Every update, patch and developer post we have logged for Space Engineers, newest first: the date, the headline, a one-line summary and a link to the original source. We file Space Engineers under Sci-Fi & Space Survival.
| Date | Title | Summary | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | Space Engineers: Warfare 3 Revealed – Combat NPCs! | Warfare 3 adds hostile and friendly NPCs across all existing encounters, including patrolling Factorum defenders, alongside the new Assault Turret Type II… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-23 | Space Engineers: 13 Years of the Need to Create | Keen Software House marks Space Engineers' 13th Early Access anniversary and gives all owners an Ancient Engineer skin in Space Engineers 2. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-22 | Space Engineers: Warfare 3 Revealed – Hydroman, G-Drive & More! | Lead designer details Warfare 3 changes: relative dampener restrictions on hostile grids, toggleable artificial mass blocks, unified item explosion formula… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-19 | Celebrating 13 Years of Space Engineers | Hostile Encounters adds combat NPCs, reworked Almagest ores, Verdure flora and new blocks to Space Engineers 2; anniversary stream set for Oct 23. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-15 | Space Engineers: Warfare 3 Revealed – Separation Charge! | Warfare 3 adds the Separation Charge, a block that fires an action sequence then self-destructs without damaging what it touches, plus a small autocannon… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-08 | Space Engineers: Warfare 3 Revealed – EMP Weaponry | Keen explains the Prototech Microwave Emitter: 2–3 minute charge, 4–12 seconds of power loss, 10 seconds of immunity afterward, and powering down as… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-02 | Community Spotlight 🧐 September 2026 | Space Engineers' September mod spotlight includes Stellar System Composer, the Planet Vergis snow world, and War in the Mediterranean MES. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-10-01 | Space Engineers: Warfare 3 Revealed – Automation Events, Warhead & Intake Blocks | A Warfare 3 dev Q&A details a new Event Controller trigger for missile lock-on, 3x-longer conveyor tube variants, recolored icons with ModSDK support, and the… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-24 | Space Engineers: Warfare 3 Revealed – Jump Detection, Fighter Cockpit | Keen details Warfare 3's optional Jump Detection setting, which marks heavy grids arriving from a jump drive, plus the new Fighter Cockpit Type II block. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-17 | Space Engineers: Warfare 3 Revealed – Artillery Turret, Jump Seat & more! | Dev Q&A explains Warfare 3 missile and torpedo behavior, ammo switching, subsystem targeting, and reveals the Artillery Turret Type II and Jump Seat blocks. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-10 | Space Engineers: Warfare 3 Revealed! | Warfare 3 adds guided missiles and torpedoes, countermeasure flares, EMP weapons that disable grids, and jump detection ahead of a free update. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-04 | Community Spotlight 🧐 August 2026 | The August community spotlight lists player mods and blueprints including the Terraforming Mod, Procedural Systems, Expanded Systems, Hopeless Encounters, and… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-09-01 | “Masters of Motion” Competition Results Livestream | Keen Software House will host a September 4 livestream showcasing mechanical engineering competition videos from the Space Engineers 1 and 2 communities on… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-25 | NPC Pathfinding on Moving & Rotating Grid! | Keen Software House shows NPCs pathfinding across moving and rotating grids in a preview video, described as progress toward the upcoming Warfare 3 update; no… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-14 | Space Engineers: Hotfix 1.210.014 | Hotfix 1.210.014 reverts the Wheel Propulsion Override change and fixes jetpack fuel warnings, offset station subgrids, and flat collector conveyors. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-07 | Space Engineers: Hotfix 1.210.013 | Hotfix 1.210.013 fixes subgrid clanging after Jump drive jumps, sorters blocking pull actions, merge blocks detaching from projections, plus collector and UI… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-07 | Community Spotlight 🧐 July 2026 | Monthly workshop spotlight features mods and blueprints including Orbital NPC Spawns, a visual scripting tool, and a lore-driven survival scenario. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-08-05 | Space Engineers: Prosperity – Factorum Drone Depot | The Prosperity update adds a new Factorum Global Encounter holding Prototech loot, alongside a mechanical engineering video competition with an August 31… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-30 | Space Engineers: Hotfix 1.210.012 | Hotfix 1.210.012 fixes several mod-related crashes, a Searchlight grinding crash, sun tracking removal crashes, and console Services Terminal persistence. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-27 | Space Engineers: Prosperity Update & Pack Live Now! | Prosperity Update adds a Factorum encounter, Prototech O2/H2 generator, Ping Grid button and Economy 2 service improvements, plus a paid decorative pack. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-20 | Space Engineers: Prosperity Update & Pack Previews | Prosperity Update and Pack launch July 27 with a new Factorum encounter, Prototech, and changes to projectors, contracts, the Services Terminal and economy. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-16 | Space Engineers: Prosperity Launching July 27! | The Prosperity Update and Pack launches July 27 at 5 PM UTC with a new Factorum encounter, Prototech to hunt, and Projector, Contracts and economy improvements. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-10 | Community Spotlight 🧐 June 2026 | The June 2026 community spotlight lists player-made mods and blueprints, including orbital NPC spawn fixes, monorail track pieces, and a 236-station economy… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-07-06 | Space Engineers 2 Major Update: "Drive, Automate & Detonate" Live Now! | Space Engineers 2 update VS2.3 adds wheels and hinges, wind physics, timer/sensor/event controller automation, colonization stages, and survival progression… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-26 | Space Engineers: Factorum Secrets | The Prosperity Update (1.210) adds a new Factorum encounter that requires adaptation over brute force, plus new blocks, quality-of-life improvements and bug… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-18 | Space Engineers Dev Diary: June 18, 2026 | Dev diary names Update 210: Prosperity for July/August 2026, focused on economy, contracts and station services, and Update 211: Warfare 3 for Q4 2026. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-06-05 | Community Spotlight 🧐 May 2026 | The May 2026 community spotlight rounds up workshop mods and blueprints, including custom HUDs enabled by Economy 2, economy shop prefab tools, and services… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-29 | Space Engineers Update 210 Sneak Peek: New Prototech Spotted? | Update 1.210 is in development with bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and new blocks, including a new Prototech block; no release date given. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-18 | Space Engineers: Hotfix 1.209.024 | Hotfix 1.209.024 fixes crashes in courier contracts, NPC pathfinding, device initialization and blueprint processing, plus several UI and block art issues. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-08 | Community Spotlight 🧐 April 2026 | The April 2026 Community Spotlight collects workshop picks including the Planet Zenitaia world, the Stargate Engineering Suite mod, the Grid Vault… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-07 | Space Engineers: Hotfix 1.209.022 | Hotfix 1.209.022 fixes crashes tied to DLC banner downloads, modded contract icons, and PvE bounty grids, plus Economy station and Grid Hauling contract issues. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-05-04 | Space Engineers: Economy 2 Update & Pack Live Now! | The free Economy 2 update adds a Services Terminal for storing, repairing, and salvaging grids at trade stations, NPCs in trade stations, and ModAPI changes. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-20 | Space Engineers: Economy 2 Update & Pack Launching May 4 | Space Engineers: Economy 2 update and pack launch May 4 at 5 PM UTC, with daily community previews covering contracts, trade stations, grid storage and DLC… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-17 | Announcing the “Masters of Motion” – Mechanical Engineering Video Competition! | Keen Software House announced a themed community video competition for Space Engineers 1 and 2 focused on rotor, hinge, and piston builds, with full rules… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-09 | Space Engineers: Economy 2 Update & Pack – Arriving This May! | Keen Software House announces the Economy 2 Update & Pack for May, expanding economy systems with reworked contracts and deeper trading at stations. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-03 | Community Spotlight 🧐 March 2026 | Space Engineers' monthly community spotlight lists March workshop picks including the Planet Nivis map, AquaExpansion ocean mechanics, hangar force fields… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-04-01 | Who Are They?!? | Update 209 will add animated AI characters with pathfinding and interaction behaviors to populate neutral trading stations. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-25 | Space Engineers Update 209 Sneak Peek: Structural Blocks | Update 1.209 introduces a set of seven free large-profile structural blocks, featured in the new Trade Stations, with more content planned for the update. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-23 | Space Engineers 2: VS2.2 – Mechanical Blocks & Weapons Live Now! | Major update VS2.2 for Space Engineers 2 adds rotors and pistons, weapons and combat basics, area welding, production lines, new moons and asteroid rings… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-19 | Print your own Little Engineer! | Keen Software House published free STL files of the Little Engineer mascot, prepared by Raissa Theodosia and Dennys Wang, with hollowed and raw versions for… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-09 | Space Engineers 1 & 2 Screenshot Competition Winners | Keen Software House names 10 grand winners of the Forged Among the Stars screenshot competition, five from Space Engineers 1 and five from Space Engineers 2… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-03-06 | Community Spotlight 🧐 February 2026 | Space Engineers' February 2026 community spotlight features workshop mods including Dyson Swarm, gimballed jet thrusters, ArmourEssentials, and new decorative… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-24 | Space Engineers Update 209 Sneak Peek: New Contracts | Update 1.209 reworks existing economy contracts and adds recovery, PvE bounty, hauling and salvage contracts built on modernized NPC grids. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-19 | Space Engineers 1 & 2 Screenshot Competition Livestream | Keen Software House closes the Forged Among the Stars screenshot competition and will announce results in a livestream on February 20 at 6 PM UTC on Twitch… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-02-06 | Community Spotlight 🧐 January 2026 | Space Engineers' January community spotlight lists player-made planets, an economy overhaul, an extended survival mod, and a weapon rebalance. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-27 | Space Engineers: Update 209 Sneak Peek – Services Terminal | Sneak peek at Space Engineers update 1.209: a Services Terminal selling repairs and salvage at trade stations, plus a Grid Storage block that stores whole… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-12 | “Forged Among the Stars” – Space Engineers 1 & 2 Screenshot Competition! | Keen Software House is accepting cinematic screenshot entries for Space Engineers 1 and 2 from January 9 to February 13, 2026, with ten winners featured as… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-09 | Community Spotlight 🧐 December 2025 | The December community spotlight lists player-made workshop additions including the Mirathi star system, three Herr Doktor planets, a modular powercore… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2026-01-05 | Space Engineers Update 209 Sneak Peek – New Economy Ships | Update 1.209 will overhaul the NPC station ship market, adding new and reworked ships with modern weapons, automation, and visual upgrades. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-12 | 2025 Space Engineers 2 Music Competition Winners Announced! | Keen Software House announced 20 winners of the 2025 Space Engineers 2 Music Competition, selected from 252 submitted songs. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-05 | Community Spotlight 🧐 November 2025 | November 2025 community spotlight collects workshop mods and blueprints including farming automation, radiation blocks, the Sköll Sector system, and a vanilla… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-02 | Space Engineers: Hotfix 1.208.015 | Hotfix 1.208.015 fixes crashes on the Join Game screen and with modded consumables, plus inventory filter and merge block issues. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-12-01 | Space Engineers 2: Planets & Survival Foundations Live Now! | VS2 adds planets, survival progression, building tools, and the start of the storyline to Space Engineers 2; the studio calls it the biggest update since… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-24 | Space Engineers: Core Systems Live Now! | The free Core Systems update adds initial joystick support, set-value actions for more blocks, one-click harvesting, tougher hinges, rotors, and pistons, and… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-24 | The Steam Awards are back! | Keen Software House is asking Space Engineers players to nominate the game for the Steam Awards 'Labor of Love' category. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-17 | Space Engineers: Core Systems Launching November 24 | Space Engineers Core Systems Update launches November 24 at 6 PM UTC with a livestream and daily community previews; Space Engineers 2 planets update ETA… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-11-13 | Space Engineers: Core Systems – Arriving This November! | Space Engineers' Core Systems Update arrives this November, adding basic joystick support, faster planting and harvesting, and quality-of-life improvements. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-31 | Community Spotlight 🧐 October 2025 | October's community spotlight lists mods including the Mother OS grid script, a hardcore survival modpack, food and farming additions, and new planets Acribus… | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-28 | Space Engineers Update 208 Sneak Peek – Faster Planting & Harvesting | Update 208 is teased with a large batch of bugfixes, new features, and quality-of-life changes, including one-click planting and harvesting for farm plots. | store.steampowered.com |
| 2025-10-20 | Space Engineers 12th Anniversary! | Keen Software House will mark Space Engineers' 12th anniversary with a livestream on October 24 at 5 PM UTC, streamed on Twitch and YouTube. | store.steampowered.com |