Space Engineers News

Space Engineers 2 Alpha Early Access Release - January 27

[h3]Join us this Monday for the Space Engineers 2 Alpha release on Steam![/h3]

[h3]📅 Monday, January 27th, 6 PM UTC[/h3]

Release Livestream:
🛰️ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/keencommunitynetwork
🛰️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/user/SpaceEngineersGame

Before the build goes live, enjoy exclusive previews from our amazing community. Check out videos below and get ready for the big day!

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[h3]Space Engineers 2 Build Tutorial by Splitsie[/h3]

Join Splitsie as he explores the new Space Engineers 2 build system and helps you plan your creations.

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[h3]Pioneer Edition Preview by Zer0's Legion[/h3]

Zer0's Legion gives you a sneak peek at the Pioneer Edition. Check out the behind-the-scenes content and incredible Space Engineers 2 soundtrack.

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[h3]Movement Preview by Kanajashi[/h3]

Kanajashi explores movement in Space Engineers 2 - learn about the new safe speed and magboots to help you travel the universe!

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[h3]Partial Copy, Modular Building, and More in Space Engineers 2 by Beeblebum[/h3]

Beeblebum showcases modular ship building in Space Engineers 2. Discover how modularity takes creativity to the next level.

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[h3]Modular Base Building and Voxel Editor by Andrewman Gaming[/h3]

Andrewman showcases modular asteroid station building in Space Engineers 2. See how stations can evolve like never before!

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[h3]Blocks & Destruction in Space Engineers 2 by Captain Jack[/h3]

Captain Jack dives into the new blocks and new destruction system in Space Engineers 2. Watch how destructions get a serious upgrade.

Space Engineers 2 Alpha: Undo & Redo, Block Destructions, and more!

Mark your calendars: The Space Engineers 2 Alpha will launch on January 27, 2025.

[h3]Space Engineers 2: Undo & Redo ↪️[/h3]
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[h3]Space Engineers 2: Block Destructions[/h3]
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[h3]Space Engineers 2: Paint Gun 🖌️[/h3]
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[h3]Space Engineers 2: Animated Gyroscopes ⚙️[/h3]
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Space Engineers 2 Alpha: Main Features Overview

Mark your calendars: The Space Engineers 2 Alpha will launch on January 27, 2025.

[h3]No Small or Large Grids!
JUST GRID! 🤩[/h3]
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[h3]Modular Copy & Paste 🛠️[/h3]
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[h3]Suit & Magboots 🚀[/h3]
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[h3]Roadmap 🗺️[/h3]
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Community Spotlight 🧐 December 2024

Our favorite pastime is browsing through the workshop - we are in love with all the creations our players are constantly sharing. 💫

We can't wait every month to spotlight mods and blueprints that catch our eye and have the potential to make your time in Space Engineers more interesting and unique.

Here is our spotlight for the month of December! 🤩

[h3]50cm Grid System by AC_2013[/h3]
Large grid is now available on small grid!

All large grid blocks will be made be placed on the small grid system.

[h3]Sections by SE Mods[/h3]
Sections is a Space Engineers plugin. It implements SE2's partial grid copying and section blueprinting feature for SE1.

Enable the Sections plugin in Plugin Loader

[h3]PvE Wave Defence - REBF Endless Atmospheric by Riaz[/h3]
One command base to defend, hostile factories pouring out enemy air and ground vehicles relentlessly.

How many can you take down before being overwhelmed?

[h3]NPC Ships - UTC Fleet by Sergeant Kelly[/h3]
The UTC Fleet is a large NPC encounter mod that uses Modular Encounter Systems and adds in an entire faction of new enemy ships!

It includes space cargo ships, planetary ships, stations, and random encounters.

[h3]Solar System Pack by Infinite[/h3]
Solar System Pack Part 1 features the celestial bodies of the inner Solar System, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, and Ceres.

[h3]WelderWall by Math[/h3]
Welder wall is a replacement to walls of welders and grinders.

Featuring customizable settings for speed, power, and size it allows admins to allow server friendly welder walls.

[h3]DEUS - Definitive Energy Upgrade System by Liaron[/h3]
Thanks to the research of UPF engineers, technologies have been developed that can produce new reactors and batteries.

This mod was born from the idea that a ship has only one main reactor that satisfies the entire energy needs.

[h3]NiteOwl Star Wars Small Grid Weapons Pack by MTGraves[/h3]
NiteOwl’s Star Wars small grid Weapon Pack (Standard Edition)

Made for players to give their vehicle builds a little PEW PEW power!

[h3][GI] TGP Script V1.0 (Targeting Pod) by G-han[/h3]
We proudly present you the ultimate reconnaissance tool for all types of environments: The Targeting Pod!

This script uses rotors and hinges to control a camera and make it look at a set of positions. It supports gravity stabilization and real time control.

[h3]Landing Gear Balancer by silverbluemx[/h3]
Adjustable landing gear pistons to compensate for uneven terrain and land with your ship horizontal.

[h3]AQD - Markings by enenra[/h3]
This mod adds three sets of markings to the game: Line, striped line and wide line.

They are useful to delimit areas on floors and various other purposes.

[h3]Thruster Covers by Elachi Dance Party[/h3]
There are currently 14 covers for small and large grid, they should all work with the vanilla thrusters.

I balanced them to be somewhat in between light and heavy armor.

[h3]Moonshine Distillery by Harbinger Ace[/h3]
A distillery for producing moonshine. Unlike those hap-hazard designs back home, half of this jerry-rigged contraption was taken off an industrial coffee maker, so you can enjoy your fresh liquor straight from the tap!

[h3]Battleship by AeQuArTz[/h3]
The classic board game "Battleship" made fully functional in vanilla Space Engineers with block coding!

This game is made possible with 1067 timers, 55 events, 15 broadcast controllers, 2 active hinges, 400 projectors, 200 sensors, and 216 buttons.

[h3]December Creator Spotlights[/h3]
We also have a Creator Spotlight series of articles on our Community Hub!

[h3]Creator Spotlight: Incanatus[/h3]
Veyran Class Heavy Frigate, Allegiance class Battleship, a lost IRW Colony and more!

[h3]Daily Spotlights[/h3]
Do you want to see more amazing Space Engineers ships, fighters, tanks, mechs, planets, rovers, bases, scripts, mods, encounters, scenarios, minigames, videos, and other creations?

We spotlight them every day!

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Space Engineers: Update 1.206 Sneak Peek - Large Grid Small Connector

We’re hard at work on the next Space Engineers update!

Alongside the NPC Cargo Ship overhauls we shared with you last month, there are a number of very exciting blocks and features headed your way. This month we’ll be showcasing one of the more unique items on the list, coming as part of the free portion of the 1.206 update - a large grid variant of the Small Inset Connector.

This block serves as an adapter which allows small grids equipped with the Small Connector to directly connect to large grids, vastly improving the docking experience for grids which utilize them.

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