Press Enter in the game to open chat, then type a command that starts with /. Every player can use the first group below. The admin commands need an admin-level rank. One command is never safe on a Loafhosts server: /stop.
The game’s text points to the same place: “Use /help to find all chat commands.” The commands here are the ones the pages of Keen Software House, the game’s makers, and its wiki name. Others may exist.
Commands for every player
/gsends your message to everyone (global chat)./fsends it to your faction only./w "Player Name"whispers to one player. Keep the quotes around the name./m "Player Name"mutes a player for you./u "Player Name"unmutes them./timestamp onshows the time on chat lines./timestamp offhides it./helpfollowed by a command name, for example/help /timestamp, explains one command./GPSsaves your current position, so you can find it again./followed by an emote name, as/EmoteName, plays an emote. The game says emotes work this way.
Commands for admins
These work only for admin-level players or higher, as the wiki says. To give someone the rank, see make yourself admin and player ranks.
/savesaves the world. The wiki says it is mainly useful on dedicated servers. The Players page has Save now for the same job when the panel tools run./weatherlistlists the weather types./weather (name)changes the weather to one type./rweatherpicks a random weather./smiteis another weather command from the wiki’s admin list./nml (number)is listed as an admin command too. What it does is not covered here.
The Weather section of the Admin Screen (Alt+F10) needs weather turned on in the world settings. Whether the chat commands follow the same rule was not checked. The Weather setting is in the World group of the World settings tab of the Config Editor. A new server shows that tab only after it has started twice: start it again, then stop it to change world settings.
Never use /stop
The wiki says /stop saves and stops a dedicated server. On a Loafhosts server it ends the server process, and the panel reads that as a crash.
Stop the server from the panel instead. Choose Stop at the top of the page. It saves the world and ends the server cleanly.
If it does not work
- Nothing happens when you type a command. Check the line starts with
/, and that you pressed Enter to open chat first. - An admin command is refused. The player’s rank is too low. Check it on the Players page.
- The weather does not change. Weather may be switched off in the world settings.
Sources: spaceengineers.wiki.gg: Chat, spaceengineers.wiki.gg: Admin Screen