Introduction

This repository was forked from carloe/docker-factorio to build a custom configured server and provide extra information on how to setup a server using docker.

Server Setup

AWS offers t2.micro instances that have a free period

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)
Open terminal
ssh -i /path/my-key-pair.pem ec2-user@my-instance-public-dns-name, replace 'my-instance-public-dns-name' with the IP address and the pem path to your cert.

Build Your Server

The latest Factorio headless server is downloaded at build time.

sudo yum install git
git clone https://github.com/LpmRaven/factorio-docker-server.git
cd factorio-docker-server
Config your server (see section below then return here)
docker build -t factorio-instance-name .

Server Configuration

use vi to edit files. eg. vi server-settings.json
Edit the map-gen-settings.json file, map-settings.json file and the server-settings.json file (DO NOT RENAME THE FILES)
Continue to read the previous section

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

Load a Save/Map

To load a save, place the save file in the saves folder and name the file: factorio_save.zip Remove all other files from the save folder as it will load the most recently updated file.

Basic Usage

The init script will automatically create a new save game if none exists.

Then launch your container as usual.

sudo yum install docker -y
sudo service docker start
sudo docker run -d \
           -v $(pwd)/saves:/opt/factorio/saves \
           -p 34197:34197/udp \
           --restart=always \
           --name factorio-server \
           factorio-instance-name

Play the game!

Open Factorio
Connect to your server IPaddress:34197, change IP address obviously.
Default password is donationswelcome, feel free to change it.
Play the game!

Enjoy. Hope this guide helped you setup your factorio server!

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