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Space Engineers 2: Hotfix 2.0.2.47

[h2]Hotfix 2.0.2.47 has been released![/h2]

➡️ Changelog: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/announcement/space-engineers-2-alpha-vs-2-planets-survival-foundations
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Features

Opening the Debug Menu now shows a warning and marks your save as modified, with tagged saves showing a warning before loading.

Stability

Fixed a crash that could happen when flying close to the ground in the Survival scenario on AMD graphics cards.
Fixed an issue with GPU crashes caused by the SLUG shader by updating it to the latest version.
Fixed a memory issue related to voxels to improve game stability and prevent crashes.
Fixed an issue where the game would crash when Connector blocks tried to align or connect, especially after destruction or removal of grids.

Functional

Fixed an issue where AMD graphics drivers were not detected correctly, improving compatibility for players using AMD GPUs.

Render

Fixed an issue where in-game menus could become slow to open after playing for a long time.

Please keep in mind that VS2 is still an Early Access and Alpha version of Space Engineers 2. We are planning daily hotfixes after the initial release.

Starting with this release, we will always keep previous versions of the game available after major updates. This means you can return to an earlier version at any time and, for example, save your blueprints or creations. You will find these builds in the Steam Beta tab.
We also want to be upfront about one important thing. We already know that water will be such a monumental change for the game that you will need to start a new save when VS3 arrives. We try to minimize situations like this, but during the alpha stage of development they are sometimes unavoidable.
Planet modding is not fully supported at this stage of development - we will bring you modding support for planets at later stages!
Customizable Controls are coming in VS2.2!
In rare cases, Procedural Voxel Generation may cause a Contract grid to spawn inside a voxel area. If this happens, you will need to start a new map.
Tutorial Contracts can be broken by not following the task sequence; this will be reworked and mitigated in the future updates.

Thank you for helping us make the game better!

Image Credits: Sunset by (_KsR_)

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2025 Space Engineers 2 Music Competition Winners Announced!

We are excited to announce the winners of our 2025 Space Engineers 2 Music Competition!

With 252 songs submitted, choosing just 10 was impossible - so this time, we’re bringing you 20 winners!

A huge thanks to all the composers who submitted their tracks - your creativity and talent are truly amazing!

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Space Engineers 2 Dev Diary: December 11, 2025

Hello, Engineers!

We wonder – how many of you were caught off guard by this moment?

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This week we brought you a series of hotfixes and several new options to help you tweak your worlds to your liking. You can now switch existing saves between Creative and Survival (in World Settings on the save-file list), the classic Creative scenario has been updated to include planets and the full Almagest system, and we’ve added a new Vallation Station Start scenario for those who want pure survival sandbox without story or tutorial contracts.

We’ve also made our internal debug menu easier to access with CTRL+F12. Please treat this as a power tool: it’s developer-level access that can bypass limits (like PCUs) and can easily break or permanently modify your world. For this reason, sessions and worlds touched by the debug menu are automatically tagged and excluded from our crash reports, and if such a world is shared, other players may see a warning that it was created or modified using debug tools.

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Releasing the full debug menu is a bit of a controversial area for me. On one hand, it gives you more freedom to experiment and poke at the insides of the game you bought. On the other hand, we will probably lose some valuable crash and bug reports when players use these tools instead of playing normal gameplay. And there is always the risk of players not understanding that we cannot guarantee game stability when debug tools are active.

[h3]VS2.2[/h3]
Works on VS2.2 are already in full swing. Here you can see a rocket launcher model evolution.

And the finished Rifle model

And some first concepts of SE2 gatling turret

We are introducing new helpful internal tools to VRAGE3 – player heatmap – mainly for tuning out our LODing systems.

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[h3]VS3 – Byblos[/h3]

Let me reveal the design and first shots of the water planet Byblos, coming to the Almagest system in VS3. A “just water” planet would be pretty boring. Yes, Byblos will be a water planet – but under the surface there will be an entire water world, with deep crags and canyons, underwater travertine cave systems and small volcanic islands rising above the waves.

With the coming of water, the underwater layout of planet Verdure will be improved as well. We already know that water will be such a monumental change for the game that you will need to start a new world when VS3 arrives. We try to minimize situations like this, but during the alpha stage of development they are sometimes unavoidable.

That is why we started to keep previous versions of the game available after major updates. So you can return to an earlier version at any time and, for example, save your blueprints or creations. You can find these builds in the Steam Beta tab.

And here are some first WIP screenshots. You can probably tell that seeing Byblos at this stage is a bit like digging through the old planet files from VS1 – barren terrain, temporary textures everywhere, testing materials, and very early water visuals. It is all still rough, but this is exactly what real development looks like.

Not many studios share raw production screenshots like these, and players are not always used to seeing such an unfiltered snapshot of the process. But for me, showing you our real progress and the way we work is a core part of Early Access. That is the whole point of these dev diaries – open development, without hiding the messy parts.

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Full Blog Post: https://blog.marekrosa.org/2025/12/mareks-dev-diary-december-11-2025/

Please join us tomorrow for the Space Engineers 2 Music Competition Livestream!

🚀 Friday, December 12, 6 PM UTC
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Space Engineers 2: VS2 Community Feedback Update

Hello, Engineers!

Since the release of VS2, we've been listening closely to your feedback. This update brings several improvements and new features based directly on what you’ve asked for.

The Creative Scenario has been updated to include the full Almagest System, we’ve introduced a new Vallation Station Start (a sandbox scenario without tutorial or story), and added a switch between Creative and Survival modes in World Settings.

We’ve also enabled access to the Debug Menu for advanced users. Please treat this as a power tool: it’s developer-level access that can bypass limits and can easily break or permanently modify your world. For this reason, sessions and worlds touched by the debug menu are automatically tagged as compromised by Debug Menu and excluded from our crash reports.

Your feedback is invaluable. Please keep it coming by submitting bug reports and suggestions through our Support Portal.
This is the best way to help us shape the future of Space Engineers 2.

Added Debug Menu - Warning: the game can become unstable; use at your own risk
- To activate the Debug Menu for the first time, press Ctrl+F12
- After the first activation, the Debug Menu opens with just F12 (Ctrl is no longer needed)
Updated the Creative Scenario to include the full Almagest System
Added new scenario: Vallation Station Start - a sandbox scenario without tutorial or story
Added a switch between Creative and Survival modes in World Settings

Stability

Fixed a crash that could occur when the game tried to sync work between the CPU and GPU, causing the game to close unexpectedly.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash when moving on a planet surface.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash when playing longer music or sound effects.
Fixed a crash that could occur when the game was closed while it was switching to the main menu.
Fixed a crash that could occur when starting a new Survival game on some AMD RX 5700 XT graphics cards.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash during the intro cutscene in Survival scenario on AMD graphics cards.
Fixed a crash that could occur when connectors were trying to connect to each other and one of them was removed or destroyed.
Fixed a crash that could occur during autosave when the game was checking which entities should be saved in the world session.

Fixed spelling mistakes in the “Engineering – Asteroid Expedition” contract text.
Fixed an issue where the tutorial tooltips could appear blurry for a moment when they first pops up.

Please keep in mind that VS2 is still an Early Access and Alpha version of Space Engineers 2. We are planning daily hotfixes after the initial release.

Starting with this release, we will always keep previous versions of the game available after major updates. This means you can return to an earlier version at any time and, for example, save your blueprints or creations. You will find these builds in the Steam Beta tab.
We also want to be upfront about one important thing. We already know that water will be such a monumental change for the game that you will need to start a new save when VS3 arrives. We try to minimize situations like this, but during the alpha stage of development they are sometimes unavoidable.
Planet modding is not fully supported at this stage of development - we will bring you modding support for planets at later stages!
Customizable Controls are coming in VS2.2!
In rare cases, Procedural Voxel Generation may cause a Contract grid to spawn inside a voxel area. If this happens, you will need to start a new map. This is a top priority issue for our next hotfix.
We have disabled the Survival Intro video for some hardware setups; this should remedy multiple issues when starting a Survival play for now. We are working on a permanent fix for the intro video.
Tutorial Contracts can be broken by not following the task sequence; this will be reworked and mitigated in the future updates.

Thank you for helping us make the game better!

Please join us for Space Engineers 2 Music Competition Livestream!

🚀 Friday, December 12, 6 PM UTC
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🛰️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceEngineers

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Space Engineers 2: Hotfix 2.0.2.33

[h2]Hotfix 2.0.2.33 has been released![/h2]

➡️ Changelog: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc/announcement/space-engineers-2-alpha-vs-2-planets-survival-foundations
🛠️ Support Portal: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers2/pc
🛰️ Discord: https://discord.gg/keenswh

Stability

Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash while saving the world due to a file system error.
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash when playing an in‑game video/cutscene due to a video player component error.
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash during autosave due to an error while checking voxel entities in the world.
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash while updating entity detection, improving overall game stability.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash with an “out of memory” error when handling audio/music.
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash while generating planetary flora in the environment.
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash due to an audio system error when stopping a sound.
Fixed an issue where the game could suddenly close during early loading on Windows 8 machines, and added a proper shutdown with a message instead.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash when returning to the main menu from a modded world due to missing audio files from unloaded mods.
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash with an error when returning to the main menu.
Fixed an issue where corrupted planet data files could cause a crash, and improved error reporting so the game clearly warns players about corrupted or modified content and suggests validating game files.
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to crash during screen-space ambient occlusion (HBAO) rendering due to an invalid render target resize operation.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash when loading textures via DirectStorage on non‑standard Steam install locations.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash when unloading the world and returning to the main menu, due to some corrupted entities.
Fixed a crash that could occur when repairing fractured conveyor blocks (e.g. welding a connector and then grinding a nearby cargo container) which caused the conveyor system to get into an invalid state.
Fixed an issue where opening the Control Panel near a station safe zone could cause the game to crash.
Fixed an issue where the game could freeze or terminate unexpectedly when returning to the main menu.
Fixed an issue where using the ore detector could cause the game to crash during ore detection in voxels.
Fixed an issue where spawning encounters could sometimes cause the game to freeze and stop responding.
Fixed an issue where the game could freeze or terminate unexpectedly while loading, because of shaders.
Fixed an issue where loading a session with planets could trigger an internal error while generating the planet sky, which could lead to a crash
Fixed an issue where the game could crash if you opened the medical room suit color selector while controlling the spectator camera.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash while loading back to the main menu if a client-side system failed to initialize correctly.
Fixed a crash that could happen right after the character died and the game tried to switch camera control during respawn.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash when trying to download preview images for Steam Workshop items.
Fixed a physics issue that could cause the game to crash.

Functional

Fixed an issue where stealing a ship from a contract encounter could cause the entire encounter to despawn and the stolen ship to disappear.

Performance

Fixed an issue where the ore detector HUD could cause excessive background activity that might impact game performance.

Please keep in mind that VS2 is still an Early Access and Alpha version of Space Engineers 2. We are planning daily hotfixes after the initial release.

Starting with this release, we will always keep previous versions of the game available after major updates. This means you can return to an earlier version at any time and, for example, save your blueprints or creations. You will find these builds in the Steam Beta tab.
We also want to be upfront about one important thing. We already know that water will be such a monumental change for the game that you will need to start a new save when VS3 arrives. We try to minimize situations like this, but during the alpha stage of development they are sometimes unavoidable.
Planet modding is not fully supported at this stage of development - we will bring you modding support for planets at later stages!
Customizable Controls are coming in VS2.2!
In rare cases, Procedural Voxel Generation may cause a Contract grid to spawn inside a voxel area. If this happens, you will need to start a new map. This is a top priority issue for our next hotfix.
We have disabled the Survival Intro video for some hardware setups; this should remedy multiple issues when starting a Survival play for now. We are working on a permanent fix for the intro video.
Tutorial Contracts can be broken by not following the task sequence; this will be reworked and mitigated in the future updates.

Thank you for helping us make the game better!

Image Credits: Verdure Clouds by Merser

Please join us for Space Engineers 2 Music Competition Livestream!

🚀 Friday, December 12, 6 PM UTC
🛰️ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/keencommunitynetwork
🛰️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SpaceEngineers

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