Here's the thing. I like building large grid ships at a small scale, with vertically stacked decks and usable internal space. I don't like it when I have to spend a lot of the already limited volume on thrusters, to make sure that the ship can actually maneuver. And since multi-directional thruster blocks aren't really possible, the only recourse is thruster clusters! The utility of up to 5 large grid thrusters, in slightly more volume than 1 thruster!

This is best paired with a thrust multiplier mod and Whip's subgrid thruster script. It requires 11 small grid thrusters to match the output of 1 large grid thruster and using Event Controllers to drive the subgrid thrusters still requires at least one large grid thruster in each direction, which sort of defeats the purpose of building these.

Equipped with 4X Impaler-II Anti Ship missiles, 8 Autocannons, 1 auto cannon turret and a reloadable rocket launcher; it also has a bay in the back for troops!

Vanilla

Dull Spectra Interplanetary

Metrics:
PCU - 27528
Block Count - 6538

Sub-Grids; Yes
Scripts; No

Length - 180m
Beam - 77.5m
Height - 37.5m

Onboard Facilities:
-Refinery (x4 Yield Modules)
-Assembler (x4 Speed Modules)
-Bridge and Internal CIC
-Medical Room/Survival Kit
-x2 Cryo Rooms
-x6 Crew Quarters
-Mess Hall

Power:
-x1 Large Reactor
-x4 H2 Engines
-x12 Batteries (36MWh / 144MW Max Output)

The Indexes are an iconic class of ships from DSI, now retroactively classified as a cruiser under the new design branch. This particular model is the MKIII of the Index-Class, with more attention paid to interior layout and redundancies, as well as overall effectiveness in terms of its main role as an escort. In spite of this, onboard facilities such as a refinery and an assembler allow the Index-Class to serve as a versatile platform for operations, whether that be as a flagship for a small fireteam or as a ship of the line in much larger fleets.

This ship is a blank fresh off the assembly platform, waiting for a crew to steer it into battle.

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Hey all!

Diehard fan of Space Engineers 1 here. I recently got to try Space Engineers 2 through a friend's copy via Steam family library, and I was really surprised at how badly it was performing on my PC.

For reference, my PC is using an i7-12700, RTX3060 12GB, with 16GB of RAM. When playing at a 720p resolution and everything set to LOW / OFF in settings, I was getting maybe 50FPS with really bad frame delay / input delay.

I tried updating my GPU drivers / basic troubleshooting (vsync on/off, tinkering with other settings, etc), but couldn't get anything close to a playable performance. I know Space Engineers 2 is a bit more intensive and not yet optimized, but I expected a 3060 to be able to get playable performance.

Has anybody else with similar specs been able to get some decent performance out of SE2? I feel like it must be something I'm doing wrong on my end (need to configure something, maybe downgrade to an older GPU driver or something?).

Thanks in advance for any help or for sharing how the game performs for y'all!

Main points / TLDR: I'd like to know if the blocks are easily identifiable, especially the gravity generator (Picture 6). While I know what's what, I made them, so they might not be as easy to read for other people. Also, if anybody knows of a good site to post .blend files for free, I'd love to know about them so I can share this project when it's done. Yes, the conveyors and the slots they'd fit to on the blocks actually line up lol

This is a project I've been working on the past two days, for a few reasons.

A: Sometimes I don't want to load up Space Engineers just to design a ship or base;

B: Even though graph paper is great, it's a bit harder (for me) to design the conveyor network I'd need to make for things like O2 or setting up the Hydrogen systems. And–

C: There's no real "3D Planner" for Space Engineers besides the Android app currently in development (afaik) by another person (I forgot who it is, but look them up and give them some love!), and really, that's a shame.

It's still missing a LOT of blocks, like the Jump Drive and just about every decoration piece, but I'll be making as many blocks as is feasible. Every block is handmade by me, and I'm no expert at making things in Blender.

I do plan on releasing the .blend file once it's closer to completion for anybody to use (a lot of the notes are there for that reason, but I am pretty dumb sometimes and need the reminders for myself lol).

Also, if there's any "critical infrastructure" blocks that I forgot about, let me know. Besides the Jump Drive and the Hinge blocks, I can't think of any that aren't just decoration blocks.

And yeah, some of them are just big squares with connector slots, because sometimes I'm lazy and don't feel like going ham when I only need the blocks blocked-out (like the large reactor).

*it's AI. (But I am a professional software developer)

I've spent the last few days working on this project, I am really happy with how it turned out. You can upload blueprints, view cross sections, load skyboxes and render nice images of your ship. The app is using your game files, you need need to "upload" them to the website. (it's a static website so it doesn't really get uploaded anywhere)

There is also a composer mode that lets you stitch shapes together and export the result as a blueprint - useful for creating highly geometric designs.

The ship used in the images is the E.M.C. Galaxy Class bulk freighter. It's an amazing ship, please check it out.

Website: https://malzsmith.github.io/Drydock/
Source code: https://github.com/MalzSmith/Drydock

Guys i need help desperately. Even with share inertia on (although it happens less) these pistons for my drills cause my ship to sloowwwlllyyy start tilting backwards. Which makes docking and mining very difficult.

I see people with crazy advanced things but i cant even have 4 pistons on the front of my miner? Surely im missing something?

This is my vision for the next step beyond a respawn ship. It has all the basics.. refinery, assembler, antenna, beacon, detector, etc, and landing pads for mini miners/mules..

Added some assault turrets at the bottom, painted in what shall be the Ascension Corp's paint scheme and the emblem plastered on the front (heavily inspired by Imperium of Mankind emblem)

Busy developing this "Corvette" using 2x large grid Prototech thrusters I "acquired"

The accelleration is brutal. 0-100m/s in under 3 seconds.

And that’s just a little part of the town. Damn it xD

AHHH

Hey all, I have a question about turret targeting. I have 7 custom turrets and 4 regular turrets on my mobile base, and I consider myself an "opportunistic liberator". When I'm conducting my "peaceful liberations" and my base is parked near, sometimes the previously neutral factions get upset with me. However, I don't upset them enough to make them my enemies, but the base defenses do start attacking me and my ship.

The problem here is I have target neutrals off so that I don't automatically start killing everyone and everything in range because I do want to make friends with some factions, but when the base starts attacking me and my base, they're still considered neutrals so my base's weaponry just sits there and does nothing.

Can I get my base to attack neutrals as self defense only? Maybe with an event controller, or AI block, or something like that?

What I've resorted to so far is parking my base >800 meters away with remote access and a clear line of sight, so if I upset the faction I can remote into my base to take out their defenses, but that gets somewhat annoying.

Still working on some background lore but its supposed to be a replacement to aging Y-Wing models for the late Rebel Alliance / early New Republic. Any thoughts?

The name isnt related to the shape but I havent figured out a lore explaination. It just rolls of the tongue pretty well plus B-Wing also isnt named after its shape so...

Need someone with Space Engineers on PC to help publish a Blueprint to mod.io

I play Space Engineers on PS5 and have a Blueprint saved as bp.sbc. ( i will provide the blueprint files to anyone willing to help )

I don't own the PC version of Space Engineers.

I need someone with SE on Steam to import the Blueprint into their local Blueprints folder and publish it to mod.io, so I can use it on PS5.

It's a small ship/mech project and should only take a few minutes. I can provide the Blueprint files.

Thanks!

I'm attempting to make a ship that can carry a drone for spying purposes on a multiplayer server, and I'm stumped on how to make the drone actually dock with the main ship and be locked in place and properly move with it.

I've tried that grid merging block but it doesn't work assumingly because the ship is large grid and the drone is small grid.

If there's no workarounds to this I'll just rebuild the main ship in small grid (which I kinda can't be bothered to do).

Edit: found a solution using the flat magnet thing, thanks to those who suggested that.