About Realistic Vanilla Weapons
From mod.ioRealistic Vanilla Weapons
RVW mod overhauls the characteristics of basic game hand-held and block weapons, making them closer to their real-life counterparts.
List of Changes:
• Tracer trails brightness has been increased for all of calibres up to 40 mm (Autocannon) Tracers are now visible at longer ranges.
• Missiles are now affected by gravity.
• Weapon accuracy and projectile dispersion for all of the weapon systems has been changed relative to their real-life equivalents.
• Reload period is removed for belt-fed systems, such as gatling guns and autocannons.
• Maximum range for all of the weapon systems has been significantly increased.
New range values:
Pistols:..................................750 m
Rifles:.....................................1 500 m
Gatling guns:...................5 000 m
Autocannons:..................7 500 m
Missiles:................................25 000 m
Assault cannons:...........10 000 m
Artillery:...............................35 000 m
Small railgun:...................50 000 m
Large railgun:...................150 000 m
• Rate of fire for all of the weapon systems has been changed relative to their real-life equivalents.
• Initial velocity of projectiles for all of the weapon systems has been changed relative to their real-life equivalents.
• Explosive damage has been increased for missiles, medium and large caliber cannons.
• Armor-piercing properties for all of the weapon systems has been increased relative to their real-life equivalents.
• Ricochet probability on steeper angles of impact has been increased for medium and large caliber weapon systems.
• Shrapnel damage upon block destruction has been significantly increased.
[Precise values for all of all of the changes will be added later]
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[WARNING!] RVW mod drastically increases destructive capabilities of vanilla weapons.
Standart SE PVP and PVE balance system will no longer be appliable after instalation of RVW mod.
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[Work in progress] This mod will be further updated in order to make SE weapons as realistic as possible!
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 19 mo ago.
Realistic Vanilla Weapons on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Not available. One-click install isn't available for this game's mods yet. Download it and upload it to your server in Files.
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Space Engineers — 8 GB (8 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 20620-realisticvanillaweapons-6fn1.zip, released 2025-03-31
Run Realistic Vanilla Weapons on a Space Engineers server
Deploy a server above, then upload the file in Files.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogWeapons, items & crafting
New weapons, gear, items and the recipes to make them.
Compatibility
- Game
- Space Engineers
Verified at the source
- ✓mod.ioOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-30Open ↗
- ✓AuthorTEBTAT, as published on mod.io
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
