Space Engineers

Space Engineers

DuraMax Armor
captainbladej52  [developer] 20 Mar @ 11:48am
3-20-2025 patch notes
-Duramax Grid weight reduced to 6.5 kilos
-Duramax Plate weight reduced to 20.5 kilos
This will retroactively apply to existing builds making them somewhat lighter than previous.

This will bring the weight of the original Duramax Heavy armor blocks down somewhat while still keeping with the theme of the heavy variant being more bulky than vanilla heavy armor for the protection it provides. I had been considering making this change for around a year now, especially with the change to vanilla Steel Plate and Metal Grid components, however I had been reluctant to actually do so. However I received a request around 3 weeks ago at the time of posting these notes that I consider lowering the weight. I ran a fair number of calculations to see if I could find a respectable midpoint between the goal of the heavy variant being more bulky, and that of the request to make the armor lighter. Although I could just make the heaviest stuff equal in weight to a vanilla heavy cube I didn't want to do that as I wanted a little more distinction between the block types.

-icons for several block variant groups of the duramax, duramax medium, and duramax light armor types should now match the correct base block.

last time I adjusted some of the block variant groups I screwed up had to completely recreate the block variant group files. However I rushed and forgot to make sure the icon used by the variant group matches the first block in the group which made it more annoying to find certain blocks. Hopefully this makes it easier for folks to find various blocks in the duramax and 2125 sections. this is an icon change only. if I missed any icons or there are icons that still do not match please let me know.