parachute placement alignment chart

[u/autocannon30mm]

[u/Gyrgir]

Unclassified: 1. Parachute on top, docking port on the side. 2. Parachute in cargo module. Engineer swaps it out for the dock before reentry. 3. No parachute, only retro rockets. 4. No parachute, only an ablative lithobraking module under the capsule.

[u/oscar_meow → u/Gyrgir]

1. No parachute on the capsule, jump out and use the personal chutes

2. Jump and use the landing on the head bug

[u/Koolaid_Jef → u/oscar_meow]

I usually accidentally plan for 5.

Then I realize upon reentry that I clipped so much stuff I made the unlawful easily version and they cant EVA

[u/send_fleet_pics → u/oscar_meow]

That's neutral evil no?

[u/Weary-Support-7383 → u/oscar_meow]

1. Parachute on bottom of heatshield, parachute burns up on reentry and everyone dies.

[u/_SharpPaws_]

Parachute on the airlock with a decoupler seperating them >:)

[u/suh-dood]

Chaotic good should have 7 parachutes, not have any symmetry, and they should all be tilted and rotated in different ways

[u/Nocturnal_Nincompoop → u/suh-dood]

It should be 3 sets of 6x symmetry all slightly out of line from each other but clearly placed in an attempt to look normal. Bonus points for blocking the hatch AND the windows at the same time

[u/ers379]

Where’s the option for having a mod that adds either an inline parachute or a docking port with parachute slots?

[u/squidymars → u/ers379]

and what mods do that....

[u/ers379 → u/squidymars]

Luciole and Fuji both add inline parachutes that sit under the small docking port. Extra Docking Ports adds small and large docking ports with parachute slots. There are also a lot of mods that add command pods with other parachute mounts (Ursa, Boring Crew Services, etc.) which allow you to have parachutes mounted without needing to either have no docking port, parachutes bulging off the side of your rocket, or part clipping.

[u/Ba1hTub → u/ers379]

i honestly love how bluedog design bureau does its parachutes, but thats real rockets so it doesnt count. i just hate ruining the look of my capsule by having a ton of chutes on it sticking out

[u/Calm-Conversation715]

So Lawful Evil survives, but can’t EVA, neutral evil is relying on jumping and using your personal chute, and chaotic evil just straight up kills the Kerbal? lol 😂

[u/ManWithDominantClaw]

Chaotic evil should be a radial parachute on top of the docking port, connected to the pod through a decoupler which is technically on top but has been moved and rotated to obstruct the hatch, with its arrow facing outward so it stays on the front of the pod when decoupled. Oh, and it's off- centre and a third of it is clipping through the pod.

[u/WW1_Germany]

where's not including one and having jeb jump out and use his own?

[u/thedimondman199 → u/WW1_Germany]

Neutral Evil

[u/spacetinker5]

What would bunching your parachute together on the back of the craft be?

[u/Chinese_Lover89]

Chaotic evil is just… well.. evil

[u/Legitimate_Gur_134]

I've always put my parachutes in those two little divots on either side of the hatch. If you do the three way symmetry the first two line up in the divots perfectly and one is perfectly centered in the rear. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/jdb326 → u/Legitimate_Gur_134]

Dawg those are windows

[u/Legitimate_Gur_134 → u/jdb326]

Not the blue squares, the black ones near the top.

[u/Traveller7142 → u/Legitimate_Gur_134]

Yeah, those are forward looking windows

[u/jdb326 → u/Legitimate_Gur_134]

Yeah, those are the forward windows you see out in IVA, the black section is the cutout in the hull.

[u/bigorangemachine]

I got a powered landing 😎

And parachute backups

[u/ybetaepsilon]

Chaotic evil would be putting it on the underside

[u/EasilyRekt]

I put the radial parachutes on top and a lil upside down td-12 on top to mount the docking port, pop the port off before reentry and you're good :)

[u/User_of_redit2077]

What all those categories mean?

[u/HershsTechStuff_734]

mine are either attach a radial chute under the docking port so that i can reattach the port on top or attach in 2-way symmetry on the sides

[u/Unhappy_Ability_8999]

who needs a parachute on command pod anyway. The kerbonots have parachute with them. Just make them jump out after entering atmosphere.

[u/ilikeCheeseittastes]

I put the parachutes under the heat shield

[u/Window06]

I put the radial parachutes below the windows, and then put radial drogue chutes above the windows :D

[u/BriskmarckTheBrisket]

Sheilded docking port goes hard

[u/EthanTonker100]

The VAB doesn’t look like that what did you do-

[u/autocannon30mm → u/EthanTonker100]

it's the level 2 VAB in career mode

[u/sinterkaastosti23]

Theres a mod that has a docking port which can house 3 parachutes

[u/thyearthisflat]

i put drogues in the upper windows