My 10 ESSENTIAL Mods for Space Engineers

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  • Опубликовано: 25 окт 2024

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  • @vandalvanda
    @vandalvanda  7 месяцев назад +6

    Build Info's Air Vent Leak finder is being moved into its own standalone mod, so for that feature you will need to add that mod as well.

    • @averagechadlegionary5824
      @averagechadlegionary5824 7 месяцев назад +2

      HUD mod you were using good sir? I really like it.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  7 месяцев назад +2

      @@averagechadlegionary5824 it’s called “HUD - Modern and Fancy (Color)” by Adriano

    • @averagechadlegionary5824
      @averagechadlegionary5824 7 месяцев назад

      @@vandalvanda Thank you.

  • @bolland83
    @bolland83 11 месяцев назад +34

    "Configurable parameters" 'is one I highly recommend, allows you to change all kinds of settings including spotlight range, ore detector range, armor edges on/off, speed limit, and much more! It's replaced several other mods I used to use.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  11 месяцев назад +1

      That's a great suggestion! I didn't realize it could do all that, I'll give it a look.

    • @K-Anator
      @K-Anator 11 месяцев назад +2

      Ooo, that sounds like something I should use, I run no armour edges as a plugin, but basically throw Better Spotlights (no haze), Ore Detector++, and Relative Top Speed in every single save.

  • @KeithOlson
    @KeithOlson 10 месяцев назад +12

    Good selection. Two more I won't play without are
    1. The 'Tethers' mod that adds power poles, so you can charge your starter base from your vehicle battery and then, later, charge your vehicle from your base, all without needing a connector.
    2. 'Smooth Voxels', which makes the terrain actually drivable with rovers.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  10 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks!
      Smooth Voxels seems like a must have, I'll definitely be adding it to my next playthrough.

  • @K-Anator
    @K-Anator 11 месяцев назад +12

    BTW a number of these can be run as plugins so you don't need them in your world's mod list, or the server's for that matter.
    Build Info, Build Vision, and No Armour Edges in particular from the one's you've mentioned, as well as your Fancy and Modern HUD and Colorful Icons.
    There's also a number of other plugins I strongly recommend giving a go:
    Block Picker, CTRL+G to pick the block you're looking at along with it's rotation and paint, it's Minecraft's middle click for SE and I can't live without it.
    Toolbar Config, so you can save your favourite loadouts and don't have to organize your toolbar in every single save.
    Easy Block Renaming, adds some fields to blocks making batch renaming super easy with prefixes, suffixes, and even a reset button.
    Sneaky Sounds, WHY IS THE DRILL SO LOUD!?
    Better Inventory Search, makes looking for things in massive inventory networks a bit nicer.
    No Forced Camera Zoom, gets rid of the collision check on the third person camera, making it way more convenient.
    Some other honourable mentions I use: Flight Vector, HUD Compass, Camera Panning, Whip's Turren and Whip's Camera Overlay, Remove Intro Video, and finally Welder Eyestrain Reduction. The NexusSeamlessClient is also a must have for those big public servers with multiple world regions, no more loading screen.
    It's so nice just having those things available at all times, regardless of the mod list, though if you're using HUD Compass, it'll interfere with the custom HUD Compass used in the Ares At War scenario, giving you a weird overlapping double compass.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  11 месяцев назад +2

      The Plugin Loader sounds like a very powerful tool, I'll have to take a look at it at some point. The NexusSeamlessClient sounds VERY nice for people playing on Nexus servers.

    • @K-Anator
      @K-Anator 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@vandalvanda There's a lot of good stuff to be had in the plugin loader. Sometimes I forget the features I've enabled aren't vanilla lol.

    • @MrBlackdragon1230
      @MrBlackdragon1230 11 месяцев назад +4

      I also HIGHLY recommend the plugin system. As soon as I tried it I never went back to playing without it.

    • @samuelreyna6910
      @samuelreyna6910 10 месяцев назад

      how are you able to find the plugins? some of these plugins are nowhere to be seen in the plugin list for SELoader

    • @K-Anator
      @K-Anator 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@samuelreyna6910 It's a combination of mods and plugins, but they both work the same way, I see some on the right hand side.
      Make sure you've pressed the little "+" icon for both sections to see what's available.

  • @MrBlackdragon1230
    @MrBlackdragon1230 11 месяцев назад +4

    Great list. Got a few others that might be interesting. One is Better vanilla Lights instead of Better Lights, as I think it does more. Another is Better Wheels (adjusted collision, improved travel, dual wheels). Another I dont play without anymore is SeShipwrightTools. There are many more but I just listed a few additional ones I use besides most of the ones you mentioned.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks! Better Vanilla Lights looks interesting, the balancing between the different spotlights makes sense. SeShipwrightTools seems like an awesome mod for creative mode ship designing.

  • @DrUrlf
    @DrUrlf 9 месяцев назад

    8 out of those 10 are my favorite mods of all time. They improve the building process soooooo much, I can't stress how much you need those if your main focus in this game is building, especially creative. They fix basically all the problems that come with building in the vanilla game and allow you to focus on what is important, design and/or practicability.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  9 месяцев назад

      Exactly! Build Info /.Vision alone are such a huge QOL improvement

  • @GhostOfSnuffles
    @GhostOfSnuffles 10 месяцев назад

    Mt two personal favorites are Colorful Icons because it gives the toolbars and cargo icons just enough color to tell everything apart at a glance and Splitsie's sneaky sounds mod which lessens the noise of the hand tools, the last one is almost essential if you record gameplay because the grinder and drill are extremely loud and that mod lower the volume of them to far more reasonable levels so you don't have to yell over them.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks! Those two are both on my list of Favorite Mods that I'll be putting out soon, definitely nice to have.

  • @orionicedust3834
    @orionicedust3834 11 месяцев назад +3

    Great list. I would also recommend the "Easy NPC Takeovers (retired)" (still working though) for better hacking experience

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  11 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks! I'm planning to do another mod video focused on NPCs, so I'll definitely look at some of the capture mods.

    • @RaaneaEV
      @RaaneaEV 10 месяцев назад

      "Hacking Computer 3.1 - Works with Automaton Update" seems to still be active and it's kinda cool to take over a ship by literally hacking it with a computer, there is even a firewall block to counter it

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  10 месяцев назад

      @@RaaneaEV That's a fun way to capture a ship, but it's easy to exploit because you don't lose reputation for it.

    • @Tilleen
      @Tilleen 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@vandalvandaI would say if the grid does not have an antenna why would they know you hacked it?

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  10 месяцев назад

      @@Tilleen Fair point, but that just makes too much sense /s. Also, a lot of NPCs do have antennas. Maybe a mod that disable rep loss when a grid loses broadcast? That would be nifty.

  • @Anvilshock
    @Anvilshock 6 месяцев назад

    4:55 If you like _that_ spotlights mod, try also Adjustable Spotlight by Rusted Droid which plays very well together with the former and lets you dip or angle the beam off the grid-dictated center line.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  6 месяцев назад +1

      That sounds incredibly useful! I’ll be checking that out, and it may end up on my essential mod list.

  • @szeredaiakos
    @szeredaiakos 2 месяца назад

    That always happens. A newly created grid does a number on a ship attached to it. Solution: put an AI on the ship and have it active when you are detaching.

  • @yankeevader
    @yankeevader 7 месяцев назад

    Highly recommend Improved Experimentation if you are using the Advanced Welding mod as you can grab and move blocks around with it

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  7 месяцев назад

      Yep, that’s a great suggestion!

  • @stratometal
    @stratometal 10 месяцев назад +1

    Oh wow I was only missing 2, which I had no idea were around. Sweet thanks!

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  9 месяцев назад +1

      Glad I could help!

    • @stratometal
      @stratometal 9 месяцев назад

      @@vandalvanda Oh yeah! AND Happy New Year!

  • @N3Corp
    @N3Corp 10 месяцев назад

    look for
    "Small Oxigen tank" for small blocks
    That mod is a must, idk why KEEN didn't added such block in vanilla.
    Smooth voxels:
    this make the mountains more rounded.
    Rendering improved:
    this add a betterover all details to the game.
    Graphics revamped :
    this change the shadows and sun, which is not yeallow in space but white, it add more realism.
    i used some of these on my videos and daily on construction

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks for these!
      Small O2 Tank is awesome, definitely should be base game.
      Smooth Voxels, I haven't tested yet, but I want to. The terrain, especially on Earthlike, is just awful sometimes.
      Rendering Improved is cool, but I'm not a huge fan of some of the emissive effects, particularly timer blocks because they light up the whole room.
      Graphics Revamped is one I have not looked at, but I'll definitely take a look.

    • @Anvilshock
      @Anvilshock 6 месяцев назад

      "why Keen didn't add" - More blocks mean more dev and artist cost. But also, because Keen aren't interested in a coherent game experience. SE is a massive bodge job of barely functioning tech demos with no design oversight (the other meaning of oversight), and what quality control there is is barely worth the word quality. (Though through no fault of the actual QC folks.) It's more like damage control. And it all hasn't ground to the deserved halt in oblivion because as bad as it is, it combines enough aspects attractive enough to keep above critical mass of audience. It depicts real-enough tech as opposed to total crazy space magic (Avorion, cough-cough), it has a real-enough look as opposed to the laughably comical and almost infantile color scheme of games like Astroneer, it is extremely moddable, it is mostly accessible unlike obscure shitefests like Starmade. Combine this with an insane amounts of stubbornly blinkered pain tolerance for lousy quality of the user base and the overall lack of competition, Keen just doesn't have the impulse to bother, which is why they keep SE on life support as a cash cow for financing their Good AI main project.

  • @homersimpson5497
    @homersimpson5497 11 месяцев назад

    Nice, great mod selection!

  • @sebastchan7196
    @sebastchan7196 6 месяцев назад

    Nice video, is that magnet also a mod to pick up the battery? if so which one?

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  6 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks! The mag plate is base game, but the large mag plate requires the heavy industry dlc.

  • @Zerathrax
    @Zerathrax 11 месяцев назад +2

    What other mods you running for the HUD and stuff?

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  11 месяцев назад +3

      I'm running a handful of other little mods, but the most notable are: HUD - Modern and Fancy (Color), Colorful Icons, Eat Drink Sleep, GLaDOS Voice HUD.
      Pretty soon I'll do a video on some more of my favorite mods.

  • @stepver2273
    @stepver2273 9 месяцев назад

    is there some way to remove some faction gps beacons without turning like all gps markers off? i have like 500 sprt stations nearby and it’s kinda annoying.

    • @vipersoup8081
      @vipersoup8081 9 месяцев назад

      You can disable specific beacon gps’s in the gps menu ‘k’ on keyboard in the gps tab
      Edit: (in vanilla at least)

  • @chrisbacon3071
    @chrisbacon3071 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you very helpful!

  • @metazare
    @metazare 10 месяцев назад

    What mod is it you're using for the food sleep and water needs?

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  10 месяцев назад +1

      It's the Eat Drink Sleep mod by Bačiulis. It's a really cool mod, and can be supplemented with the Plant and Cook mod to add different farming blocks and crafting recipes.

    • @metazare
      @metazare 10 месяцев назад

      @@vandalvanda Thank you very much for the response. I've always used Daily Needs. I knew of Eat Drink Sleep, but never tried it because reading the description it sounded real bare bones by comparison. I did not know about Plant and Cook though, or that would expand upon Eat Drink Sleep to provide what looks to be near identical functionality. I definitely have to try it now.

  • @therealbahamut
    @therealbahamut 10 месяцев назад

    All good stuff.

  • @cmtfarms9777
    @cmtfarms9777 11 месяцев назад

    Some of those don't work on xbox not sure about Playstation maybe make a list that works for those as well, other then that top notch selection.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks for letting me know! Unfortunately I've never tried SE on console so I can't recommend mods for it.

    • @cmtfarms9777
      @cmtfarms9777 11 месяцев назад +1

      Understandable since se is an older game but still has a high following, many are on pc so consoles are limited on the amount of mods and size of game files they can use, but many are trying to accommodate the consoles players.

  • @Jesus-nc7wv
    @Jesus-nc7wv 11 месяцев назад

    What skybox are you using in this video?

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  11 месяцев назад +1

      I'm using "Skybox - Lagoon" by Herr Doktor. They've got loads more beautiful skyboxes.

    • @Jesus-nc7wv
      @Jesus-nc7wv 11 месяцев назад +1

      thanks mate, appreciate it@@vandalvanda 🍻

  • @carlthelongshoreman1979
    @carlthelongshoreman1979 10 месяцев назад

    3:09 stargate fan I see.

  • @_the_Omega
    @_the_Omega 10 месяцев назад

    Wait a min...... A mod that lets you turn off/on GPS marker on command? Why on earth does someone want this?! We have the vanilla GPS menu where you simply can click it on and off with one click. Why the hell shall we do this wiht a extra command?
    This is way more complicated and has no immersion what so ever

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  10 месяцев назад

      Not sure if sarcastic, but EZ GPS is incredibly useful for dealing with multiple GPS Markers. For example, if you have a set of GPS Markers for Earthlike ore nodes, and you go into space, you probably don't want to see the earth nodes anymore. They can be toggled off quickly using the chat command.

    • @_the_Omega
      @_the_Omega 10 месяцев назад

      @@vandalvanda so you ar talking about ore detector Signals?

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  10 месяцев назад

      No, sorry, that was a typo. I am talking about manually saved GPS Markers. I highly recommend you have a look at the workshop page for EZ GPS. It has a bunch of features, but batch hiding/showing it what I use it for the most.

  • @ItsAllAboutMeAgain
    @ItsAllAboutMeAgain 5 месяцев назад +1

    38 seconds .. thats how long it took to drive me away from your channel. The music competing with the voice over was quite annoying.

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  5 месяцев назад

      I’m sorry to hear that, but I appreciate the honest feedback. I will keep it in mind going forward.

    • @rubikmonat6589
      @rubikmonat6589 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@vandalvandaIt bothered me too but I stuck it out. If you reduce it to about a third that volume it will still be there, but be less competitive.

  • @brandonfrye7250
    @brandonfrye7250 8 месяцев назад

    bad video format. no time cards where is here, stop saying right here when there is text and box clutter... on top of that i cant see your mouse......Zer0's Legion has a video format i feel is better to digest. im tired of having to stop just to see where on the screen "HERE" is... Where is "HERE"?
    anyways back to Zer0's videos.. better to learn for somone who just got the game... make more noob friendly videos.. and make it noob format so ppl can see the mouse.. we cant see where your eyes are looking when you say "HERE"

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  8 месяцев назад +1

      Great feedback, thank you! Zer0 makes great videos. I'll try to add a cursor for future videos like this.

    • @brandonfrye7250
      @brandonfrye7250 8 месяцев назад

      @@vandalvanda how many mods is too many mods I have well over 120

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  8 месяцев назад +1

      Well, my "mostly vanilla" private server has ~85 mods so I'm probably not the one to ask lol

    • @brandonfrye7250
      @brandonfrye7250 8 месяцев назад

      @@vandalvanda what is your favorite modded planet. I find octave to be my favorite

    • @vandalvanda
      @vandalvanda  8 месяцев назад

      I don’t have much experience with modded planets, but I’d probably say Agaris because it’s a great map for gameplay with big roads, distinct ore locations, and intricate water ways. Octave looks pretty cool, I’ll have to try it out.