Can You Use The Smallest Engine to Get to Dres in Kerbal Space Program? 

Why did I choose Dres to land on? It's the only place I hadn't visited yet! With this video I have achieved my goal of landing everywhere.

At this point, how many multi-hundred year old kerbals do you have stranded throughout the system?

As always reaching the peak of engineering

I just landed on Dres with a big lander with a modded nuclear engine and 12500-ish m/s dv, and now you just did it with separatrons... just unbelieveable and crazy :D Good job!

All KSP videos by Reid always ends up like a nile green video

"when in doubt, get out and push" -me in my early days of kerbal space program

Knew you'd use the infinite Eva propellant "exploit" for something.

You got massive patience man, big respect

Next challenge, rescue EVERY stranded kerbal in a single launch. No restrictions on what you can use

Woah, i think you just discovered an entirely new way to lithobrake! Impressive!

"The game started to disagree with that filosophy" That line was too good.

I'm excited to see you make these Videos for Ksp2

Man, I only ever use separations for boosting tiny missiles and microjets, so when I saw that clip early on or forcefully separating boosters I legitimately got taken aback for a moment

This is probably the best video you ever made. Wow. Didn't think you would actually... land there. crazy.

Props to this man for sacrificing his computer and sanity for our entertainment.

"And it is! But it worked!.." That line was delivered so perfectly, I've never heard you saying anything using this tone, use it more:DD

Awesome video! I love playing Kerbal Space Program and it's always a challenge to try and use the smallest engines possible to reach different planets. Great job on accomplishing this feat with Dres, can't wait to see where your next mission takes you in the game!

That massive grin on that Kerbal near the end was amazing 😂

Ah yes, finally someone else who uses my patented "get out and push" method!

Mod recommendation: waterfall mod, it turns engine plumes into meshes instead of particles which optimizes the game and it just looks good

This is some crazy good space move action scene worthy content!!!😎

We love your videos

now you gotta get somewhere using just the backpack 😃👍

man defines the phrase "if your rocket doesnt work add more rockets"

This is my favorite type of comedy

Nice vid 👍, you can set the thrust of the engines lower to minimize the drag

you used the manley maneuver! I'm proud of you! :D

But how did he land on something that doesn't exist????

that big head fits really well

This may be the most cursed ksp video I’ve ever seen, and it is purely beautiful

The orbit visibly changing like that caused me to spit my soda out.

The cheesiness just made it more impressive how he did this. Bros goated to that this game.

If it looks stupid, but works, then it's not stupid! Well done.

See you at KSP2! also noice video.

This is gonna be cool for sure

Personally, I like using decouples themselves as the 'structure' for the separatrons. Basically a ton of decouplers attached to each other, with these little SRBs on each one, each decoupler its own stage. Also the decouplers themselves give you a slight boost to dv from the separation.

If you wait a little bit before staging the next set of boosters in the atmosphere the rocket will be higher and have less drag which puts your fuel to better use, since drag increases exponentially with speed you want to be pretty slow in the thick air. You have enough thrust with the solid fuel motors to do most of your acceleration in space to circularize your orbit, so no need to rush to gain speed when it’s less efficient in atmosphere.

This honestly gives me hope that maybe getting to space, other planets aint so hard. I have a delta V map so I should be fine.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone do that with a kerbal before. I take my hat off to you.

14:45 When you use kerbal rcs to reduce your velocity looks so funny XD!

my thought would be to have the bottom stages bigger than the top. the first stage has to push the weight of the entire thing, while the last one only has to move the capsule. that would also help with hypersonic disassembly of the top. and now I have to continue with my 1700 t space shuttle

Bradly Whistance would be proud about your lithobraking and the cheesy usage of the backpack

my idea for a challenge is that you rescue all of your left behind kerbals in this one engine series, with one megacraft, the challenge is that the landers that collect them has to use the same propulsion method as how they arrived at the planet

I can imagine this wont go well

Man has the most patience I've ever seen

I haven't seen the video yet but I know Reid will end KSP 1 off with something amazing

His mannerisms and chaotic experimenting remind me of Nile Red

RC you mad lad

Well now you need to rescue the kerbal

Kerbal technology at it's finest!

Separations are just stronger Escape Pods. Change my mind

the craft is on the ground, the pilot is alive, a successful landing !

watching your rocket building process generally infuriates me. im just screaming "NO NO NO YOU DUMMY!" in my head while watching this.

there is a cool way to go highter with less engines that is to make fuel tanks and other big things attached to bottom of engine plate, that makes them have no drag so you can make supermanueverable planes etc. soo ye thats usefull iinda for challanges such as this

Wait, what are you landing on? Oh, the Mun.

Video Idea: Finding every cool rock in Kerbal Space Program

His humour is quite good today🤣

this guy sends rockets with the smallest engine to planets i didnt know existed while im struggling with mun

Thrust limiting. It's a really nice feature in the VAB.

18:00 What happened is likely a failure to inherit during initialization (or object creation). Your kerbal did not inherit the velocity from the vessel since it spawned after the vessel got destroyed, meaning it tried to look for a velocity that no longer existed. It probably also defaulted to putting you at 0 velocity relative to the planet. This is possible because you are going so fast that the tick rate of the game causes you to essentially just teleport into the planet from the view point of someone watching the game per tick. Because the game was already in the process of deleting the craft on the same tick as you spawning your kerbal, when the kerbal went to check for the craft's velocity, it couldn't find the craft or its velocity. A way to fix this would probably be soft deleting the vessel with a few ticks of immunity from being deleted, saving its variables like velocity before it's hard deleted. A vessel should not get deleted unless it goes out of range or smashes into something and has to be deleted from the perspective of the physics world/environment. So you mark the object as being soft deleted until it is time to be hard deleted, and even from that information you could just not let a kerbal spawn from a soft deleted vessel. So why is this still in the game? Because shitcode, don't worry about it, we are getting a KSP 2 with less technical debt. There are many ways this could have gone wrong that are fundamentally broken so it's understandable that it hasn't been fixed. It's also fun lol.

bro is gonna go interstellar on only srbs next

8:57 never heard that tone of voice before dayum

You should keep the theme of making weapons like in your previous few videos and make an ICBM in this game.

Do a first person and map only challenge, no part restrictions and you choose the location

Truely the Nile Red of KSP

That was scuffed. For one final video, you should do a plane challenge, I dunno what challenge, but you should send the plane to save every Kerbal that has been stranded and hasn't been saved. That way they will all be ready for KSP2.

*Sees video* “That’s a remarkably stupid idea…” I still much watch, my interest has been piqued. Great videos.

best youtuber EVER

that is so cool

and here i am struggling to land on the Mun

kerbal be like: going on a space mission: panik its a youtuber: kalm its reid captain: PANIKKKK

Casually getting frame perfect timing

damn. i thought that i had invented that technique of pushing the ship with the jetpack.

That's like making a car that runs solely on brake fluid

nice planet pack to add this "Dres" into the game

anyone else happy he actually got to stand on that cool rock?

homie has the exact same inflection as NileRed lol

i wonder what this guy will make in the future

Also really good idea maybe next time try no fuel tanks only solid fuel rockets to get to every moon or something like that. Just an idea

my brain at the start of the video: Dres? bro, you can't even orbit this thin...wa..wai...WAIT HOW...BRO, WHY? HOW? WH... ok. Understandable.

did you consider using rotation to fling the kerbal retrograde to loose speed?

10 out of 10 landing

Well now you have to save them

4:06 Did we just get stickbugged by your Apoapsis?

Have you seen Stratzenblitz75’s Minmus on Decouplers video? His similarly extreme thrust and structure limitations were interesting but I appreciate your more difficult destination.

me cant do it with all parts: " he cant keep geting away with this

Hey reid! If you ever have no idea what went wrong in a flight, you can hit f3 to see the flight report!

a fitting end to the legacy of ksp.

This guy one day will go to some planet without engines at all

Yo what planet pack did you use to get that "Dres" planet?

Very cool

Hello mate, awesome video!! could I use this idea of only separators to make a video? I would add the link of your video in the description :D

90% of the video i was just thinking “Yeah what’d you *think* was gonna happen”

That’s a cool rock

Will you try instrument of destruction? Like sci-fi besiege

Maybe you could try firing the sepratrons on your kerbal in the opposite direction of thrust to cancel some velocity.

Next challenge, landing on a astroid with only turbofans.

NICE

world's biggest launch escape system

Now, make a working mech in ksp (mech should have a atleast a single amongus reference to annoy people)