Used my spare parts in orbit; experimental landers with staging issues, extra fuel tanks, mini orbital tractor probes, and circulizer stages, to do the Mercury return after I had finished the Mars Grand Tour and Venus return. I've only got outers left, Beltalowda.
I'll post links to my previous posts in the comments.
Just found out about Test Career challenge mode, it was a lot of fun. Hopefully they add more parts. To unlock: start a new world in challenge mode and name it Test Career and some instructions should pop up explaining this mode of the game.
Venus return blueprints I used to assemble B.R.O. (Big Rocket in Orbit) Boosters, fuel Tanks, and tractors. I posted yesterday, but it didn't include blueprints originally and I had to remake the heatshield launch. I don't have the middle boosters saved, but I'm also thinking a single Frontier would be better than 3 Valiants so they can gimble without burning the docking ports or I should have turned gimble off when building.
It took a little bit of experimenting to finish the achievement. Using a double heatshield was tricky, burned up a lot getting flipped over entering the lower atmosphere. You may want to adjust the docking port settings, I'm still new and haven't looked up optimal settings for things.
The final assembly pic has the cast off experimental landers and extra parts assembled below B.R.O.V.R.
Finally did it after a few redesigns and too many attempts that resulted in burning up in Venus's atmosphere. Made the landing in a small rocket at first. Built a flying fuel station and put a few different lander designs on top of it to test them all out in 1 go, then built a final extra tall landing rocket for the return trip.
Some garden friends around the front porch planters. I think i grow gardens for the interesting visitors as much as the plants.
I finally got my planters done, I feel like I lost a month with the cool spring. I also tried making my own potting soil to save some money and got Black Cow compost, it looked like old mulch. Most of the bagged products in box stores all look like this now for some reason. I managed to find mushroom compost in bulk that I could put half a yard in totes and haul it in my SUV. Making soil definitely put me behind, but I saved a good bit by refreshing the old soil with some compost and fertilizer. I did not put the bagged compost into the mix, I'm afraid all the woodchips will cause nitrogen deficiency and inhibit root growth, which seemed to be an issue last season.
Last year I got an aji lemon drop pepper from a local nursery and got a ton of peppers from it. It got me into making sauces and I started a bunch of seeds this year, but the garden center was already sold out of them. Every other type of pepper there were 4 flats of plants, but no lemon drops 😕
Just wanted to vent my disappointment. I was looking forward to them this season. I do have like 100 other peppers though, so it's not like I needed another, but that variety is my favorite. Do you have a favorite rare pepper?
I've never seen this weed before, is it a friend? Should I save it? I need the space for winter squash, but I have a wildflower garden i could transplant it to if it's a native wildflower.
New player, don't know what I'm doing with it yet, but I decided to make a Big Rocket in Orbit. How many sections should I put? I think I'll eventually try and attach it to my little ISS that has a couple of landers on it. I love the little probe tractors, used a couple extra to deorbit some spent stages. Things start getting cluttered fast, finding my stations among the debris was becoming an issue.
Has anyone ever made a big rocket with a bunch of probe landers to tour the solar system and drop them off along the way?
Only got a few blooms this season. I moved it to a shady area when it use to get a lot of evening sun.
Thought I'd try out docking today and build a little space station. This game is a lot of fun, like space Legos. Wish the solar panels did something. Also, I can't find ion engines on mobile after bundle purchase. Has it been removed? Wiki says it's under Engines or Other but there's no ion engine. There's other DLC like large docking ring and 12m parts.
Finally did it, thanks to the help from this sub. Mars Grand Tour starting on Mars and stopping on the moons on the way out. Best Tip: Quick Save just before landing on Mars as close to the surface as possible. You have to do the MGT in one go, no loads or time resets. I went with a double lander, triple engine, double parachute Mars landing. Controlled burns, atmospheric entry around 350m/s to keep from burning up. The 2nd lander helped in conserving fuel, leaving it in Mars orbit on the way to the moons. My first few attempts were a small lander with heatshield to land on Mars, but kept running out of fuel on the return to Earth.
Last year I had ordered some pink oyster mushrooms and put a mushroom box in a shady corner of the yard where nothing much grows. There use to be an ash tree there and a lot of English Ivy, and mushrooms grew there after we had it taken down. I figured follow nature's example and ripped out the ivy to make a bed of wine caps, which hopefully colonize and come back every year.
Ordered from u/NorthSpore, blue oysters and wine caps. They were running a buy 2 get 1 free a week or so ago.
Included pics from last year's harvest of pink oysters, they were delicious.
I got to Mars on basics and paid for the expansion to get the return, but now I'm lost on how to do the tour. Should I add another stage? I barely got back and kept from burning up on reentry. I'm guessing I need RCS thrusters and a small stage to do the navigating. Should I add a faring if I add RCS? I'm playing on normal mode for now.
If the grand tour is extremely difficult compared to return, should I move on to something else like docking, i figured leaving something in orbit might help with the return.
Any tips would be appreciated, I just got the game the other day.
•2nd picture is how i got to Mars on the free version
Thought I'd try some commercial spicy pickles versus my homemade spicy pickles. I'd say they're more medium spicy, but medium doesn't play well in marketing. They might be considered hot to people who don't like spicy things 3/5☆
I planted some native wildflowers yesterday I got at my local Spring Fling and to my surprise this columbine had opened. I had planted a wildflower perennial mix, not marketed as natives, and the columbine have mostly been the frilly single color ones. This is the only 2 tone I've had come up. It's already fallen, pic was taken yesterday.
Still waiting for the soil to warm up to plant the tomatoes and peppers. Going to plant some of the native pollinators I picked up at Spring Fling in the wildflower garden. Thought I'd share some pictures of what's blooming. Enjoy your Tuesday everyone.
The irises are in full bloom, their my mom's favorite flower. Have a happy mother's day everyone.
1st time growing peppers from seed, started February 1st. I saved some sweet pepper seeds and aji lemon drop, and bought seeds for the jalapeños, habaneros, and lemon habaneros.
I have other blueberries that don't look like this, but I'm assuming this is a disease. Any recommendations as to what it is and how to treat? The plant is loaded with fruit right now.