List of easter eggs

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“ An Easter Egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message, or feature in a work such as a computer program, video game, movie, book, or crossword.

— Easter egg (media) on Wikipedia

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In KSP this corresponds to any anomalous formations on the surfaces of bodies in the Kerbol System (or indeed on the Main Menu, in IVAs, or anywhere really) which have been deliberately added by the developers. This does not include things which were not added deliberately, like terrain glitches. Some say that some of these easter eggs remain undiscovered as of today.

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Kerbol

  • None known

Moho

  • Although itself a terrain glitch, the Mohole (a large, steep vertical "tunnel" at Moho's north pole) could be considered an easter egg, since anomalous forces are present around its rim, which may well be deliberate.

Eve

  • None known

Gilly

  • None known

Kerbin

Mun

Minmus

Duna

The Giant Kerbal Face of Duna

Ike

  • Magic Boulder - Missing since 0.18 - The magic boulder used to orbit Ike at an altitude of 15 km with zero eccentricity and an inclination of 80 degrees. The mesh (physical surface) for the magic boulder did not match its texture (visible surface) which could result in ships apparently digging into the surface with no ill effect. It would also cause ships to explode seemingly spontaneously, sometimes metres away from the surface, displaying "vesselname crashed into Magic Boulder" in the Flight Log. It also seemed to glow green as if radioactive, and there was a Monolith on its leading edge. The boulder had no gravity, did not appear in the map view and could not be targeted, much like any other easter egg, except in orbit. The Magic Boulder is believed to still be somewhere in the game's code.

Dres

  • * Ring System of Asteroids - In the new 1.0 update of KSP, the developers announced an easter egg having to do with the new resource mining. On a stream a few hours later, asteroids were spawning around Dresin a circular formation. Dres now has a ring system of asteroids spawning in orbit.

Jool

  • None known

Laythe

  • None known

Vall

Formation on Vall

Tylo

Bop

Pol

  • None known

Eeloo

  • None known.

Overall

  • While not easter eggs per se, the exact geographical poles of most bodies have highly unusual topography, usually making them inaccessible, see terrain glitch.

Kerbals

An average of the skin color in Kerbal arm textures compared to the rumored colors
  • The color of the Kerbals' skin is close to is #BADA55 (   ) in hexadecimal but does not match it exactly. The hexadecimal RGB value spells like “badass” in leetspeek. Some say #84D455 (   ) is the color of a Kerbal which is even further away than #BADA55. This connection is rumored, because Kerbals can have a BadS flag, which is usually interpreted as badass.

IVA

  • Some of the cockpits have post-it notes and other humorous writings inside them. The writing is somewhat blurry on normal settings and hard to read, but still legible. For transcripts of the notes, see the respective part pages.

Parts

Loading Screen

Main Menu

  • One of the two main menu images is that of a Kerbal standing on the Mun's surface, with Kerbin in the background. There is a 1 in 40 chance that a sand castle made of Mun dust can be seen at his feet.
  • There is another main menu image with multiple kerbals, apparently digging out the crashed lander. Note that this is not in the stock game and is in fact added by the toolbar mod.

  • The Mun dust castle.

  • The toolbar mod easter egg

Scenarios

The Kerbal XX orbiting Duna
  • During the Space Station One scenario, by zooming out far enough to show the planetary map, a ship by the name of 'Kerbal XX' can be seen orbiting around Duna in a near-equatorial orbit (as of 0.23)

Gallery

  • Happy face engraved on Kerbin's ocean floor.

  • Happy face with increased brightness and contrast.

  • Goo Canister face with increased brightness and contrast.

  • Kerbal XX from the Station 1 scenario.

  • Drawings made by a rather pessimistic Kerbal engineer.

  • A Monolith on the Mun (aka Munolith)

See also

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