Dedicated Multiplayer Server Guide

[cube]

It's because you don't have the lastest version of libc.so (required by factorio), it's not available in wheezy with apt-get because wheezy is oldstable

I know you can force the install of a new version but I don't remember how

Exactly. Factorio needs at least glibc 2.15. That means Debian Jessie or newer.

[icecube45]

Holy Crap! I'm so sorry guys.
When I created this it got so little response that I just forgot about it, and honestly just kind of dwindled away from factorio..

I just started playing again, and rediscovered I had made this via the wiki..

I promise I'll try to update the post with fixes/added information from what you guys have found out!

Sorry I was so unresponsive!

-icecube45

P.S. feel free to ask me questions about this, I can try and answer.

[Chaos234]

Hello,

I like this tutorial but I don't understand what the following step means:

We now need to create a save file, this must be done on a local copy of factorio
In your new savefile, type the following into the console:

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/c local char = game.players[1].character; game.players[1].character = nil; char.die()

Can you explane this step by step? My Questions are:

What save game file? From WIndows? Linux? How is it created (new game, or the latest own save game file from the folder on the local windows machine)?
In which console is code to paste? Windows cmd or after uploading the save file or must this code snipet directly pasted into the save file?

The best way will be for each step one screenshot e. g. one for creating the save file (or can I use any already existing save files?), then a one for how to
correctly setup the above code line and then a picture what is to do after pasting the code above.

Hope, that this will be possible and I hope that it would run on tha latest stable linux debian server (can't see any differences between ubuntu and debian).

[icecube45]

Hello,

I like this tutorial but I don't understand what the following step means:

We now need to create a save file, this must be done on a local copy of factorio
In your new savefile, type the following into the console:

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/c local char = game.players[1].character; game.players[1].character = nil; char.die()

Can you explane this step by step? My Questions are:

What save game file? From WIndows? Linux? How is it created (new game, or the latest own save game file from the folder on the local windows machine)?
In which console is code to paste? Windows cmd or after uploading the save file or must this code snipet directly pasted into the save file?

The best way will be for each step one screenshot e. g. one for creating the save file (or can I use any already existing save files?), then a one for how to
correctly setup the above code line and then a picture what is to do after pasting the code above.

Hope, that this will be possible and I hope that it would run on tha latest stable linux debian server (can't see any differences between ubuntu and debian).

On your gaming machine (not the server), create a new game, and open the console with the "`" or "~" button, then type that in there, and save the game, the step to do after that is transfer that save file to your server.

As for debian/ubunutu, as long as you use the same libraries, it should be fine.

[Chaos234]

Thanks for your answere, I'll try it the next weekend .

[Nukesor]

Hey Guys!

In the next release (0.12) a few new flags will be introduced.
There is a --start-server, which will start a server in headless mode, as well as --autosave-interval and --latency.
See https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 71&t=12908
All our scripts will be redundant .

[icecube45]

Hey Guys!

In the next release (0.12) a few new flags will be introduced.
There is a --start-server, which will start a server in headless mode, as well as --autosave-interval and --latency.
See https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 71&t=12908
All our scripts will be redundant .

Oh, I know.
Believe me, I won't be sad one bit about having a dedicated option implimented

[Adil]

I wonder, whatdoes it mean when server disconnects from your game?

edit: The answer is you keep your own game session which becomes irrelevant to server and to which people won't connect.

[Default]

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[Default]

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[NoPantsMcDance]

4GB is more than enough. I'm running 2 servers on 2GB of ram. Server with no mods uses 100-500MB. Modded server ( 20 mods ) sits around 200MB-1GB.

[Bisa]

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just pitching in, I've been running my server for almost a year now 2GB is sufficient for a small vanilla server (0~10 players). Can't say I've ever had more than that at a time so hard for me to say if it would cope with more

[daniel34]

My vanilla server currently uses 550MB (OS + Factorio + Apache2 + TS).

Vanilla server

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top - 06:25:18 up 167 days, 11:40,  1 user,  load average: 0.15, 0.10, 0.13
Tasks:  33 total,   1 running,  32 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  4.9 us,  0.9 sy,  0.0 ni, 94.2 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:   8388608 total,   550832 used,  7837776 free,        0 buffers
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 used,        0 free.   213228 cached Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
15640 factorio  20   0  651056 391312   5236 S  22.3  4.7 362:51.23 factorio

The modded server uses 750MB (OS + Factorio)

Modded server

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top - 06:27:03 up 15 days, 21:53,  1 user,  load average: 0.19, 0.25, 0.21
Tasks:  23 total,   1 running,  22 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  6.6 us,  0.2 sy,  0.0 ni, 93.2 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:   8388608 total,   758076 used,  7630532 free,        0 buffers
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 used,        0 free.    94276 cached Mem

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
22611 factorio  20   0  962812 653100   8192 S  27.6  7.8 261:03.62 factorio

[zychrias]

I apologize if this has been covered. I tried searching and didn't come up with anything helpful..

Linux server of Factorio running on a Raspberry Pi 2. Is this game there yet?

Thank you!

[prg]

I apologize if this has been covered. I tried searching and didn't come up with anything helpful..

Linux server of Factorio running on a Raspberry Pi 2. Is this game there yet?

Thank you!

There are no ARM builds of Factorio, only x86 and x86_64 (headless server only x86_64)