How To Enable or Disable Oxygen and Pressurisation on Your Space Engineers Server

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Space Engineers has a bit of survival realism in that you have to build air vents and seal your ships to breathe in space (oxygen and pressurisation systems). But one of the most CPU-intensive operations a server can do is to calculate the airtightness of large and complex grids. Turning off pressurisation is a very recommended optimisation step for large servers with lag in simulation.

1. Log In to Your Panel

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2. Select the ‘Files’ Tab

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3. Select the ‘config’ Folder

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4. Select the ‘Saves’ Folder

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5. Select the ‘World’ Folder

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

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7. Toggle Oxygen and Pressurisation

Scroll through the file or use Ctrl + F to locate the oxygen settings. There are two separate tags you can adjust depending on your server’s needs:

To toggle Oxygen entirely: Find the <EnableOxygen> tag. Setting this to false completely removes the need for oxygen in the game (players will not suffocate in vacuums).

To toggle Pressurisation (Best for Lag Reduction):
Find the <EnableOxygenPressurization> tag. Setting this to false stops the server from calculating airtight rooms. Players will still need oxygen from bottles, medical rooms, or cockpits, but they cannot pressurise open spaces.

To disable either feature, delete the word true and replace it with false so the line looks exactly like this:

<EnableOxygenPressurization>false</EnableOxygenPressurization>

If you want to enable them, change the value back to true.

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8. Save the Changes

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9. Restart Your Server

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