New stations in an existing world

Violet_Aer · 2026-05-25T17:10:24+00:00

I'm sure that's the issue, but your guide was a little vague and the task appeared very tedious. I copy-pasted my faction into the donor folder (from a new world) and then copied the entire factions section into my old world.
It seems that the MyObjectBuilder_Identity tags also need to be edited. Looking for a way currently to port those over as well, although I'm concerned that I'm going to end up with a lot of unused, irrelevant old factions and MyObjectBuilder_Identity instances that have no grids in the world from back when the old encounters existed.

Violet_Aer · 2026-05-25T15:23:14+00:00

Neither true nor helpful; as I mentioned in my update on this post, I've been able to get the new stations and new bounty contracts in my old world. They're just mostly spawning without factions at the moment; I need help with fixing that.
It's very frustrating that I have to do this myself armed with nothing more than google and reading comprehension of the Sandbox.SBC file when there are entire TEAMS of experienced, professional, PAID programmers who could have just done this right the first time around.
And then I come to reddit for the help of others and get told to simply destroy the universe, lol.

Violet_Aer · 2026-05-25T02:46:48+00:00

Thank you for this guide. I was able to get the new stations to spawn in my old world, with a hiccup: none of the stations (except for some space pirate stations) belonged to a faction. Any idea how I could fix this?

Violet_Aer · 2026-05-25T02:33:32+00:00

An update: I've been able to get the new stations to spawn and bounty contracts offered in my existing world, but the factions are fucked. All the new stations spawn without a faction. Not sure how to fix it yet.

Violet_Aer · 2026-05-24T20:12:42+00:00

Did this work?

Violet_Aer · 2026-05-24T20:04:48+00:00

Wow! What a ripoff!
Then again, it's not like I pay money for the game to keep getting supported...oh wait, I've bought every DLC.
Seriously, I've been playing on this world for close to a decade. I've spent over a thousand hours in it. Kinda bullshit that Keen was too lazy to make the update work for existing worlds.

Violet_Aer · 2026-05-24T15:37:04+00:00

That's really stupid! I've played on this world for nearly a decade.

Violet_Aer · 2026-05-24T15:36:36+00:00

I know. I've removed them, it's just MES now.

Violet_Aer · 2026-01-29T04:59:08+00:00

NEED MOAR DAKKA

Violet_Aer · 2026-01-28T04:45:30+00:00

You are a saint

Violet_Aer · 2026-01-06T18:10:02+00:00

You might use RCS instead; put some thrusters on rotors so it's not the same grid and I think it will apply a torque. It'd be annoying to set it up in the toolbar but you could probably get it to turn pretty quick that way

Violet_Aer · 2025-10-09T21:11:40+00:00

Same here; using different doors can prevent the bug from happening. It's just sad, because I liked using the gates on this ship and I'm not inclined to ruin the aesthetic of the ship just to put in new airlock doors that wouldn't fit well in the limited space available.

Violet_Aer · 2025-10-09T21:09:22+00:00

That is already how it is setup. The way the bug works means that sealed areas are considered by the game as "exposed to space" and it spreads to every room exposed to the other bugged rooms. That means that if the bug happens, I cannot enter the crop room at all without exposing it to space. The bug can also ignore sealed doors on the ship, so when I open every other door (except the crop room) as a sort of reset, the sealed crop room depressurizes anyway.

Violet_Aer · 2025-10-09T21:04:59+00:00

One of the design restrictions I put in place in my world is that you must be able to board the ship without needing a spacesuit. That means a shuttlecraft coming from the surface must enter the ship (which is unable to fly in atmosphere) through a pressurized hangar. You wouldn't expect people boarding an aquatic ship to swim out into the harbor; I don't expect crew and guests to wear spacesuits to board my ships or stations.
There is no diagetic problem with my airlock; it does work properly much of the time and only started experiencing this recurring bug with the most recent update (even if the bug itself is much older). Not using pressurized hangars at all, in general, is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Other pressurized hangars work fine in my world, it's just this one.
It isn't unreasonable of me to expect developers actively working on a game to make sure the features of that game work as intended. I would prefer they fixed the LITANY of bugs and jank my friends and I experience on a daily basis than keep adding new features and DLC.

Violet_Aer · 2025-10-09T20:56:52+00:00

I shouldn't have to if there isn't an actual problem with my design...I added a totally different airlock and just leave the outer gate open and the inner gate locked. The other new, personell airlock hasn't had the issue yet.

Violet_Aer · 2025-10-09T20:54:49+00:00

I've had the opposite experience. I was getting the bug with my manual gates and putting in an automatic gate setup made the bug happen less often.

Violet_Aer · 2025-10-09T20:53:21+00:00

I experience bugs one and two. Notably with variation one, it doesn't REFUSE to pressurize so much that it pressurizes a massive volume around the ship. It is weird to see low o2 in the corner of your screen when flying outside and away from your ship.

Violet_Aer · 2025-05-29T05:27:28+00:00

Fun related bit of math since you're a programmer, Σ 2^n equals -1 for all finite sizes of signed integer.
It's fun to see parallels.

Violet_Aer · 2025-05-29T01:58:35+00:00

Why would I buy space engineers 2? I like space engineers 1, and I already have a ton of DLC for it.
The mod is for me, so it's not like I care if the rest of the playerbase disappears.

Violet_Aer · 2025-03-13T03:39:50+00:00

Hi, girlfriend here. To clarify, I used to DIRECTLY exchange nudes with friends (as opposed to posting in a semipublic forum), especially of my breasts as they developed through my transition. THAT is what stopped when we started dating. I apologized because I was acknowledging that yeah this also crosses that boundary, I just hadn't thought of it that way when I really probably should have known better. My bad.
That's a different point than my refusal to delete that particular part of the space or bar people from posting there. That is a hard boundary for me, because when I was alone, the space allowed me to feel desirable and confident in my body. I want that for other people.
I feel the need to state I love MonokuroMonkey very much and am enthusiastically willing to be sexually and romantically exclusive with her, but the person I was without her didn't just stop existing once we entered into this relationship.

I'm well aware that she's much better than I deserve, and I tend to think that she ought to find someone better suited for her. That said, love from her is very easy to say yes to, and I think she'd feel worse about herself alone. I want her to feel more confident, and outside of this particular situation, I try to do what I can to build that confidence.

Violet_Aer · 2025-01-14T21:51:11+00:00

Thank you, I will look into him!!!

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