Intro to the Modular Encounters Spawner - Space Engineers NPC Mod

[@Splitsie]

I want to say a big thank you to Lucas for his mods and for his indispensible help with putting this video together. We're very lucky to have someone so talented and dedicated adding more NPC content to Space Engineers, I suspect the 70+ thousand people subscribed to MES feel similarly :)

[@ToHVids]

MeridiusIX has definitely been one of the (or possibly even THE) people who have taken this creativity sandbox of SE and made it A Game. Of course, some of his mods do seem to show a gleeful malevolence to players xD

[@mrfinder18]

This is great! Ive always had issues though where no matter how far i travel on the earth like planet, I never find any of the surface occupation bases...

[@will9728]

I really enjoy the mods Lucas has created and I am looking forward to his tweaks once this economy is out.

[@catthewondahokulea6515]

Thank you for educating me on how to use MES but was wondering if you could do another like Build Vision and Text Hud API. Also big fan of the "Escape... Unlikely... Series" hope to see more Capac shenanigans -(definition: high-spirited or mischievous activity).

[@Nosveri]

Hello Splisie, do you actually know how all this stuff you need to do in the filebrowser works for multiplayer servers like on nitrado?? I also trying to figure out how to increasce the ingame speedlimit but i have a hard time because there is nothing about multiplayer servers at all, and i´m not sure why it is?

[@LucasMassey]

Thanks a ton for putting this together! It does a wonderful job explaining some stuff I couldn't easily put to words. :D

[@Splitsie]

Couldn't have gotten there without your help :)

[@stuart1766]

Only thing missing was the CTC , Crash Test Capac.

[@camfrog79]

How do you get this mod to work on a nitrado dedicated server for Xbox? Nothing is spawning for me 😢

[@CaptainShack]

Great guide! Well done! Love this mod

[@Splitsie]

Thanks Shack, and yep, it's the mod that's made so many of our games fun to play (and watch) :)

[@NilRacing]

It's because of Splitsie that I play and enjoy Space Engineers today, the first times I tried to play I could never remember how the tutorials covered anything, but the tutorials on your channel are top notch, so well explained, with great in video examples and without ever being too long or annoying... nice to see you extending these tutorials to mods that change the game for better, keep up the great work!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks so much :)

[@petermeter2822]

still true!

[@ToHVids]

Cheers Spiltsie. I've been using a number of Lucas' mods for a while in SE but this video has helped me immensely with the backend and playing with settings to make my games 'perfectly' aligned with how I want. You're still mad trying to take anything down with your rifle and squishy flesh alone xD

[@Splitsie]

Glad to be able to help you get more out of them :)

[@nadomir7609]

I like to add my thanks to Lukas AND Splitsie here. Those Mods really spice up this game and are a lot of fun. And now I also know how to tweak it a bit so my own survival base doesn't get crushed by the steady stream of debris from all thos shot down drones :D I can tell you, that WAS frustrating... not to fail against the drones, but to the rain of spacescrap... But I learned from it, as I did from this video. Good job (again) Splitsie!

[@Splitsie]

It's awesome the level of customisation that Lucas built into the mod, I'm really looking forward to some of the other things I'll learn while putting together some more videos for it :)

[@fyermind]

This is a fantastic guide. I use MES and the associated XML files a lot, but wasn't aware of the chat command integration. That is fantastically helpful for debugging or rapidly setting up a one-time afternoon session.

[@simonu1612]

"Today I am going to show you one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE MODS..." *shows flying rover*

[@Splitsie]

Well, the flying rover is 100% vanilla (with a very cool script) :)

[@simonu1612]

Indeed! ;)

[@bigolbearthejammydodger6527]

great guide chap. might I suggest a part 2: How to add your own blueprints to MES and sharing your encounter pack on the workshop.

[@mikewhitaker2880]

yup.. definitly a must... have several blueprints i would love to see randomly spawn... also.. you should cover spawn distances.. ie how close something will spawn.. or even how close it will fly to us....

[@Splitsie]

Thanks Bigol, that's 100% in the plans as I'd really like to remake my old cargo ship one and make it clear that it's more generic :)

[@bigolbearthejammydodger6527]

@@Splitsie sweet.

[@bigolbearthejammydodger6527]

@@Splitsie also when you do can you include any process for including modded blocks and scripts in the blueprints. thanks man. looking forward to this. Also also... if you ever want to do a tutorial on scripts (using or writing) hit me up on discord mate.

[@Splitsie]

@@bigolbearthejammydodger6527 Awesome, thanks for the offer - will do :)

[@Sniper_the_protogen]

I know im (very, very) late to this, but thank you so much. As much as i like PvP, my ship building is.... less then amazing and i dont have to worry about getting offlined by players, so this is perfect

[@asgardiumccx6216]

You know Splitsie, i have more than 2600 H in game, and i still learn things by watching your tuto, and thx for that. With no doubt, i think your tuto serie on SE are the best avaible for this Game.

[@Splitsie]

Thanks Asgardium :)

[@PepeLePewPew]

very nice mod, put it on my server, lots of fun, finally some resistance. Forces you to play differently. Thanks Lucas and thanks Splitsie for the intro vid

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome, Lucas really deserves the praise on this one, I love his mods so much :)

[@73mpn]

Thank you for pointing out the blacklist option! I stopped using the mod because of a couple of the planetary ships would just pause my game for a up to 10 seconds. I rarely attacked those ships, but I just liked seeing them moving through the area giving the game life

[@Splitsie]

It's one of the reasons I don't use some of the packs that are out there, I didn't actually know about how to use it properly until Lucas taught me it so I could properly explain it in the video :P

[@Gga86591]

I went through some long reading on Steam to figure out the mechanic and decide if I want this mod, and although I don't need this video anymore it was a bless to know about everything you need to know about this mod in 15 mins

[@Eisen_Jaeger]

And that spawn per player is what got your teeth kicked in with your already tweaked game in the last WWD :D

[@Splitsie]

Maybe a little, but maybe even more the fact that I modded the spawn rate :P

[@keil694]

Thanks for doing this Splitsie. I've been looking for a guide to MES for computer dummies for quite a while. Looking forward to more. Keep up the great content mate.

[@Splitsie]

Glad to help. I'm hoping to work through the whole process of making your own packs for MES as well over the coming months, since Lucas and I have been talking about it for a while :)

[@keil694]

Can't wait for more......... No... Seriously.... Can't wait.... Where's the vid?!?...... AARGH! :)

[@magnagazoo4863]

I have been using this for several months now I'm glad you finally got around to reviewing it. One thing about this that I find confusing is. it's often not obvious which encounters mod works with the spawner. I mean some say so right up front but many don't clearly say that and I think I have one or two that are just there and don't even work. and in one case I know I had the mes and some other package spawning on its own which was not good because it was really easy to get overwhelmed.

[@Splitsie]

Sadly that comes down to the individual mod author, I'd assume if they don't mention MES then it's not going to be using it and will have it's own methods

[@magnagazoo4863]

@@Splitsie I just don't want another mod screwing up MES. Which I think is going on in my main save. It's going to be a pain to troubleshoot.

[@rai2984]

Love this mod it makes Space Engineers so much more fun.

[@imran_huseyn]

"No one is safe from their own piloting mistakes" Hmmmmmmm Lets use the word *Capac* For this. "No one is same from their own Capacs" Ye better.

[@Splitsie]

Not even Capac is safe from his own Capacs

[@xtended2l]

What do you have against Huayna?

[@ATMLVE]

CFIT

[@Qkriek]

Wow, thank you sooo much, this was exactly what I was looking for! Great timing too, got Space Engineers a few days ago! Thanks!!

[@Splitsie]

Nice, just remember some of these packs will be pretty nasty for new players, so don't be afraid to remove them while you learn if things go badly :)

[@MediumRareOpinions]

Handy video resource. Looking forward to more detail in future videos.

[@Splitsie]

Me too - Lucas keeps teaching me new things whenever I get together with him to work on videos like this :)

[@josephbes3567]

So needed this thank you.

[@Caffin8tor]

Great spotlight video! I've found that this mod is a MUST-HAVE for single player or co-op survival unless you're staying in space. In my first survival playthrough, I went full vanilla and I started in space. I found that I was quickly bored after visiting my first planet in the mobile base ship I built in space (AKA "The Brick" ;) ).

[@Splitsie]

It really is the best addition to SE, as no matter what mods you play with there are ways you can use it to enhance your experience :)

[@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32]

MES + Torpedo mod = a salvagers dream. Shoot targets from long range with a SAM system then collect the scraps.

[@alecfiggins9251]

Amazing guide! Thank you Splitsie, this video made everything so much more approachable. SE feels like a whole new game now...

[@melsilva9158]

Thanks a ton Splitsie! I was starting to get bored with my playthrough in Survival and this may fix it

[@shad5812]

Thanks dude, without this I never would have figured out how to tweak the right settings

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :)

[@IanGem1121]

Yay I've been waiting for this. Thank you Splitsie.

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :)

[@Texfire]

Another excellent showcase Splitsie.

[@Splitsie]

Thanks Tex :)

[@chickenrules1043]

Great video, only last night tried to set this up and failed. I now understand how the mods and context works. Cheers mate!!!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks and you're welcome :)

[@Immashift]

I enabled a bunch of stuff, saw npc ships while on Earthlike gathering ores, prayed none of them noticed me. Made it to space, dug a big foxhole in an asteroid, finally found uranium, attempted to mine it, three corrupt drones spawned near me. Legged it to my foxhole, let my one turret take them out, praying it didn't break. Mined uranium, had a decent base with a hangar door into the asteroid, game decided it was time to introduce me to sniper drones that sit outside turret range and spam rockets. Had to rebuild half the base. Short on resources, I managed to put together a fighter with some laser gattling guns, as I haven't found any mag up here yet. Managed to mine enough Plat and find an unprotected cargo ship with a load of goodies I hijacked to make a shield for the fighter. Now I'm handing it to drones, and npc hunting. Been landing my fighter on the biggest spawns, take it over, and drive it back to base for keepsies or disassembly. Hijacked the pirate station that's been dogging me since I got to space, grabbed a cool looking ship with a hanger bay I plan to convert to my first large combat ship, and grabbed a giant... thing my base cut in half as it drove by but was still flyable. Was starting to think the reaver mod was broken when three of them spawned and attacked an NPC cargo ship near me. I used the distraction to kill the three reavers, then loot the cargo ship before flying off laughing. Loving MES so far. Need to build an atmospheric fighter. There were some big targets I'd love to take home.

[@lancearmada]

Great video! Really sells me on the mod. Looking forward to using it to make the star system custom game more interesting.

[@Splitsie]

It's continued to get improvements since then too with Lucas having developed an entirely custom autopilot for the cargo ships and drones which allows for some quite interesting behaviours :)

[@hobgoblinuk5100]

Love this mod and i 2nd your thanks to him for all his superb mods. Thanks also to you for this awesome info. Definitely using this to personalise my games. Remove some of the too easy to take ships and take out a few that are too hard also lol Top stuff as always Splitsie.

[@Splitsie]

I'm really glad Lucas taught me the blacklist stuff, it's so much easier than I'd thought so I'll be hopefully able to use more of the packs out there since I can remove all the easy ones :)

[@hobgoblinuk5100]

@@Splitsie worth noting in the playtest that a number of the old spawn ships have been upgraded/changed. R.U.S.T freighter blew up when i was grinding the door to the cockpit. The mining carriage has at least one more gun and some other changes. I only saw it briefly :D

[@Splitsie]

Nice, that'll lead to some nasty surprises for a few people for sure :)

[@manopeace9175]

appreciate your community service

[@mattiapiccolo5023]

Thanks a lot man I was looking into mods like this one

[@Splitsie]

You're welcome, I'm looking forward to going deeper into the mod in some future videos :)

[@natoerlawyne772]

Can I only install the mod Modular encounters and Air Traffic and just play? or I need do the step 7:08? its just for me personal game I don't need a big war only find something to fight sometimes

[@alexiscurrier5262]

I love all of your videos! Thanks for all the great content

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@LaszloIvanyi]

Thanks for this. This seems safe enough. I just went to the moon and it was empty so I decided it's time to look into some basic mods to add bases at least. I don't mind survival but it should have some variety.. I've not seen enemy bases on the starter planet and now the moon is empty so yeah solo survival would be boring a bit without bases..

[@Comito126]

Man, the Cockroach is really agile for such a big ship.

[@peterkapunkt6783]

Every ship is with enough gyros. Its one of the shortcomings of the game (imo).

[@hugosimon8135]

This is a nice mod, i stole a whole ship from the sky. Works so well

[@Splitsie]

It's such a nice addition to have little pieces of your world feel alive :)

[@nathanglazier7460]

I swear, even if I was messing with a bit of admin-tools creative mode at the time, jumping through the front window panel of these craft was so much fun.

[@zarlev9083]

Got it, Just what I needed, you would remember someone commenting on your assertive mod in the last video, now i fixed the ower population issue, now the mod shouldnt vibe check me as soon as I start the game, it feels like MES configurations was done by someome who doesnt start from stratch on moons or planets, it was wierd...

[@SgtSeuss01]

How did you manage not to toot your own horn during this video? Assertive Installations is the MES mod I can't live without!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks, and while I kept it quiet this time, I might have plans for covering some of the packs like Assertive Installations in the future :)

[@charlieodom9107]

Now we need about 20 more videos on these Mods! I am going to start adjusting mine tonight to get rid of some things and add more to make the world harder, but not murder my sim speed!

[@Splitsie]

I just got back from my holiday so hopefully I'll get some more out as that was always my plan :)

[@charlieodom9107]

@@Splitsie that is some holiday! Did you leave the planet? I've been having withdrawals, and after watching the latest Capac video, I think he has gone nuts also!

[@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32]

My only issue is early game it can be way too intense getting attacked every few minutes can be tedious and annoying. Planetary attacks have been added since this video was put out. Best way I have found to effectively deal with these attacks is to use the missile guidance mod and fire a few torpedos at ships from kilometres away but it's expensive as each torpedo is essentially a small ship.

[@branthyatt9982]

Make an updated video this was great but stuff was alittle different for me still haven't been able to start my world up

[@rvendelstrego6688]

First thoughts in order: Yay, Splitsie vid ... watch this one now. Huh? Mod ? Is it a Showcase ? Why intro? I use that mod ... watch it. ... Minutes later! ... Oh, so that's what i didn't bother to go through. Should've done that so much earlier. Thanks, now I know.

[@Splitsie]

Glad to have added some light on the configs Ræven :)

[@Yin117]

Great video as always Splitsie, your beginner tutorial got me back into the game and I have MES installed and love seeing ships pass on over, didn't know about editing settings so I'll have to give that a look; thankfully I'm a developer so XML isn't new to me. I look forward to more 🙂

[@Splitsie]

You'll undoubtedly get a lot more of it than me then - once it goes beyond xml I may as well be blind :P

[@gamepad3173]

interesting idea,I may use this to just spawn in the Space pirates (or at least have them invade an earth like planet with their basses also spawning drones).

[@LiraeNoir]

Very informative, thanks.Moar!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@ifyoubuildit6077]

This was really helpful, thanks again!

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :)

[@LumberingTroll]

Thanks for covering this! the main reason I play / like SE is for the coop play with my buddies. I really hope Keen does more with pve!

[@Splitsie]

You're welcome and me too :)

[@barretthageman3350]

Great guide, really like the extra installations to attack, but really would like to have a addon that adds more trade stations and friendly installations.

[@nopenah5681]

You would make a great teacher. Thanks for the awesome guide.

[@Splitsie]

Thank you, I do quite enjoy teaching :)

[@karjedav]

Why are you so good to us, splitsie

[@Soulkeeper-tv8re]

thanks great video is some ive been looking for ages but never made sense to me ... this one did THANK YOu

[@Splitsie]

You're very welcome :)

Great guide! What I miss is the creature (like spider,wolf) spawning function on different/custom planets.

[@Splitsie]

That wasn't part of the mod at the time we worked on this one and unfortunately it's not something I've messed with yet, but Lucas's discord has loads of helpful people who can probably point you in the right direction :)

@@Splitsie Thank you for your quick reply! I have thrown this question like a grenade into the steam workshop page too. It would be great to see a short tutorial about the Config-Creatures.xml config file, how to configure it, how to add new planets (like mars) and spawning types (like spiders), frequency, number of creatures, etc.? A spider invasion on Mars would be a great new challenge for my X-Server players.

[@SirTragain]

#222 ^ I'm sure there are a lot of people that understood and I was with you most of the way but it's still over my head; I'm an old duff. I'll have to bookmark this video and play it back another hundred times or so. Thanks, keep up the good work.

[@Splitsie]

I think that's kinda the way I was going with this - it's a bit of a reference material for people to use when they're actually going through the process themselves, but hopefully I showed that it is achievable and something worth doing :)

[@zebrin]

Thank you for making this video, I was wondering why I wasn't getting any spawns. It apparently was a reading comprehension failure!

[@Splitsie]

Sometimes a visual example can really help things to become clear :)

[@matija9041]

Interesting and helpful video, great job!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@jayjchapman]

Just what I was looking for , thanks 👍

[@darksupportertn]

Everytime Splits puts up a vid i watch it,

[@Splitsie]

Thanks :)

[@KarmanicMizery]

Me: YAY i finally got this! Game crash: I’m gonna do what’s called a pro gamer move

[@rasheedgregory3459]

What would crashed ground encounters be effected by...random encounters or planetary installations?

[@AdmiringCoyote-gd9zz]

What encounter mods work on consoles I'm new to the game seen a lot of videos but a lot of them doesn't work for me I just gotten the mods downloaded but can't use them cause the console doesn't allow scripts even with in game scripts cut on

[@TheCrunchyThing]

Watching you crash the cockroach honestly made my heart sink so much

[@Splitsie]

Fortunately it wasn't in Survival Unlikely and just while I was messing around :P

[@TheCrunchyThing]

@@Splitsie still heartbreaking to see something you two put so much love and time into *ahem* aquiring smashed into a mountain 😂

[@Splitsie]

lol there is that I guess :D

[@aristatuisvandenberg2180]

just wish the game had more of these features and settings from the workshop as an actual client and no experimental mode rubbish. I'd say KEEN have not yet lived up to much expectations after launch as its quite frustrating finding a Basic Multiplayer server still and most features are blocked by experimental mode - and to be honest - strictly vanilla sucks here.. Where its supposed to be the most balanced and 'KLEEN flavor.. Any-case Great Job Splits and YES Thanks Lucas for being more intuitive than the publisher, I think he put in more hours per week than any Keen employee for all we know :P

[@wagnerantonio6498]

This mod its awesome. Its a different kind of challenge. Its more fun if you Will not use Grind and hacking. If you do this, things gone easy for you. A lot of building components, uranium, Thrusters components, Gold components. etc. I checked Public Test and aparentelly have some changes. Thats Good. For now, I made a personal Rule. No Hacking! And Grinding only defeated ships. Speaking in Public Test, in Your menu... There are 4 logos. In mine, Just two. I made something Wrong, maybe? As always, Thanks for sharing great content!!!

[@Splitsie]

The logos in my menu are for the DLCs, the veteran one for completing the tutorial and the one for the deluxe edition :)

[@Cyberguy42]

Splitsie Once Survival Unlikely resumes you should secretly adjust the spawn settings at some point to get ridiculous numbers of enemies, I think Capac's reaction would be amusing. Also, do you know when the Survival Maybe finale will be ready?

[@Splitsie]

I might have some plans with Lucas's wave spawner and some special spawn lists ;)

[@TarisRedwing]

seriously I could never get this mod to work right ty for this video. it seems so random there are times where I start a new save file and NPCs are all over me non stop then there are times where they just never show up and I get all the way to end game.

[@Splitsie]

Hopefully this'll help you get the setup the way you want it to prevent those times where you meet nothing :)

[@crisis8v88]

This tutorial is so helpful. Thank you!

[@Splitsie]

Thanks and you're very welcome :)

[@serdaraytemiz]

I think it is a great mod and magnificent piece of work to put it in the game. I just never use it. I realized I spend all my time avoiding the spawns while playing the game . SE is a not a shooter game and I never have fun playing that way. The only reason I would have MES is when I challenge/torture my self to not mine and I have to salvage. You can not aim down sight (you can but it is worthless because you can not zoom) for me it is an unpleasant experience. You have to have some modded weapons to effectively fight these instead of aimlessly firing at the target hoping to get the turrets but then it becomes easy and feels like a cheat. You could just simply use the "Super Duper Easy Cargo Ship" but the sound it makes just gets on your nerves after a while. I would really prefer MES to be connected to the economy system where we can have Salvage contracts so these ships can be spawned as a salvage quest. they would sell for couple million credits and you would need to travel 50 to 100km to get them at least. another thing would be unarmed crashed ships and settlements ships spawn every 200km you fly and settlements after every 40km roaming on wheels. SO that it will make you explore the enviroment.

[@unfluffydave8798]

I love the detection mechanics with the Reavers. If you are careful you can avoid them altogether at the beginning of your game. They got me thinking and since you have had some experience in modding NPC detection methods: Is it possible to have the "visibility" of a grid change depending on its power consumption, the more power it uses the further away NPCs can detect it and will attack and maybe even affect the type of drones the npcs spawn to attack?

[@LucasMassey]

That's something I've thought about for the future (maybe for Reavers, or maybe for something new). While I don't have the behavior built yet, it's certainly something that can easily be done :)

[@victorfrankenstein8005]

Imagine being in that ship and you see that car falling towards you

[@Splitsie]

It was actually flying with vectored thrust, so I imagine the first response would be 'What the?!' then laughter, then realising it had a gun, and then more laughter after taking it down :P

[@cptlooney]

Hey Splitsie. Digging up a past video tutorial,. How do you display the Status of the Encounters in chat. Say, when an AI sees a target and is publicly shown in chat on onscreen as a warning?

[@ExperiencePlayers]

First of all, big praise for all your tutorials, you make great videos. Do you know if there are console mods that attack the base? even if they are just simple vanilla opponents? or is my only option to lure enemies from space to my base? I already setup a dedicated server, but I think it's a bit overkill to run 2 machines for a solo offline world. I liked the concept of the reavers mod where you could lure opponents with antennas to your base. Or is it possible to play with these mods in a offline pc world? Or are they only "server mods"?

[@shawn39997]

Pc and servers

[@thomashorne8096]

I can not find the storage folder as to which the modular encounter file is in, but it is now called modular encounter systems not spawner, i want to be able to edit the file so that i get many spawn as this mod barely works and very raely spawns bases in.

[@thomashorne8096]

Very rarely spawns bases or enemy ships at all, even if i travel around everywhere to trigger spawns, i have all the attached mods like surface encounters and reavers ect like this video has

[@DasIllu]

@Splitsie Hey there, i usually don't make requests but.... i am more than frustrated by the vanilla multiplayer on the official servers (just turned a capital ship on its head due to lag) Could you make a little video about how to make the most of multiplayer, since Keen obviously is not to trust here? ^^

[@Splitsie]

I'm not in a good position to offer much advice on that - the only multiplayer I've done is with Capac or with another bunch of KZbinrs so my experience is fairly limited :( From my perspective though, the main way to have the experience you want out of multiplayer, is to play with people you know, which is much more easily said than done

[@noliebowtie1315]

It would be pretty cool if Space Engineers added heavy armor for the character. You would use more hydrogen flying and more energy to power the suit's servos, but would be much more durable.

[@kapsk8237]

Theres mods for that but sadly not vanilla

[@ThatGoatThing]

They do have one for consoles, but every time I try to load it in it doesn't even load or create the world.

[@Gummypuss]

How come I can’t enable spiders and wolves I can tick the but they redisable themselves. I noticed yours were enabled.

[@randomstuffbychris]

His space engineers saves folder is 45 GBs, oh my

[@Cosmic-vl8uw]

Hey I love his mod very fun but every time I would fly up to ship it would disabled my jet pack is there a way to turn that off.

[@schwarzesrippchen4019]

U found any solution for that? Im sure its hidden somewhere but i cannot find it

[@Cosmic-vl8uw]

@@schwarzesrippchen4019 no don’t find any thing

[@birbstrike2085]

but Random encounters and Cargo ships have to be disabled to run? Or is that optional so that mes and vanilla Ships/Stations spawn?

[@LucasMassey]

The reason those two world options need to be disabled is because MES handles the vanilla spawning functions through the mod - as long as the mod is present, it will handle spawning those types of encounters (handles vanilla cargo ships, and other non-MES encounters like EEM as well) - leaving those world options enabled could result in stuff spawning incorrectly.

[@entrippyZ]

good vid, may config some stuff have you messed with the improved npc weapons mod? i cant tell if i like it or not, it uses the star wars weapons. the excalibuster, my flagship has energy shields and an atlas superlaser, its basically unbeatable in vanilla. but whatever the hell they hit me with ignored the shields and took off about a third of the ship in one hit and revealed the core after erasing the whole nose, my turrets eventually won, but that was ONE SHOT... i cant tell if i want this arms race or if i should just uninstall

[@crystalclearchaos5387]

Is there a mod that will send fleets of battleships and fighters to hunt you down from time to time

[@seanmcdonald5859]

The big question after this is obvious : is there a limit to the number of npc mods that MES can handle/utilize. Ive used up to 15 npc mods with mes and the experience has been inconsistent at best. Wave spawnwer has been fun at times but ive often found that i experience hours of play with nary a ship in sight. The biggest problem with ANY npc mod is that few of the ships ACTIVELY search for you as opposed to almost accidentally bouncing in on top of you. I only had a few occasions where npc ships have actively affected my game and all of those were by Super Happy Alien: it followed me into atmosphere once and was genuinely menacing but then it took off and left.

[@Splitsie]

I don't believe there's any hard limit, however your experience highlights the fact that not every pack is created equally and you may want to test each on their own before adding them to your game. Also, yes there are only a few that will actively hunt you down, especially on planets. I believe SuperHappy's and the new Orks mod by Lucas are the main ones where large grids will search for you

[@markuszinn6637]

Hi Splitsie, thx a lot for all your great uploads Do you have plans for more tutorials for random accounters?

[@Splitsie]

I'd like to revisit these when I have time to complete my own mod as I hope I'll get a better handle on the advanced features in RivalAI by that time :)

[@seanmcdonald5859]

Also, dont attack anything using Splitsie's "Suicidal Clone with poor judgement skills" method: its wasteful. There is ALWAYS a better method than the Splitsie " Watch me break this wall with my face method" and its just a matter of time before you stumble upon it. Great vid btw.

[@Splitsie]

Absolutely, though I only really use that tactic when Capac's around - I get so jealous of him just flying in that instead of working on some engineered solution I end up joining him in the suicidal free for all :P

[@madmann225]

How can someone who is able to change mod files like this and custom his game to this level still run out of hydrogen on such a regular basis? lol. But still love the vids. Keep up the great work :)

[@Splitsie]

I suppose the best way to answer that is with another question: how can a brilliant scientist still forget to wear pants? :P

[@fourgull2920]

I just want to know how the turrets are shooting that fast

[@Phistandantilus]

I'm trying to follow along to this and make some adjustments to ground spawn rates like you discuss around the 11 minute mark in the video, but there's no Planetary Installations file in my folder? I already loaded the world, and it already spawned a "missile tower" not far from me (in creative mode, if that matters.) I'd like to amp up how many spawns I get without having to circle the planet 5 times... I suppose I could use the commands you mentioned, but I wanted it to feel a bit more organic. any advice? EDIT: nevermind, it appears to have fixed itself after reloading in survival?

[@Splitsie]

The file is still the same name as I showed. Frustratingly it can sometimes take a while (5 to 10 minutes) for MES to generate all the different config files and put them in the storage folder within the save folder.

[@OmniArcher]

How do you find the Id's for white/blacklisting modded weapons?

[@cyqry]

Curious as well. I've got a bunch of weapon mods, some of them fairly powerful end-game guns... and I'm finding the tiniest of drones spawning with them and blasting my base to pieces before I can get any kind of air-defence set up.

[@Zadkhiel92]

Maybe somebody can help here. Can't get answers elsewhere. This mod just randomly stopped working on our server. Nothing spawns anymore. At all. Anybody seen this issue before?

[@johnjss]

Did the follow up video come out yet?

[@flamingmilk8266]

Hey splitsie im trying to access the modular encounters ini stuff and whenever i go into my world folder the storage file just doesnt exist? Any idea as to what could be causing it?

[@PayrollTips]

Quality tutorial [as always]...

[@Splitsie]

Thank you :)

[@MrNobu93]

Is there any mod for neutral planetary installations to spawn?

[@gabeallman7671]

Hey I was wondering if I could ask you to do something? I can’t find any videos showing the shielded vengeance drone being captured and used. I would love to see someone capture this ship and use the laser cannon that it used on you and catpac ;D

[@Splitsie]

That's because it's impossible to capture and use, the shield and weapon are scripted such that they are only available to an NPC in an NPC only faction

[@gabeallman7671]

Splitsie I see, darn. It was an entertaining idea though, thank you

[@CyberneticKinesis]

I may have missed it in the video, or maybe it wasn’t touched on much, but do any of these work on console? I’m not too concerned with adjustability of them, but having more ships coming by my base than the wolves, spiders, and vanilla drones would be nice for sure. I saw a couple of the vanilla mods, and am going to try them out shortly, just curious if anyone more experienced has already figured out what works and what doesn’t.

[@icebreakerce1942]

can you mod xbox please? Alot of us dont know how and theres no videos on it

[@Splitsie]

No you cannot mod the xbox version and Keen have so far said they don't have plans to allow it either.