Kerbin, orbit and above only, this is a personal choice though. This is a space programme, we should mine moons not mountains. Step 2: Deploy depot in Kerbin oribt, Mun orbit, Mun midlands. This provides 5 units of power and does nothing else when used off Kerbin. Step 3: Send a MHU-500 Bulk Harvester set to mine Karbonite and deploy it on Mun midlands Now any vessel with a WOLF Harvesting Hopper is able to start using that 10 Karbonite resource that is being produced. A single 3.75m hopper uses 5 Karbonite and makes 2000/day, so 2 hoppers, 4000 karbonite/day. Sweet. But currently this is on the surface of the Mun, nice to have but there should be better places surely? Next: Transport routes! Transport routes are created with WOLF Cargo containers, you start from somewhere, then fly somewhere else, this creates a transport route. The cost is based on mass lost, as I have been doing this with single stage vessels I docked them at refuelling stations, so there was no mass lost as far as WOLF is concerned which means no transport credit requirement. This is intended design as the idea is that it rewards having the infrastructure in place for orbital refuelling. Plus the transport route is for fuel anyway. I created transport routes from Mun:Midlands → Mun:Orbit and Mun:Orbit → Kerbin:Orbit. Now this means I can use hoppers on stations in both Mun orbit and Kerbin orbit to pull Karbonite out. With the 10 karbonite that could be split for 2000karbonite/day in each location. You can change what the transport route is sending at any time as long as it fits within the capacity limit that you have and doesn't leave anywhere with a negative resource count. So if I had 5 being used by the hopper in Mun orbit, I would need to turn off the hopper first before adjusting the transport route to sending the full 10 to Kerbin orbit. Profit!: As I am playing in career, I was running low on cash. So as my transport route still has extra capacity available (It can take up to 30 currently) lets mine something valuable. As the first miner already took up the 5 power created by the depot, I sent a power module in low power mode, it only produces 5 power instead of 50 but has no maintenance requirement. This went up with another miner and is now extracting 10 units of ExoticMinerals. I could have instead sent a MHU-100 Bulk harvester, but this mines less efficiently, still consuming 5 from the resource vein but only producing 2 rather than 10 units of resources. I decided the extra weight of sending the power was worth the increased amount of resources. Now these are being sent to the station orbiting Kerbin and when a container fills up they can be sent back down and sold for profit - Note that there appears to be a bit of a bug with this and it usually results in your vessel having a negative value on returning, not sure if this is an issue with USI parts or just inherent in KSP. That is as far as I got, the bug is rather annoying with the parts values as it kinda ruins the moon mining operations I wanted. Editing credit value can be used as a workaround though, just requires checking through the parts list to see which values are wrong and adjusting to what they should be. I do want to expand it, first add more mining and using regular parts to process those resources. Then later on move onto processing chains within WOLF its self.