Kerbal Life Hacks

A counterpart to Community Fixes, this community mod is a home to various quality of life improvements and balancing changes, or life hacks, that don't fit into the scope of Community Fixes.

Compatibility

• Tested with Kerbal Space Program 2 v0.2.0.0.30291
• Requires SpaceWarp 1.7.0+

Features

Currently, this mod includes the following life hacks:

UI tweaks

Main menu

• Skip Orientation by tgrkzus - New campaigns default to skipping the orientation. Disabled by default, see the Configuration section for details.

Flight view

• IVA Portraits Toggler by WiS3 - Adds a button to the app bar to toggle the Kerbal portraits panel.

Map

• Warp To Orbital Points by munix - Adds buttons to warp to apoapsis, periapsis and SOI change.
• Orbital Line Colors by munix - Colors the various orbital lines of the current vessel to make them easier to distinguish.

VAB

• VAB Mission Tracker by munix - Adds the Mission Tracker button to the VAB app tray.

Gameplay

• Disable Contrails by munix - Disables contrails and wingtip vortices. Disabled by default, see the Configuration section for details.
• Better Experiments by dmarcuse - Automatically resumes paused experiments when re-entering the correct region, and ignores animation state.

Installation

Recommended

1. Use CKAN to download and install Kerbal Life Hacks.

Manual

1. Download and extract UITK for KSP 2 into your game folder (this is a dependency of SpaceWarp).
2. Download and extract SpaceWarp into your game folder.
3. Download and extract this mod into the game folder. If done correctly, you should have the following folder structure: <KSP Folder>/BepInEx/plugins/KerbalLifeHacks.

Configuration

All life hacks can be toggled on or off in Main menu -> Settings -> Mods -> Kerbal Life Hacks. The changes will take effect after the game is restarted. Life hacks are enabled by default unless otherwise noted.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to this project, please take a look at our wiki.