VS2.2 is now live.[blog.marekrosa.org]

This is a big milestone for us. Mechanical Blocks, weapons, contracts, economy foundations – many of the systems we’ve been building toward are finally in your hands. It feels great to see them come together and start forming a more complete gameplay loop.

Hotfixes[2.spaceengineersgame.com] are already in full swing, and we’re actively working on improvements and fixes based on your feedback.

I want to thank all of the content creators who participated in the preview campaign[2.spaceengineersgame.com]. The amount and quality of the videos you produced was incredible. Watching your previews, reactions, and experiments with the new systems was both exciting and reassuring for the whole team.

And to all of you playing the update – seeing your first mechanical ships and contraptions already in action has been amazing. The creativity and ingenuity of this community never stops surprising me. Every time we add new tools, you find ways to push them further than we imagined.

This is exactly why we are building Space Engineers 2 the way we are.

We’ve also been reading your reviews – both the positive and the critical ones. Your feedback shapes not just our hotfixes, but also what we prioritize in upcoming updates. If you haven’t tried SE2 in a while, now is a great time to jump back in.

And I simply love our new Pioneer Edition Trailer!

We’ve started our first experiments with AI pathfinding.

In the last dev diary, I showed you a rather funny pathfinding bug. It was unpredictable – and honestly quite entertaining. But that’s part of the process.

Now I want to show you the real progress. Here you can see several early behaviors in action:

Coming to the player
Following the player

Basic patrolling

And patrolling with obstacle avoidance

It’s still early, but this is the foundation we will continue building on as we move toward NPC gameplay in VS4. Looking at this now reminds me of our very first 2D water experiments. It starts simple, a bit rough around the edges – but you can already see where it’s going.

And if you watched the VS2.2 livestream, you may have met Stompie – my AI honey badger who’s been watching every preview video and can’t wait to see what you build next. 🦡

The art team has prepared new birch-like trees to give planet Verdure more variety. We actually teased these in Zer0’s Legion datapads preview – did you manage to catch the easter egg?

And speaking of datapads… how many have you managed to collect so far?

And finally, let me share with you a first look at the Space Engineers 2 Merge Block.

Full Dev Diary: https://blog.marekrosa.org/2026/03/mareks-dev-diary-march-26-2026/


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Stability

• Fixed a crash at ChildComponent.Init
  
• Fixed a crash at InProcessReplicationTranslationTable
  
• Fixed a crash at SceneManager.IParticleEffectEntity.SetEmitterVisible
  
• Fixed a crash at Core.Device.SwapChain
  
• Fixed an issue with various game freezes caused by planet texture streaming

Performance

• Fixed multiple second freezes when multiple blocks were removed after opening the grid control panel at least once

Functional

• Fixed an issue where flames were shooting out of Delfos when opening the map while moving
  
• Fixed an issue where the "Engineering - Industrial Foothold" contract was nearly impossible to complete

Render

• Fixed an issue with visual glitches on tracers
  
• Fixed an issue with flickering trees when moving the camera

Please keep in mind that VS2 is still an Early Access and Alpha version of Space Engineers 2. We are planning daily hotfixes after the initial release.

• Some features of this update will need a new game to be started / Will need new save to be visible: Credits + Trading / Economy, Cargo Ships, Loot System, Asteroid rings & clusters, Moons, New Verdure Contracts
  
• Hinge Blocks, Subgrid Projection Support: Copy/pasting projections of blueprints with subgrids is not fully supported YET. You can build on pistons and rotors individually in VS2.2, but when you paste a grid that includes connectors, rotors, or pistons, only the main grid will be projected for now. We are definitely planning proper support for subgrid projections in a future update.
  
• Hinges are not included in VS2.2 - but we are not forgetting them. Hinges are planned for VS2.3, alongside Wheels and additional mechanical features that will further expand what you can build
  
• Iron Sight aiming for Character Weapons is planned
  
• Economy: Selling grids is not supported yet, but planned
  
• 3rd person view: Ship guns shoot exactly where they are oriented now (not where the crosshair is). It will be changed in VS2.3
  
• Rotor does not maintain its speed after reloading
  
• Tower made of Pistons behaves erratically when external forces are applied to it
  
• Planet modding is not fully supported at this stage of development - we will bring you modding support for planets at later stages!
  
• We are always keeping previous versions of the game available after major updates. This means you can return to an earlier version at any time and, for example, save your blueprints or creations. You will find these builds in the Steam Beta tab
  
• We also want to be upfront about one important thing. We already know that water will be such a monumental change for the game that you will need to start a new save when VS3 arrives. We try to minimize situations like this, but during the alpha stage of development they are sometimes unavoidable.

Thank you for helping us make the game better!

Image Credits: Screenshot by Pitohui


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