What was the first mod ever created?

[Nemrav]

The. temptation to necro has never been so great.... I can't control it, nooooooooo...

Just this once, the fuel rocket mod thread, just for laughs ,please

Well, its nice to see how far the mod quality has come

[Baenki]

I missed this when reading the thread earlier. NecroBones is right that the default license is "All Rights Reserved" unless otherwise specified. One of the rights that are reserved is the right to redistribute, so unfortunately it is not OK to repost your version, parameciumkid. (Which is too bad, I would love to play with it again.)

But could he share the work he did himself + a link where the BFE-9000 is downloadable already + instructions how to implement his changes?

[NovaSilisko]

http://onebit.us/x/i/Il74EYx52u.jpg

Ah, the plywood flyer. I remember those days...

While we're on the subject, here are the ancient downloads of some of my old mods:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c5idxv8pwebtiuk/BACE%200.31.zip?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wys2xbnziplls25/KSP%20Silisko%20Edition%201.2.zip?dl=0 (Replaces old parts, so delete the original contents of the parts folder)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/okmoj11rdo47oz1/Silisko%20Edition%202%20-%20Alpha%201.zip?dl=0 (same deal)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/l0qa795jau4vy8f/landerparts_1.1.zip?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wngfkkhbtjm4hp2/SIDR_Parts_1.3.zip?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b8t4ty4vlud7a9k/Space%20Shuttle%20Vanguard%20-%200.1.zip?dl=0

Don't ask what the last version these will work on is. I have no idea.

Edited January 28, 2015 by NovaSilisko

[Red Iron Crown]

But could he share the work he did himself + a link where the BFE-9000 is downloadable already + instructions how to implement his changes?

As I understand the rules, parameciumkid could share a link as long as its one endorsed by the original author (i.e. not that license-violating mirror of SpacePort). Instructions about how to modify it yourself should be fine, modified versions distributed directly not so much.

[Tiberion]

So, to answer some questions:

The loading screen is actually a piece of fan-art that someone made and Harvester liked it, so they worked it out and used it as the loading screen.

There is no "page" to find the old mods, they were all posted down in the Modding forum. For a long time Squad didn't require a posted license and almost none of them had them, so any old mods where you cannot get permission from the author likely cannot be rehosted or updated.

As for what the 1st mod is, I don't know; there were a lot of simple small parts and texture edits released. For instance Captain Skunky (before he was a moderator or community manager) released a texture pack of all the stock parts (of the time) styled in a pirate theme. I remember the twisted tanks, and they were paired with a fairly cheaty "plasma" drive of some sort.

Another common was a pod replacer - back then you couldn't have more than one pod installed, when you loaded the VAB the pod was already there for you to start building off of, and there was no way to swap to another one. So you had to replace the default pod with another one. The small "Bootleg" pod in Novapunch is made my Novasilisko, it was the 1st replacement pod I used when I picked up the game. There was also a very early version of the current Mk1 spaceplane pod in C7's spaceplane mod to replace the command module. So in the early days you had to either be using rockets or planes, not both. (there was no space plane hanger, and the runway was added because the plane stuff was so popular. Oh, and there were no wheels, you landed on skids (or skids that looked like wheels)

C7spaceplanes, Wobbly Rockets and SIDR were definitely 3 of the 1st 'big mods' that started the push for more, like that Soyuz pack and the Down Under rocketry pack and of course KW Rocketry which has actually been around a long time as well, its about exactly as old as Novapunch - November/December 2011, after the soft launch of KSP's 1st big version in July.

You can still find all of those old posts down in the releases forum, even though its pretty difficult because of the search engine and the way that pages of older posts work after a certain limit

[Starwhip]

does anyone remember that website for all those early mods?

Not for those ones, specifically, but it used to be the Spaceport.

That's good and gone, now.

[Whirligig Girl]

Best I can tell is that it was a Launch Escape Tower part. I know from reading much of the first parts of the Orbiter Forum thread. That tower lives on in NovaPunch, IIRC. It was either in 0.7.3 itself or one of the 0.8 versions.

[SkyRender]

Before SpacePort, there was actually an unofficial mod stockpile of sorts. I found it just a few months ago, and it was still loaded with mods for up to about version 0.13 or so. Unfortunately, I didn't think to bookmark it and finding it in my browser history could take quite some time...

EDIT: Found it! Sort of. It used to be called Kerbal Space Repository. Thing is, the domain expired, so the page doesn't exist any longer. Alas. Still, this thread is a relevant blast from the past on the subject.

Edited January 28, 2015 by SkyRender

[Canopus]

Does anyone remember the Lego parts?

[SkyRender]

Does anyone remember the Lego parts?

Sure do. I remember that one being released to much amused fanfare back in the day. I think I even tried it out for kicks, in fact.

[Canopus]

Sure do. I remember that one being released to much amused fanfare back in the day. I think I even tried it out for kicks, in fact.

They had this great 90s Lego look. Also i hate to admit it but in discussions like this i'm always jealous of people with join dates as early as yours:). I lost a year during that big forum problem.

[Itchono]

Back in the days of 2011, there were a lot of really good mods like Sunday Punch and NovaSilisko's SIDR pack (which were then merged into NovaPunch) but one of the first ones I ever saw was a 9-coupler and a 25-coupler (they were only meshes and had no real textures). I'll see if I can find it somewhere...

EDIT: I found it! http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/31-Free-meshes

Too bad the attachments no longer work...

EDIT 2: I think I have also found one of the first attempts at modding KSP: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/23-Adding-new-parts

Edited January 29, 2015 by Itchono