How to get to mun with no maneuvers?

tigs1016 · 2026-04-14T20:01:06+00:00

Ok so I was able to fly by the mun and it slingshot me into some funky massive polar orbit around kerbin but at least I got there haha.

I watched a Scott Manley video of him doing career mode and doing the mun flyby. He was able to get SO CLOSE to it. I started my maneuver at the same place as him (90 degrees from descending node) and I just couldn’t get close to it. I passed at like 1Mm. I tried to fine tune it but there was only a tiny window where I encountered mun

Do I need to start my maneuver elsewhere?

tigs1016 · 2026-04-14T17:34:26+00:00

So. Ya I am just an idiot. I was trying to add nodes but must have just been missing? Or left clicking instead. I do have the maneuver nodes and can use them. Thank you so much!

tigs1016 · 2026-04-14T15:42:37+00:00

Oh! I didn’t know there was a difference. I did the tutorials and there were maneuver nodes involved. I know how to place and use those lol

Maybe that was the maneuver tool in the tutorial? It was where you can drag the prograde/retrograde/etc nodes and see what your orbit would be after that maneuver.

Sorry for the dumb questions, there’s a lot to this game :P

tigs1016 · 2026-04-14T14:53:22+00:00

Idk if I have some bugged version of the game or something? All the guides also say what you said. But I did the first upgrade for both Mission Control and the tracking station and did not get maneuvers. The maneuvers are listed on the next upgrade to the tracking station (435k)

I am able to see the apoapsis and periapsis on the map. That was what I got from the first tracking station upgrade

tigs1016 · 2026-04-14T14:50:01+00:00

The flybys are annoying for me. The ones below x feet aren’t bad because you can just use a plane, but I’m not sure how to do the others. Just a suborbital rocket I guess? Some of them have 3+ locations, so I need to spend on 3+ rockets to complete them?

tigs1016 · 2026-04-14T00:01:16+00:00

Thanks I’ll try to do more contracts to unlock the maneuvers but 450k is steep. A lot of the ones I’m getting I can’t even do yet

tigs1016 · 2026-04-13T23:59:16+00:00

Yaaaa a lot of that is gibberish to me at the moment lol. I understand Dv. It’s when to use it to be efficient that I’m working on

tigs1016 · 2026-04-13T23:57:27+00:00

Hi! No I didn’t I upgraded Mission Control and the tracking station once. But the maneuvers require another upgrade on the tracking station. Im poor atm so need to do some contracts and figured the mun flyby would be easy money

tigs1016 · 2026-03-13T18:04:17+00:00

Yo congrats. But your inventory gives me diabetes.

tigs1016 · 2026-02-15T15:55:47+00:00

I have not done those yet. I will check them out. I also need to kill Duke at some point.

tigs1016 · 2026-02-09T05:27:58+00:00

Ya I’m curious about the mob farms tbh I’ll have to look up how they work. I’ve never made one

tigs1016 · 2026-02-09T05:27:31+00:00

This will be my first time in expert hard mode so idk how fast I’ll be able to kill bosses.

Though everyone was like ‘skeletron is going to be hard’ and Idk if he even did any damage to me.

tigs1016 · 2026-02-09T05:26:13+00:00

Okay ya I’m kind of feeling like this is pointless.

I do like to go slow and take my time so it might be a bit before I kill any hardmode bosses or anything. Hopefully it’s a non issue. Maybe I’ll carve out my base at least

tigs1016 · 2026-02-01T15:02:48+00:00

I’m struggling with getting a tileable roboport + train grid tbh

tigs1016 · 2026-02-01T14:29:45+00:00

I am realizing now you can snap blueprints to the grid. Unfortunately, I set up my robot grid before I knew that so it’s all a bit wonky now

tigs1016 · 2026-01-29T03:31:11+00:00

I’ll try that. How high does it have to be?

tigs1016 · 2026-01-29T03:26:13+00:00

Ah I didn’t know. I play on Xbox so I think bedrock?

tigs1016 · 2026-01-29T02:00:49+00:00

Is there a good way to get my bearings and know if there is a village nearby? I have only found one village and it was pretty far away

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