Build Info

Displays more information about the block you're holding or aiming at, along with other features listed below.

Air leak finder was moved to a standalone version! This means you can use that without all the other stuff this mod provides.

Highlight features

• Config/ModMenu - Player customizable and toggleable features
• Most of this mods' features can be customized or turned off entirely.
• Easiest way to do so is by using the TextAPI mod menu, open chat and press F2, then a button will appear top-left. (Screenshot #6)
• Alternatively you can edit the config.ini yourself, found in: %appdata%\SpaceEngineers\Storage\514062285.sbm_BuildInfo\config.ini which can then be reloaded mid-game using /bi reload in chat.
• Equipped/aimed block information
• Equipping a block to place will show a text box showing various info about it, like its mass, integrity, time to build, aswell as block-specific data like inventory capacity, power drain/storage, etc. (Screenshot #3)
• Aiming at a block with welder/grinder (ship ones too) will also show this box with data relevant to its current state instead of definition data. (Screenshot #1)
• It shows projected block info aswell, even ones that can't be welded so that you know why they can't be and can see overlays for them too.
• Overlays can also be locked to stay on an aimed real block using Shift+Reload (Shift+R default) and you can also still see overlays for your equipped block at the same time.
• Additionally, the vanilla block info has some colored line additions for critical, ownership and components that grind into something else (e.g. power cells on battery block, Screenshot #1).
• Overlays
• Showing mount points, airtight cell faces, conveyor/upgrade/terminal ports and various other block-specific data like ship tool influence area, thruster damage, weapon accuracy cone, etc. (Screenshot #3/Screenshot #4)
• Cycled by pressing Ctrl + (can be changed in config/modmenu).
• Also by aiming at a block and pressing Shift ToggleCubeSize (default Shift R) you activate overlay lock-on to keep it visible without needing to keep aiming.
• Terminal extra info
• Fills in missing info from the block's bottom-right info in the terminal.
• Stuff like inventory usage+mass, power stats, production status, etc.
• Cockpits/RCs also contain grid-wide power stats.
• Selecting multiple blocks also shows some combined stats for them (affected by GUI transparency unfortunately).
• Toolbar Info
• This covers a wide range of things for toolbars:
• - On-HUD toolbar info for the currently controlled cockpit/RC (Screenshot #5)
• - In-menu toolbar info (right side) for any toolbar, very useful to remind what PB argument that one slot has.
• - Event toolbar descriptions (left side) to explain when each slot gets triggered (for example in sensor's toolbar).
• - Block actions in toolbars have improved text status that includes block-group-aware status too.
• Block Actions also have customized icons for clarity and distinction because vanilla ones are blurry and very few.
• You can also rename slots per cockpit for the in-HUD one using CustomData with [Toolbar] header and page-slot = name format, see /bi help for more details.
• ConveyorVis / Conveyor network visualization
• Using /bi conveyorvis or /bi cn in chat while aiming at a ship will map out the conveyor networks.
• (Screenshot #2)
• It automatically refreshes when ship blocks or connections change.
• - Blocks that have no ports connected to anything will pulse all their ports red. While broken/unfinished blocks will flash their connected ports a bit orange-ish red.
• - Yellow, Cyan, Orange, Blue, SpringGreen, SkyBlue, LimeGreen are the colors used for networks, they cycle if you happen to have more than the colors of course.
• - Dots same colors as the network indicate blocks with a single port (dead end).
• - Pink dots mean the block can connect to another grid (connectors, rotors, etc).
• - Transluscent boxes indicates inventory (and shows how many inventories with multiple boxes).
• ... and many more little things
• But this description is too large for steam to let me write, so I've moved the full feature list to a separate page: Full feature list

Soft dependency: Text API

The Text API mod is used for better text representation and placement. Due to the game's auto-adding of dependencies that mod should be automatically installed.

However, this mod will fall back to HUD notifications if TextAPI is not installed or not working.

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