Overkill Plumes

Waterfall plume overrides for some Far Future Technologies engines that aim for stylistic and somewhat hard-sci-fi-accurate exhaust plumes. Mainly just ModuleManager patches and custom Waterfall templates.

Dependencies

These mods are required for Overkill Plumes to run properly! You'll need to install each one (and their own dependencies) before installing this mod in order for it to work.

• Far Future Technologies
  • Overkill plumes are currrently only applied to a few of FFT's engines. It also ships both Waterfall and ModuleManager as its own dependencies.

Plumes

As of v0.1.0, Overkill Plumes applies new engine plumes to the X-2 'Heinlein' and the X-42 'Niven' Nuclear Salt Water Rocket Engines.

Other FFT and NFP engines (antimatter, orion, etc.) are planned for future releases.

Installation

via CKAN

Search for "Overkill Plumes" in your CKAN client and install the mod as usual. CKAN will also flag FFT as a dependency if it isn't already installed, and install its dependencies as well.

via SpaceDock/GitHub

Download the latest ZIP from SpaceDock (or the GitHub repo's Releases page), extract it, and drag ONLY the OverkillPlumes folder inside your KSP installation's GameData folder.

When done correctly, the path should look like this:

KerbalSpaceProgram/
└── GameData/
    ├── OverkillPlumes/
    │   ├── FX/
    │   ├── Patches/
    │   └── ...
    ├── Squad/
    ├── YourOtherMods/
    └── ...

Known Issues

• Added plumes don't react to atmosphere depth and only ever display vaccum-accurate plumes. This is intentional for the first release and will be fixed in a future update.

Credits

• Quantums Hevy, original mod author

License

Copyright © 2026 Quantums Hevy

This work is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

This project contains patches and configuration files intended for use with other third-party mods. No ownership of those other projects or their assets is claimed, and nothing in this repository alters or supersedes their respective licenses.