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How To Change the Minimum and Maximum Drop Timers for Unknown Signals in Space Engineers

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“Unknown Signals” are drop pods that periodically fall near active players, offering free components and cosmetic DLC skins. By default, these pods drop fairly frequently. If you want to make them rarer to reduce server clutter, or increase their frequency for a loot-heavy server, you can adjust the specific drop timers in your configuration file.

1. Log In to Your Panel

2. Select the ‘Files’ Tab

The Cybrancee panel dashboard with an arrow pointing to the Files tab.

3. Select the ‘config’ Folder

The server file manager showing the config folder.

4. Select the ‘Saves’ Folder

The Saves folder highlighted in the server file manager.

5. Select the ‘World’ Folder

The World folder highlighted inside the Saves directory.

6. Inside the ‘World’ Folder, Select the ‘Sandbox_config.sbc‘ File

The Sandbox_config.sbc file highlighted in the world folder.

7. Adjust the Drop Timers

Scroll through the text file or use Ctrl + F to locate the following two variables (the default values are usually 5 and 20):

<MinDropContainerRespawnTime>5</MinDropContainerRespawnTime> <MaxDropContainerRespawnTime>20</MaxDropContainerRespawnTime>

These numbers represent minutes. The server will randomly pick a time between these two numbers to drop the next pod for a player.

To make pods rare, increase both numbers (e.g., Minimum 30, Maximum 60).

To make pods frequent, lower both numbers (e.g., Minimum 2, Maximum 5).

Adjust the variables to fit your server’s style.

Highlighting the MinDropContainerRespawnTime and MaxDropContainerRespawnTime XML variables inside the Space Engineers configuration file

8. Save the Changes

9. Restart Your Server

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