If you accidentally blow up your ship an instant before an autosave, you can paste a new copy. You don’t need to paste it as just having it on your clipboard is enough – you can hit ESC to vanish the pasteable wireframe. Safety Tip! Back-ups: periodically control-c while targeting your ship to create a pasteable copy of your work. In an empty world, theres no large platform for you to build your fighter upon, and so you run the risk of knocking into your creation and sending it spiraling into an infinite void.
Why? One danger when working on a small ship is bumping into what you have built before it is locked to a stable surface via landing gears’ magnetic clamps. Create a new creative world, and choose any map except Empty World. Creative mode is an off-the-leash unlimited design playground, either for building ships and stations to show off on Steam Workshop or to test a creation before slowly replicating it in a Survival world.įor those trying to create ships, it’s good to start small in this case, a minimalist 2-missile fighter with an antennae and connector. In survival you’ll scavenge, mine, weld, raid, and defend as part of the more realistic game mode it’s a lot like Rust in space, but friendlier and with more to do. Space Engineers has two modes: Survival and Creative. Home > Guides > Space Engineers – How to Make a Ship? How to Make a Ship?