MDK²-SE

(Malware's Development Kit for SE)

A toolkit to help with ingame script (programmable block) development for Keen Software House's space sandbox Space Engineers. It helps you create a ready-to-code project for writing ingame scripts, and provides an analyzer which warns you if you're trying to use something that is not allowed in Space Engineers. It also provides a code minifier to make your deployed script as small as possible - albeit somewhat unreadable.

General features

• Helps you create a fully connected script project in Visual Studio, with all references in place
• Class templates for normal utility classes and extension classes
• Tells you if you're using code that's not allowed in Space Engineers (whitelist checker)
• Deploys multiple classes into a single PB script, which then is placed in the local Workshop space for easy access in-game - no copy/paste needed
• Supports optional code minifying: Fit more code within the limits of the programmable block
• Allows real reusable code libraries through the use of Visual Studio's Shared Project

Remarks:

• Requires that you have the game installed, but does not require you to have it running

Important Note

This is a project I pretty much made for myself. I'm publishing it in case someone else might have a use for it. Fair warning: Make requests, by all means, but if your request is not something I myself have any use for, someone else is gonna have to do the work. I'm fully employed, and this is a spare-time project. I'll be working on it on and off.

Contribution

Sure thing! I'd be happy to accept contributions to the project. I'm especially grateful for help with features that I might not personally need. Since my time is limited, I mostly focus on features I plan to use. So, extra features, like mod support, depend on community contributions. However, I won't merge contributions blindly. They need to meet a certain standard, and I reserve the right to reject features I don't like. Just a heads-up! 😄

Quick-start

Creating a New Pure MDK2 Project

An installer will be available soon, but you can manually install the template for now:

1. Open a terminal or console:
   • Press the Windows Start button, type cmd, and press enter to open Command Prompt.
2. In the console, type dotnet new install Mal.Mdk2.ScriptTemplates and press enter.
3. You should now find the templates in Visual Studio and can create fully modern MDK2 projects.
   • JetBrains Rider should also have this template available now, so you no longer need to use Visual Studio.
   • VSCode too! While I'm not too familiar with VSCode, I believe you'll have to use the dotnet new command directly with the new templates to create new projects:
     • dotnet new mdk2pbscript creates a new script project in the current folder.
     • dotnet new mdk2pbmixin creates a new mixin project in the current folder.

Installing MDK2 in Your MDK1 Project

Note: This is not the recommended course of action at this point.

1. Right-click on your MDK1 project.
2. Select Manage NuGet Packages.
3. Find the search bar. To the right of the search bar, check the "Include prerelease" checkbox, then search for Mal..
4. Install the Mal.MDK2.PbPackager package into your project.
5. Rebuild your project.

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Space Engineers is trademarked to Keen Software House. This toolkit is fan-made, and its developer has no relation to Keen Software House.