Run Space Engineers with Plugin Loader on Linux

Space Engineers Plugin Loader Linux.md

Run Space Engineers with Plugin Loader on Linux - New Method

Adapted from @GangolfOvaert's comment.

1. Download the latest Space Engineers Launcher into the Bin64 folder of the game
2. Set Space Engineers launch options in Steam to bash -c 'exec "${@/%SpaceEngineers.exe/SpaceEngineersLauncher.exe}"' -- %command% (arguments can be added after %command%)
3. Launch Space Engineers from Steam

This method does not use SpaceEngineersLauncher.py, so downloading it is not required.

SpaceEngineersLauncher.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Old method - check the GitHub Gist link below for the new method

Load https://github.com/sepluginloader/PluginLoader on Linux after Space Engineers 1.202 (Automatons update)

1. Download SpaceEngineersLauncher from https://github.com/sepluginloader/SpaceEngineersLauncher
2. Download this file (`SpaceEngineersLauncher.py`) into the `Bin64` folder of the game
3. Give it execute permissions (`chmod a+x SpaceEngineersLoader.py`)
4. Set the steam launch options for Space Engineers to `./SpaceEngineersLauncher.py %command%`

https://gist.github.com/opekope2/e02db7e526dadff0813a6ea2aebf820b
"""
import sys
import subprocess

def replace_with_launcher(arg):
    if arg.endswith('SpaceEngineers.exe'):
        arg = arg[:-len('SpaceEngineers.exe')]
        return arg + 'SpaceEngineersLauncher.exe'
    return arg

se_launcher_args = [replace_with_launcher(arg) for arg in sys.argv[1::]]

sys.exit(subprocess.call(se_launcher_args))

Thanks for the bash-based launch options, I added it as the New Method. Very concise.