Hello, Engineers!
Here we go with the first major update of 2020 - we hope you’ll enjoy it!

We added Small Hydrogen Tank and a handcrafted planet Triton, which features a breathtaking snowy and frozen landscape, that players can explore and build across. We are very fortunate to have such a creative and driven modding community. We recently had the opportunity to work closely with a member of that community, the incredibly talented Jakaria. The result is Scripted Weather, which you can experience now, in the new Frostbite scenario!

Visual Scripting Tool has been reworked, allowing our players to create their own campaigns, stories and more complex experience than it is possible with modding and programmable blocks.
We also added full support for Gamepad, changed UI visuals, done more Simulation and Render optimizations and much more!

Frostbite Pack DLC is available to purchase, containing the co-op multiplayer Frostbite Scenario, Antenna Dish, 6 Dead Engineers, Gate, Offset Door, Frozen Armor Skin and 7 LCD Posters.



https://store.steampowered.com/app/1241550/

Marek's blog post: https://blog.marekrosa.org/2020/03/space-engineers-frostbite.html
Full list of features and improvements: https://forum.keenswh.com/threads/7403728

Hello Engineers!

We’re excited to announce a public test of the next Major Space Engineers PC update on Tuesday, March 3rd, beginning at 11 am UTC+1!




As always, we encourage everyone to try out all of the new features. Players will be able to submit their feedback on all of these features via a survey at the end of the test.

You can also provide feedback to the public test here:
https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/publictest

Branch code/password: PublicTest12


Instructions on how to access the public test:


1. Select the game from your library, right-click and select properties.

• A dialog box with a number of tabs will appear, you’re looking for one that says "BETAS".

2. You will see 2 things now, a drop-down menu and a text box to enter a beta access code.

• Enter the password provided here and choose the PublicTest branch from the drop-down menu.

If you’re not able to participate in this public test, don’t worry! We’re planning to have another one soon.

• Performance optimizations for gameplay and UI
  
• Full gamepad support
  
• UI visual changes
  
• New small tank block
  
• Visual Scripting Tool overhaul - features and UI

• Fixed missing grids in the world (Thanos bug)
  
• Fixed various issues with safe zone changes propagation

• fixed several crashes
  
• better snow (better grid detection, visual in some cases)
  
• fixed Workshop Browser not showing scripts
  
• fixed issue with resetting configuration of the game in some situations
  
• fixed rotating light
  
• fixed textbox and arrows issue
  
• added more sounds to gamepad actions in UI
  
• fixed issue with mods and session components parallel update
  
• fixed slow font loading
  
• added CalculateGravityInPoint to mod API
  
• fixed copy from workshop to PB editor issue
  
• fixed issue with timeout and downloading mods

Join us for a live test of the next Major Space Engineers update!🥳

Live Public Test ~ Tuesday, March 3rd @ 11AM UTC+1

Branch: PublicTest
Password: PublicTest12

Watch this space for updates…🤔

FROSTBITE❄️STAY TUNED

Hello, Engineers!

We’re excited to announce the winners of the Stations Design Competition, which were chosen (voted on) by the Space Engineers community via our YouTube community channel!

1st Place:

Ric le Rouge's Workshop: Aephir Space Station: 331 votes



Which can be viewed here.

1st place will have their station added to the official version of Space Engineers, receive a copy of Space Engineers Deluxe, the Economy Deluxe DLC, Style Pack DLC, Decorative Pack DLC and a Space Engineers shirt.

2nd Place:

DoYouLikeStairs?'s Workshop: Planetary Trade Station: 278 votes



Which can be viewed here.

2nd place will have their station added to the official version of Space Engineers, receive a copy of Space Engineers Deluxe, the Economy Deluxe DLC, Style Pack DLC, Decorative Pack DLC and a Space Engineers poster.

3rd Place:

Professor Holtex [GER]'s Workshop: IO-HEX Spaceport || Station: 252 votes



Which can be viewed here.

3rd place will have their station added to the official version of Space Engineers, receive a copy of Space Engineers Deluxe, the Economy Deluxe DLC, Style Pack DLC, Decorative Pack DLC and a Space Engineers mug.

We will be sending the prizes to the winners soon and adding these stations to the official version of Space Engineers in a future update.

A BIG thank you to everyone who entered and voted in the competition.

Congratulations to the winners and keep an eye out for our next community competition. 👨‍🚀