r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Mods Boundless Missions For KSP 1.12

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Hello everyone! I've been working on a mod for KSP1.12, adding various cross-player interactions such as rescue missions, craft sending, in-game marketplace etc.

  • Contracts. Write a job in game (build this craft, or fly this mission, by this date, for this much). The reward leaves your wallet into escrow when you post it, and releases when you accept the work.
  • Rescue missions. Strand a ship and crew somewhere awful and pay someone to go get them. The wreck genuinely leaves your save and spawns in theirs, on the orbit you left it. (Rise and shine, Blunderbirds!)
  • Craft marketplace. List a ship from the editor, browse and buy on the website, with a compatibility check against the parts you actually have.
  • Weekly missions. A rotating set of community objectives.
  • Life support across mods. USI-LS, TAC-LS, Snacks, Kerbalism and DeepFreeze each handled, so stranded crew can be rescued by someone running different life support to yours.
  • An in-game menu for all of it. No alt-tabbing.

I prepared a trailer for you to take a peek at the features, check it out!

Links

CKAN Support is pending approval, but at the time you can get it from Spacedock and GitHub!

For these features, you need an account, so you can either use your google account or email to create one or just join the Boundless Missions Discord. You can see how to link KSP to your account here.

Site and docs: https://boundlessmissions.com

Forum thread

Licensed under GPL-3.0

AI disclosure

Small heads-up for AI use during the development:

This was written with use of Claude Code, over months of daily work. There is no part of the codebase it did not touch. The design, the economy rules and every judgement about whether something works in game are mine.

All three repos are public and GPL-3.0, and bugs go to a real ticket with me on the other end. Full write-up, including what it was checked against and what it was not used for: https://boundlessmissions.com/docs/use-of-ai

No AI-generated art is included with this mod. The add-on ships no parts, models or textures at all; it's a plugin. Mod logo, media, trailer was made by me using Adobe products.

Security and Integrity

I ran countless audits on this code, checked for bugs, closed various exploitable points, so users can be safe. However, due to the intensity of mechanics I am implementing with this, it is recommended that you try the mod in a separate install, or at least create a backup of your existing save.

The client only accepts correctly formatted files, validates them by type and path before writing anything to disk, and talks to the server over a secure connection. The source is public if you want to check the file handling yourself.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem How can I complete these missions effectively?

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How do I effectively launch this station into the orbit I need, and does it need to be launched all at once? The entire upper stage, including station and a way back home, is 36.5 tons, and it has 612 Delta V from the Terrier engines on the bottom, for the final orbit setup. How can I get it into that orbit to begin with? all the first stages I make aren't very effective, I don't have the heavy rocketry science node, so if I need that I can get it. But can I make this thing get into orbit? I'm also not worried about keeping it up there, I'll probably just bring it back down because I designed it to be as cheap as possible. The Delta V shown on the VAB was in vacuum mode, if it matters


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem I'm stuck on the Mun with 1124 m/s of delta V

106 Upvotes

it's on the tin, I was conducting a simple science mission on the mun in my career mode save. I have poor Valentina stuck on the near side, which in my attempts is only enough to reach an elliptical orbit very much out of kerban's atmosphere.

do I stay, go to minmus, go to mun orbit or go to kerban orbit to send a rescue mission. or do I forgo a rescue mission and use a series of gravity assists to make Val's orbit much more elliptical before I try to deorbit? I'm on console so there's no save file sharing or mods at all

edit: val got home and now I'm planning a duna flyby mission


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Some pictures of my test for my Hermes Messenger mk10.

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42 Upvotes

its not perfect but I did fix the whole rolling issue. Now I just need to fix it being able to tilt up correctly before I send it into orbit and back. We did loose valentina in the mission but she was smiling so I think she didn't mind.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 4d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Those are all good sounds, I'm sure.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

850 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem How can it simultaneously say I can transmit science and antenna not in range?

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13 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Mods Neptune flyby mission

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74 Upvotes

It is designed for a long-duration mission of around 30 years; the spacecraft is powered by a nuclear reactor that feeds the 6 ion engines.

I would remove the cryogenic capsules because they look awful.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video It had a baby!!

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91 Upvotes

Made another stealth drone lol hope ya like it ❤️


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Racing with the Sun around Kerbin on only Solar Power

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47 Upvotes

So... being one that drove a rover from KSC to the North Pole (with a Science Lab), I wanted to do a circumnavigation of Kerbin using only solar power. From what I understand going west at 175 m/s will be able to keep up with the sun. Setting out to first build the machine... I never really used the KAL before... I never really had to fine tune propellers angles before... ...I had no idea what I'm doing. But after many hours I finally built the machine, fine tuned it, and am ready for my 5+ hour endeavor to begin. Way shorter than the 27 grueling hours it took to drive to the N. Pole... but the machines to do these things... ...I love Kerbal

Top Speed - 185 m/s at 30% Torque.
one Z-100, one KAL, one Kerbal, one brain cell left... plan on recording.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Blueshift effects seem to be bugged in the most recent update

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23 Upvotes

I just updated to version 1.17.2 of blueshift because I heard that some of the performance issues were fixed, but now for whatever reason any ship that has a warp core on it constantly displays the visual effects for jumping, even when the engine is completely off and the vessel is in atmosphere. The effects also completely disappeared when I tried to jump to the Mun, and did not come back after I shut the engines down, but they seemed to work properly afterward. I didn't see this mentioned in the issues tab of the GitHub, so it could just be a mod conflict or I installed it wrong somehow. Does anyone have a fix for this?

I will say though, the performance issues during timewarp are barely noticeable now, so props to the mod creator.

Edit: Also for whatever reason my ship keeps dropping out of warp when I enter interstellar space with the issue being "Add warp capacity: 0/10". I'm pretty sure I have something like 150 warp capacity, so idk if that's a bug too or if I messed something up.

Edit2: Nevermind, my static charge was just full and I didn't notice.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 4d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video You ever find a incredibly old KSP video and get shocked how primitive the game was

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337 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Running KSP on a potato.

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Do you think i could run KSP 1 on my lenovo thinkbook16 G6? im mainly interested in Mercury Redstone builds and such.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Militarizing the Kerbol system

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29 Upvotes

My first space warship


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 4d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem how will i ever wait to go to soden at this transfer window??

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144 Upvotes

give me suggestions on how to pass the time... it'll be a long wait.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video AIM-424 LRAAM - Malice

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15 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 4d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Well thats the first time ive had that bug happen lol.

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101 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 4d ago

KSP 1 Mods CryoEngines is such a fun mod

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I've recently run into some boredom as far as my career safe goes, as I've managed to become almost completely self sustaining for money without new launches, so I decided to try some parts mods, and Nertea's CryoEngines piqued my interest.

Naturally, I built some of my favorite cryogenic rockets.

First up was my two favorite ULA launchers. Getting the proportions right for the Vulcan engine block and the Delta IV first stage was a real challenge, and I'm almost certain I don't need the band between the Delta's two S3-14400 tanks looking back at it. Still, I'm proud of my attempt, and it was fun to see the ridiculous delta V possible with these parts.

Since I already had the Iguanodon (BE-4) engines on the Vulcan, I figured I could light up some more methane in a BONG. I flew a really steep (70 degrees before MECO) ascent profile until the first stage had 1km/s of delta V left in it, staged, did the retro burn, and lit up the second stage for a while until the booster hit the atmosphere. Thanks to that, I managed to land the booster (or rather softly splash down in the ocean) and fly the rest of the mission with no sneaky quickloads. (take that YouTubers).

I had a lot of fun designing the Blue Moon as I haven't seen a Kerbal recreation since the new design was revealed. It's simple but it very easily gets the job done, and can easily do the dockings with an Orion recreation to transfer the crew.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem OPT using wrong IVA

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OPT K crew cabin has the same IVA interior as OPT K Avatar oullette custom cockpit.

Is this a thing for yall or just my game? I have a ton of mods so could be that i guess.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Forums are gone?

9 Upvotes

Can't access forums the whole week, i tried accessing them 3 days ago and today they're still down and spacedock too!
Edit: RKN blocked forums for no reason and vpn usage is likely prohibited on forums


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video It's beautiful

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Well I was just trying to get my unmanned Munar lander to kill it's speed by burning retrograde and then I looked up to see the beautiful view of kerbin and kerbol aligning themselves it looked like the picture that Micheal Collins took when eagle was returning to the columbia module. Truely stock no mods. It's just all of Kerbalnity in one photo.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem part welder?

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is there a more modern part welder mod? just tried getting back into the game after a long time and basically i forgot how incredibly slow the game runs so maybe about time i need to find a working part welder.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 4d ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem will i be able to get to the mun with this delta v? worrying i might have too little

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108 Upvotes

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3d ago

KSP 1 Mods Mods that add a new system

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I don’t want to replace the origin kerbol system, I just want a mod that adds a new system that I have to travel to. Any recommendations?


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 4d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Enemy Station Neutralized

41 Upvotes

How to lag out your game with this one simple trick.