Space Engineers Server

Mods and Server Changes

The EasyStart Earth map we had been using was not configured to generate asteroid. I added the configuration and seed lines to the map sandbox file to generate asteroids. We now have plenty of asteroids, this did however increase load on the server, setting the Prioity to "High" in task manager takes care of any lag though.

The following two mods have been added to the server to accommodate the amount of resource processing and production we are going to be dealing with as we build up the base. (Better refineries and assemblers means we need a lower quantity of them, which decreases load on the server.)

http://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=481012219
http://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=820407959

The volume shadow copies of the server are actually working great and have been used to restore the server to a previous state after bugs got the best of it a number of times. I have adjusted the frequency of the shadow copies to every 2 hours during peak play times. As long as they don't cause significant lag spikes these could be very useful if we encounter bugs after doing a lot of building, and might be worth moving to every hour during peak play times. They generally take less than 2s to create, and are using only 6gb of the 20gb allocated for storing them so at this time none have been removed.