Basically what the title says. many months ago I decided to save a blueprint of a survival ship that I came to love. Mainly because my world save is getting very old, and loading it is like waking up a pc from the early 90's. But blueprints are local, so to ensure Id always have it on hand I was gonna publish a backup for myself pretty much. Only one problem.

I cant publish blueprints, at all. Last I remember the auto generated thumbnail is too large in file size. But its also impossible to fix since shrinking the file size of the thumbnail is overwritten anyways on trying to publish it again.

At the time I could not find any solutions, not even from dev comments on other very old posts from years ago. So I figured I would try one more time with my own discussion post.

If anyone else has had this problem. How did you fix it? Or, had the devs patched that problem? I dont know if I can call it a bug since last I looked maybe 2-3 other people across the many years of SE have had this.

The only patchwork solution I found was to delve into the game files and make a copy of the blueprint on a external hard drive. Normally that would be more then enough but I have no idea if at a later date a update will make that copy unusable.