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Stranded. Stripped of everything. The galaxy is a graveyard of broken ships and forgotten colonies — and it's your only resource. Salvage. Adapt. Endure.
NachoGaming Scrapyard Survival is built on Splitsie's Scrapyard Survival modpack — a brutal, grounded take on Space Engineers that locks nearly every critical building component behind exploration and salvage.
You can't just print your way to a ship out here. The assembler is crippled by design — reactors, thrusters, and gyroscopes are build-blocked entirely. You can weld up a hull and climb in a cockpit, but nothing that actually moves or powers a ship can be assembled from scratch. Every drive component has to be stripped from a derelict, pulled from a wreck in orbit, or sourced through the economy.
We've layered in a custom command-based shop stocked with hard-to-find items to take the edge off the early grind, plus a grid selling system so your scrap runs actually pay off. Realistic orbital mechanics, aerodynamic flight physics, and adaptive NPC factions round out a universe that pushes back.
Every mod was selected to deepen the survival experience. No bloat, no power creep — just systems that make the universe feel more alive and dangerous.
The foundation. The critical propulsion and power components — thrusters, reactors, and gyroscopes — are build-blocked entirely. Progression is driven by exploration and salvage: strip wrecks, raid derelicts, and cobble together something that flies. Nothing is handed to you.
Realistic aerodynamics for atmospheric flight. Ship design matters — lift, drag, and center of mass determine whether your craft soars or tumbles.
True gravitational orbits. Space travel requires actual orbital mechanics — plot your burns carefully, or drift into the void.
Faction AI patrols, hostile salvagers, and opportunistic pirates that adapt to your presence. The more you build, the more attention you attract.
A curated set of quality-of-life improvements: better inventory management, enhanced HUD readouts, improved signal detection, and more — all survival-balanced.
A command-based shop stocked with hard-to-find components to soften the early grind without breaking the scarcity of the modpack. Pair it with the grid selling system — haul a salvaged ship to a trade point and turn scrap into credits.
Custom scripts keep the server clean and stable. Any grid without a Scrap Beacon within 500m is automatically cleared every few hours — so claim your wrecks or lose them. A separate sim-speed watchdog holds the server at a steady 1.0 sim speed under load.
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