Getting Started

This guide is intended to help you through your first few hours with Kerbal Space Program. Although it's far from comprehensive, you should have a decent understanding of the basics.

Buying

Squad provides a fairly straightforward storefront from which you can buy KSP.

1. Visit http://kerbalspaceprogram.com
2. Click on the store

Downloading

Squad, the makers of Kerbal Space Program, have a simple download tool used to download, update, and repair the game. It can also choose to download the game from the powerful Amazon S3 cloud when the main servers are under load.

1. Go to the store.
2. Log in with your username and password.
3. Click on the Profile button.
4. Scroll down to the bottom and select the download link next to the purchase invoice.
5. Download the patcher for your platform into an empty folder.
   • Mac users:
     1. Ensure the execute permission is set on the Patcher.command file.
     2. Install Mono from the bundled .dmg file, if needed.
     3. Run Patcher.command.
   • Windows Users:
     1. Install .NET Framework 4.0 or above, if needed. (New versions of Windows already have it.)
     2. Run Patcher.exe.