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How To Enable “Voxel Hand” Permissions for Admins in Space Engineers

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The “Voxel Hand” is a powerful tool in Space Engineers that allows players to instantly add, remove, or shape asteroid and planetary terrain. Because it can be easily abused to bury enemy bases or lag the server, many server owners disable it globally.

However, if you want your server Administrators (Space Masters) to be able to sculpt terrain for custom events or clear out debris, you will need to enable the feature in your server configuration files first.

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. Change the Voxel Hand Variable

Scroll through the text file or use Ctrl + F to find the following line of XML code: <EnableVoxelHand>false</EnableVoxelHand>

Change the word false to true to allow the use of the terrain editing tools. The line should look exactly like this: <EnableVoxelHand>true</EnableVoxelHand>

Highlighting the EnableVoxelHand XML variable inside the Space Engineers configuration file

8. What If the Setting Is Missing?

If you search your file and cannot find <EnableVoxelHand>, simply scroll down to the <Settings> section of your file, create a new line, and paste the exact code above to manually enable the feature.

9. Save the Changes

10. Restart Your Server

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