Blank project issues

Hello everyone!
I’m somehow new to UE, I learned it 2 years ago a little but I forgot everything. So now I’m following Unreal Sensei’s tutorial as lots of beginners do and I am stuck on creating a blank project. I already understood that now UE creates a landscape and not a chairs and a table scene as a blank project but I still have a problem.

When I create a new black project it opens this scene with a landscape where I can rotate the camera with LMB and RMB and nothing more. I can’t even navigate and move in the scene by clicking RMB and WASD.

Also, when I try to save the scene that I edited by clicking Ctrl+S it opens this tab and I for some reason have to save it as a new map inside the project to open it later 'cause after reopening the project UE will open a blank landscape without eny previous edits If I don’t save the edited scene as a new map.

When I open the Minimal_Default map from the UE starter pack, edit something there and click Ctrl+S to save the project, close it, even thumbnail says that there are chairs and a table. When I reopen this project it comes out that UE always opens that landscape blank scene from the first image without any possibility of moving and navigating in the scene.
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If I really want to navigate in this blank landscape scene and be on the ground where are all the widgets of lights and where I CAN move in the scene by pushing LMB+WASD I found out that I have to play current level by clicking on the play button above (Alt+P) then stop the simulation (Escape button) and then save the scene IN the project to have a possibility to reopen this scene later by opening it in Content Drawer where it saves. Because as I said UE always opens the scene from the first image where I can’t move.

So the actual question: What project do I have to create or how should I save my project/open it without opening firstly the blank landscape scene from the first image where I can’t move myself in the scene?
Thank you!

  1. All projects will always open with the default map, project settings

You can put your saved map name here.

  1. You won’t be able to move around with WASD until you press play ( just checking, I don’t know exactly how much your forgot )

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Hey there @Max_Zin! Welcome to the community! Generally navigation in editor stems from holding right click and then WASD, other than that Clockwork covered everything I was going to go over!

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Thanks @ClockworkOcean @SupportiveEntity for the help! The default map settings are useful, thank you! I understood everything and after watching more videos on this topic It became clear!

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