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Space Engineers 2 is an open world sandbox game where engineering meets exploration, construction, and survival in the vastness of space. Become a pioneer in the distant Almagest system, a new uncharted world with infinite possibilities for creativity and discovery. Build everything from starships to space stations as you craft your own path in this highly anticipated next chapter of the Space Engineers series!
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[@Netherspark0_0]

It would be really useful if we could create Folders within the Blueprints menu, in order to organize not just our ship blueprints but these modular components as well.

[@hexenhammer483]

I hope we can organize modules under the blue print they are associated with. If not, maybe a modder can.

[@acouthyt2189]

I second this; putting different fleets or ship styles together would be much easier. Imagine having a Corvette folder or a [Insert Fleet Name Here] Folder.

[@Quantum-Bullet]

Otherwise need a good naming scheme.

[@suleybin786]

Kind of like from the depths, organization in that game is pretty neat since you can organize your files into folders

[@thomasperkins5345]

Not sure if this is something everybody already knows about anyway but this is something you can do in the current space engineers already. You just have to go to your blueprint folder outside of the game to create the folders but you can navigate them in game well enough.

[@CaptainJack]

A new era of kit bashing ships has begun!

[@mavikedi1814]

Cant wait to turn a cargo ship to a planet destroyer

[@ethzero]

_"Its alive!"_ Welcome to the era of Frakenships! 😂

[@SebastianD334]

I’d love to have a lock hologram function like in satisfactory, that way it’s easier to align the modules precisely.

[@EngineeredCoffee]

Excited for next week! This definitely needs an organization/folder structure otherwise this is really not different than what we can do with SE1 blueprints. Other than adding to the hotbar.

[@thomasperkins5345]

Well SE1 does also support a folder strucure as well! You just need to create them outside the game.

[@timetounwind9205]

We can put them on our toolbars in the place of blocks, that's something new.

[@bobski1151]

This will make it very easy for me to come up with the perfect shape, width or length of the ship becuase of how easy I can move around parts.

[@Godtickles]

I think the likely unexpected result of this we are missing is with all these tools speeding up building will mean we will have much better and much more complex builds available in the workshop, along with modules that you can import and build with. Players only have a set amount of time they can play, and speeding up how quickly we can build things means the players with hundreds of hours a month to spare will be able to build some pretty incredible shit if they can build in a couple dozen hours what mightve taken a hundred in Space Engineers 1. Like imagine being able to import a library of small complex parts like hinges and hydraulic systrms you can use to build your stuff

[@handsometoast5589]

I love this. Now you get to design parts of your ship in modules with conveyors already installed. Totally modular designs incoming

[@june5204]

I love the fact that you are making a popular build method more fluid and user friendly. More of where that came from, please!

[@enshrowd]

oh i’m already imagining all the different aesthetics for my modules love love love the focus on modular building! can’t wait to design a bunch of crews quarters and mess halls for my big ships! the detail!

[@TalosCreations]

I always did this using the Blueprint system, being able to put those BPs on the toolbar is very helpful

[@delindsay]

The days really need to go by faster so SE2 is live already!

[@handsometoast5589]

I second that!

[@AceTheBirb]

Funny enough, I got a sleeper ship planned out that its lore would be it was made by a colony from a system who got ahold of the information of the Bering Project and made their own competing ship. This would make building that ship so much easier.

[@jamiecuthbert1269]

Fully expected - "Heeeeello there, and as usual... 😁 In all seriousness though this will be very handy, can't say how many times I've had to dissect an old build just for it's nacelles or because I want a certain thruster cluster on a new build 👍

[@TehF0cus]

Okay this is actually a helpful and cool new feature!

[@RollinShultz]

I am glad to hear it as I am all about modular construction.

[@leopy6534]

amazing addition !

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

This just keeps getting better

[@Elucidator-]

So hyped for this. It will save a lot of time during construction too.

[@anthonybreen3267]

This is going to save me sooooo much time. Ive been doing something similar in a solo world. The hard way. Build a small module. Us a small ship to lift it and merge block it into place

[@risenlegend9443]

I made a really redundant Reactor core for one of my ships that's now standard in all of them and one of my friends also has that reactor block blueprinted and uses it in her ships STANDARDIZATION IS COMING TO THE MASSES!

[@kaspedkk]

I would love to use this type of stuff for survival as well. Some sort of easy way to build sections / smaller blueprints and then combine them without merge blocks. That could take factory building to a whole other level

[@alucas705]

Hopefully the modules can be welded all at once when survival comes, or at least have an inbuilt welding order

[@caldarinavyfleet]

I really wish the workshop could have like an item that is a set of modules :)

[@idemanddonuts]

I really hope modular blueprints will work like with factorio as well

[@captainforrix956]

My manufacturing ships are about to be insane. Gone are the days of annoyance by cutting open finished ships, now we are in the age of modular, stackable manufacturing wings

[@supernerd4623]

I've always tried to build modules for ships, only to have to fiddle with placement or merge blocks. To say I've been looking forward to this would be an understatement!

[@jwil193]

Can't wait

[@Somber.Killer]

In the live stream, I saw Xocliw struggling to align these blueprints together. This is a problem in SE1 also. I hope they can address this. Overall though still very excited about this system.

[@AegirBuildsAndBeats]

Five days!

[@riku3716]

Nice, I have already experimented with modular station structures with merge blocks and connectors, but this would give better ability to build a whole fixed tructure based on same kind of designs, though could not detach the same way.

[@markbogdan2]

Hope you will think of a default snapping point. I've seen something similar in satisfactory where you would build a cool module (like let's say a staircase) and then needing to fiddle with it for it to blend well with another piece

[@KuracinOfficial]

Will you be able to tranfer Blueprints from SE1 to SE2? If you don't have all the blocks they could just be removed, like it did in SE1, when you removed mods.

[@nicolas267s]

Removing blocks might break grid integrity. Better just replace those blocks with light armor blocks.

[@KuracinOfficial]

​@@nicolas267s yeah that sounds like a good solutions

[@markmccorkle25]

I had heard during one of the livestreams that there will be a tool to convert SE1 ships to SE2.

[@5kellDarkes]

They said in the reveal stream that they have a tool we can use for this and any missing blocks are swapped out for light armour blocks.

[@tedvepper]

Thanks Frankie, I appreciate it

[@Sternenflucht]

Is there going to be a connector-block? May be important to make some of the first ships future-proof

[@andrewding746]

ngl it looks really hard positioning those modules, especially for large ships on the 25cm system. Would be nice if we can toggle between snapping to 25cm, 50cm and 250cm. Also seems like builds with centers that are holes (eg corridors) will be hard to paste over because there's no solid block to attach to, so a anchor + nudging ability will be nice.

[@archlorddestin]

Oh that's going to save so much time.

[@cyanoure]

My idea: If you modify the blueprint, you can update all pasted part, so you don't have to replace everything.

[@Lavisher1]

I’d love to build the massive transit ship. Are the parts available in the game?

[@iloveplayingpr]

Amazing tool!

[@brd9762]

will there be subgrid printing?

[@100gohalo]

Thats great! Now let me remap my controls in SE2. C for crouch vs shift is maddening

[@dennisholmberg4793]

Do you have a release date for ps5 or is it just when its fully released

[@KingsGamingX-w7y]

Cool but i still love my good old merge block

[@therealbahamut]

You know, way back when I had the idea to build modular ship/station pieces for easy ship building but I never managed to make anything good or usable enough. Looks like I should have persisted.

[@markmccorkle25]

The problems I had with my modular ship parts were: 1) aligning the modules to snap to the main body was always a PITA (this may be fixed with SE2) 2) once you paste them on, if it was slightly mis-aligned -- there was no easy way to undo (I hear this is fixed in SE2) 3) You have to design modules which logically "mirror" properly. Think about it -- if your nacel has an interior with a particular up/down/front/back design, if you just rotate the nacel 180 degrees to snap it on the opposite side of your ship, everything is going to be upside down or backwards on the second nacel.

[@FriedBaconRPG]

can we attach modules ingame? Like..., Veronica Hulkbuster or Megazord stuff? Not automatically of course, but i imagine having my smallcraft that i can attach to a bigger O raiser module to turn my small craft into a medium craft and so on?

[@vibinseal]

Can we dock each separate modules?

[@pleasepickaname24]

i wonder how many of those clips LSG recorded

[@rustynx01]

Too many I think

[@scorpioncoreuniverse8981]

Oh yeah very nice

[@vinyleader4852]

“Debris field”? That looks like the area I put the completed builds so it doesn’t mix with the mess of parts it came from.

[@zelnetproductions]

I'm a little confused is there going to be no multiplayer until vs3.x?

[@AmbientJoe]

Looks great but at launch there is currently nothing that makes me want to play it yet. I'll wait until survival is released, not that anyone plays this game with me. 😅

[@fredpryde8555]

awesome

[@DerpsWithWolves]

I second the idea I see in a comment of Folders in the Blueprints menu... It can get really messy in there, and with modular components that's going to get even worse.

[@buzzbobby]

Will it still be controller compatible?

[@klekaelly]

Is that Arron from LastStandGamers???????????

[@jgc9373]

Am i going crazy or am i hearing @CaptainJack?

[@5amJones69]

yipee!!

[@FragstarGames]

So i just noticed on the steam page for SE2 that its single player only. Is this actually true because if so this is a huge deal breaker for me. I can imagine the game getting multiplayer but having SE without it is a huge thing.

[@Vakothu]

For now it will be SP only, yeah. They plan to get MP finished up and bugfixed after they implement planets and survival mode.

[@timetounwind9205]

It will be a while until they add multilayer unfortunately. I would advise not buying into early access unless you like the single player experience of just building in creative mode for the sake of building. At least for a while until the other features are released as updates.

[@mobius1504]

Please give us some steam deck support!!

[@Lpacheko]

What about survival?

[@ahhlewis]

wont be at release

[@Alblaka]

Neat feature, but I'll still wait till crafting and resource management is actually implemented. Sandboxing ships with no cost or purpose is boring to me.

[@trotskiftw]

Don't care about creative - I want to know how this applies to survival

[@mr_fire_6863]

I advise you to ask for likes Without a reminder, many people don’t even remember about them

[@_ratfink]

Only 3 x days until Steam breaks .......

[@Viktorus34]

будет ли локализация на русский язык?

[@zacha931]

🔥

[@ahmettarikyanik]

the problem is that all of these are useless in survival mode.

[@FlamingMonkey46]

You can essentially do this in the first game 🤦🏻

[@RunaUwO]

pls make actual servers with high pop or the game is dead. we need pvp, we need a goal.

[@markmccorkle25]

Thanks to Lucas and all of the MES mods that he built, I have been happily running a PvE only SE1 dedicated server for over 5 years now. I think different people find different goals when playing.

[@RunaUwO]

@@markmccorkle25 yes its has its hardcore players but most players leave or wont get this game because theres nothing trully different between 1 and 2. without higher pop server counts to allow comp play where people have to defend their base and ship the gameplay loop is lacking

[@TopVOnly]

26.01

[@thephoenixknight0521]

I’m getting more and more concerned. The dev’s had said there is mirroring, but there has not been one clip or stream that showcases it

[@cipherstormwolf14]

It is in the first game why would it not be here?

[@ThePacmandevil]

lol mirroring is like the single easiest thing to implement in regards to "nifty building features" for a grid system. it's there

[@jaspervlogt3843]

@@ThePacmandevil and why should they show off something that already is basic standard and instinctual to use in the first game?

[@markmccorkle25]

Mirroring a BLOCK along a user specified mirror line isn't that complex -- but mirror blueprint segments will be a whole other thing. We might see it in vertical slice 1.2 if we ask for it enough.

[@ThePacmandevil]

@@markmccorkle25 blueprint segments are just bigger blocks, the math works out the same way. Only hard part would be situations where a block can't be placed, but they're capable of it.

[@Goldomnivore]

Go back to work 🫵

[@p4inmaker]

why is copy pasting suddenly used for marketing? it's been a thing for forever

[@rustynx01]

That voice stops me from enjoying these videos

[@ZetaChamp]

That makes one of us, I love the guys videos

[@bigow334]

@@ZetaChampagreed

[@Elucidator-]

What, *how*?

[@bigow334]

@@Elucidator- I was agreeing that his videos are good

[@lineriderrulz]

Yeah he was also caught acting like workshop content someone else made was something he made in his videos, that was years ago though so maybe he's got his act together since then. Still miss Xocliw doing voiceovers in videos like this though.

[@Raso719]

I didn't see in the video, can you paste mirrored?