PLANETS? But where?

[dr.bailey211]

Right, how do I find planets without spawning them in. Either survival from an earth start, or creative. After I have left the atmosphere where do I go? Are they all towards the sun? Away from the sun? Really really far away in random directions? Or is there only the earth, moon and mars I have found close to earth. Please help, I jumped for many hours towards the sun but nothing. If there is a way to detect them, or even just a bit of advice please let me know.

[Renounce]

At NPC stations, you can buy cards with GPS coordinates of other stations. They are often found near or on planets.

And in this game, the sun revolves around the world.

[Rox]

There are only three planet systems in a standard world. I believe that there is a fourth one in a DLC. Only these planets will appear unless you spawn extra ones in using admin tools or by adding mods. All the planets should be visible from a normal space spawn position or from close to any of the planets unless they are obscured by a planet or asteroid.

Space Engineers
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Default Planet/Moon Positions
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GPS for centres of bodies
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GPS:Earth:0:0:0:

GPS:Moon:16384:136384:-113615:


GPS:Mars:1031072:131072:1631072:

GPS:Europa:916384:16384:1616384:


GPS:Alien:131072:131072:5731072:

GPS:Titan:36384:226384:5796384:

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, share more clues about the world you play in and the game graphic setting used because we can see all 4 planets from everywhere in the Star System world :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2035401069

You may be playing in one of the Premade asteroid worlds where there is No planets in those.

[Dan2D3D]

I will add :

I use Medium Graphic settings when I go MP and Default High graphic setting when I play Solo Offline mode and I can see all planets in the planet worlds like the Star System world.

Edit
I just noticed you don't have the game, well it should show a small icon next to your Steam name saying you own Space Engineers game.

[Wygos]

Originally posted by dr.bailey211:

Right, how do I find planets without spawning them in. Either survival from an earth start, or creative. After I have left the atmosphere where do I go? Are they all towards the sun? Away from the sun? Really really far away in random directions? Or is there only the earth, moon and mars I have found close to earth. Please help, I jumped for many hours towards the sun but nothing. If there is a way to detect them, or even just a bit of advice please let me know.

There are no spawning planets and you cant find any.
You get what you get with game start and all are visible in a sky. Planets don't spawn. The only thing you can do is spawn yourself.

[Dan2D3D]

He probably plays with Steam family share and used a asteroid world.

[Valen]

If you start in the solar system world you quite often can see a planet from the surface of the spawning planet or moon. Unless you happened to spawn in a bad spot like a ravine with mountains occluding most of the sky. Once you get in space they are easily distinguished among the stars. Their colored spherical shapes seperates quite easily from the grey asteroids in your immediate vicinity too.

[Squidtank]

You can try this mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2165264228

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by Rox:

There are only three planet systems in a standard world. I believe that there is a fourth one in a DLC. Only these planets will appear unless you spawn extra ones in using admin tools or by adding mods. All the planets should be visible from a normal space spawn position or from close to any of the planets unless they are obscured by a planet or asteroid.

Space Engineers
---------------

Default Planet/Moon Positions
-----------------------------

GPS for centres of bodies
-----------------------------

GPS:Earth:0:0:0:

GPS:Moon:16384:136384:-113615:


GPS:Mars:1031072:131072:1631072:

GPS:Europa:916384:16384:1616384:


GPS:Alien:131072:131072:5731072:

GPS:Titan:36384:226384:5796384:

That is what I was going to share if it wasn't here already. All of the planets are in the same location in every game, every world, every save. Asteroids and other celestial bodies are randomized. Those are the GPS co-ordinates for the planets. You can Copy/Paste those lines and save them in your GPS tab (copy from clipboard button) so you have a marker on your screen telling you which direction to go to go toward them.

To gather them all in your GPS list hopefully you already know you don't have to launch the game, paste one, exit the game, paste one. You can either alt+tab or use the Steam Overlay and browser.

Optionally you can use a jump drive to get to them quicker. If you do use a jump drive change the numbers a bit because I *think but don't know for sure* the locations are the center of the planet, jumping to the center of a planet makes mess. For example if you want to go to earth make the GPS location you jump to 200:200:200 so a jump lands you either in the atmosphere somewhere or outside the planet in space near it. That used to be what we had to do, anyway, to avoid chaos and probable death.