# Announcements

yellow51AdminOct 15, 2026 01:12 UTC

SE2 Online 0.15.0

ADDED
Proximity 3D voice chat. Talk to the players near you, up to a configurable distance in server or co op host settings.
Player panel. Look at another player within 3 meters to see their name and faction, and quick options for them.
Trading. Swap items directly with another player through a trade window.
Emotes. A radial menu of emotes, including Keen's two-player punch scene (does cause slight damage if PVP on!!)
Faction features:
Faction roles.
Diplomacy between factions.
A faction message of the day.
The option to show your faction tag on antennas.
Marker colours that show who's friendly and who isn't.
Invite people or apply to a faction straight from the player quick options.
Server tools:
A server info button and a message of the day.
Scheduled automatic restarts, with a countdown before shutdown (configurable!).
Resource usage settings. Hosts and dedicated servers can scale how much energy, hydrogen and
oxygen everything uses.
Workshop mods.
Hosts can use mods from the Steam Workshop.
Dedicated servers can list Workshop IDs in their config.
Players download whatever the world needs automatically when they connect.
Old mods that no longer work are skipped instead of stopping the world from loading.
Water sync (experimental). If you add water to your world through the debug menu, you can turn
on syncing it to other players. It's not meant for full-time use yet.
More places to sit. Decorative seats, toilets and beds can now be sat in.
New loading lines on the loading screen.
The plugin version now shows on the Multiplayer screen (bottom right).

yellow51AdminOct 15, 2026 01:12 UTC

CHANGED
Changing server settings mid game no longer restarts the session. Most changes apply on the
spot without kicking anyone. The few that really need a restart ask you first.
Quick save and quick load (F5) belong to the host if in co-op, or no one if dedicated server. Other players can no longer trigger them.
Hotkeys now read through the game's own input, so they work on Linux. Thanks, @Viktor!
The settings screens are tidier: hints sit neatly under each setting's name, and numbe settings use sliders now.

FIXED
Faction tags now update for everyone when someone joins or leaves a faction.
Renaming yourself now shows up for everyone.
Saving the server settings screen no longer resets your PCU limit, sun, raid protection or
respawn ship settings.
Mining and damage on asteroids now show up for everyone, and asteroids no longer appear twice.
Rain and other weather now fade in and out smoothly for every player instead of jumping.
Medbays heal players again.
Block access permissions work properly again.
Loading an autosave no longer crashes the game.
A dedicated server restarting on its own save no longer freezes.
Big worlds that take a long time to load no longer fail to start hosting.
You can join your own game from a second copy of the game on the same Steam account, which is
handy for testing, or if you have no friends.
Fixed several crashes around weapons and players connecting.
Fixed the loading screen getting stuck at 97%.
Now there are four respawn ships ready for survival play, instead of one that didn't have any survival essentials.
Multiplayer should feel smoother and use less bandwidth.