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Welcome to Kerbalism

Hundreds of Kerbals were killed in the making of this mod.

Kerbalism is a mod for Kerbal Space Program that alters the game to add life support, radiation, ISRU chains, part and engine failures and an entirely new way of doing science.

Features summary :

  • Life support : Kerbals consume food, water and oxygen and will die if they aren’t provided. Various processes can be added to recycle or produce those resources in situ.
  • Stress : Without adequate living space, atmospheric pressure and comforts, Kerbals will get stressed and start making mission-threatening mistakes.
  • Radiation : Kerbalism simulate the space radiation environment and radiation from local sources. A vessel must be adequately shielded and mission planning must be adjusted to avoid the most deadly places like planetary radiation belts.
  • Reliability : Components have a limited operational lifetime and will fail over time. Optional KerbalismEngineFailures adds engine ignitions, burn-time limits and turn-on failures.
  • ISRU : Instead of the easy “ore to everything” stock system, producing and processing resources in situ uses a…