Also I'm not sure on adding a MOD, I have tried ships etc and used the spawner, but I tried an MES mod and couldn't see if it was even working.

if you want to have more going on, i think the general understanding is to start in survival and then f.e. use MES and its submods. You still can go into a creative mode with ALT+F10, but also then have NPCs spawning. Whereby personally i put all vanilla NPCs out of its missery and went only with the MES submods.

You can adjust the settings also in ways that the grind for ressources becomes next to neglectible or have addional mods to ease that pain. I usually go with a 2 way street, having a creativ world which has all the mods isntalled for testing i then use in a survival world, creating bps in creativ and then loading them into the projector and building them in survival where then also their metal been tested by going against some NPCs and dishing it out with them.

Thanks, I will try the MES I think.

Hi, I am a creative player too and can share what I did so far that may give you ideas.

I build smaller stations that have only one Job to do :

- Respawn station = Only contain ; Medic room, Cryo chambers, O2/H2 Gen and power.

- Recharging station = Only Wind Turbines and connector so they will have only one Job to do that is recharging the connected ship.

- Refinery station.
- Automatic Factory station making steel plates only.
- Gas station, O2/H2 Gens with H2 tanks on all ice lakes.
- Garage/Building station (can be Auto Printers for different ships).
- Defence station / indestructible Defence Tower protected by Safe Zone.
- Underground hangar.
- Enemy Stations with the Vanilla enemy Drone Spawner.

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Ships :

- Scout ship made to explore and find all the Rich ore spots of existing Planets and Moons.
- Respawn ship having survival Kit so I can respawn where I want to.
- Welder and Grinder ship.
- Mining ship.
- Cargo ship.
- Dropship having all thrusters in for Planets and Space.
- Small Fighter able to destroy the SPRT stations on all Planets, Moons and Space.
- Jump Drive rings in space, a bit like Star Wars jump ring.
- Warship / Destoyer.
- Motherships in space.
- Rovers, small and large blocks made to explore Planets.
- AI Drones.
- Small enemy AI Drones and huge enemy Warships that I use in my premade world where I add enemies protecting Rich Uranium/Platinum mines.

-> I like to create my worlds / create new scenarios in creative mode to play Solo survival and some made for PVP.

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Note

I have way more fun at making different vehicles and different stations than adding all blocks on only one grid.

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How to create Vanilla enemy stations with Drone Spawner to add in new created scenarios :

SPRT Antenna names :"Play with enemy Drones"
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/244850/discussions/0/2552901289725581551/

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AI blocks Drone/Warships can be set to protect good Loots, just have to set all blocks to Space Pirate Faction and position at the Rich ore spots of the game to make it more challenging for example.