Character Speed Setting

[TK_Over50]

I looked in Characters.sbc. Is there somewhere else to set the player max speed and acceleration/dampening. I'd also like the max values, so that I don't exceed them and Clang my game. My ship speed is set to 1000 m/s. It takes about 4-5 mins to get to max speed (Banging and holding the shift keys - Both of them.) I have to spin my character in circles to stop. I am on Private Lan solo player. Thank you so much, in advance.

[Jack Schitt]

According to the following modding tutorial on the official Space Engineers website the maximum speed is half the speed of light: 149 896 229 (meters per second).
https://www.spaceengineersgame.com/modding-guides/ship-speed/

That data is as old as the game (almost 12 years). It might be outdated. The developers may have increased the max speed cap since that page was published.

The SmallShipMaxSpeed setting in the Environment.sbc file might possibly also effect the jetpack's speed. I don't personally know for sure if it does or not. A good place to ask questions about modding is (unfortunately) on Discord.

[TK_Over50]

Thanks for the answer. I upped the jetpack speed to 7500 in character and environment files and i'm still slow. I only want to get to 1000. Because my world is set at 1000. That works well for large and small grid. My character maxes out at 1000. But, takes a fort night to get there. I want him to accelerate faster. It's hard catching runaway ships if I can't keep up.

[Jack Schitt]

I don't think we can make the jetpack accelerate any faster than it does but I could be wrong. And you may not want it to accelerate too fast. Going from zero to 1000 will turn the engineer into sauce (death). The discord might result in an answer to that question. I don't personally use discord. I avoid it so I don't and won't have links to it.

[TK_Over50]

i only use discord for game chat

[Jack Schitt]

That's about the only place I'm aware of to get a quick answer about modding this game.
These forums can be a good place to get help with scripts and general help, but not so much for modding.

[TK_Over50]

I appreciate your help

[REALRACE]

i would try [Characters.sbc] //Character/Jetpack/ThrustProperties/ForceMagnitude

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by REALRACE:

i would try [Characters.sbc] //Character/Jetpack/ThrustProperties/ForceMagnitude

aha! That is probably what will do it, ForceMagnitude. That setting controls the force at which thrust is applied, which effects how fast things accelerate. I will suggest again, though, that caution is used for how high it's set. Too much is going to be too much and cause death.

[TK_Over50]

the default ForceMagnitude is 3200. I set it so 7500 and it had no effect

[Jack Schitt]

Just changing the settings in the file doesn't change it in-game. You have to create a mod. Did you create a mod?

[TK_Over50]

Not at all. I tried the jetpack booster mod but that didn't do anything but make me drift so bad that i deemed it useless. Like vanilla but dampeners set to 1.

[Jack Schitt]

Which jetpack booster mod? You're likely best off creating your own mod. How to:
1. Press WinKey+E and copy/paste this into the address bar: %appdata%\SpaceEngineers\Mods\

2. Create a folder there. Name it whatever you want, something relevant and unique like "MyJetPack".
- In that folder create a Data Folder.
- Copy/Paste the file(s) you want to edit to create your JetPack mod into the Data folder you just made.

3. Edit the files as you want them. Save them when you're done editing.

Now you'll have your own mod in the Mods screen when you load any of your games and go to where we activate mods.

This guide gives more detail on the process. It's subject is different but it will give good insight on how and where to put things to make your own mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2903477416

[TK_Over50]

Thank you!!!

[TK_Over50]

Is there a way to find the dependencies of a mod? Or group of mods. I have a mod that is loading and I don't want the dependency mod to load. But, i need to figure out of the hundreds of mods that I have loaded, which is loading this (particular) dependency.

[Jack Schitt]

Note that if/when you decide to try and make a different mod pay attention to the file structure you get the original files from. To make a JetPack mod the files go in the Data folder because that's where those files are in the game's installation folders.

When editing CubeBlocks files from the original CubeBlocks folder we have to make a CubeBlocks folder inside the Data folder of our mod and put those files in there (Data\CubeBlocks\File.sbc) just as they are in the installation directory's structure.

Retain file and folder structure.