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How To Add Mods To A Space Engineers Server

Last updated 08 Jun 2025

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You must have Experimental Mode Enabled to use mods.

1 Stop the server.

Stop

3 Go to the File Manager on the Kinetic Panel.

File Manager

4 Navgate to Config > Saves > World

5 Open Sandbox_config.Sandbox_config.

6 Locate the <Mods /> Line and delete it.

7 In its place put

  <ModItem FriendlyName="Name of the mod">
    <Name>WorkshopID.sbm</Name>
    <PublishedFileId>WorkshopID</PublishedFileId>
    <PublishedServiceName>Steam</PublishedServiceName>
  </ModItem>
</Mods>

8 Enter your mods info. An example is shown below.

You can find the WorkshopID on Steam Workshop By clicking the share button and copying the end of the url

IDID

Example Using the above mod

<Mods>
    <ModItem FriendlyName="Energy Shields">
      <Name>484504816.sbm</Name>
      <PublishedFileId>484504816</PublishedFileId>
      <PublishedServiceName>Steam</PublishedServiceName>
    </ModItem>
  </Mods>

8 Save & Start your server

Save

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