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Close To Home Scenario

Hello Space Engineers, welcome to the second installment of the Far From Home scenario , Close To Home.

Having travelled 25000km across open space, you arrive home to an empty house, finding a message left by the Unyielding Dealers [UDDE], containing some disturbing information.

You will be engaged by the UDDE to visit Mars to discover what has happened to their people and retrieve certain alien technologies, the catch being you must remain on Earth and complete the mission via remote control. This is a engineering and logistical scenario, with maybe a few pesky Space Pirates thrown in to keep you on our toes.



I am sharing my own playthrough of this scenario on my Close To Home YouTube Series . While it was always made for me to play, I also went to great lengths to make it in such a way that others could enjoy it. Much of the making of the scenario I did livestream, so if you wanted to having a looking, there is a playlist here.

At the time of publishing this scenario, I have barely made a dent in my playthrough, so while I have done testing, there are bound to be some errors. If you come across any, let me know and I'll do my best to fix them.

There are also a couple of other YouTube playthroughs of this scenario:
CMDR-V-UncleJ Playlist
Millman84 Playlist
Darkehart Playlist


All the grids in this scenario are pre-placed, they don't spawn in, meaning there is already a substantial PCU count. While it's not massive, it is large. I don't know how to compare or rate the PC performance requirements, so can't be more specific than that. Some of the grids you will be able to delete out of the entity list as you progress.

The initial voxel map will also be large. The scenario is designed to use the Oreless Planets Mod to remove all vanilla ores and boulders. I have manually placed each of the resource types in specific locations, which is part of the story and challenge.

Mods Camera Panning by Digi and HUD Compass by Zelious will make you travels easier. Vanilla laser antenna power consumption I believe is too high, especially considering how you will use them in this scenario, Hull's Economical Laser Antenna by Hull Breach will be a must to avoid much frustration.

The remainder of mods in the collection, are either quality of life improvement and/or personal favorites I use in all my playthroughs.



Close to Home Scenario Guide contains more details around the intent of the scenario how it should be played, along with a walk through for if you get stuck. While there are spoilers, this is predominantly an engineering and logistical challenge, so advance knowledge of the story shouldn't affect your enjoyment too much.

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- The Orebot on the moon can run out of power depending on how long it takes the player to get there The station in lunar orbit is in range of a beacon that flashes up every 30 seconds, so longer than that and it's probably flat. GPS co-ordinates are in the guide.
- Text API mod added to mod collection (dependency for HUD Compass)
- Mars diagram, the North and South GPS are transposed. The updated version can be identified by note in bottom corner 'v2 corrected'. The datapad in the restricted section is correct.
- Blocks added to ore mining facility indicating AG depth
- Datapad added to desert outpost giving clue to NI location.
- Location map added to guide. Sized for LCD display using SEImage2LCD conversion tool.