I’m going to hit the green Create button in the top right and select droplets. Next, what we want to do is create a new droplet. Since I already have an account, I’ll just hit the login button, which is going to take me to my DigitalOcean dashboard. If you prefer a video version of this tutorial, you can watch it here: To get started with this, we’re first going to log in or sign up for a Digital Ocean account.
The way that we’re going to accomplish this is by deploying a DigitalOcean droplet to host our multiplayer Factorio game. In our case today, that means deploying a Factorio headless server so that we can get help from other people in building the world’s biggest factory.
#FACTORIO SERVER SOFTWARE#
Today I’m going to show you how you can host an ongoing Factorio multiplayer game on DigitalOcean that anyone can access whenever they want.ĭigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. While you can host a multiplayer game on your local machine, your friends and collaborators will rely on that local machine running to access the game and with everyone’s busy lives, this may not be ideal. Multiplayer in Factorio allows you to team up with friends to grow, defend, and scale your factory to new heights. It's quite a puzzler.What is better than Factorio? Factorio with friends. If I logout, my friend can connect, but then I can't. However when I'm on the server, nobody else can connect. I'm having a similar issue as you, except I can connect just fine if nobody else is on the server. I understand this is a limitation how the multiplayer works in that a headless server is just a characterless client with no GUI. I can't see a way around this other than a server working on one port, and clients talking port+1 or something (would need to be coded for it).
I had to set up a port forward on my router so external folks can connect, but then all traffic on that port goes to the server, and none to my client, and thus it can't talk to other players. I believe this is due to everything still working peer to peer. External people can connect just fine, but I can't connect from another machine on my local network. Ports forwarded to the box running the server. I have a server I run a few games on from my house, sharing a single external IP. One issue I have might be rare, but affects my setup. Just want to help!īoogalo wrote:I thought I tried that combination of command lines last night, but must not have had it quite right. If a topic like this already exists, I'm sorry. Start /wait Factorio.exe -start-server YOUR_SAVE.zip This can be changed by adding /wait to the. That means you won't see a window or a console!
Important: There is no feedback that the server is running except the factorio.exe in the task manager.
#FACTORIO SERVER WINDOWS#
Setting up a Factorio server using Windows is very easy.
#FACTORIO SERVER HOW TO#
I've seen some players wondering on how to set up a headless/dedicated server on Windows. Note: Some of the information in this thread is a little bit outdated, see the Wiki - Multiplayer for more up-to-date info on servers and multiplayer in general.
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