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Kerbin

Important notice: Water mod is optional, but not needed.
This mod contains both a fully vanilla and a water mod ready version of Kerbin.

Kerbin, the homeworld of the Kerbals from the game Kerbal Space Program.

Have you ever looked down and Kerbin and noticed just how beautiful it is?
So many islands, mountains, rivers, plains, lakes, and coves...
Doesn't that just make you want to explore those places?
But like, in first person, and with the tools of Space Engineers?

Well, now you can: This mod gives you an accurate 1:5 scale model of Kerbin.
(1:5 because SE's planets are limited to 120 km and Kerbin is originally 600 km large)

It includes all the landmasses and biomes from the original Kerbal Space Program!
Sail to Nye Island! Go for a river cruise near Baikerbanur! Drive across the Badlands, or go on an expedition to the polar ice shelf!
And of course... fly safe!

Custom Ore Placement
You won't find everything everywhere. This is intentional, so you have to travel to get all the resources.
This means you have a reason to build multiple bases, set up transport routes, and strategise where you explore next.

If you are doing PvP or PvE, this also means there are some key strategic locations to defend or conquer...

That said, here are some maps of where you can find which ore:




(Hint: Open this in your browser so you can view these in full resolution or print them.)

Rover Friendly Terrain
Unless you're in the highest mountains or underwater, the terrain is much more easy to drive on than the vanilla EarthLike planet.
There are no roads though, so huge large-grid rovers will frequently be stopped by trees.
You shouldn't have trouble in the desert and on the ice shelf, though.


(0. Load a new or existing save. Make sure you have creative mode tools enabled or are in creative mode)
1. Go to where you want to spawn the planet
2. Open the spawn menu with Shift + F10
3. Select "Planets" in the drop-down menu, then choose which version of Kerbin you want. Set size to 120 km.
4. Click "Spawn". You will see green circles outlining where Kerbin will go. Move your mouse to adjust where it will spawn.
5. Click to spawn the planet.
6. If you chose the water mod version: Move your character to the planet's surface. Then use the commands "/wcreate" and "/wradius 1.00275".

First off: No, you don't need any mods, you can play this fully vanilla!

But if you want to spice it up a bit, here are some suggestions:

• HUD Compass. A compass will greatly help you to orient yourself on the map. Some ores will be very difficult to find without one, especially the underwater ores.
  
• Water Mod, for the engineering challenge of shipbuilding and underwater mining.
  
• Modular Encounters Systems, and any MES plugin of your choice if you want spawns to salvage.

(And I may or may not be working on an MES plugin that'll spawn discarded rocket stages and space debris for you to "recover"...)

Kerbin is from the game Kerbal Space Program, created by Squad.

I've used SCANSat to get the height- and biome maps out of KSP.

I also want to thank Stackoverflow user Salix alba for explaining how to convert equirectangular maps to cube maps,
it was his code that allowed me to convert the data from SCANSat into the format that Space Engineers uses.

Last but not least, the ore placement was greatly inspired by CaptainArthur's Agaris.
I had lots of fun playing his scenarios, so if you haven't heard of them, be sure to check them out on the workshop. ;)