The Klaw

[Ricksdetrix]

I want the klaw to be able to grab the ground, like an anchor. That is all.

[Bilfr3d]

Is this a thing as you want to try to do it, and have you tried it and it doesn't work?

[r4pt0r]

the klaw at present can only grab parts. asteroids are spawned as parts(and can be hacked into the vab menu as a part) that is why they can be grabbed. to grab the ground would require a re-coding of the planet surfaces and/or klaw. i forget if they said they would work on that, but it has been mentioned.

[Bilfr3d]

I never knew if they would or wouldn't attach to the ground cause I havn't tried. But this does seem like a good idea having the klaw clamp onto the ground. I would be useful for bases and maybe even landers

[Dodgey]

Harvester had mentioned that he wishes that the claw could attach to the ground but it is unable to at the moment. If I recall correctly that is.

[Bilfr3d]

That is probably because terrain in unity is not configured as a part, which the klaw grabs onto. It might be able to be used to grab on the ground in the future though

[Dodgey]

Pretty much, all the claw does is dock to the other craft at the moment, which is why you can't grab planets.

[Bilfr3d]

Pretty much, all the claw does is dock to the other craft at the moment, which is why you can't grab planets.

Lol. I just had a thought. In the future we may be able to clamp on the planets?? So what if planets were able to be moveable? Not as in a part, but their orbits could be changed?? Bring kerbin out of orbit and crash it into the sun!!

[Tex]

Lol. I just had a thought. In the future we may be able to clamp on the planets?? So what if planets were able to be moveable? Not as in a part, but their orbits could be changed?? Bring kerbin out of orbit and crash it into the sun!!

And due to this, I hereby refer you to my ol' buddy Scott Manley to explain why such a thing is literally impossible.

[Dodgey]

If that was so we'd have trouble moving Gilly to say the least, you have fun with that.

[Vindelle_Sunveam]

That is not a witty suggestion, but do you realise that with a ground klaw and a command seat, you could make a springy thing (usually, these looks like horses or bikes) that we have in parks ? Pump it with RCS and you are done ! I agree over 100% with OP.

[RedPine]

Heck, forget the claw, it'd be nice if landing legs could "stab" a short ways into the ground. Then landing on Gilly might actually be possible.

[NERVAfan]

Lol. I just had a thought. In the future we may be able to clamp on the planets?? So what if planets were able to be moveable? Not as in a part, but their orbits could be changed?? Bring kerbin out of orbit and crash it into the sun!!

I imagine treating planets as movable objects would mean some performance hit as if they were extra "ships" ... not that I know anything about programming... for very little benefit. It would be kind of cool to think about, but you couldn't really do anything with it - probably not even with nyrath's Orion mod.

Gilly is the smallest celestial body (except ARM-pack asteroids which are already movable); according to the wiki its mass is 1.2420512×10^17 kg. F = ma so to apply an acceleration of a millimeter per second (which might get lost in game noise) you'd need ... 1.24 x 10^17 kg * 10 ^-3 m/s = 1.24 x 10^14 N. Game measures thrust in kiloNewtons so that's 1.24 x 10^11... a Mainsail is 1500 (1.5 x 10^3). So that's ... a bit under 100 million Mainsails. The new KS-25x4 engine cluster is 3200, so you can cut that about in half...

Yeah, not practical.