Ubuntu 16.04 Lts Dedicated Server Setup

[rikor420]

Connect to your ssh account using Putty, as root or another user with root access.

name@localhost:~/type sudo adduser factorio
name@localhost:~/type sudo passwd factorio

after you created the user for the server. type su - factorio
factorio@localhost:~/

Next we going to open a port up of 34197.
if you use "UFW" then you know how to open it up, for those do not know how to open it up type this.

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ufw allow 34197/udp

then type

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ufw status verbose

you should see 34197/udp listed
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if you use firewall-cmd then you type;

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firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-port=34197/udp

then type:

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 firewall-cmd --zone=public --list-ports 

This will give you a list of ports are open in your command window.
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Iptables:
Type in this:

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iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 34197 -j ACCEPT

To check to see if the port is listed type.

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iptables -L

then type

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sudo cd /sbin

put in password if required.

then type

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./iptables-save

to save the RULE
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NOW Installation:
we are going to install screen.
type:
name@localhost:~/

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apt-get install screen

type in or copy/paste this in your command prompt name@localhost:~/

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wget https://factorio.com/get-download/0.15.40/headless/linux64

than you need to rename linux64 to factorio.tar.xz

example:

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cp linux64 factorio.tar.xz

or

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cp linux64 factorio.tar.gz

then the extraction:

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tar -xf factorio.tar.gz

or

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 tar -xf factorio.tar.xz

make sure that your factorio files are owned by factorio if not for some reason it is setup as root owner you need to type this as root or sudo

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-rw-rw-r-- 1 factorio factorio     2298 Feb 24 23:13 achievements.dat
drwxrwxr-x 3 factorio factorio     4096 Feb 24 23:09 bin
drwxrwxr-x 2 factorio factorio     4096 Feb 24 23:13 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 factorio factorio      998 Aug  7  2015 config-path.cfg
drwxr-xr-x 4 factorio factorio     4096 Feb 24 23:34 data
drwxrwxr-x 2 factorio factorio     4096 Feb 24 23:46 factorio
-rw-rw-r-- 1 factorio factorio     4260 Feb 24 23:46 factorio-current.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 factorio factorio     6608 Feb 24 23:38 factorio-previous.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 factorio factorio 19816272 Feb 24 23:09 factorio.tar.xz
drwxrwxr-x 2 factorio factorio     4096 Feb 24 23:46 mods
-rw-rw-r-- 1 factorio factorio      299 Feb 24 23:46 player-data.json
drwxrwxr-x 2 factorio factorio    4096 Feb 24 23:46 saves
-rw-rw-r-- 1 factorio factorio      119 Feb 24 23:36 server-id.json
-rwxrwxr-x 1 factorio factorio      137 Feb 24 23:43 start.sh
drwxrwxr-x 2 factorio factorio     4096 Feb 24 23:46 temp

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sudo chown -R factorio:factorio /home/factorio

so when you log into factorio it will not give you permission denied because it is owned by root.

Now to create a save file:
Note: This will create a map save in /home/factorio/saves/ as server-save.zip
cd /factorio/bin/x64

it would show you something like factorio@localhost:~/factorio/bin/x64$
then type this below

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./factorio --create /home/factorio/saves/server-save

After you have created your save file we going to start working on your server-settings.json
head over to /home/factorio/data/ and some coping file to file. here is an example

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cp server-settings.example.json server-settings.json

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cp map-settings.example.json map-settings.json

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cp server-whitelist.example.json server-whitelist.json

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cp map-gen-settings.example.json map-gen-settings.json

after you have completed that you can now nano or vim server-settings.json and adjust your settings in there.
also same for the other Json files if you like.

now to start the server you have can do it in a couple of ways..
one way is by typing it in the command prompt
type cd /bin/x64
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./factorio --start-server-load-latest --server-settings /home/factorio/data/server-settings.json

this will start your server, the only thing is that you will have to keep your shell connection to the server open all the time, So what i did was quicker and simple way to do it.
type nano/vim start.sh
then type at the first line

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#!/bin/bash

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#!/bin/sh

they type at the next line

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screen -S Fact /home/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --start-server-load-latest --server-settings /home/factorio/data/server-settings.json

save it.
then type

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chmod +x start.sh

then type

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./start.sh

after it completes loading up (15 secs) then hit your ctrl a-d will close the screen out, (to check if it worked type screen -R) it will return you back to server loading stage. when you want to return to it at a later time simply go into your shell using your login factorio and type screen -R then when you need to shut it down just hit ctrl-c.

if you want to work on the config.ini in the config directory you can just need to add the line at the end of ./factorio --config /home/factorio/config/config.ini

also if you want to read up more on factorio command lines just head over to the /home/factorio/bin/x64 directory and type ./factorio --help, it will give you a list of commands to use.

I sure hope this does help a little for everybody that is just starting Ubuntu server.
Enjoy this small tutorial.

Rikor420