Space Engineers: Hotfix 1.209.024 Patch Notes (18th May 2026)
Keen Software House has pushed Hotfix 1.209.024 for Space Engineers, fixing five separate crashes and cleaning up a handful of Economy 2 issues.
Five crashes in one hotfix is a lot, and it tells you something about how rough the 1.209 Economy 2 launch was for some players. Hotfix 1.209.024 is out now, and Keen Software House has moved quickly to address the worst of it.
The most impactful stability fix closes a crash in NPC pathfinding, where the game would outright crash instead of simply stopping navigation. There's also a fix for Courier contracts that were still searching for the old "Deliver" definition rather than the new "Deliver_LowRisk" one, which is exactly the sort of migration oversight that slips through and bites players after a major update. On the functional side, a particularly nasty edge case with collaboratively built grids has been patched; grids that were fine for each contributor individually could become unrestorable when transferred to a single owner. Those grids now can't be stored until the block count fits within limits, which is the right call.
UI and art fixes round things out, including wrong icons on the Economy 2 Pack DLC blocks in the G-screen and an interactable LG Half Bed block that wasn't actually interactable. Small stuff, but the kind of polish that matters. Here's everything that changed.
Full Patch Notes
Hotfix 1.209.024 has been released!
- ➡️ Changelog: https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/pc/announcement/update-1-209-economy-2
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Stability
- Fixed a crash in Player created Courier contracts as it was searching for old definition "Deliver" instead of the new "Deliver_LowRisk"
- Fixed a crash in NPC pathfinding, NPCs will now rather stop navigating instead of crashing the game
- Fixed a crash in Device initialisation seemingly stemming from specific driver issues
- Fixed a crash in blueprint processing when it contained modded components from a missing mod
- Fixed a crash where the Voice chat over the Antenna system was not thread-safe
Functional
- Fixed an issue where a collaboratively built grid which wasn't over the limit for each individual contributor was allowed to be stored and later prevented from being restored for a singular owner/author due to hitting the limits. Such grids cannot be stored now until their combined blocks fit.
- Fixed an issue where the QuickStart options were using the pre-209 versions of Economy stations
UI
- Fixed an issue where the Toolbar Config Screen (G-screen) was using the wrong (Core Systems Pack) mini icons for the Economy 2 Pack DLC blocks
- Fixed an issue where the banners were not downloading in the Main and Pause Menu
Art
- Fixed an issue where the LG Half Bed Open block was not interactable due to a missing highlight dummy
- Fixed an issue where the SG Angled Door A block had the old style of highlight due to misnamed dummy
Removed
- Removed player-made and Eco station dispensers as possible targets from Economy Overview > Item Search
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