What is(was) the magic boulder? <spoilers>

[astronutkhillips]

There is a thread in general about the magic boulder maybe being missing.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/31546-Magic-Boulder-Removed

I was curious so I used some plugin mojo to dump all the CelestialBodies from 0.19 (oldest version I have) and did not find anything that fits the description of the magic boulder. All the other easter eggs are clearly there, monoliths, face, ufos even the smiley face. So either A. I am missing it or B. it was removed between 0.18 and 0.19.

Or C. Could it be a Vessel spawned by some event, like entering Ikes SOI. But I know of no other object in the game like that. Did anyone ever look into this? I hear find conflicting reports of hyperedit being able to see it?

[EndlessWaves]

I doubt it's a vessel but it's perfectly plausible that it's spawned by an event.

Did you use Resources.FindObjectOfTypeAll or Object.FindObjectsOfType? If it was the latter then that's only the active objects but the former should have detected it even if it wasn't loaded. Of course, it's plausible it doesn't use a CelestialBody component so it might be worth dumping the orbital component instead (OrbitDriver?).

[Tommygun]

The Devs wanted the magic boulder to be hard to find, so I'm guessing they also hid it well inside the code to keep people from just making a mod plugin too find it like ISA mapper.

Edited June 11, 2013 by Tommygun

[Legal2k]

Take a look at this: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/20962-0-17-Easter-eggs?p=283362#post283362

[Tommygun]

I had forgotten about that one.

[Sapphire]

The Devs wanted the magic boulder to be hard to find, so I'm guessing they also hid it well inside the code to keep people from just making a mod plugin too find it like ISA mapper.

Was ISA actually able to track it?

[Legal2k]

Was ISA actually able to track it?

Boulder is(was) on orbit. so sadly or gladly no.

[astronutkhillips]

So it is gone as of 0.19. Alas, I had a mission in mind. I was going to go grab that monolith and bring it back to KSC for study.

[Pigbear]

So it is gone as of 0.19. Alas, I had a mission in mind. I was going to go grab that monolith and bring it back to KSC for study.

Its there, I saw it.