make the smallest lander with the bigest rocket parts that can land on the mun

[darkwolfpaw54]

-rules are.... you cant use teleports or teleport orbits can use other mods but with out addons unless its a unmaned pod like a rover please post pics and videos if so no pic/video means you didint make it there you have to do it but not one already landed there you and you can have a eva pic. ill post my thing. at the end we see our scores. and you have to land it again you have to have it in space pic and landing pic.

[Apotheosist]

Okay, let's get this challenge started. Total mass at liftoff: 184.8 tons.

Pics: http://imgur.com/a/YgprG

[Bluejayek]

Nice lander Apotheosist.

darkwolf: In the future, please at least attempt to use proper English, grammar, and punctuation. I understand there are people on these forums who do not natively speak English, but by this post, you do not seem to be one of those; you seem to just not give a damn whether people can understand your post or not.

In particular: Capitilize words that should be capitilized... Such as "I", and words that start sentences. Also, actually use sentences and punctuation such as periods. It makes your post much easier to understand.

Finally, when you are making a challenge, make it specific and intelligible. Rather then making a wall of text, make a list of requirements, restrictions, and the like, and make it clear what you want.

For example, instead of your post above, something such as:

Your challenge is to make the smallest Munar and return lander possible using the larger stock rocket parts such as the LFT-3200. Entries will be ranked on the number of parts attached to the ship at takeoff.

In order to qualify for this challenge you must provide the following:

A screenshot of the craft on the launchpad.

A screenshot of the craft in transit to the Mun

A screenshot of the craft landed on the Mun.

A screenshot of the craft landed back on Kerbin.

The only addons allowed are the cart and unmanned pod addons.

Modded parts are allowed.

Scoreboard:

1) Apotheosist - 22 parts

Dishonourable Mentions:

1) Bluejayek - 8 parts

Edited August 30, 2012 by Bluejayek

[NetBlitzer]

Thank you Bluejayek for saying that to him. Didn't want to risk coming across as mean.

Anyways, this is a semi-interesting challenge, but I'm not sure how much this could really be done. Someone just needs to make a SSTO rocket, and then a lander that can burn to the Mun, land, take off and parachute down or something. Shouldn't be more than around 15 parts.

[Bluejayek]

Through blatant and unforgivable abuse of the fuel bug, I managed a lunar landing with 8 parts, 5 of which were uneccesary (Nonfunctional landing legs x4 and ASAS). I did return to kerbin, however I fracked up my descent and crashed nose first at 150m/s.

http://imgur.com/a/tMYMj#4

[Apotheosist]

@darkwolf, That's something that needs to be made clear also. I use the hacky fuel consumption fix to make sure I'm not exploiting the fuel bug. Is use of the fuel bug allowed?

Another thing, when you say "make the smallest lander", do you mean the lowest number of parts, or the lowest mass? Also, does the whole rocket have to be small, or only the lander?

[Bluejayek]

Apo, I'd say abuse of the fuel bug should not be allowed. It is absurd what you can land through abuse of it, as my post showed. I expect that using the bug it may well be possible to land on the mun with a capsule, LFT400, and the largest engine... simply because you have enough thrust sitting at 1% throttle, which is 0.01% fuel consumption and hence 100x efficiency.

Edit:

Confirmed. I landed on the Mun with about 80kg of fuel to spare, however I fell over and thus wasn't able to make the return trip.

Just to clarify, that is my entire ship as it was on the launch pad, no ascent stage.

Edited August 30, 2012 by Bluejayek

[darkwolfpaw54]

I landed and never came back though...... ill show you mine and what I mean.... fuel bug not allowed

Edited August 30, 2012 by darkwolfpaw54

[darkwolfpaw54]

Heres the moment [ATTACH=CONFIG]32224[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]32225[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]32226[/ATTACH] theres more though its kinda ugly after i crashed a few times. weight of it =107 its a nice rocket