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Disable Vanilla Blocks - Space Engineers

By Yinxo

Disable vanilla blocks totally !!!

oaky they are not disabled.... but hidden like a monolith!!!

- Not available, to any player !!!
- Not visible
- Not buildable
- Not searchable

so in other words... its like disabled.

- no need of extra components ( like any admin components )

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer

Languages: English

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18 Feb, 2020 @ 3:43am

14 Mar, 2020 @ 3:59pm

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Guide Index

Overview

How it Works !

Waht to do !

Review

Comments

How it Works !

Well i guess the easiest way to explain waht is happening is to see some screenshots...

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Waht to do !

As above, see the pictures, they explain everything in the easiest way !!!

Picture 1.1
This is the definitionpart of the "basic Refinery" in the file "Cubeblocks_Production.sbc"

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Picture 2.2
This is the added-custom "BlockVariantGroup" in the file "BlockVariantGroups.sbc

2.2

Review

I've asked many modders and in forums, how to disable a vanilla block completly...

the answer were mostly, that it's not realy possible anymore, since the last bigger update.

Well I#ve tried a lot to make it work but most times i was kicked back.. since i want it perfectly disabled i did not give up, and found this solution.

if you only use <Public>false</Public> to hide the block, he's still usable and placeabl.
It's just vanishd "slightly" from the G-menu but it's still there and easy to finde, because left behind is a grey box without the icon in it.

share this for cleaner G-menues !!!

thanks Your Captain Kazur / aka Yinxo

15 Comments

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FartyParty 20 Jul, 2022 @ 10:17am

This is very nice for dedicated servers that want to limit certain blocks. Thank you!

Yinxo [author] 5 Apr, 2020 @ 3:34am

i'm only making my own stuff, when it comes to blocks ^^ all fine thanks

hellby-[OIG] 4 Apr, 2020 @ 7:41am

yes, but call it with a other name or it will replace the original, and add in it only your necessary group, care if a other mod use this ...

Yinxo [author] 4 Apr, 2020 @ 7:18am

ohh thanks a lot :) this is a good way to have it more clean and easy for reworking!

will use it in my reworking process for my world ^^

so just need blockvariantgroup.sbc to disable blocks you don't want ^^

hellby-[OIG] 4 Apr, 2020 @ 3:47am

you can check it here:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2044485142

hellby-[OIG] 4 Apr, 2020 @ 3:45am

without modify the BlockVariantGroups.sbc, you can use the previous version of it, in your bloc definition you can add directly BlockVariant tag

for exemple i make a windturbin x5 and x10, i put that in a folder superwindturbin_cubesblock.sbc, in the definition of one of it you add :

<BlockVariants>
<BlockVariant>
<TypeId>WindTurbine</TypeId>
<SubtypeId>LargeBlockWindTurbine</SubtypeId>
</BlockVariant>

<BlockVariant>
<TypeId>WindTurbine</TypeId>
<SubtypeId>LargeBlockWindTurbineX10</SubtypeId>
</BlockVariant>
</BlockVariants>

Yinxo [author] 4 Apr, 2020 @ 3:00am

When you want to add it to the wheel function, there is no way around to edit the BlockvariantGroups.sbc. add the new block like: Refinery 1, Refinery2 etc..

If you just want to replace the Block just replace the refinery in the Cubeblocks (don't change any Subtype or TypeID and its automaticly replaced and is added to Variant function.)

Yinxo [author] 4 Apr, 2020 @ 2:57am

well why disabling the reffinery then ? instead use the Vanilla SubtypeID and typeID and replace the refinery with your new one. theres no need of disabling a block if you just want to replace it!

only disable blocks you realy dont want to have in the game!

hellby-[OIG] 3 Apr, 2020 @ 1:35pm

i have a question, how to do the reverse process ?
i create a new block, a new reffinerie for uranium only for exemple, how to add it to a block category without modify BlockVariantGroups.sbc to select it with the scroll wheel when a select a refinery ?

Yinxo [author] 1 Apr, 2020 @ 11:09pm

Perfectly thanks for the Feedback!

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