How can I trash unwanted items in Space Engineers?

I mine rock, I process rock, I'm left with a few thousand litres of gravel, which is realistic but the stuff has no use.

There appears to be no "get rid of this" feature so I started just scooping it up in my manual inventory, walking outside, and manually dropping it on the ground. I figured I'd get an ejector and sorter and just have it automatically spit the gravel out (pollution, yay).

Thing is this, I've been playing for two days now, and the gravel is still there.

I'm getting warnings about "too many blocks." Do items dropped EVER go away? If not, how do I prevent my game from crushing itself under the weight of all that gravel without needing to devote resources to cargo bin after cargo bin?

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How do I delete trash in space engineers?

Space Master, ALT-F10 can be used to remove trash. You can set the number of floating objects down in Advanced settings...that will remove some of it. You can also check the box for " Remove Trash " which will help. There is using SEToolBox for clearing out trash and moving stuff around.

How do I delete entities in space engineers?

Looking on a ship and pressing Ctrl+X will cut the whole grid, for a single block right clicking with a building block in your hand should be enough. Ctrl+Del deletes without overwriting the clipboard. Might come handy.

How do you get rid of gravel in space engineers?

Set up an ejector (or several) sticking out of your base.

Have a conveyor filter between the ejector and the rest of your conveyor system.

Set the filter to only whitelist gravel.

Set ejector(s) to collect and throw out all.

What is optimal spawn distance space engineers?

Optimal spawn distance This value is measured in metres, the default is 16000 (16 km).

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