Space Engineers | How To Add Your Own Password For Space Engineers

To set a password for Space Engineers, you'll need to secure it by encrypting it with a salt and hash. In the following steps, we will guide you through this process.

1. In your steam client click and enable tools

2. Download and Install the Space Engineers dedicated Server

3. Enable run as admin

4. Choose Local/Console and then click Continue to server configuration

5. In the password field set the password

tip

If there is no password field press the reset button next to it.

6. Once the password has been entered click the save button

7. Now you can click on the edit button

8. This will now open a notepad file and find the following 2 lines

  <ServerPasswordHash>KnvSAsdrep/23wULQiMgJakFUgQ=</ServerPasswordHash>
  <ServerPasswordSalt>/lqmFWFmVmOhIrgm562thg==</ServerPasswordSalt>

9. Back in the game panel you can stop the server.

10. Go into configuration files > click text editor on Instance\SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg

11. You can press left ctrl + F to find and search password and press enter

12. Replace the password line with the 2 lines of ServerPasswordHash and ServerPasswordSalt in step 8

13. Click Save & Exit and you can now start your server and your server will be password protected.