Tutorials

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This page provides an overview over the available tutorials for modding Space Engineers. Tutorials explain how to do something to achieve an express purpose while using the available tools.

If you want to look up what something does, check out the Modding Reference instead.

The tutorials below have been roughly categorized and are generally marked with their difficulty.

Modding Introduction

• beginner Introduction to Modding Space Engineers
• beginner Creating And Uploading Mods
• Beginner Setting Up a Modding Environment
• beginner (Official) Modding Basics

Mod Recipes

A Mod Recipe is a tutorial that is designed to walk the reader step by step through the entire process of creating a working mod for Space Engineers. Though a recipe will always contain every step of making a mod, it will also link to other tutorials and reference pages for the details on how to accomplish individual steps.

• beginner Making an Armor Block Mod

SBC Modding Tutorials

Blocks

• Beginner Adding (to) Block Categories
• Beginner Adding (to) Block Variant Groups
• Beginner Adding blueprints to production blocks (BlueprintClasses.sbc)
• Beginner Locking blocks behind Progression/Research
• Advanced Adding Screens/LCDs to Blocks

Encounters

• Beginner (Official) Encounter Basics
• Beginner Convert between Prefab and ShipBlueprint
• Advanced Cargo Loot

Planets

• Advanced Creating a Planet
• Advanced (Official) Weather Effects
• Advanced (Official) Automatic Weather System

Misc

• Beginner Finding SBC files or definition IDs of blocks/items/etc
• Beginner (Official) Changing Ship Max Speed
• Advanced Particle Effects
• Advanced Animation Controller VRageEditor
• Advanced Font Tool

Mod Scripting Tutorials

• Beginner Setting Up a Modding Environment - Mod Scripting
• Beginner Convert old projects to new SDK
• Advanced How to mod UseObjects (Custom Block Interactions)
• Advanced Conveyor Network Push and Pull

Visual Scripting Tool

• Advanced (Official) Visual Scripting Tool
• Beginner List of tutorials for Visual Scripting Tool

Asset Modding Tutorials

3D Modelling

• General
  • beginner (Official) VRAGE Editor: Model Viewer (how to launch)
  • advanced (Official) Advanced 3D Models
  • advanced (Official) Moddable Collision Models

• Blender
  • Beginner Recommended Blender Tutorials
  • beginner SEUT Installation Guide
  • beginner SEUT Setup for Blender 3.0 (YouTube)
  • beginner The First Model with Blender 3.0 (YouTube)
  • beginner The Next Steps with Blender 3.0 (YouTube)
  • beginner SEUT Interaction Highlights
  • beginner SEUT Mirroring Tutorial
  • beginner SEUT Mountpoint Tutorial
  • beginner SEUT Create Collision Model Tutorial
  • beginner SEUT Create Material Tutorial
  • advanced SEUT Create Material Library Tutorial

Miscellaneous Tutorials

• beginner Modifying Mods by Other Creators
• beginner Adding Localization (Translations) to a Mod
• beginner Version Control - highly recommended to track changes