![]() For details, please see Pre-game configuration If you downloaded this mod manually, put the. If you use the mod browser to download this mod, you should have already installed this mod. example extension.You can also search and download this mod on the Mod Portal website. To utilize this file, we’re first going to make a copy of it and remove the. This file is going to enable us to control various settings of our Factorio server. ![]() To do this, let’s navigate to the data directory in our factorio directory and take a look at this file. The second way involves setting up a service to run our Factorio headless instance. While this is one way to deploy a Factorio headless server, I want to show you another. Our server is now running and anybody that has the IP address and port can connect. Within a few seconds we’ll be in the game, running at 60 frames per second and able to play the game.Īs I play the game, the state is being saved on the server in that digitalocean.zip file, so if I disconnect and reconnect, I’ll be able to pick things back up where I last left off. ![]() Let’s go into our Factorio game, select multiplayer, click the “connect to an address” option and we’ll paste in the our IP address and port and hit Connect. Make a note of the IP address that the server is running on as well as the port the Factorio headless server is running on, in my case it’s :34197. Running this command will start up our server. bin/圆4/factorio -start-server digitalocean.zip To do this, execute the following command in your terminal: We can download the headless version Factorio directly from the Factorio website. Downloading and Installing Headless Factorio The headless version of Factorio does not download any of the games graphic assets so you can’t play the game on the server, but you can run all of the logic needed for the game. And we’re in and ready to install our Factorio headless server. To SSH into our server we’ll connect as the root user at the IP address of our droplet, and use our password we set earlier. Make note of the Droplet IPv4 address as that’s where our Ubuntu server is. Open up the terminal of your choice as we’ll SSH into the machine. When our droplet has finished deploying, the first thing we’ll need to do is connect to it. In about a minute or so, our droplet will be created and deployed, and we’ll be ready to go. With all of our options selected, let’s hit the Create Droplet button, and we’ll be off to the races. To keep it simple, let’s use password and add the password that we want to use. Finally, we’ll need to set a password or an SSH key to be able to connect to this droplet once it’s created. Since I’m located in Las Vegas, I’ll pick the one closest to me, which will be San Francisco. With our plan selected, the last thing we’ll need to do is select our data center region. We’ll keep Ubuntu as the operating system, and for our plan, we have various different options, ranging from a shared to dedicated CPU, Intel or AMD, workload type, size, and so on.įor the purpose of this tutorial, I’ll select a general purpose dedicated CPU but you can host Factorio on the basic $7 per month plan just as easily. This is going to take me to the wizard for deploying our droplet, and from here we can decide what type of operating system, how many resources we want to grant the droplet, and so on and so forth. 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. 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. What is better than Factorio? Factorio with friends.
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