Where do my friends find the server?

Under Join Game, in the servers tab, by searching the name you gave it. They can also add the address to their Steam favourites.

How do I get admin rights in the game?

Add your SteamID64 to the admin list in the panel and restart. In the game, Alt+F10 then opens the admin screen.

Can I lock the server with a password?

Not from the panel yet. The server is listed publicly, and your admins can kick or ban unwanted players from the admin screen.

Does stopping the server lose progress?

No. The server saves the world when it stops and every five minutes while it runs.

Space Engineers server from €5.00/month, in 60 seconds.

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Build ships and stations with your crew on the official Space Engineers server. From Starter, 24/7 with anti-DDoS included.

Create a Space Engineers server From Starter · €5.00

×2on Free · 1 h 30 min of play a day · 24/7 from STARTER

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Space Engineers is in beta: you can create your server already, but we are still tuning its image and it may change without notice.

Guide · Space Engineers

Host a Space Engineers server

Space Engineers hands your crew a grinder, a welder and a universe of voxels: you mine asteroids and planets for ore, refine it, and weld ships, rovers and stations block by block, with real mass, thrust, oxygen and hydrogen to worry about. Keen Software House ships the dedicated server for Windows on the .NET Framework, so on our nodes it runs in a compatibility layer that carries .NET 4.8, and Steam patches it on every start.

The whole world lives in one save folder named World: the grids you built, the voxels you carved and every inventory. The server writes it every five minutes and again when it stops, in under a second, and our backups copy the saves without the 8 GB game or the compatibility layer.

From an empty panel to your first ship

In the panel, choose Space Engineers and a plan of at least 4 GB.
Pick the scenario: Star System starts on a planet with moons and asteroid fields around it, Empty World gives you open space and nothing else.
Choose Survival for oxygen, hunger and scarce ore, or Creative to build with unlimited blocks, then set the player slots, up to sixteen.
Paste the SteamID64 of each admin, comma separated, so they can open the admin screen in the game.
Start the server. The first boot downloads about 8 GB and prepares the compatibility layer; when the console prints Game ready, the world is open.

Bringing your crew aboard

From the main menu, players open Join Game, switch to the servers tab and search for the server name. The server is listed publicly, so it also shows up for strangers who browse the list; your admins can kick or ban anyone who should not be there. Adding the address to the Steam favourites also works and survives renames.

What you can change from the panel

Scenario and game mode are read only when the server creates the world; afterwards the save keeps its own rules, and the Worlds tab is where you wipe it and start over. The admin list and the player slots are written into the server configuration on every start, so a change takes effect after one restart.

How much RAM Space Engineers needs

A fresh Star System with nobody online settled at about 1.7 GB in our measurements. Every grid your crew welds and every planet surface they visit stays in memory while the world runs, so large fleets grow it fast; that is why the floor is 4 GB and we suggest 6 GB for a busy crew. The 14 GB of disk holds the 8 GB game, the 2.4 GB compatibility layer and a growing save.

Running the world as the owner

The server's remote API stays off, so the panel console shows its log instead of taking commands. In the game, an admin presses Alt+F10 to open the admin screen: kick and ban players, save on demand, remove abandoned grids or spawn what the crew needs. Bans are stored in the world folder and travel in our backups.

When the launch goes wrong

If the console reports that the world could not load, the save is damaged; restore a backup from the Backups tab. A server missing from the list usually needs a minute more after Game ready, or the search filters hide modded or experimental servers. If the first start ends early, read the last lines of the console; a disk that fills during the download is the usual cause.

Space Engineers Dedicated Server: Setup, Worlds, Admins and RAM

Versions

Space Engineers versions

latestDefault

Switch versions from the panel: we back the server up first and tell you what will be left behind.

Loaders

Space Engineers loaders and templates

VanillaVersion latestThe game exactly as the studio ships it.

Pick the template when you create the server: we install it, configure it and hand it over running.

Data

Space Engineers server data

Minimum RAM	4 GB
Recommended RAM	6 GB
Disk	14 GB
Port	Assigned to each server; the panel shows it
Free plan	Yes, with the hourglass
24/7 from	Starter · €5.00/month
Crossplay	No switch in the panel
Mods	No one-click catalogue
Templates	Vanilla

Requirements

How much RAM does your Space Engineers server need?

Space Engineers boots on 4 GB and has room to spare on 6 GB. This is the RAM each plan gives you and whether the game fits in it.

Up to 4 friends, no plugins×24 GBFREE
Up to 10 players with plugins4 GBSTARTER
Up to 16 players or mid-size modpacks8 GBPRO
Up to 16 players and several worlds at once16 GBSTUDIO
Heavy modpacks and large communities32 GBULTRA

FAQ · Space Engineers

Questions about Space Engineers servers

Yes. The Free plan asks for no card, and the panel shows what it includes before you create the server. To keep it up 24/7, Starter and the plans above it keep it running. On Free this game runs with the hourglass at ×2: your 3 h a day are 1 h 30 min of play.