The Kraken-Powered SSTO! - Infinite Range, Infinite Possibility! 

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This is literally “troll physics” in a nutshell. Next he is going to be covering his kerbals in oil to make them fly in the rain.

The “life on laythe” crew called. They said they would love a “infinite range SSTO” for Christmas.

Issac newton : I fear no man but that thing. *Looks at kerbals* Issac newton : It scares me

Imagine figuring out that we live in a simulation by finding a silly exploit like this in reality.

We’ve harnessed the ultimate technology: the kraken

You missed a chance. The chance of being the first one who gets an asteroid sample from low jool atmosphere. because that thing could have kept an asteroid flying on jool.

Basically the Kerbal version of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps

He's done it... He's tamed the kraken, he is unstoppable.

Matt Lowne out of context “I don’t need a spine to breath”

All hail the Kraken Drive!

The Deep Space Kraken. The bane of many KSP player's existences. Crash causer, Station destroyer, mission ruiner. This thing has absolute power to the point it invokes fear in some of the veterans of KSP... *But what if you were on it's good side?* This is the Kraken drive. An engine of infinite power, infinite range, infinite possibilities... If you use this, the Kraken will be on your side for a change, and anything will be trivial as long as you remain on it's good side...

this is what I think how magnets work when I first discovered about magnets in elementary, I thought you could just create infinite velocity by just doing that lmao

I don't know why NASA don't use this in their rockets.

just a tip: you can put the airlock's "deploy limit" in the main throttle category, and that will allow you to incrimentally increase throttle

next episode: man lands on the moon by pulling his pants up by the belt

Fact : Now matt is feeding on the pain of others as the kraken feed on others rockets and not matt is feeding on the kraken

all I could think of reading that title was “infinite acceleration! Infinite propulsion! *infinitely deadly...* “

Idea for christmas video: Leave a reindeer on every planet or moon!

Next one: a ssto that could go through the sun without cheating

Thanks for the shout out Matt! Nice touch with the inflatable airlock.

This isn't even an SSTO since it has no stages, its the first NSTO in KSP!

Ksp dev: how much delta v and thrust do you want Matt: yes.

I love how the final chapter is called "You need to suddenly buy my merch"

The first guy to build an Alcubierre drive will probably be like:

Regular engines: I use high-quality space grade fuel and newly reasearched materials to go more than 25x the speed of sound! Kraken drive: Haha 'physics' go brrrrrrrrr!

17:46 I remember while playing career playthrough I had such contract. To do a crew report at a certain altitude on Jool. At that point I started to suspect mission control center in genocide pfff-

Build an ssto that docks to a krakendrive in orbit like a hyperdrive

What if you linked the airlock's magnetic force to a KAL controller and then linked that up to the throttle?

A game I enjoy playing called “Space Engineers” has its own Kraken, it’s called “Clang” and in the game there are Clang Drives that can be used in the same manner as the Kraken drive basically. Clang is the lord of rotors, hinges, and pistons and when using these items in the game, most of the time you will have an encounter with Clang.

I remember when the drain valve exploit was still a thing, I made a plane that could fly at about mach 2-3, and maintained perfect stability so long as you had the air brakes deployed. Could go like mach 5 if you had the airbrakes closed. Good times. I might try one with a kraken drive now.

14:12 "I don't even like my own spine! It only holds me back!" I legit had a delayed laugh as my brain took a few moments to process this genuinely hilarious pun!

Perpetual drive systems doesn't exist... Ksp:- hold my kerbeer

This is what matt has come to, making kraken drived sstos.

Me: "im gonna go to sleep now" Matt: **uploads** Me: "nevermind lol"

I think an appropriate name for this drive would be a Kraken harness, that’s what I’ve been calling it while I was messing around with the technology, because it seems like you’re hitching a ride on a the Kraken. It’s possible to piston run the drive it just takes the biggest one a drive using eight Junior docking ports

This is the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen on KSP. Well done, and thank you for having the integrity so as to give credit where it’s due

Actually, you could use action groups to tie the magnet strength to the throttle.

You can use hinges and two kraken drives that normally work in opposite directions, and align them to get thrust

There is a German children's book called Jim Button, where this guy Jim Button has a flying locomotive, which basically flies using magnets that attract the locomotive. So it's basically this.

I would recommend watching SWDennis' "Docking Ports only to Orbit and back - KSP." He makes a throttleable Kraken-drive and even a Kraken-drive RCS system.

Okay, but can we talk about how sick the name "Kracken Drive" actually sounds?

I like the craft of SWDennis from September a lot more. In his video "Docking Ports only to Orbit and back - KSP" he presented a craft using docking ports only. Check it out if you're interested.

So, I got this to work with pistons a few days ago while I was playing around with this. Kinda. The trick is that each docking port generates about 9kn of force. Each piston has a rating. Exceed that rating and the piston will be unable to retract. So the large piston will work better and can support around 800kn of pull - or about 89 docking ports (or so). Math out the T/R of that and it kicks the snot out of anything else in the game. But there's the "kinda" here. First, the force does not scale linearly with location and the precision with which the main throttle can translate over the stroke is usually not high enough to make a very consistent throttle. Second is that once the attraction force begins, it actually will continue attracting for about twice the range it took to begin attracting. Or at least it seemed so from my playing with it. IE - if you were to have the docking port begin attracting at distance of 2 through 0, then when you move it to 3 units away, it is still pulling and you need to move it to 3.5 or even 4 to get it to cancel. So binding it to the throttle leaves about half your throttle as a dead zone with the second half representing an exponentially increasing throttle rather than a linear throttle - and then you don't get a clean throttle down. You're better off using a fixed distance setup and adjusting the attraction force if you need more accurate control over thrust for, say, entry and landing burns. Or just packing along an engine specifically for the purpose of retrograde landings. Another fun point - each docking port can lift, directly off of Kerbin's surface, around 0.8 tons (though that is a bit of a slow ascent and you are probably better estimating at 0.5-0.6 tons per). So 8 of them (er... 9) can rather handily lift a pod with science jr, reaction wheels, batteries and all kinds of goodies not only into orbit, but also to the mun. It becomes stupidly effective to exploit on career mode.

now make a mothership with that thing and make it go literally anywhere

Thanks Matt, I asked on Buck's video if I could have a craft file, and now that you delivered one, I have a very close design where I can experiment on Edit: didn't realize it was dlc

Let’s just pretend kerbal scientist discovered perpetual motion using magnets

Hey Matt, I would like to draw your attention to a video by SWDennis on the Kraken drive from about 3 months ago. In it, he had the pistons bound to the throttle axis and it gave full throttle control on the craft. I don't know what he did differently to you, but it should be possible to retract the pistons. Barring that idea of troubleshooting the pistons, maybe you could have 3 or 4 docking ports on different action groups that could be toggled separately, thereby giving throttle increments of 25, 50, 75 and 100.

Wouldn't that Krakendrive make Tie Fighters possible?

Honestly this is like a gravity drive. Pretty cool

A letter to the supreme ksp overlord From a fan To matt lowne Master of KSP Your content is really good keep making more ksp vids Yours fan Champion of the seven games

Thank you for inspiring me to play this game. You are by far my favorite RU-vidr

The ultimate spaceship... so masterclass.

“If you cant destroy it, Join it!”

actually really interesting, would def like to see more kraken drives.

Yesss almost 400k keep going matt

Eve surface and back in 68 days... There's a challenge, beat that time!

This is sacrilege on another level . . . I love it.

Thanks for this video! I completed my first crewed interplantary mission with this drive.

After many failed attempts and crashes, I had finally gotten my ship into orbit of Kerbin with the use of the Kraken Drive. I have failed to get the Kraken Drive to work, until now which helped me get into a stable Kerbin orbit. Thanks for showing this off, this is a really fun thing to use in KSP.

This is the engine 10 year old me was convinced should work...

Next video: Breaking news! Russian hacker group has managed to hack Earth's physics.

Everybody gangsta till the Lorax starts powering your spacecraft

This is literally the troll rage comic about using magnets to power a car

"kraken drive" sounds like us space engineers Clang drive. Ah how we ignore newton

oh well, i havent watched one of these in a long time, hope its a good one!

i love your videos and thanks you inspired me to reach for the stars and play ksp so thanks

To me your biggest skill is not building the kerbal version of the EM drive, but your ability to talk for 21 minutes straight without pausing for a single second, and still keeping us entertained. 👏

How quickly could you get to Eve if you kept accelerating towards it, and then decelerating from the half way point? Okay, I did some calculations, The closest Eve gets to Kerbin is about 3.6 million km, and the acceleration is about 2.5G (from the navball). From this I got that it would take about 6.8 hours, which is pretty good.

Amateur.. Everyone in Kerbol System knows that the best Krakenite fuel drive is KAL-1000! But dang, nice work on this one.

i can imagine these being used for interstellar exploration in KSP 2

This is what I've been waiting for since KSP release, the game now die in peace knowing that all that needed to be achieved has been achieved, and that it's successor will propably do this better also.

Who would win? Matt's Kraken-Powered SSTO | Danny2462's Single Stage to ∞

I think Matt needs to look up what "throwing caution to the wind" means :D

that went a lot smoother than my adventure yesterday. basically sending a rover with a drill and converter to refuel a ship i had landed on laythe. remote control so i needed connection to kerbin to fly it, but i couldnt enter the atmosphere with my antennas exposed. long story short i ended up using the kal controller to make a 2 minute sequence that closed the service bay to protect the dish, then fire the shoots at the right time, then reopen the service bay to give me back control. it took a lot of trial and error but i was proud when i finally got it.

One of the most amazing video about KSP! How to dominate the kraken! And wwr is better than many other engines (estimating when to burn is quite tricky, though.... but hey! It's totally free fuel burn!) I wonder how it does on tylo.... I'm going to send a Kraken-class scout on it!

Physics: you can't have infinite ran- Matt Lowne: hahah SSTO go *BRRRRRRRRRR*

Reminds me of the old infini-glide days.

oh bro amazing i tried to build it by myself and now after 2 months i see that u linked the file for the plane its just amazing thx thx thx

MERRY CHRISTMAS MATT LOWNE

Only true fans get here early, and watch every minute of the video

I have arrived before the discord ping, no need to thank me Matt.

We have seen you play this game legit so many times, seeing you play a little bit cheaty, is a refreshing update.

It is worth noting you can bind the inflatable docking port to the main throttle control. It can allow "some" control, but the best part is that you can turn it on or off using z and x while in the map screen.

cant you bind the magnet force to a breaking ground controller and bind it to the main throttle?

This is probably the most kerbal ssto ever

I've been playing the game pretty much since it had come out - Up until now, I had only made it to The Mun, Minmus, Duna and Ike. With this craft, i've finally got to see what the other planets look like! Thanks Matt!

I really liked this video because it tries applying "real" orbital mechanics & physics to an infinite energy drive. That I know of, first time I've seen it on screen outside movies.

you should make a movie on this kraken drive where they invent the ultimate space traveling drive

9:58 Apoapsis? You mean periapsis.

that was the most stylish takeoff i’ve ever seen, incredible

That was really interesting

Could you ‘throttle’ the kraken drive by activating & deactivating the forward docking hatches in groups?

Everyone saying first... there is a blue shell coming your way

That SSTO looks really cool actually 👍🏼💯. And I really like how the Kerbals walk, it so funny 😂💯👍🏼

Oooh man! This is gonna be great for the Trek style ship I've been perfecting. 😀

The Kerbal who calculated the Delta V of this SSTO to be zero: 👁️👄👁️

Would it not be possible to to throw it in "reverse" instead of having to turn the craft around just be switching which of the magnets are active?

The kraken the most unknown thing in the universe, so Matt makes an SSTO.

Wow... to see kraken drives possible after all these years.. I kinda want to play the game again now.