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Introduction
This repository was forked from carloe/docker-factorio to build a custom configured server on factorio and provide extra information on how to setup a factorio server using docker.
Server Setup
The easiest way to setup a factorio server by far, is to use Digital Ocean. Follow the link to signup and get $10 for free to start you off. This guide assumes your are using a Mac, Windows users may have to alter their method when it comes to terminal usage. Disclaimer: All referrals generate credit to my account for more factorio goodness.
- Sign up to Digital Ocean
- Click 'Create droplet' button ![Click the 'create droplet' button](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6523593/21289644/2160bb62-c49a-11e6-9a01-b9556445ffec.png =250x)
- Under 'Choose an image' select 'One-click apps' ![One-click apps](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6523593/21289645/2160d250-c49a-11e6-89f5-328e299d07a2.png =250x)
- Select 'Docker 1.12.* on 16.04' ![docker 1.12.0 on 16.04](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6523593/21289646/216100d6-c49a-11e6-95ad-5f6dd85ddc61.png =250x)
- Select the '$5/mo' size, this is fine for a basic multiplayer server ![5 dollars a month memory](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6523593/21289647/21620c92-c49a-11e6-838a-55c790590229.png =250x)
- Select the datacenter that is closest to you ![london datacenter selected](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6523593/21289642/2146c11c-c49a-11e6-9c00-05978a9d8bfa.png =250x)
- Add your SSH public key. Alternatively, you will need to take note of the password that Digital Ocean send to you after you setup the server.
- You will only need 1 droplet, name your server and click create. ![Create your droplet](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6523593/21289643/215f73ce-c49a-11e6-9803-0f45b226eced.png =250x)
Connect to your server
Windows users will need to look at alterations for using PuTTY.
- Make note of the IP address of your server (ipv4) ![docker IP address](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6523593/21289648/2184ce1c-c49a-11e6-82a0-fdd6fa07a04f.png =250x)
- Open terminal
ssh root@IPaddress
, obviously replace 'IPaddress' with the IP address.
Build Your Factorio headless server
The latest Factorio headless server is downloaded at build time. This may be a good reason you want to build your own image since the Docker Hub repo may not always be up to date.
git clone https://github.com/LpmRaven/docker-factorio.git
docker build -t factorio-instance-name .
Persisting Saves
Use a docker volume to persist the savegames on the host machine rather than in the docker container.
mkdir $(pwd)/saves
# Make sure the saves dir can be written to by the "factorio" user in Docker, with uid 1000
sudo chown 1000:1000 $(pwd)/saves
# (alternatively, if you don't have root): chmod 777 $(pwd)/saves
Basic Usage
The init script will automatically create a new save game if none exists.
Then launch your container as usual.
docker run -d \
-v $(pwd)/saves:/opt/factorio/saves \
-p 34197:34197/udp \
--restart=always \
--name factorio-server \
factorio-instance-name