Changing the auto save interval

As most if not everyone knows, Space Engineers offers a 'automatic save' feature for worlds. This feature can be disabled but if enabled, saves the world on a 5 minute interval. My question is, is there a way to change this interval from 5 minutes to say 15 minutes?

It is very annoying to be doing something in game and have it interrupted by a short 5 - 10 second pause every 5 minutes where in which you can not do anything and your friend's actions lag and can cause serious damage to both their works and anything around them.

Thanks in advance for any help provided on this topic,

-Solara

 

This is still a open issue.

 

Investigated your issue.
There is no string in config file about autosave.
There is no setting in savegame file about autosave interval. It is boolean (enable/disable) variable.
So it could be elsewhere or even hardcoded. I think only devs can help.

 

I hope this can still be handled and be seen as a great idea. When casually playing on my laptop, it really isn't fun to have it automatically saved every 5 mins.
I would even change it to 30 mins if I would be able to choose between intervals.

 

Yep I feel the same way.
https://spaceengineerssurgestionbox.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Player-Editable-Autosave-Timer/17965-26587

 

I've changed the interval manually for a world by altering the sandbox.sbc file for the save. That seems to work.

 

Search for "AutoSaveInMinutes" in the Sandbox.sbc file. The number in that line will be 0 if autosave is off and 5 if it is on. You can change the number to the number of minutes you want. Be aware the value will reset to 5 if you add mods or otherwise change the settings in the game.