EnableAutoRespawn option on dedicated server settings

[Morgan Bateson]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but in single player you can untick the option to 'EnableAutoRespawn'.

This will give you a list where you can spawn.

On a dedicated server I'm running I can't seem to find that option.... ? Do I have to search in better ways and put on my glasses, or is this indeed not an option ?

I have edited the .sbc file in the save game and there the option was available, and shown as "true" so I changed it to false, restarted the server... but I still don't get any menu to choose from when I have to respawn.

I just respawn to the closest survival kit / med room.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, I don't have much XP cause I use at home 3 time a year and I create My world in Local Solo, load to test if all good, save and exit to transfer my new save to the Dedic Saves folder.

But there are Veteran Server admins community helper on Keen Discord in the "Help-for-community-server" channel, they are helping every days and are very kind so that is good place to ask for help.

One of the Veteran helper shared this important information that we added in the pinned important of the help channel that I will paste here cause it may be the answer you are looking for :

NikolasMarch01/28/2020
Settings for servers need to be identical for the main spaceengineers-dedicated.cfg and sandbox_config.sbc in the save folder

[Dan2D3D]

I will add :

I never play with auto respawn, I prefer to use Medic rooms shared with all so all new players can join there.

[Morgan Bateson]

I exited my ship in space, flew to a rock, alt-tabbed to Discord, came back because I heard a beep sound. I died. I respawned next to some ship from a friend.

I remember having this option in solo and when I did, I could choose which place I respawned to. I'm all for sharing medic rooms but if someones survival kit makes me respawn there, it's difficult.

Last time I asked the guy to turn off his survival kit. And sure enough I spawned back at the base. lol. But disabling auto respawn gave us a choice when we played multiplayer in a solo game (if that makes sense) so not on a server

[Dan2D3D]

I don't like the auto respawn at all so I never enable, I just make sure the respawn screen is enabled with respawn ships or not, tho I prefer No respawn ships and add starting stations protected in a Admin Safe Zone.

But I never go MP just to build cause that I can do Solo, I go MP in Premade PVP worlds only,
like : Race Track scenario, Battle for the ores, Dogfight arena, etch ...

= This way I can add only one Medic room shared with all so all will join where the PVP play is.

[Jel]

Search for
<EnableAutorespawn>true</EnableAutorespawn>
and set it to
<EnableAutorespawn>false</EnableAutorespawn>

in BOTH the sandbox.sbc in your savegame AND the SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg of your server.
Be sure you shut down the server before you change those files and restart it afterwards.
That should do it.

[Dan2D3D]

I just enable use "Saved game" on the Dedic console and transfer my Local save in there after it tested all OK (I always test my world in Local Solo before using).

So you may do the same and copy/paste the files content of that Local tested save to your server save, so replace the file content for the local files if you use rented server.

What I mean is create your world Local, test it and use it.

[Candarian]

wasnt it change that u allways spawn from the nearest spawn point some time ago?

[Dan2D3D]

Originally posted by Candarian:

wasnt it change that u allways spawn from the nearest spawn point some time ago?

Yes if we enable auto respawn with respawn distance option but not working if disabled.

[Morgan Bateson]

I don't know how it was or how it changed, but I died and respawned next to the ship of a friend. He left the game and his ship had a cryo pod where he was in. It also had a survival kit which was turned on.

While on the Mars planet, we have a base with 2 med rooms. I was in space, died, and respawned next to his ship side by side with his survival kit. I had no option, just spawned there.

His ship was closer to me than the med room on the planet. So yes, I guess the game chooses the thing that is near you.

If Enable Auto Respawn is on (true) that would be the default thing. If auto respawn is off, you get to choose. @Jel is right, I need to change 2 things. I will try later and report back.

[Morgan Bateson]

So far found these options:
(in save game folder)
- Sandbox_config.sbc
- Sandbox.sbc

Both have this option:
<EnableAutorespawn>true</EnableAutorespawn>

I've changed it to: false

And there's this file:
SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg

It's located in:
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineersDedicated

It also had this option and showed 'true'. Changed it to 'false' as well.

Now all I have to do is respawn. But I'm in space at the moment and if this fails well.... I don't want it to fail. So I land first.

EDIT:
Face ... desk ... On the dedicated server config panel, there's the tab 'Players'. This tab has the option "Enable Auto Respawn". It's actually pretty easy...

So yeah, there's that.

[Jel]

Glad to hear you found it :)

[Morgan Bateson]

can confirm I can choose my respawn point now. But that was a given I guess ;-)

[Buzzard]

As to the auto-respawn, I do have a funny incident. My small-grid workhorse has a Survival Kit installed, just because... stuff happens. A friend had me down assisting with some stuff on the moon, and he went afk. Next thing I know, I see him floating... and falling, repeatedly. Since my connection is really shoddy at times, I figured that my connection was playing tricks again. NOPE! He died, respawned at the 'Kit, got cooked by the ship's idling thrusters, respawned again, got cooked,.... whoops.

[Morgan Bateson]

hehehe now that is funny :)