Install mods on Space Engineers server
Rent your own Space Engineers server at 4Netplayers.com
Tip: We recommend using a program with syntax highlighting such as Notepad++.
We also recommend the use of an FTP program such as Filezilla.
To install mods, please proceed as follows:
1. If your server has never been running, please start it once.
2. Stop the server and wait until the status is Server not running
.
3. Now connect to the Saves FTP
4. Download the sandbox_config.sbc
which you can find here:
/ConfigID/saves/Saves/World
Note: The ConfigID or ConfigurationID for your server can be found on our page under Game Server.
If your ConfigID were, for example, 123456, the path would look like this:/123456/saves/Saves/World
.
5. Open it with a text editor and find the following line:</settings>
.
6. Now delete the line <mods />
if it exists.
7. Now enter your mods according to the following scheme below </settings>
:
<Mods> <ModItem FriendlyName="Name of Mod"> <Name>WorkshopID.sbm</name>. <PublishedFileId>WorkshopID</PublishedFileId>. <PublishedServiceName>Steam</PublishedServiceName> </ModItem> </Mods>
8. With more than one mod, it looks like this:
<Mods> <ModItem FriendlyName="Name of Mod1"> <Name>WorkshopID1.sbm</Name> <PublishedFileId>WorkshopID1</PublishedFileId>. <PublishedServiceName>Steam</PublishedServiceName> </ModItem> <ModItem FriendlyName="Name of Mod2"> <Name>WorkshopID2.sbm</Name> <PublishedFileId>WorkshopID2</PublishedFileId> <PublishedServiceName>Steam</PublishedServiceName> </ModItem> <ModItem FriendlyName="Name of Mod3"> <Name>WorkshopID3.sbm</Name> <PublishedFileId>WorkshopID3</PublishedFileId> <PublishedServiceName>Steam</PublishedServiceName> </ModItem> </Mods>
9. You can get the WorkshopID from the url of the mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1698925282.
In this example, the ID is 1698925282
.
10. Save your changes and upload your file.
11. Start your server.
Tip: You can also download mods from Mod.io. To do so, replace Steam
with mod.io
.
Also replace the WorkshopID with the ID you get from mod.io.
Note: You can find the ConfigID on our page under Game Server.