Today is a sad day, fellow anomaly hunters.

[YourEverydayWaffle]

After a long break from Operation Munhole, I decided I would resume it, but totally starting over. I made a fresh save, and headed for the Munhole. This is the munhole, a MASSIVE crater, about 1 km deep, with a monolith at the bottom, and it's not even the official Easter Egg documentation:

[i know, debug toolbar. I'm ashamed of it now, but this was about a year ago, and I was terrible at conserving EVA fuel back then. I was afraid for Jeb.]

I landed my lander at it's coordinates, and... it's gone. Compare these two images of the former and current terrain at the Munhole. The image on the right is the current terrain.

But wait. Is it really gone? No. The terrain is an almost EXACT inversion of it's former hole, making a hill that is just a bit more "stubby" than the original hole.

Hmm. Something about this seems odd, as if Squad knew about the Munhole, and did this to it. Maybe they did this on purpose! I've got more evidence, too. Remember that monolith at the bottom? It's still there, but not floating anymore. It was moved!

This pretty much confirms that, unless it's some crazy anomaly in the Unity engine, it was probably Squad's doing. A hill is far less interesting than a crater (which some people intended to bridge) that gave numerous difficult challenges, and lacked some of the physics bugs of the Moholes on Moho. I'm gonna be bold, though, and dub this hill Crusty's Lump (Crusty is a handle I use), since nobody else seems to have noticed this tragic change in an anomaly.

So.

In conclusion, I think, for the sake of us, and other anomaly hunters, we need to push Squad to bring back the Munhole, and all of the great missions it brought us! I know it's not very well known of, but it's loss is sad nonetheless. It was a bit like a less difficult to find and traverse Mohole. Even though the monolith still stands, the Munhole is gone, and thus is another anomaly gone. If Squad was really behind it's disappearance, we really need to push to get it back.

Edited January 3, 2015 by YourEverydayWaffle

[sal_vager]

Obviously Krakaliens don't want you to discover their secret Mun base

[dryer_lint]

Noooo! I wanted to visit it someday! D:

[problemecium]

To me it seems that the entire Mun had its terrain lowered. Since the Munhole, Moholes, and similar features are caused by the terrain engine defaulting to sea level at the poles, my hypothesis is that the "bottom" of the munhole and the pyramid thereupon have stayed put while the rest of the Mun was moved lower.

Try measuring the altitude atop that hill and at the bottom of the former Munhole, and see if they're similar.

[Wallygator]

I wonder if the biome mapping had anything to do with all this. IF so I doubt it will come back.

[YourEverydayWaffle]

To me it seems that the entire Mun had its terrain lowered. Since the Munhole, Moholes, and similar features are caused by the terrain engine defaulting to sea level at the poles, my hypothesis is that the "bottom" of the munhole and the pyramid thereupon have stayed put while the rest of the Mun was moved lower.

Try measuring the altitude atop that hill and at the bottom of the former Munhole, and see if they're similar.

Hmm... They are somewhat similar. I think the munhole was a bit deeper, but they're similar.

[problemecium]

On a semi-related note, the

monolith northwest of KSC

is partially buried in the ground now, supporting the hypothesis that some of the terrains have been raised or lowered.