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The World Settings are the set of game options that apply to each created world separately. There are two ways how to access this screen:

• On the Main screen, click New Game and then select Custom Game.
  You are presented with settings so you can choose game rules, how the world is generated, random events that can take place, and various other peferences. If you want to change certain settings (for example, the Scenario template and the «Asteroid amount») your first and last chnace is here.
• On the Main screen, click Load Game, select an existing game from the list, and then click Edit Settings.
  Some settings (for example, the Scenario template and the «Asteroid amount») are not included because they cannot be changed after the game was created.

If specific settings seem to be missing, you likely need to enable Experimental Mode as well. Note that the Xbox does not have access to some features that PC has under Experimental mode.

When creating a new game, you use the tabs on the top to choose from Scenarios, Workshop, or Custom Games. The left side of the screen lists different templates for the starting conditions of the new world. How to edit the World Settings of a save that is not a custom game? To edit a pre-configured Scenario or workshop world, create the game as usual and save and close it. Then click Load Game, open its folder and select a game save, and then click Edit. Be aware that you edit a pre-configured game at the risk of breaking some of its intended gameplay.

Standard Settings

The Standard Settings are the minimum choices that you need to make to create a new game.

Name and Description

The name of the world is what will display in the Load World and Join World screens. The description will be displayed when hovering the cursor over the world’s name when joining a world. Choosing a meaningful name and description is important for attracting players to an online world, or for distinguishing between several save similar files.

Game Mode

The game mode determines a lot about how gameplay will function in the world. The player has two options: Creative or Survival.

• In Creative Mode, the player can place fully-constructed blocks without using resources. Inventory size is unlimited for both the player and blocks with inventories. Reactors do not consume fuel, players do not take damage and do not consume suit energy, and so on.
• In Survival Mode, the player must manage resources in order to survive and build. The player can take damage from the environment and must be mindful of its dangers.

Online mode

This option determines who, if anyone, can join the world while the player has it loaded. There are four options to choose from:

• Offline: Singleplayer. The game is run offline and «max players» option is disabled. (Note: Steam may still require an online connection for mods.)
• Private: Multiplayer. No one can see and join the game unless you invite them.
• Friends: Multiplayer. Only the host’s Steam friends can see and join the game.
• Public: Multiplayer. Anyone on Steam can see and join the game. May attract griefers.

Max players

This option is only enabled when not playing in offline mode. It lets you set the maximum number of players allowed to be in the world at once. The host can choose to allow any number of players between 4 and practically 32, and theoretically 1024. Actual performance depends on the host’s hardware, internet bandwidth, and complexity of the loaded world.

Auto-save

If enabled, the world will be periodically saved. To open a backup from the load screen, double-click the game save as if it were a directory, and select an auto-save.

Optional: Mods

Opens a screen where you enable or disable Mods for this world.

Tip: If you’re a beginner, don’t worry about Mods yet and skip this button. Better learn the “vanilla” game first. You can always add Mods later after you have an idea of the base gameplay.

• The left side lists available mods. If there are no mods listed, subscribe to some on any of the Workshops.
• The right side lists Mods that are currently active in this world.
• Use the arrow buttons in the middle to add or remove selected Mods.

Read the mods’ descriptions to understand their compatibilities!

Optional: Advanced Settings

If your game performance is fine and you want to play by the default game rules, just leave the advanced settings as is.

• If your game has low FPS, you can try to improve performance by limiting some features.
• If you find the default game to grindy or too easy, you can change rules regarding the speed of progression here.
• Admins and creative builders come here to enable Spectator mode and multiplayer options.
• Experienced players give themselves an extra challenge by disabling third-person view or jetpacks, or by enabling permadeath, or in-game scripting.

Characters inventory size / Blocks inventory size

This option determines the capacity of the player’s own inventory, and the capacity of blocks with inventories, respectively. There are three options to choose from:

• Realistic: The player can hold up to 400 L of items. The inventory capacity of blocks is the same as listed in their respective articles on this wiki.
• x3 / x5 / x10: Player and block inventories are three / five / ten times their realistic size, respectively.

Note that if you retroactively decrease these values for an existing world, excess content of inventories will be truncated and lost.

Assembler efficiency

This option determines both the production speed of Assemblers in the world and the amount of resources they take to produce items. There are three options to choose from:

• Realistic: Assemblers work at the normal speed and take the amount of resources listed on this wiki.
• x3 / x10: Assemblers work at three/ten times the normal speed and use one third/tenth of the normal resources.

Refinery speed

This option determines the production speed of Refineries in the world. There are three options to choose from:

• Realistic: Refineries work at the normal speed listed on this wiki.
• x3 / x10: Refineries work at three/ten times the normal speed.

Welding speed

This option determines the speed at which blocks are built using welding tools. There are four options:

• Realistic: The normal speed setting.
• x0.5: Welding reduced to half speed.
• x2 / x5: Welding increased by a factor of two/five.

Grinding speed

This option determines the speed at which blocks are salvaged using grinding tools. There are four options:

• Realistic: The normal speed setting.
• x0.5: Grinding reduced to half speed.
• x2 / x5: Grinding increased by a factor of two/five.

Environment hostility

This option determines whether or not meteor strikes are enabled and how frequently they occur. Choose from Safe, Normal, Cataclysm, or Armageddon — see Meteor for more details.

Asteroid amount

This option determines the density how many asteroids are generated in space when the world is created. The asteroid amount option is not available for the Empty World scenario. Because it affects world generation, this option cannot be changed retroactively after loading an existing world.

Sound Mode

You can choose between Arcade and Realistic sounds. Arcade sounds are how sound is often depicted in science fiction (explosions in space), whereas Realistic sound is more muted in vacuum and with the helmet closed.

Limit World Size

By default, the world size is unlimited and grows as far as the players fly. You can choose to limit the world size to a cube with a side lingth of 10, 20, 50, or 100 km. All objects that leave this area will be deleted from the game, and characters that leave will die.

View Distance

Larger view distances can cause performance issues depending on how many objects are in the world. Large view distances are also not recommended in worlds with high asteroid density. The performance-friendly recommendation for low-end machines is 5-10 km, whereas 30-50km is only recommended for high-end machines. The default distance is 15 km.

Respawn ship cooldown

The game has a cooldown time how quickly a player can respawn in a new drop pod after dying or after pressing Backspace. Originally, a cooldown of 5-15 mins was intended to discourage players to call in numerous drop pods as a cheap source of materials, but this is no longer needed since the drop pod now despawns when you get a new one. Hence the cooldown is disabled by default. Here you could enable the cooldown again and set it to a fraction or a multiple of the default value.

Enable sun rotation

In Space Engineers (as opposed to the real world), the sun orbits around the planets to create the appearance of day and night on planets. Sun rotation can be switched on or off. For example, switch it on during normal survival gameplay, and switch it off during creative building or when taking screenshots or recording video. See also «Day duration».

Day duration

If „sun rotation” is enabled, you can choose an in-game day duration between 1 min and 1 day in real-life time. Day length is the same for all planets. Default is 2 hours.

Max objects

This option determines how many items are allowed to float freely in space or lie on the ground. Objects include space ship debris, dropped items like components and ingots, and mined rocks and ores.

Having extremely large number of objects floating freely can slow down the game significantly. If the chosen maximum value is exceeded, the oldest objects (those that have been loose the longest) are automatically deleted from the world. The host can set the maximum number of floating objects between 16 and 1024, but nothing higher then 64 is recommended. Default is 56.

Note: The automatic deletion of debris is colloquially called garbage collection or trash clean-up and its behaviour can be configured or suspended on the Admin Screen in a running game.

Animal NPC Limits

The host can choose any number of active NPCs between 16 and 512, but nothing higher then 64 is recommended. Default is 32. This setting was added with Update 1.200 (Warfare 2) as part of the process of improving the Animal NPC API. Currently the only animals are saberoids and cyberhounds.

Block limits

The game will use recommended block limits in this world to ensure performance. If too many players build too big, they’ll get a warning with a remaining-block counter, and if their allocation reaches zero, they are prevented from building additional blocks. Please disable this option only for experimental purposes. If enabled, the defaults are:

• Max ship size
  You can limit the maximum number of blocks that players can use per grid (that is, per ship / rover / station) to a value between 100 and 50,000 blocks. If your players build “too big”, enable this option to preserve performance on multiplayer servers. By default, this limit is not enforced.
• Max blocks per player
  You can limit the maximum number of blocks that each player can use in total in this world to a value between 300 and 100,000. Destroyed or grinded blocks are refunded. Enable this option to preserve performance on multiplayer servers. By default, this limit is not enforced.
• Total PCU
  Each block has a performance-impact cost, measured in PCU. You can limit the global PCU available in this world to preserve performance. Default is 100,000.

Max backup saves

If automatic backups (see: Auto-Save) are enabled, this setting controls how many backups will be kept in the save game folder. When you set this to zero, existing backups will be deleted.

Optimal spawn distance

(Only relevant for multiplayer games:) When new players spawn in, you can choose whether you want their drop pods to come in close to existing players (minimum 1km), or further away (up to 25km). This value is measured in metres, the default is 16000 (16 km). Closer makes more sense for PvE, further away makes more sense for PvP.

Auto-healing

If enabled, engineers will automatically heal damage in oxygen environments at a slow rate. If disabled, they will need survival kits, medical rooms, or medkits to heal. Enabled by default.

Delete respawn ship

Whether the respawn ship will be deleted when the player leaves the server or spawns in another one. Enable this to discourage players from calling in droppods to salvage them for cheap materials. Disabled by default.

Enable Spectator

Spectator Mode lets players (in Survival, typically multiplayer admins) see through walls and teleport. Disabled by default.

Enable copy/paste

This allows players to copy a grid (ship, rover, station) and paste the copy into the world, or turn the clipboard into a blueprint. If the copied blueprint contains modded blocks that you don’t have installed, you cannot paste it. The copy can be given momentum as it is pasted into the world, drifting through space if unpowered. Enabled by default in Creative mode, disabled in Survival mode.

Show player names

If enabled, nearby players will have their names displayed. This looks similar to a powered Beacon, except that distance to the player is not shown. Enabled by default. See also the O command.

Reset ownership

Reset Ownership of all blocks to «nobody». Disabled by default.

Thruster damage

If enabled, thrusters will deal damage to players and blocks that are behind them when they fire. Enabled by default.

Permanent Death

If enabled, the engineer cannot respawn in this game save anymore after they die. Permadeath is disabled by default.

Weapons enabled

If enabled, weapons and explosives will function normally. If disabled, however, attempting to fire a weapon will instead display a warning message indicating that they do not work. Enabled by default. See also Damage Mechanics.

Cargo ships

If enabled, Pre-Built Ships will occasionally spawn at the edge of the world and drift through the sector. These computer-controlled (NPC) ships can be captured and salvaged. Some of these ships are unarmed, but those with turrets will fire at players and ships that come close. Enabled by default.

Destructible blocks

Controls whether blocks are destructable by crashes, collisions, or weapons. Typically enabled for Survival games, and disabled for adventure maps or showcases. Enabled by default. See also Damage Mechanics.

In-game scripts

Enable this to run scripts in Programmable Blocks. Disabled by default.

Enable tool shake

Choose whether grinders and welders shake the player’s camera. Enabled by default.

Adaptive simulation quality

Enable reduction of quality of deformation and explosions affecting voxels if the CPU is on fire. Enabled by default.

Enable voxel hand

The Voxel Hands tool is a Creative tool in the Toolbar Configuration that lets you shape the voxels of planets and asteroids. Enabled in Creative mode, disabled by default in Survival mode.

Random encounters

Sometimes, you will encounter abandoned ships and stations when exploring the world. Enabled by default.

Enable 3rd person view

Controls whether pressing (V key) toggles the camera between 1st and 3rd person view. 3rd person view is advantageous when exploring and when controlling ships and rovers, enforcing 1st person view only makes the game more challenging. Being able to switch is enabled by default.

Enable oxygen

Oxygen is used as a survival mechanic by the Engineer’s space suits and by engineers in cockpits. This game mechanic is enabled by default.

Enable airtightness

Oxygen is used as a survival mechanic when building airtight rooms. Airtightness is enabled by default.

Enable «Convert to Station»

This adds a button to a grid’s Info Screen to covert grids between a mobile ship and a static station. If you convert a station that still intersects with voxels, the resulting mobile grid will likely explode.

Unsupported stations

If disabled, when you disconnect the supports of a static grid from a planet or asteroid, it will turn into mobile grid (this is the default behaviour). If enabled, the static grid will remain static even if unsupported.

Enable jetpack

Enabled by default. If disabled, pressing X does not allow engineers to fly with their jetpacks, which presents the player with an extra challenge, and can end up getting you stuck in zero gravity.

Spawn with tools

By default, characters always respawn with a low-level handheld grinder, welder, and drill. Disabling this option presents the player with an extra challenge, for example in a scenario.

Enable voxel destruction

Controls whether voxels (that is, the ground and asteroids) are destructable by drills, collisions, or explosives. Typically enabled for Survival games, and disabled for adventure maps or showcases. Enabled by default. See also Damage Mechanics.

Enable drones

If you approach or attack certain NPC stations, they will defend themselves by sending armed drones after you. Enabled by default.

Enable wolves

If enabled, Cyberhounds spawn on the Earthlike planet and attack players and buildings. Disabled by default because they are buggy.

Enable spiders

If enabled, Saberoids spawn on the Alien planet and attack players and buildings. Disabled by default because they are buggy.

Remote block removal

Allows players to free up their PCU limits by remotely removing their own abandoned grids through the Info Screen of their player Terminal. Enabled by default.

Enable Sub-Grid damage

If enabled, then subgrids connected by hinges/rotors/pistons can damage each other when moving. Disabled by default for more stable behaviour.

Enable friendly missile damage

Disabled by default. If enabled, missile explosions can damage the grids of their own faction.

Enable unknown signals

If you start the game via Steam, a few times per day, lootboxes on parachutes will be dropped from the sky while you play. They contain tradeable Steam skins, space credits, and components. Enabled by default in Survival mode. Not available in Creative mode.

Enable respawn ships

Enabled by default so engineers can respawn in a ship or in their suit after they get killed. If disabled, it becomes practically a permadeath game.

Enable progression

Progression means that engineers have to unlock blocks by building specific blocks from the progression tree first. Enabled by default. Progression can help new players focus on essentials; advanced players can choose to disable it.

Enable Autorespawn

By default, dead players automatically respawn at the your (faction’s) nearest available Medical Room or Survival Kit. All other respawn points are listed on the respawn screen as «not ready».
If you disable this setting, respawning players can choose a respawn point from the list — which is practically a means of «fast-travel without inventory», this is why servers typically enforce Autorespawn.

Enable supergridding

An outdated exploit that allowed mixing small and large grid blocks that is rarely still used in old workshop items. Disabled by default.

Enable Economy

In multiplayer as well as singleplayer, you will sometimes encounter Trading Outposts: These are initially neutral space stations and planetary bases owned by NPC factions that offer Stores and Contracts. The same NPC factions also own the passing cargo ships. Disabled by default.

Enable Bounty Contracts

A PvP gameplay option for Multiplayer: If Economy Trading Outposts are enabled, the NPCs are allowed to offer Bounty Contracts to reward players for killing players that have low standing with their NPC faction (due to unfulfilled contracts or piracy). Enabled by default.

Enable Weather system

Adds different atmospheric conditions to planets with atmospheres, which may limit visibility, or affect the power effectivity of wind mills and solar panels. Enabled by default.

Enable aim assist

Off by default for PC. You can enable this adjustment if you are using a gamepad controller.

The World Settings are the set of game options that apply to each created world separately. There are two ways how to access this screen:

• On the Main screen, click New Game and then select Custom Game.
  You are presented with settings so you can choose game rules, how the world is generated, random events that can take place, and various other peferences. If you want to change certain settings (for example, the Scenario template and the «Asteroid amount») your first and last chnace is here.
• On the Main screen, click Load Game, select an existing game from the list, and then click Edit Settings.
  Some settings (for example, the Scenario template and the «Asteroid amount») are not included because they cannot be changed after the game was created.

If specific settings seem to be missing, you likely need to enable Experimental Mode as well. Note that the Xbox does not have access to some features that PC has under Experimental mode.

When creating a new game, you use the tabs on the top to choose from Scenarios, Workshop, or Custom Games. The left side of the screen lists different templates for the starting conditions of the new world. How to edit the World Settings of a save that is not a custom game? To edit a pre-configured Scenario or workshop world, create the game as usual and save and close it. Then click Load Game, open its folder and select a game save, and then click Edit. Be aware that you edit a pre-configured game at the risk of breaking some of its intended gameplay.

Standard Settings

The Standard Settings are the minimum choices that you need to make to create a new game.

Name and Description

The name of the world is what will display in the Load World and Join World screens. The description will be displayed when hovering the cursor over the world’s name when joining a world. Choosing a meaningful name and description is important for attracting players to an online world, or for distinguishing between several save similar files.

Game Mode

The game mode determines a lot about how gameplay will function in the world. The player has two options: Creative or Survival.

• In Creative Mode, the player can place fully-constructed blocks without using resources. Inventory size is unlimited for both the player and blocks with inventories. Reactors do not consume fuel, players do not take damage and do not consume suit energy, and so on.
• In Survival Mode, the player must manage resources in order to survive and build. The player can take damage from the environment and must be mindful of its dangers.

Online mode

This option determines who, if anyone, can join the world while the player has it loaded. There are four options to choose from:

• Offline: Singleplayer. The game is run offline and «max players» option is disabled. (Note: Steam may still require an online connection for mods.)
• Private: Multiplayer. No one can see and join the game unless you invite them.
• Friends: Multiplayer. Only the host’s Steam friends can see and join the game.
• Public: Multiplayer. Anyone on Steam can see and join the game. May attract griefers.

Max players

This option is only enabled when not playing in offline mode. It lets you set the maximum number of players allowed to be in the world at once. The host can choose to allow any number of players between 4 and practically 32, and theoretically 1024. Actual performance depends on the host’s hardware, internet bandwidth, and complexity of the loaded world.

Auto-save

If enabled, the world will be periodically saved. To open a backup from the load screen, double-click the game save as if it were a directory, and select an auto-save.

Optional: Mods

Opens a screen where you enable or disable Mods for this world.

Tip: If you’re a beginner, don’t worry about Mods yet and skip this button. Better learn the “vanilla” game first. You can always add Mods later after you have an idea of the base gameplay.

• The left side lists available mods. If there are no mods listed, subscribe to some on any of the Workshops.
• The right side lists Mods that are currently active in this world.
• Use the arrow buttons in the middle to add or remove selected Mods.

Read the mods’ descriptions to understand their compatibilities!

Optional: Advanced Settings

If your game performance is fine and you want to play by the default game rules, just leave the advanced settings as is.

• If your game has low FPS, you can try to improve performance by limiting some features.
• If you find the default game to grindy or too easy, you can change rules regarding the speed of progression here.
• Admins and creative builders come here to enable Spectator mode and multiplayer options.
• Experienced players give themselves an extra challenge by disabling third-person view or jetpacks, or by enabling permadeath, or in-game scripting.

Characters inventory size / Blocks inventory size

This option determines the capacity of the player’s own inventory, and the capacity of blocks with inventories, respectively. There are three options to choose from:

• Realistic: The player can hold up to 400 L of items. The inventory capacity of blocks is the same as listed in their respective articles on this wiki.
• x3 / x5 / x10: Player and block inventories are three / five / ten times their realistic size, respectively.

Note that if you retroactively decrease these values for an existing world, excess content of inventories will be truncated and lost.

Assembler efficiency

This option determines both the production speed of Assemblers in the world and the amount of resources they take to produce items. There are three options to choose from:

• Realistic: Assemblers work at the normal speed and take the amount of resources listed on this wiki.
• x3 / x10: Assemblers work at three/ten times the normal speed and use one third/tenth of the normal resources.

Refinery speed

This option determines the production speed of Refineries in the world. There are three options to choose from:

• Realistic: Refineries work at the normal speed listed on this wiki.
• x3 / x10: Refineries work at three/ten times the normal speed.

Welding speed

This option determines the speed at which blocks are built using welding tools. There are four options:

• Realistic: The normal speed setting.
• x0.5: Welding reduced to half speed.
• x2 / x5: Welding increased by a factor of two/five.

Grinding speed

This option determines the speed at which blocks are salvaged using grinding tools. There are four options:

• Realistic: The normal speed setting.
• x0.5: Grinding reduced to half speed.
• x2 / x5: Grinding increased by a factor of two/five.

Environment hostility

This option determines whether or not meteor strikes are enabled and how frequently they occur. Choose from Safe, Normal, Cataclysm, or Armageddon — see Meteor for more details.

Asteroid amount

This option determines the density how many asteroids are generated in space when the world is created. The asteroid amount option is not available for the Empty World scenario. Because it affects world generation, this option cannot be changed retroactively after loading an existing world.

Sound Mode

You can choose between Arcade and Realistic sounds. Arcade sounds are how sound is often depicted in science fiction (explosions in space), whereas Realistic sound is more muted in vacuum and with the helmet closed.

Limit World Size

By default, the world size is unlimited and grows as far as the players fly. You can choose to limit the world size to a cube with a side lingth of 10, 20, 50, or 100 km. All objects that leave this area will be deleted from the game, and characters that leave will die.

View Distance

Larger view distances can cause performance issues depending on how many objects are in the world. Large view distances are also not recommended in worlds with high asteroid density. The performance-friendly recommendation for low-end machines is 5-10 km, whereas 30-50km is only recommended for high-end machines. The default distance is 15 km.

Respawn ship cooldown

The game has a cooldown time how quickly a player can respawn in a new drop pod after dying or after pressing Backspace. Originally, a cooldown of 5-15 mins was intended to discourage players to call in numerous drop pods as a cheap source of materials, but this is no longer needed since the drop pod now despawns when you get a new one. Hence the cooldown is disabled by default. Here you could enable the cooldown again and set it to a fraction or a multiple of the default value.

Enable sun rotation

In Space Engineers (as opposed to the real world), the sun orbits around the planets to create the appearance of day and night on planets. Sun rotation can be switched on or off. For example, switch it on during normal survival gameplay, and switch it off during creative building or when taking screenshots or recording video. See also «Day duration».

Day duration

If „sun rotation” is enabled, you can choose an in-game day duration between 1 min and 1 day in real-life time. Day length is the same for all planets. Default is 2 hours.

Max objects

This option determines how many items are allowed to float freely in space or lie on the ground. Objects include space ship debris, dropped items like components and ingots, and mined rocks and ores.

Having extremely large number of objects floating freely can slow down the game significantly. If the chosen maximum value is exceeded, the oldest objects (those that have been loose the longest) are automatically deleted from the world. The host can set the maximum number of floating objects between 16 and 1024, but nothing higher then 64 is recommended. Default is 56.

Note: The automatic deletion of debris is colloquially called garbage collection or trash clean-up and its behaviour can be configured or suspended on the Admin Screen in a running game.

Animal NPC Limits

The host can choose any number of active NPCs between 16 and 512, but nothing higher then 64 is recommended. Default is 32. This setting was added with Update 1.200 (Warfare 2) as part of the process of improving the Animal NPC API. Currently the only animals are saberoids and cyberhounds.

Block limits

The game will use recommended block limits in this world to ensure performance. If too many players build too big, they’ll get a warning with a remaining-block counter, and if their allocation reaches zero, they are prevented from building additional blocks. Please disable this option only for experimental purposes. If enabled, the defaults are:

• Max ship size
  You can limit the maximum number of blocks that players can use per grid (that is, per ship / rover / station) to a value between 100 and 50,000 blocks. If your players build “too big”, enable this option to preserve performance on multiplayer servers. By default, this limit is not enforced.
• Max blocks per player
  You can limit the maximum number of blocks that each player can use in total in this world to a value between 300 and 100,000. Destroyed or grinded blocks are refunded. Enable this option to preserve performance on multiplayer servers. By default, this limit is not enforced.
• Total PCU
  Each block has a performance-impact cost, measured in PCU. You can limit the global PCU available in this world to preserve performance. Default is 100,000.

Max backup saves

If automatic backups (see: Auto-Save) are enabled, this setting controls how many backups will be kept in the save game folder. When you set this to zero, existing backups will be deleted.

Optimal spawn distance

(Only relevant for multiplayer games:) When new players spawn in, you can choose whether you want their drop pods to come in close to existing players (minimum 1km), or further away (up to 25km). This value is measured in metres, the default is 16000 (16 km). Closer makes more sense for PvE, further away makes more sense for PvP.

Auto-healing

If enabled, engineers will automatically heal damage in oxygen environments at a slow rate. If disabled, they will need survival kits, medical rooms, or medkits to heal. Enabled by default.

Delete respawn ship

Whether the respawn ship will be deleted when the player leaves the server or spawns in another one. Enable this to discourage players from calling in droppods to salvage them for cheap materials. Disabled by default.

Enable Spectator

Spectator Mode lets players (in Survival, typically multiplayer admins) see through walls and teleport. Disabled by default.

Enable copy/paste

This allows players to copy a grid (ship, rover, station) and paste the copy into the world, or turn the clipboard into a blueprint. If the copied blueprint contains modded blocks that you don’t have installed, you cannot paste it. The copy can be given momentum as it is pasted into the world, drifting through space if unpowered. Enabled by default in Creative mode, disabled in Survival mode.

Show player names

If enabled, nearby players will have their names displayed. This looks similar to a powered Beacon, except that distance to the player is not shown. Enabled by default. See also the O command.

Reset ownership

Reset Ownership of all blocks to «nobody». Disabled by default.

Thruster damage

If enabled, thrusters will deal damage to players and blocks that are behind them when they fire. Enabled by default.

Permanent Death

If enabled, the engineer cannot respawn in this game save anymore after they die. Permadeath is disabled by default.

Weapons enabled

If enabled, weapons and explosives will function normally. If disabled, however, attempting to fire a weapon will instead display a warning message indicating that they do not work. Enabled by default. See also Damage Mechanics.

Cargo ships

If enabled, Pre-Built Ships will occasionally spawn at the edge of the world and drift through the sector. These computer-controlled (NPC) ships can be captured and salvaged. Some of these ships are unarmed, but those with turrets will fire at players and ships that come close. Enabled by default.

Destructible blocks

Controls whether blocks are destructable by crashes, collisions, or weapons. Typically enabled for Survival games, and disabled for adventure maps or showcases. Enabled by default. See also Damage Mechanics.

In-game scripts

Enable this to run scripts in Programmable Blocks. Disabled by default.

Enable tool shake

Choose whether grinders and welders shake the player’s camera. Enabled by default.

Adaptive simulation quality

Enable reduction of quality of deformation and explosions affecting voxels if the CPU is on fire. Enabled by default.

Enable voxel hand

The Voxel Hands tool is a Creative tool in the Toolbar Configuration that lets you shape the voxels of planets and asteroids. Enabled in Creative mode, disabled by default in Survival mode.

Random encounters

Sometimes, you will encounter abandoned ships and stations when exploring the world. Enabled by default.

Enable 3rd person view

Controls whether pressing (V key) toggles the camera between 1st and 3rd person view. 3rd person view is advantageous when exploring and when controlling ships and rovers, enforcing 1st person view only makes the game more challenging. Being able to switch is enabled by default.

Enable oxygen

Oxygen is used as a survival mechanic by the Engineer’s space suits and by engineers in cockpits. This game mechanic is enabled by default.

Enable airtightness

Oxygen is used as a survival mechanic when building airtight rooms. Airtightness is enabled by default.

Enable «Convert to Station»

This adds a button to a grid’s Info Screen to covert grids between a mobile ship and a static station. If you convert a station that still intersects with voxels, the resulting mobile grid will likely explode.

Unsupported stations

If disabled, when you disconnect the supports of a static grid from a planet or asteroid, it will turn into mobile grid (this is the default behaviour). If enabled, the static grid will remain static even if unsupported.

Enable jetpack

Enabled by default. If disabled, pressing X does not allow engineers to fly with their jetpacks, which presents the player with an extra challenge, and can end up getting you stuck in zero gravity.

Spawn with tools

By default, characters always respawn with a low-level handheld grinder, welder, and drill. Disabling this option presents the player with an extra challenge, for example in a scenario.

Enable voxel destruction

Controls whether voxels (that is, the ground and asteroids) are destructable by drills, collisions, or explosives. Typically enabled for Survival games, and disabled for adventure maps or showcases. Enabled by default. See also Damage Mechanics.

Enable drones

If you approach or attack certain NPC stations, they will defend themselves by sending armed drones after you. Enabled by default.

Enable wolves

If enabled, Cyberhounds spawn on the Earthlike planet and attack players and buildings. Disabled by default because they are buggy.

Enable spiders

If enabled, Saberoids spawn on the Alien planet and attack players and buildings. Disabled by default because they are buggy.

Remote block removal

Allows players to free up their PCU limits by remotely removing their own abandoned grids through the Info Screen of their player Terminal. Enabled by default.

Enable Sub-Grid damage

If enabled, then subgrids connected by hinges/rotors/pistons can damage each other when moving. Disabled by default for more stable behaviour.

Enable friendly missile damage

Disabled by default. If enabled, missile explosions can damage the grids of their own faction.

Enable unknown signals

If you start the game via Steam, a few times per day, lootboxes on parachutes will be dropped from the sky while you play. They contain tradeable Steam skins, space credits, and components. Enabled by default in Survival mode. Not available in Creative mode.

Enable respawn ships

Enabled by default so engineers can respawn in a ship or in their suit after they get killed. If disabled, it becomes practically a permadeath game.

Enable progression

Progression means that engineers have to unlock blocks by building specific blocks from the progression tree first. Enabled by default. Progression can help new players focus on essentials; advanced players can choose to disable it.

Enable Autorespawn

By default, dead players automatically respawn at the your (faction’s) nearest available Medical Room or Survival Kit. All other respawn points are listed on the respawn screen as «not ready».
If you disable this setting, respawning players can choose a respawn point from the list — which is practically a means of «fast-travel without inventory», this is why servers typically enforce Autorespawn.

Enable supergridding

An outdated exploit that allowed mixing small and large grid blocks that is rarely still used in old workshop items. Disabled by default.

Enable Economy

In multiplayer as well as singleplayer, you will sometimes encounter Trading Outposts: These are initially neutral space stations and planetary bases owned by NPC factions that offer Stores and Contracts. The same NPC factions also own the passing cargo ships. Disabled by default.

Enable Bounty Contracts

A PvP gameplay option for Multiplayer: If Economy Trading Outposts are enabled, the NPCs are allowed to offer Bounty Contracts to reward players for killing players that have low standing with their NPC faction (due to unfulfilled contracts or piracy). Enabled by default.

Enable Weather system

Adds different atmospheric conditions to planets with atmospheres, which may limit visibility, or affect the power effectivity of wind mills and solar panels. Enabled by default.

Enable aim assist

Off by default for PC. You can enable this adjustment if you are using a gamepad controller.

The Admin Screen used to be called Space Master^[1]. You open the Admin Screen by pressing (ALT-F10 key) while a game is running. As a mnemonic, think A as in Admin uses AltKey.

This screen is very useful if you are the admin of a multiplayer server and you need «god mode» or «dungeon master» powers. Admins often combine its use with Spectator Mode. Of course you can also use these powers in your single-player games.

The settings and changes only apply to the current game. Remember that you need to click Submit Changes for automatic settings to become active.

Admin Tools

This menu changes properties and permissions for the current player. It is useful if you are the admin of a server and need to help other players by cutting and pasting their stuck grids back in, and to fix performance intensive block settings for them.

• Enable creative mode tools — Enables the current player to place blocks for free without welding them, to destroy blocks without grinding them, and to spawn items in. It also allows the player to repair blocks without having the needed components in inventory.
• Make this player invulnerable, or even untargetable by automatic weapons.
• Show all players on the HUD so nobody can hide from you.
• Can use all terminals lets you interact with all functional blocks, even if they are not owned by you or your allies.
• Keep original ownership on paste. If you are helping other players by cutting and pasting their stuck grids, enable this.
• Ignore safe zones means you cannot be stopped by puny player-built force fields.
• Ignore pcu limits enables you to paste any grid, no matter the size and PCU limits.
• Time of day offset lets you manually move the sun along its path on the skybox, so you can change whether it’s day or night.

Cycle objects

This screen lets an Admin quickly find any extreme in the game by cycling through all objects sorted by specific criteria. This is useful when looking for the source of performance degradation on multiplayer servers.

A secondary function is the ability to teleport yourself to the identified GPS/planet/grid/player etc.

• First, sort objects by type:
  • Biggest grids, fastest, most wheels, biggest distance, most active drills/reactors/production/sensors/thrusters;
  • static objects, floating objects;
  • characters, GPS markers (distance), planets, owner login time.
• If applicable, filter the sorted objects to focus only on small grid, or only large grids, or both.
• Then click the first, next, or previous buttons to cycle through the list.
  You can see the entity name (and, if applicable, the current value).

When you’ve found your target, you can remove, stop, or depower it.

Tip: When you are in Spectator Mode, you can also teleport the spectator to the target’s location, and then click «player control» to have your character travel there.

Trash removal

If you notice wrecks and half-welded grids “disappearing”, check whether your automatic Trash Removal settings are too aggressive.

Tip: If your game runs well in Singleplayer, simply suspend automatic Trash Removal, and clean up any debris yourself manually!

After crashes or space battles, multiplayer servers end up with a lot of floating debris that has an impact on performance if it is not ground down or collected. Trash removal means here that such laggy debris is automatically deleted from the game. But the catch is, how do we define what «trash» is, while at the same time preventing the game from automatically removing, say, a half welded drone that you are still working on?

Make backups before changing these settings.

General:

Use this panel to define auto trash detection in game terms. For example, you may decide to allow garbage collection of any grid «that is either stationary or linearly moving or accelerating, but not powered and not being controlled by a player, and has fewer blocks than 20», and so on.

You can choose from the following criteria for which items and grids are «trash»:

• fixed planetary or space stations (default: off), stationary floating grids (default: on), linearly moving grids (default: on), accelerating grids (default: on)
• powered grids (default: off), player- controlled grids (default: off),
• grids with production (default: off), grids with respawn point (default: off),
• grids with fewer than x blocks (default: 20 blocks), grids with over x metres distance from players (default 500?), time since logout of owner in hours (default 0 = rule inactive).

To ignore all these criteria and to forbid the game any automatic garbage collection, click Suspend.

To accept the new definition of trash, click Submit Changes. Or click Cancel Changes to discard any changes to «Trash Removal: General».

Voxels:

Voxel modifications can be automatically cleaned up as well, this means, holes are filled in and the terrain resets to how it was when the game was started.

Multiplayer server admins revert voxels to improve performance on their servers if, say, the aftermath of a ground battle or meteor storm has degraded the sim speed. If players have built underground bases, don’t set the protection distance too low or it will fill in their tunnels.

Voxel reset is switched off by default. Here multiplayer server admins can define the criteria for when and where voxel resets will happen. Typically you don’t reset voxel while players, their grids, or wrecks are in a certain radius around the craters, because they may intend to return.

• Choose whether to revert asteroids, voxel terrain, and/or boulders. For boulders reverting, the minimum player distance is 2000m.
• Revert with floating objects or NPC grids present (default: off)
• The distance from players at which voxels are protected from being cleaned up: default 5000metres
• The distance from grids at which voxels are protected from being cleaned up: default 5000metres
• This much time has to pass before changes to voxels are cleaned up in minutes: default 24

Click Enable to reset voxels that fulfil these criteria. If you made any edits, click Submit Changes, or click Cancel Changes to discard any changes to «Trash Removal: Voxels».

Other:

Here are some more criteria for automatic deletion and garbage collection. Most of them are only relevant to Multiplayer.

• Enforce a radical Optimal grid count: Prevents players from building an excessive amount of grids. Warning, enabling this criterion ignores the «powered» and «fixed» flags, ignores «block count» limits, and lowers the protection distance from players. Set to zero to disable, zero is also the recommended default.
• Delete offline character after m minutes: When a player disconnects, the character is removed after this many minutes. They can come back any time. Set to zero to disable, default 15 mins.
• AFK timeout: When a player is inactive / idle / away from keyboard, the character is kicked after this many minutes. They can come back any time. Set to zero to disable (default).
• Stop grid period (minutes): If grids move too far from any players, their drifting will be stopped after this many minutes. Set to zero to disable. Default is 15 minutes.
• Remove old identities (hours): Inactive player identities who do not own any grids are removed after that many hours. Set to zero to disable, this is also the default. Note that if you allow players to join without participating, they can sell their PCU allowance to other players, so switch this option on if you have this issue.

Click «Stop all entities» if items/wrecks are drifting right now to have a chance to catch them. Or, click «Remove floating objects» to draconically get rid of all debris — at the risk of also deleting players’ grids that might still be in use!

If you made any edits, click Submit Changes, or click Cancel Changes to discard any changes to «Trash Removal: Other».

Entity List

Here an admin can view the list of all entities on this server, such as grids or players, and teleport to them, control them, or delete them.

• Select the type of entity to view: Grids (any, small, large), characters, floating objects (items), planets, asteroids, replicated, not replicated.
• Sort entities by: Display name, block count, mass, owner name, distance from center, speed, distance from players, owner last logout, PCU
• Then view the list of entities and click to select one
  Or select a range of entities using shift-click, and multi-select separate entities using ctrl-click (without deselecting the current selection).
• Choose between which action you want to apply to the entity, as applicable:
  • player control,
  • teleport here,
  • stop,
  • depower,
  • remove,
  • refresh,
  • remove inactive owner and his grids

Safe Zones

This menu manages admin-owned safe zones, which are useful, for example, to protect a spawn point on a multiplayer server. In contrast to player-built Safe Zones, admin-owned safe zones don’t need an in-world safe zone block, use no power, and do not use up zone chips.

If there is no admin controlled safe zone yet, first click «New Safe Zone» to create a safe zone at your current position.

Then select a Safe Zone from the list and configure it:

• Define its shape (cube or sphere) and size (cuboid axes lengths or radius) in metres.
• Choose what you want to allow players to do inside the zone. By default, the following actions are all disallowed in the zone:
  • Damage, shooting
  • Drilling, welding, grinding
  • Building, building projections, voxel hands
  • Landing gear lock, conversion to station
• Choose a texture and color for the force field around the zone.

An admin can configure filters which players, factions, grids, and floating objects are allowed into the safe zone (whitelist), or are blocked from entering (blacklist).

Tip: In the filter settings, click Add Contained to quickly add all players/grids/etc that are currently present in the zone to either a black- or whitelist. Be careful, adding containd players/grid to a blacklist will eject them quite forcefully.

How to manage your existing Safe Zones:

• Select a Safe Zone and click the «Move To Safe Zone» button to teleport yourself into its center.
• Select a Safe Zone and click «Change Position» to move the center of the selected Safe Zone to where you are standing right now.
• Select a Safe Zone to rename it, or to remove it.

Remember to enable the zone to make it work, or disable it if no longer needed.

Note: If players have created their own safe zones (using safe zone blocks), these do not appear in the list here and are not meant to be controlled from here.

Global Permissions

Choose what you want to allow players to do in this game in general. The following is allowed by default in Survival games:

• Damage, shooting,
• drilling, welding, grinding,
• building, building projections, voxel hands,
• landing gear lock, conversion to station.

For example, for a race track you could deactivate «damage» if too many cars get disqualified due to lag-related crashes.

Replay Tool

A cinematographic tool that’s typically used in Creative Mode. See Replay Tool.

Weather

See Weather for general info how it appears in game. Weather must be enabled in the world settings for this world for the following Admin commands to work:

• Force Random Weather
• Create Lightning
• Modify weather:
  1. Select a weather type: Alien fog, Alien rain, Alien thunderstorm, Dust, Electric Storm, Fog, Mars Snow, Mars Storm, Rain, SandStorm, Snow, Thunderstorm. — With exception of Dust, Mars Snow, and Electric Storm, they all exist in heavy and light variants.
  2. Then choose an action: Either Create weather, Replace current weather with selected weather, or Remove this weather.

This window also shows you the current weather at the location, and its intensity and temperature.

The last line is the weather forecast and it shows incoming weather.

Spectator Tool

An administrative or cinematographic tool. See Spectator Tool. Admins can use it to «leave their bodies» and move freely through the world, even through voxels and grids.

Economy

If Economy is enabled in the world settings, an admin can control how many space credits each player owns and what their reputation among NPC traders is.

• To change the account balance how much «money» another player possesses, an admin can select a player name; you will see their current balance. Enter an amount of space credits to add, and click «Change». A positive number will be added and a negative number will be subtracted. You can preview what the final balance will be as well.

• To change a player’s reputation, first select a player name, then a faction. You will see the current standing that this player has with that faction. Enter an amount of reputation to add, and click «Change». A positive number will be added and a negative number will be subtracted. You can check what the final reputation will be. The worst is -1500 and the best is 1500.

• You can choose to propagate the reputation to friends and enemies of the faction. Warning: Propagation of positive and negative reputation is not symmetric. Propagating +1000 and then -1000 won’t have a zero sum for friends and foes of the faction, so don’t expect cascading changes to be undone easily.

Match

This menu can be used to track rounds in timed races. The display is in Hours:Minutes:Seconds and it counts down. Every time the admin changes the state (pushes a button) a chat message informs other players, e.g. whether the match was (re)started.

TODO: Usage example

• Start — This button starts or restarts a match’s timer.
• Pause/Unpause — Pauses the timer, and when you click this button again, the counting continues.
• Advance — Advanced to the next stage. (?)
• Set — Enter a positive number in minutes into the input field, and click Set to set the maximum time of the match.
• Add — Enter a postive or negative number in minutes into the input, field and click Add to add or subtract time from the maximum time of the match.

Stages:

• The inital state is PreMatch.
• The intermediate stages are Running or Not Running (paused).
• The final state ist Finished.

Cheaters

This menu only exists on servers. It’s supposed to list players who run malicious scripts but it also flags false positives. Mouse over the player name to see more details about the suspicious event. If the player has really done something that is disallowed, you can select them and then kick or ban them from here.

References

The Admin Screen used to be called Space Master^[1]. You open the Admin Screen by pressing (ALT-F10 key) while a game is running. As a mnemonic, think A as in Admin uses AltKey.

This screen is very useful if you are the admin of a multiplayer server and you need «god mode» or «dungeon master» powers. Admins often combine its use with Spectator Mode. Of course you can also use these powers in your single-player games.

The settings and changes only apply to the current game. Remember that you need to click Submit Changes for automatic settings to become active.

Admin Tools

This menu changes properties and permissions for the current player. It is useful if you are the admin of a server and need to help other players by cutting and pasting their stuck grids back in, and to fix performance intensive block settings for them.

• Enable creative mode tools — Enables the current player to place blocks for free without welding them, to destroy blocks without grinding them, and to spawn items in. It also allows the player to repair blocks without having the needed components in inventory.
• Make this player invulnerable, or even untargetable by automatic weapons.
• Show all players on the HUD so nobody can hide from you.
• Can use all terminals lets you interact with all functional blocks, even if they are not owned by you or your allies.
• Keep original ownership on paste. If you are helping other players by cutting and pasting their stuck grids, enable this.
• Ignore safe zones means you cannot be stopped by puny player-built force fields.
• Ignore pcu limits enables you to paste any grid, no matter the size and PCU limits.
• Time of day offset lets you manually move the sun along its path on the skybox, so you can change whether it’s day or night.

Cycle objects

This screen lets an Admin quickly find any extreme in the game by cycling through all objects sorted by specific criteria. This is useful when looking for the source of performance degradation on multiplayer servers.

A secondary function is the ability to teleport yourself to the identified GPS/planet/grid/player etc.

• First, sort objects by type:
  • Biggest grids, fastest, most wheels, biggest distance, most active drills/reactors/production/sensors/thrusters;
  • static objects, floating objects;
  • characters, GPS markers (distance), planets, owner login time.
• If applicable, filter the sorted objects to focus only on small grid, or only large grids, or both.
• Then click the first, next, or previous buttons to cycle through the list.
  You can see the entity name (and, if applicable, the current value).

When you’ve found your target, you can remove, stop, or depower it.

Tip: When you are in Spectator Mode, you can also teleport the spectator to the target’s location, and then click «player control» to have your character travel there.

Trash removal

If you notice wrecks and half-welded grids “disappearing”, check whether your automatic Trash Removal settings are too aggressive.

Tip: If your game runs well in Singleplayer, simply suspend automatic Trash Removal, and clean up any debris yourself manually!

After crashes or space battles, multiplayer servers end up with a lot of floating debris that has an impact on performance if it is not ground down or collected. Trash removal means here that such laggy debris is automatically deleted from the game. But the catch is, how do we define what «trash» is, while at the same time preventing the game from automatically removing, say, a half welded drone that you are still working on?

Make backups before changing these settings.

General:

Use this panel to define auto trash detection in game terms. For example, you may decide to allow garbage collection of any grid «that is either stationary or linearly moving or accelerating, but not powered and not being controlled by a player, and has fewer blocks than 20», and so on.

You can choose from the following criteria for which items and grids are «trash»:

• fixed planetary or space stations (default: off), stationary floating grids (default: on), linearly moving grids (default: on), accelerating grids (default: on)
• powered grids (default: off), player- controlled grids (default: off),
• grids with production (default: off), grids with respawn point (default: off),
• grids with fewer than x blocks (default: 20 blocks), grids with over x metres distance from players (default 500?), time since logout of owner in hours (default 0 = rule inactive).

To ignore all these criteria and to forbid the game any automatic garbage collection, click Suspend.

To accept the new definition of trash, click Submit Changes. Or click Cancel Changes to discard any changes to «Trash Removal: General».

Voxels:

Voxel modifications can be automatically cleaned up as well, this means, holes are filled in and the terrain resets to how it was when the game was started.

Multiplayer server admins revert voxels to improve performance on their servers if, say, the aftermath of a ground battle or meteor storm has degraded the sim speed. If players have built underground bases, don’t set the protection distance too low or it will fill in their tunnels.

Voxel reset is switched off by default. Here multiplayer server admins can define the criteria for when and where voxel resets will happen. Typically you don’t reset voxel while players, their grids, or wrecks are in a certain radius around the craters, because they may intend to return.

• Choose whether to revert asteroids, voxel terrain, and/or boulders. For boulders reverting, the minimum player distance is 2000m.
• Revert with floating objects or NPC grids present (default: off)
• The distance from players at which voxels are protected from being cleaned up: default 5000metres
• The distance from grids at which voxels are protected from being cleaned up: default 5000metres
• This much time has to pass before changes to voxels are cleaned up in minutes: default 24

Click Enable to reset voxels that fulfil these criteria. If you made any edits, click Submit Changes, or click Cancel Changes to discard any changes to «Trash Removal: Voxels».

Other:

Here are some more criteria for automatic deletion and garbage collection. Most of them are only relevant to Multiplayer.

• Enforce a radical Optimal grid count: Prevents players from building an excessive amount of grids. Warning, enabling this criterion ignores the «powered» and «fixed» flags, ignores «block count» limits, and lowers the protection distance from players. Set to zero to disable, zero is also the recommended default.
• Delete offline character after m minutes: When a player disconnects, the character is removed after this many minutes. They can come back any time. Set to zero to disable, default 15 mins.
• AFK timeout: When a player is inactive / idle / away from keyboard, the character is kicked after this many minutes. They can come back any time. Set to zero to disable (default).
• Stop grid period (minutes): If grids move too far from any players, their drifting will be stopped after this many minutes. Set to zero to disable. Default is 15 minutes.
• Remove old identities (hours): Inactive player identities who do not own any grids are removed after that many hours. Set to zero to disable, this is also the default. Note that if you allow players to join without participating, they can sell their PCU allowance to other players, so switch this option on if you have this issue.

Click «Stop all entities» if items/wrecks are drifting right now to have a chance to catch them. Or, click «Remove floating objects» to draconically get rid of all debris — at the risk of also deleting players’ grids that might still be in use!

If you made any edits, click Submit Changes, or click Cancel Changes to discard any changes to «Trash Removal: Other».

Entity List

Here an admin can view the list of all entities on this server, such as grids or players, and teleport to them, control them, or delete them.

• Select the type of entity to view: Grids (any, small, large), characters, floating objects (items), planets, asteroids, replicated, not replicated.
• Sort entities by: Display name, block count, mass, owner name, distance from center, speed, distance from players, owner last logout, PCU
• Then view the list of entities and click to select one
  Or select a range of entities using shift-click, and multi-select separate entities using ctrl-click (without deselecting the current selection).
• Choose between which action you want to apply to the entity, as applicable:
  • player control,
  • teleport here,
  • stop,
  • depower,
  • remove,
  • refresh,
  • remove inactive owner and his grids

Safe Zones

This menu manages admin-owned safe zones, which are useful, for example, to protect a spawn point on a multiplayer server. In contrast to player-built Safe Zones, admin-owned safe zones don’t need an in-world safe zone block, use no power, and do not use up zone chips.

If there is no admin controlled safe zone yet, first click «New Safe Zone» to create a safe zone at your current position.

Then select a Safe Zone from the list and configure it:

• Define its shape (cube or sphere) and size (cuboid axes lengths or radius) in metres.
• Choose what you want to allow players to do inside the zone. By default, the following actions are all disallowed in the zone:
  • Damage, shooting
  • Drilling, welding, grinding
  • Building, building projections, voxel hands
  • Landing gear lock, conversion to station
• Choose a texture and color for the force field around the zone.

An admin can configure filters which players, factions, grids, and floating objects are allowed into the safe zone (whitelist), or are blocked from entering (blacklist).

Tip: In the filter settings, click Add Contained to quickly add all players/grids/etc that are currently present in the zone to either a black- or whitelist. Be careful, adding containd players/grid to a blacklist will eject them quite forcefully.

How to manage your existing Safe Zones:

• Select a Safe Zone and click the «Move To Safe Zone» button to teleport yourself into its center.
• Select a Safe Zone and click «Change Position» to move the center of the selected Safe Zone to where you are standing right now.
• Select a Safe Zone to rename it, or to remove it.

Remember to enable the zone to make it work, or disable it if no longer needed.

Note: If players have created their own safe zones (using safe zone blocks), these do not appear in the list here and are not meant to be controlled from here.

Global Permissions

Choose what you want to allow players to do in this game in general. The following is allowed by default in Survival games:

• Damage, shooting,
• drilling, welding, grinding,
• building, building projections, voxel hands,
• landing gear lock, conversion to station.

For example, for a race track you could deactivate «damage» if too many cars get disqualified due to lag-related crashes.

Replay Tool

A cinematographic tool that’s typically used in Creative Mode. See Replay Tool.

Weather

See Weather for general info how it appears in game. Weather must be enabled in the world settings for this world for the following Admin commands to work:

• Force Random Weather
• Create Lightning
• Modify weather:
  1. Select a weather type: Alien fog, Alien rain, Alien thunderstorm, Dust, Electric Storm, Fog, Mars Snow, Mars Storm, Rain, SandStorm, Snow, Thunderstorm. — With exception of Dust, Mars Snow, and Electric Storm, they all exist in heavy and light variants.
  2. Then choose an action: Either Create weather, Replace current weather with selected weather, or Remove this weather.

This window also shows you the current weather at the location, and its intensity and temperature.

The last line is the weather forecast and it shows incoming weather.

Spectator Tool

An administrative or cinematographic tool. See Spectator Tool. Admins can use it to «leave their bodies» and move freely through the world, even through voxels and grids.

Economy

If Economy is enabled in the world settings, an admin can control how many space credits each player owns and what their reputation among NPC traders is.

• To change the account balance how much «money» another player possesses, an admin can select a player name; you will see their current balance. Enter an amount of space credits to add, and click «Change». A positive number will be added and a negative number will be subtracted. You can preview what the final balance will be as well.

• To change a player’s reputation, first select a player name, then a faction. You will see the current standing that this player has with that faction. Enter an amount of reputation to add, and click «Change». A positive number will be added and a negative number will be subtracted. You can check what the final reputation will be. The worst is -1500 and the best is 1500.

• You can choose to propagate the reputation to friends and enemies of the faction. Warning: Propagation of positive and negative reputation is not symmetric. Propagating +1000 and then -1000 won’t have a zero sum for friends and foes of the faction, so don’t expect cascading changes to be undone easily.

Match

This menu can be used to track rounds in timed races. The display is in Hours:Minutes:Seconds and it counts down. Every time the admin changes the state (pushes a button) a chat message informs other players, e.g. whether the match was (re)started.

TODO: Usage example

• Start — This button starts or restarts a match’s timer.
• Pause/Unpause — Pauses the timer, and when you click this button again, the counting continues.
• Advance — Advanced to the next stage. (?)
• Set — Enter a positive number in minutes into the input field, and click Set to set the maximum time of the match.
• Add — Enter a postive or negative number in minutes into the input, field and click Add to add or subtract time from the maximum time of the match.

Stages:

• The inital state is PreMatch.
• The intermediate stages are Running or Not Running (paused).
• The final state ist Finished.

Cheaters

This menu only exists on servers. It’s supposed to list players who run malicious scripts but it also flags false positives. Mouse over the player name to see more details about the suspicious event. If the player has really done something that is disallowed, you can select them and then kick or ban them from here.

References

Для миров в Space Engineers есть ряд настроек, изменение которых влияет на игровой процесс. Они могут быть установлены при создании нового мира или изменены в уже существующих мирах, для этого необходимо выбрать мир из списка сохраненных миров и нажать «Изменить параметры».

Сценарии

Выбираются только при создании нового мира. Можно выбрать из следующего набора готовых сценариев:

Основные настройки

В этом окне можно перейти к расширенным настройкам и настройке модификаций, либо произвести основные настройки мира.
В окне основных настроек можно настроить:

Имя мира

Тут необходимо указать имя создаваемого мира.

Тип мира

Видимость мира для других игроков

Тут возможны следующие варианты:

• Оффлайн — не нужно соединение с сетью интернет;
• Частный — к серверу никто не сможет подключиться кроме вас;
• Для друзей — на сервер смогут зайти только ваши друзья в Steam;
• Публичный — на сервер сможет зайти любой пользователь Steam.

Макс. количество игроков на сервере

Настройка работает только для сетевых режимов игры.

Наличие и плотность метиоритных дождей

Существует несколько разновидностей метеоритных дождей:

Функция автосохранения мира

Производит сохранение мира каждые 5 минут или при выходе из игры.

Расширенные настройки мира

В окне дополнительных настроек мира можно настроить следующие параметры:

Описание мира

Описание вашего мира, заполнение поля необязательно

Тип мира

Аналогично настройке типа мира из основных настроек.

Модификаторы размеров инвентаря, скорости сборки и очистки руды

Позволяют изменять объемы инвентарей, скорости переработки руд и сборки компонентов. Имеют следующие значения:

Модификаторы скорости сварки и разборки блоков

Позволяют увеличить или уменьшить скорость сварки и разборки блоков.

Максимальное количество обьектов в мире

К ним относятся: куски руды, компоненты, слитки и т.п. Не рекомендуется выставлять большие значения, во избежание снижения производительности.

Размеры мира

После выхода патча 01.035.005, игроки могут устанавливать размер мира. Область игры ограничена кубом с размерами, который установлен игроком создавшим мир. Любой объект, который пересекает границы мира удаляется. Все игроки, которые пересекают границу, будут убиты. С патча 01.042, когда игрок приближается к границе, на экране будет отображено предупреждение, которое информирует игрока о расстоянии до границы, и о последствия ее пересечения.

Задержки появления кораблей возрождения

Изменяет время, которое будет идти от момента смерти, до момента появления появления игрока на корабле возрождения.

Остальные дополнительные настройки

Настройки модификаций

В обновлении 01.042 ^[1] была введена интеграция модификаций с Steam Workshop. Эта функция позволяет игрокам выбирать конкретные моды, чтобы добавить их в мир. Чтобы узнать, как работают модификации в игре, см. руководство по модификациям ^[2].

Добавление модификации в игру

Для добавления модификации в игру, достаточно зайти мастерскую Steam, там перейти в раздел модификаций для Space Engineers ^[3]. После чего, выбрать понравившуюся модификацию, и нажать кнопку подписаться.

Добавление и удаление модификаций в мирах

В левой колонке настроек располагается список модификаций, на которые у вас есть подписка в мастерской Steam. В правой колонке располагается список модификаций, используемый в выбранном мире. Для использования модификации в мире, необходимо выбрать модификацию в левом списке, и нажать кнопку . Для добавления все модификаций в мир необходимо нажать на кнопку . Для удаления модификации из мира выберите ее из списка справа и нажмите кнопку . Для удаления всех модификаций из мира нажмите кнопку .

Ссылки

1. ↑ Обновление 01.042
2. ↑ Официальное руководство по модификациям
3. ↑
   Мастерская Steam Workshop для Space Engineers