Space Engineers MOTD / Rules

General Community Rules & Info:

  1. Don’t be “That Guy”. No racism, hate speech, bigotry, harassment, religion, politicsm, exploits, etc…
  2. Don’t be pointlessly hateful or mean.
  3. Be sure to connect to Discord on the right. Visit the Rules channel, then go to “join-a-game” to get full server access.
  4. If we can’t contact you on Discord, either because your Discord nick name doesn’t match your game name, you didn’t join, or left the Discord, and we have issues with your grid, WE WILL DELETE IT! Bottom line is we will try to communicate with you, but we’re not going to hunt you down.

Space Engineers Rules:

  1. DO NOT RAID IN THE PVE AREAS
    • No taking over “no owner” grids.
    • No altering in any way, any non-NPC grids, not owned by you, your faction, or allies, without prior permission! (IN PVE)
    • No hunting inside the PVE boarders for players leaving PVE.
    • Violating this rule WILL result in a ban from ALL PVE sectors.
  2. All Grids (that you wish to keep) require a Beacon
    • Does not need to be finished
    • Does not need power
      • However, as stated further below, grids less than 200 blocks must be powered to avoid cleanup!
    • When/If finished, it does NOT need to broadcast your location
    • It only takes ONE steel plate to place a beacon. It should be one of the FIRST blocks you place without exception!
  3. Establish a base and or ship
    • DO NOT use spawn proximity to re-spawn over and over trying to find grids. We see when players are doing this, and we will ban you!
    • Do not senselessly grind or troll others grids without the intent of collecting materials or claiming the grid.
  4. Do not strain the server
    • This includes but is not limited to heavy scripting, insane builds, or clustering.
    • If an admin approaches you about one of your builds, cooperate or it will be deleted without compensation.
    • See more about performance here!
  5. Stacks of more than one Piston, Hinge, and/or Rotors in any combination
    • Combined together in any configuration can cause issues and are subject to removal at any time.
    • IF you build anything that combines pistons, rotors, or hinges, DO NOT stack more than one piston, rotor, or hinge.
  6. Block limits in place are subject to change at any time
    • Limits are the result of players going overboard and causing issues. It is expected that you self govern your builds.
    • Not doing so, may result in a new limit.
    • Don’t be that guy that gets the entire class punished. Mmmk?
    • No using sub-grids (connector, rotors, pistons, or hinges) to bypass limits.
  7. Though we have no PCU limit
    • Grids over 40K PCU will be broadcast every 10 minutes,
    • Safe zones protecting such grids can be shut off by admin at any players request provided an admin is available.
  8. Non public spawns that don’t belong to you or your faction
    • DO NOT spawn on a open med bay that is not yours.
    • Notify admin or the owner of the open spawn.
    • This server is NOT ok with exploiting mistakes made by others. There are many reasons a medbay may be left open by mistake. It’s not raiding if the front door was left open by mistake.
  9. Absolutely no ramming ever! Yes! This means no torpedo’s.
  10. NPC Traders / Safe Zones
    • NPC Traders safe zones are to protect players who are actively trading, and NOT to park ships when you’re offline.
    • Enforcement of this rule is NOT up to players! Pushing ships out of a safe zone IS considered ramming.
    • Report offending grids to admin in Discord by opening a ticket. Offenders risk loss of their ships.
  11. No Exploits!
    • If you know of an exploit or discover one, and use it in any way to circumvent the established spirit or functionality of the server, mods we use, the game as designed by keen, or our rules, you will be banned!

Patrons and Scripts

  1. Please no auto miners like PAM (unless you’re ok with your ship being lost. If the script dies and the ship is lost we will not replace it.)
  2. No solar rotor scripts. They tend to explode.
  3. If you run a sorter script please run it on a timer, or on a button. Only run when you need to sort.
  4. If you run a sorter script that self loops, please edit the script to run every 60 seconds or longer, and when not in use please shut the script off.
  5. If you use something like Automatic LCDs, please limit the number of LCD you use, and run the script in “slow mode” if available.
  6. Please do NOT use radar scripts.
  7. Patrons are allowed to setup scrips for faction grids like stations and shared grids.
  8. As a patron feature, scripts are intended for convenience or defensive purposes ONLY. Offensive scrips are strictly NOT ALLOWED. This means anything that could be used to track, attack, or disable another player in any way. Only patrons have scripts. Offensive scripts can make the playing field too unfair.

    Abuse of these can lead to removal of the perk, and being banned as a patron.

Other general info:

  • Beacons are limited to 6 per player. (Subject to change based on server need and demand)
  • Grids under 200 blocks will need power or will be removed by the server once a player is more than 5K away. This includes logging off.
  • Server restarts are at 4:00 AM/PM and 10:00 AM/PM PST unless voted on with “!vote restart” or admins need to make changes / fix glitches.
  • We’ll replace grids for glitches. Do not request a replacement for a crashed ship. If you left your ship in atmosphere at restart, that’s your fault. If you hit a roid or another ship, that’s your fault.
  • We won’t replace grids for mistakes. That’s part of the fun of the game. Find a way out of your mistakes engineers!
  • Join our DISCORD for help or general BS. Link to the right.
  • Patrons get perks for supporting the server. Perks WILL NOT advance one player above other, but can offer protection.
  • IF THERE IS ANYTHING YOU THINK SHOULD BE HERE, PLEASE MESSAGE “ZATARALEE” OR “SPACE GOD” DIRECTLY IN DISCORD.

Support Us On Patreon

Patreon Supporters or “Patrons” get perks in game as a thank you for helping keep the server alive.
It’s expensive to run this a server, so if you want to help keep the server alive, become a Patron.
See the Patron Levels Here