Press ( G key) to configure your toolbar by adding the blocks you want to build with. Holding a block is a prerequisite for certain keybindings to work, such as block rotation or texture painting.

When your space engineer is holding a selected block from the Toolbar, you have entered Block Placement Mode. The Toolbar contains handheld tools in slots 1-3, then a light armor block in slot 4, and then other common blocks. Dismantling and salvaging blocks is called grinding.Making placed block frames functional is called welding.Then LMB click in the world to place the block frame.First select a Block (such as a Light Armor Block) from the Toolbar by pressing a number key from 1-9 on the keyboard.If you want to practice building, it's recommended to start a custom 'Planet Earth' game in creative mode.īuilding in Space Engineers means that you place blocks in the world: In Creative Mode you can place all blocks 'for free'. In Survival Mode you must have components (such as Steel Plates) in your inventory before you are able to place a block the components are used up over time. 7.3 Transport Items Through Conveyor TubesĪre There Requirements Before I can Build?.

7.1 Choose between mobile or static Grid.1 Are There Requirements Before I can Build?.

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