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Hello Factorians,

I have been beating myself over the head for two days trying to figure this out. I've read every forum post and google link about a headless server not showing up in the browser list but nothing works.

-I can connect to the server from Direct IP Connect
-I can host a server from in-game and people can connect from public browser list
-I cannot host a headless server that shows up in public browser
-Server doesn't show up in LAN list either (Not an issue, but maybe a clue?)

I wrote out the full file path in the server.bat. I added my username, password at first and even the token later (from after I launched the game), no change.

tl;dr Can connect by direct IP but server doesn't show in public browser.

You may want to redact also your auth token just FYI.
What I see in log is that your game does not send any packets to factorio pingpong servers,
so it is not visible to public.

Checked you settings on my virtual machine, and it sends proper ping requests.
But I tried it with Factorio 0.18.18
EDIT:
Also works for me in Factorio 0.17.79
My command line arguments --start-server-load-latest -- server-settings path to your server configuration

You didn't specified --server-settings argument in your lunch. try with this argument just before path to yours server config file

I got an error saying unexpected : at server-settings.json:24 I couldn't find the errant colon so I remade the server-settings file and the server booted right up! I didn't have the --server-settings command because it was giving me an error. Thank you so much for helping me fix this!