dedicated-servers

[clear lagoon]

you can just run an update check and only restart when an update is available

[deep turret]

better perform restart unit manually when update for servers eventually drops

1. the server have a built-in daily restart (that will likely trigger itself at an other hour)
2. the update push is not always at the same exact moment on the day
3. the server update are not daily in itself, at most you can expect 2 update a week
4. the server update are not as frequent as game update, so even if an update for the client game drops fixing graphic issues for instance, it will not mean an update is there for server
5. restarting every day will be bad for performance on the host side, and it will pock at steam servers for no reasons 90% of the time at least
6. if anyone is spreading this habit it will make it worse for everyone

[clear lagoon]

update check is just a single REST call 😅 not so bad

also you need to update server for every client update even if there is no server impact, the protocol checks the build number

[deep turret]

not really, steamcmd install command (the usual integrated one on the wikis etc) perform at least :

• steamcmd servers access check
• steamcmd self update check
• steam game api server check
• steam client api anonymous login
• then querying for version and hash checks
• eventually exchange some telemetry on the above processes

[clear lagoon]

I didn't say to use steamcmd to do the update check. I can't even figure out a sane way to do an update check on steamcmd

steamcmd is good for installing the update though xD

basically have this on a timer

#!/bin/bash
remoteBuildId=$(curl -s https://api.steamcmd.net/v1/info/1690800 | jq -r '.data."1690800".depots.branches.public.buildid')
localBuildId=$(cat /home/sparxy/SatisfactoryDedicatedServer/steamapps/appmanifest_1690800.acf | grep \"buildid\" -i | awk '{ print $2; }' | jq -r)
if [ "$remoteBuildId" = "$localBuildId" ]; then
    echo "Satisfactory server up to date. $localBuildId == $remoteBuildId."
else
    /home/sparxy/SendMatrixMessage.sh '['$(date +'%H:%M:%S')']' "Server restarting to update from $localBuildId to $remoteBuildId."
    echo "Satisfactory server $localBuildId should be updated to $remoteBuildId."
    echo "Restarting service satisfactory-server.service"
    systemctl restart satisfactory-server.service
fi

[deep turret]

not really for instance 1.0.0.2 didnt push server update

[clear lagoon]

1.0.0.3, 1.0.0.2, 1.0.0.1, 1.0.0.0

this is on the server appId

[deep turret]

@outer fossil #dedicated-servers message
I mean, in every satisfactoryd(@).service files
remove the {} around OTHERSETTINGS
and in server-Name.conf files you can put
OTHERSETTINGS="-multihome=::" by default

[deep turret]

so it performed an update but basically didnt change anything on the disk appart manifests ?

I didnt see any load at update time

[clear lagoon]

pretty sure the build number always updates because the client validates the server's build number

[deep turret]

I thought maybe it had a whitelist

[clear lagoon]

specifically ChangeList and BuildId in ./Engine/Binaries/Linux/FactoryServer-Linux-Shipping.version

[tiny light]

Is there a way for a server to be online without the host online?

[clear lagoon]

if the host leaves the computer which the server is running on powered on, yes

[tiny light]

So with dedi servers, the host does not need to stay online? As long as computer up and running

[clear lagoon]

correct. However, there is a bug right now that when the dedicated server is running on the same computer as the host's game that it will break when the host leaves

but if it's a separate computer it's fine

[tiny light]

Okay thanks

[grim mica]

I get that issue running dedicated on two different machines, so that is not isolated to server+client on same box

I have never run DS locally with the client

[clear lagoon]

all other players disconnect when you do?

[grim mica]

Yes

The udp endpoint disappears and everyone else disconnects

[clear lagoon]

👀 it's on a different physical machine?

on what OS is that?

[dusty vortex]

I made a brief summary of the issue that Gunter and I were testing here if you may like to read up on it...
#dedicated-servers message
+
#dedicated-servers message

[vast cobalt]

Hey everyone!

Any recommendation of a good server host?

[slate schooner]

Reading that, the first thing coming to my mind is local adress / remote adress, maybe there is some kind of link between using a remote IP and a local IP, and when closing as the owner using the local IP, session connected trough the remote IP are disconnected ?

[clear lagoon]

I will check it in a bit 🙂

[dusty vortex]

TLDR: its not limited to dedi+client on a single machine, and its not limited to just a server owner leaving.

v.strange, and adds only more confusion.

[dusty vortex]

fair theory.
i use my local IP to connect to my dedicated server, and my friends use my public ip when they connect.
I have zero issues :/

[tawny shadow]

same

[slate schooner]

It would explain maybe why server close when connected on the same host as well. I would try playing around with the -multihome= flag.

[clear lagoon]

does gunter join his server on the local IP or through the WAN IP via router loopback?

if he joins via router loopback I can see it killing the UDP port forward when he leaves

does the actual network bind disappear (i.e. if you check in powershell) and does LightweightQuery stop responding too from inside the local network?

is server pausing enabled or disabled?

(if the server is on windows, could the firewall be doing something weird?)

[thorny atlas]

any reason steamcmd wont update the server?

[clear lagoon]

if it's on windows: update fails when the server is running.
in general: your force_install_dir option (or lack thereof) must be identical to the original install command, otherwise you're making multiple installations

[thorny atlas]

10-4 ty

[dusty vortex]

i dont recall sorry.

[dusty vortex]

only Gunter would be able to answer this.
(we dont play together, but I did simply spend some time trying to perform some small tests with him to help find a pattern)

[vivid cradle]

I am no longer seeing user login/logoff messages in my server logs. Is this a verbosity issue? or did that go away in 1.0?

[clear lagoon]

I still have join messages. you might need to change a log level

no leave messages though 👀

[vivid cradle]

will fiddle with those settings.

[clear lagoon]

[2024.09.25-18.33.09:749][139]LogNet: Join succeeded: Sparxy

I don't think I've seen leave messages since U8 dropped

[vivid cradle]

Looks like my LogNet level is set to Error - what does your log list LogNet look like?

[clear lagoon]

😂 the in-game console desperately needs a monospace font

[slate schooner]

agree ! Do you have any resources on the command available for the DS ?

[rare grove]

Any idea why Auto-Pause keeps turning on when the server auto restarts?

[quasi kindle]

hi, im trying to make my own server on epic games and i dont understand anything on wiki, anyone can help me?

[clear lagoon]

basically the UE5 commands reference plus the several extras from CSS that are already on the wiki

i.e. literally the first command from the reference

❯ ./SatisfactoryExecuteCommand.sh 'a.AnimNode.AimOffsetLookAt.Debug'
a.AnimNode.AimOffsetLookAt.Debug = "0"      LastSetBy: Constructor

now whether I have a list of what is actually useful? no 😂

[slate schooner]

Oh ok ! Was trying to see if I can dump some config from there, it seems that sometimes the server is not registering some command

[clear lagoon]

you can dump the entire config state using commands

if you send a config key without a new value it spits out the value, as in my example

[slate schooner]

Thanks, will try some things

[crimson marten]

Anyone have any idea about what this error code means and how to fix it?

[clear lagoon]

super ugly but pretty possible

[clear lagoon]

your connection to the game host or server timed out

[grim mica]

I tried two different physical machines, one Server 2019 and one Server 2022, both have the issue. Only common thing is me joining and Windows. I built a Linux VM and am using that now, works perfectly fine there

I can test a bit now, what are you looking to see?

[clear lagoon]

firewall completely disabled on both windows servers?

[grim mica]

Yes

I can join the server no problem, so can external folks

But when I leave the UDP listener disappears (TCP stays) and server goes to Offline status in Server Manager - kicking everyone else that was connected

[clear lagoon]

this command.. but you need to change the UnrealServer-Win64-Shipping to the new name from 1.0
#dedicated-servers message

[rapid spindle]

Its like a FOMO mechanic to keep you playing

[clear lagoon]

on linux it's FactoryServer-Linux-Shipping now. not sure about windows

run that command both when it's working and when it's broken

[grim mica]

Yeah it shows the 7777 listener and disappears when I disconnect, one ssec let me boot it up and gather logs and ss

[clear lagoon]

if the listener disappears from that output it's probably a bug in the dedicated server

[amber wolf]

Have a dedicated server running self hosted which has been working since 1.0 launch fine. At tier 8 and now the server just crashes I believe because of this error well atleast this is the last error that appears

[clear lagoon]

load the previous autosave. looks like something didn't attach properly

(if it crashes on start-up)

[amber wolf]

So done that, also saved it locally which runs fine uploading kills it bit odd but I expect your right

[clear lagoon]

are all your factories in visual range in single player?

actually is that crash happening when you dismantle something?

[grim mica]

Server is up, created fresh ServerSettings file as well and created new game in Green Fields. Join the game, placed the hub and all is okay. Exit to Main Menu, the autosave occurs (still see 1/4 connected) then it goes offline about 5 seconds later. Last SS is listener now missing, process still running

[amber wolf]

so I have actually now started fresh incase it was something else when loading the save this happens

[rugged tide]

Hosting on windows right now and am getting annoyed with my friends messaging me to update the server when it patches. Tried windows GSM pluggin but it didn't seem to be functioning well... is there a better way, linux or otherwise to make a server that is more maintainence free and auto update easily? running on a proxmox box, so I can build it however.

[amber wolf]

oh dear 😦

[grim mica]

Can reproduce it 100% of the time, doesnt happen with Linux DS. Logs show nothing of value

[clear lagoon]

has got to be a bug on the windows version of the server then

[clear lagoon]

same crash as on server

was that on a fresh save?

[amber wolf]

Linux run smoother then?

yes

[kind veldt]

What server provider do you recommend? I'm currently looking at indifferent broccoli and they seem pretty good.

[clear lagoon]

that was re: Gunter's UDP binding issue

[slate schooner]

Can you try the loopback adress ? Use the same ip that your friend are using

[clear lagoon]

I'm gonna be surprised if it connects at all

[kind veldt]

I think you need localhost to login as admin, i dont know if you could even connect to your own external ip address

[sage bear]

Hi All, not sure where to ask about mods but since its for my dedicated server, figured i would ask here.
I installed the Mod Manager (i think) installed a mod, but it doesnt work.

Do i need something else?

I installed the Organized Crates mod

[clear lagoon]

non-localhost can log in as admin. but routers normally don't loopback port-forwards from the WAN IP so you can't connect to your own LAN that way

[dusty vortex]

you can only use your public/external IP to connect to an internal resource on the same network IF the router supports NAT-Loopback / NAT-Hairpin / NAT-reflection (it has a few different names), 99% of ISP provided routers either dont support this, or dont enable it.

[clear lagoon]

I wouldn't even know where to begin to enable it on my own router xD

[dusty vortex]

mods are not really a thing for this discord, there is a whole nother discord server/community for mods, so may be best to ask there.

[slate schooner]

In my country I have an isp router coming with something like a pi-hole to disable ads everywhere. Can customize it as heck, even run vms on it

[sage bear]

Oh ok, thanks.

[clear lagoon]

oh, guess you nailed it

[clear lagoon]

contact the mod creator for support for mods

[slate schooner]

Join the ficsit app discord, nobody can help you here

[grim mica]

I'll have to create a reflective NAT policy, one sec

Cant get it to show online in servermanager, but seeing acceptconnection in logs.. honestly never tried doing this with pfSense - I always just use the LAN IP

[clear lagoon]

so straightforward I can't even manage to make it work myself, lmao

[grim mica]

Oh there it goes.. had to set some other stuff apparently

Aaaaand... went offline

.1 is my firewall so the connection was passing through that

[dusty vortex]

😦
On my ubiquiti gateway its a simple tick box (which i had enabled for more years than i care to remember).
But i appreciate not all routers are made equal.
However at least you got the feature which many routers dont.
If it will help workaround the issue or not is still unknown.
But i felt it was worth pointing out that its needed if attempting to use public ip/dns for internal resources.

[ripe urchin]

now that i too AGS off, how do i re-enable acheivements?

[clear lagoon]

I got it working. I just have to add an additional firewall rule for every loopback I want to permit

[dusty vortex]

start a new game, once AGS is enabled, even once, then achievements are disabled for that save.

[slate schooner]

really need to try some ubiquiti stuff for my home

[ripe urchin]

dammit... mistakenly put on arachnaphobia at the start

[grim mica]

That isnt an AGS setting

[ripe urchin]

the disable arachnids

[grim mica]

Turns it into cats.. yes that isnt AGS

[clear lagoon]

I'm leery from using a ubiquiti router as an edge device since they're well known for being sieves

got APs and cameras from them though. very content with those

[drowsy wasp]

do other people have problem when removing foundations ghost versions of the foundations stay on the client side?

[grim mica]

Its under options>gameplay..
Is there one that actually fully disables the spawns?

[clear lagoon]

yes. it's an AGS called Disable Arachnid Creatures

[dusty vortex]

its a thing, rejoin game should clear it, or restart server

[smoky prairie]

I nuked the appdata folder, removed dedicatedserver install and reinstalled via steam.. still have the bug where when I connect to my own local dedicated server and disconnect, it drops remote players

[drowsy wasp]

yeah they are gone but its frustrating to have to rejoin everytime i need to remove something, ill try to restart the server

[grim mica]

Yep, its an issue seemingly with your 'user' or something - what the problem is.. no idea

[clear lagoon]

run server on separate non-windows machine

[smoky prairie]

respectfully that's not a fix it's an entire different setup

[grim mica]

Restarting wont really 'fix' it.. but rejoin will cause it to reload - it will happen again unfortunately.

It also.. doesnt fix it sometimes - in my case anyway

[clear lagoon]

it's the only functioning workaround 🤷‍♀️ upvote the bug on the QA site

[drowsy wasp]

:(

[slate schooner]

Oh... Too bad, need to find something else

[grim mica]

Id love for it to be a workaround for me..? There are also others that have the issue with it on separate machine, though not many in here it seems

[clear lagoon]

do you use a multihome launch arg or not?

wonder if having the packet router on/off makes a difference

[grim mica]

Tried it with and without, doesnt change the behavior

[clear lagoon]

in the server console, what do you get if you send UDPMESSAGING STATUS

(probably not even used inthe satisfactory server but not sure)

[grim mica]

Obviously cannot do that when its not listening

Unless there is a way to type into the server-side console that I am missing?

[clear lagoon]

the server manager should be via TCP..... I think...... maybe? XD

so I think you can open it without joining the game?

[grim mica]

Pretty sure it greys out the top tabs

[clear lagoon]

aw

really?

[grim mica]

I can change tabs but just says offline in all of them

Can I run a command via the Web? It does seem to respond still - API stuff is out of my depth

[clear lagoon]

you're right. can only send commands via http api. anyway with the screenshot you sent we can see it's not used anyway

was a longshot

[raw hatch]

So im having an issue with my 1.0 dedicated server. I currently have it in a docker container with 14GB ram and 4 cores of a 5600x dedicated to it. We have three players, and we are at tier 6, so midway through the game ish. It’s starting to lag quite a bit, our games are fine, but the servers latency isn’t great; so items moving on conveyor belts, building, etc. it seems like the tick rate is struggling. But I’m confused con why, as it’s not using that much cpu, not even in the main game thread, and it’s only using 4gb of ram. It has plenty of hardware headroom, so I’m just not totally sure why it’s lagging. I see occasionally in the log a warning about performance, but other than that no errors or anything.

[grim mica]

Give it all 12 threads and see if that changes the tickrate?

[clear lagoon]

result of net.IpNetDriverUseReceiveThread ?

[clear lagoon]

what's the actual tick rate?

[clear lagoon]

you can try setting it to 1 in the engine.ini and see if that helps. in section [SystemSettings]

[dusty vortex]

2 things you could try....

1. set tickrate to 60 (if you have a constant reliable tickrate of 30, then you MIGHT have headroom for more ) - https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_servers/Configuration_files#Server_tick_rate

2. while the server defaults suggest that 'EnableServerStreaming' is already set to 0 (meaning the whole world SHOULD be loaded into RAM instead of streaming data from storage(SSD/HDD))
   Some users have reported that by setting this manually in the launch commands does seem to have a positive impact, and have seen RAM usage increase.

[loud trail]

Hey, random question but has anyone gotten the dedicated server to run on truenas?

[grim mica]

Added to Engine.ini when I try to join the console spams this and seemingly freezes

[clear lagoon]

looks like doesn't work on windows then 😅

[west plinth]

can I increase the auto restart count per day? i.e. twice per day at 4am and 4pm?

[clear lagoon]

you can run it in a docker container on TrueNAS Scale or in a VM on Core

[loud trail]

I'm trying, but linux kinda hates me

[dusty vortex]

some people have managed to yes.
cant say much for performance tho, a NAS is designed to provide storage, not network attached compute.
If it runs, it will consume resources of the NAS and then the NAS performance would tank.
While it might be possible, i dont think its really recommended, but milage may vary tho.

[amber wolf]

I managed to identify the apparent components at fault ConveyorLiftMk1_C_2147446433 and AssemblerMk1_C_2147446394 any suggestions on how Iocate them?

[lament forge]

hi there i have the problem that when i leav de sever (dedicated) de server goes offline

[amber wolf]

same issue I have

it seems to be well my issue is a corrupt component or something

[dusty vortex]

known issue with no 'fix'
https://discord.com/channels/370472939054956546/1283191576641798144
go to QA site and thumb up the bug so hopefully devs fix it.
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/66e08561772a987f4a8a9d67

[lament forge]

pre release i din't have that problem

[loud trail]

Well my nas is more of a general purpose server, I use it for all kinds of things, I have a minecraft server on it, a terraria server and a nextcloud instance

[fossil nest]

Does setting Server Restart Interval to 0 prevent the server from auto-restarting?

[dusty vortex]

no.... the 'interval' is not an interval but rather a 24hr clock. so your setting the time of day it will restart at, not how often

[clear lagoon]

go to Apps > Discover Apps > Custom App. image repository is docker.io. rest of the settings are same as you would do in a normal docker setup for this container. read the readme for satisfactory-server docker image

[fossil nest]

Is there any way to turn off restart or does it HAVE to

[dusty vortex]

no way to turn off, it NEEDS it, or things get even more buggy than all the folks reporting in here experience.

[clear lagoon]

no. hope you're not awake 24 hours a day 😅 put the time at some time you're catching them Zzzs

[clear lagoon]

I've literally gone past the server restart without it actually restarting once so even that is buggy XD

[loud trail]

Which image should I use?

[vivid cradle]

That was it - I switched the LogNet log level to log and I am getting normal join messages again.

[fossil nest]

I'm going away this weekend and want to make sure my friend can play, will i need to manually restart it or will it auto restart

[clear lagoon]

@sturdy gust 's image I guess? idk lol https://github.com/wolveix/satisfactory-server

[clear lagoon]

it's just the map that restarts, not the whole server

it basically saves and reloads the save if you want to put it that way

[west plinth]

wait, thats really all the restart is?

[regal marsh]

might not even kick clients out sometimes

[loud trail]

do I add this to container cmd under container entrypoint?

[clear lagoon]

@loud trail you should be able to figure it out from here. if you don't know what you're doing maybe you can find someone who feels like writing a guide specifically for TrueNAS Core

[loud trail]

I'm using scale

[proven cobalt]

Folks, real quick, I have two issues.

I have a dedicated server on my machine that I'm running as a service through nssm, issue number 1 is I cannot for the life of me find the savefile location, it's not in FactoryGame/Server or the ServiceProfile appdata equivalent.

Issue number 2 is the server seems to shut down every time my client disconnects from it

[clear lagoon]

I timed out once but not the other time so I'm not sure if the restart is broken or the restart can go so fast you stay in session xD

[regal marsh]

yeah similar
one time I time out, other time I dont

[clear lagoon]

#2 is a known bug. no work-arounds unless you run on a separate non-windows server

[dusty vortex]

issue 2:
#dedicated-servers message

[proven cobalt]

Word, thank you. Anything about the save files?

[loud trail]

oh goodie

[clear lagoon]

good luck searching? 😅 I don't run on windows so idk where they would be

[regal marsh]

one guy from the devs said its normal that clients might stay
less likely on bigger saves he said

[grim mica]

What user are you running it as in NSSM? Can edit the service uner login tab, or look in TaskMgr

[dusty vortex]

saves:
https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_servers#Loading_a_save_file

[proven cobalt]

It's running as local

[clear lagoon]

you literally copy pasted the link I sent to you that has the readme. the actual image name is in the readme

[grim mica]

As 'SYSTEM'?

[loud trail]

Sorry, I never used docker before

[proven cobalt]

Local user

[clear lagoon]

'mnot planning on giving a docker class in here myself. sorry 😛

[proven cobalt]

I guess it might be running as system

Yeah, it is

[grim mica]

If its a normal user it would be C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\FactoryGame

If its system its in Windows folder, I think C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\FactoryGame

[signal oar]

so does a dedicated server need to have a machine that's running 24/7 to keep it going? could i in theory create a server where it's "accessible" to be hosted by the first machine to log in?

[clear lagoon]

guys, don't run your servers as system, root, administrator, ...... 🙏

[latent raven]

Hi guys, I have 2 errors since starting to use a domain for Satisfactory dedicated server with letsencrypt.

1. When the dedicated server uses the certificate, Satisfactory can only connect using the public domain. The local IP does not work anymore. Is there a fix for this? Do other experience this too?

2. Usually you can also access dedicated server in the browser for API access. But since using the certificate I get the above error when accessng my dedicated server in a browser.

Both error disappear, when I remove the letsencrypt certitifacte, but then the game asks to accept the self signed certificate..

[proven cobalt]

Oh goody, Windows has 2 separate local system containers

Thanks

[clear lagoon]

1. not fixable, working as intended. HOWEVER: you can workaround it by editing your client computer's C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts file to make the domain name point to the internal IP address
   i.e.

10.0.1.157  my.domain

2. above workaround applies

that way the domain will always resolve to the local IP on that pc

or you can just accept the self signed certificate c:

[loud trail]

.>
I stumbled around like a blind baby, how is this running??????

[clear lagoon]

I hope you mapped the ports

[loud trail]

damn it

[digital bobcat]

Hey 🙂 so what is the benefit of increasing the server tick rate and how do I know what my server CPU can handle? I increased mine from the default 30 to 60, it shows average tick rate 60 in trhe server manager, and I think the gameplay is smoother but it could be just my wishful thinking. It's i7 6700K with 32GB of RAM.

[clear lagoon]

movement of other players and creatures

[dusty vortex]

benefit - it performs more updates per second (should make things smoother)
how do you know you can handle it.... your tickrate will say 60 in server manager, or less if it cant handle it

[clear lagoon]

it all looks like rocket science till you somehow already nearly got it perfectly working 🙂 you'll figure it out 😛

[loud trail]

now, I may be stupid, but this should do the trick, right?

[digital bobcat]

OK, yeah, it says 60, so I'm gonna leave it at that, maybe it is helping a bit then. Thank 🙂

[latent raven]

Thanks, thats a good idea. I'll add another domain to the cert, just for the hosts file. Then I can choose to connect to either domain. Local IP has better ping, but its probably not that relevant.

[clear lagoon]

woops

on the https api you can see it as a floating number
curl -s -XPOST ENDPOINTGOESHEREBOT/api/v1 -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: Bearer $token"
--data '{"function":"QueryServerState","data":{"clientCustomData":""}}' | jq .data.serverGameState.averageTickRate
59.760345458984375

[loud trail]

yep, I'm stupid

[clear lagoon]

you can also put the real domain name in the hosts file

it just overrides DNS resolution

[latent raven]

Yea, but then I cant choose ingame anymore.

[clear lagoon]

psst the server listens on 7777 tcp/udp in the container

(unless you set env var SERVERGAMEPORT)

[loud trail]

I changed it in the env variables

yeah that

[clear lagoon]

seee, you're figuring it out c:

learning new things. exciting day I hope

[loud trail]

I generally know my way around computers but this is something else

[clear lagoon]

It's a skill like any other. And like with every skill you gotta start somewhere 😛

[loud trail]

Yeah

Of course that port has already been taken

[clear lagoon]

Do you have it both in manual arguments and the gui now?

Because trying to assign it twice won't work

[loud trail]

It's working now

mumble took 30019

changed it to 9004

[clear lagoon]

Ah xD

Keep in mind you may impact storage performance of ZFS pools if ARC Cache needs to be evicted from RAM to make space for satisfactory

[loud trail]

It's using 52 mb of ram

That doesn't seem right

[clear lagoon]

You don't have a map loaded

It's sitting in the server equivalent of the game menu

[loud trail]

So what command do I enter into the pod shell to get it started then?

[clear lagoon]

Wait it's not running?

[loud trail]

No it's running

Just how do I load a map?

[clear lagoon]

Connect to the ip and port of your nas using the in game server manager

[loud trail]

ah

It's saying it's offline?

[raw hatch]

A consistent 30, so that’s why I’m confused

[raw hatch]

Will do! Tysm

[clear lagoon]

check if you did the port forward in the scale gui correctly

run ps -ef in the container to see if the server is running, if ps is installed in the container at all

[loud trail]

this should be correct

[dusty vortex]

please do feedback if it had a positive impact, helps to verify if some suggestions do help a wider audience.

[clear lagoon]

inherit entrypoint/cmd from the real container if it doesn't automatically do that in SCALE

[clear lagoon]

looks like install/download is running

[loud trail]

what now?

[clear lagoon]

by the way don't forget to map the volume, otherwise you lose your saves when the docker image shuts off

you also apparently lose the whole server install in that case XD

[loud trail]

I knew I should have added something here

[clear lagoon]

yep c:

[loud trail]

Do I have to do all three or just the first and last?

[clear lagoon]

I'm not sure since I don't run any containers on my NAS. going by the naming I would guess volumes would match docker's --volume flag

[loud trail]

I'll do all of them just to be sure

[clear lagoon]

oh apparently it's just "host path"

[clear lagoon]

sure, and then whichever one gets set last by the underlying software wins xD

[loud trail]

Survival of the fittest

[clear lagoon]

in all seriousness, apparently it should be host path volume

[loud trail]

I'm way out of my element here

[sturdy gust]

👀

[loud trail]

Oh dear

[clear lagoon]

mount path is /config, host path is wherever you actually want to save it on the server

sorry Wolveix, I was gonna remove the @ but I accidentally pinged you xD #oopsie

[sturdy gust]

Lol it's all good!

[loud trail]

Ok I added the storage but nothing has changed

[clear lagoon]

check the logs

[loud trail]

Uhhhh

The directory is empty

[clear lagoon]

did you restart the container after the changes?

[loud trail]

Truenas does that automatically but I can try it manually

[clear lagoon]

oh you shouldn't check the folder for the logs

like it's a thing you can normally see in docker somewhere so it should be mapped to the scale gui..... somewhere..... maybe

[loud trail]

The kubernetes events?

Oh wait

The logs just showed up

[dreamy condor]

Hello!

I have a server up and running and my buddy can't seem to get in, despite me successfully joining through server manager

any idea as to why this is happening?

[loud trail]

Are you forwarding the port the server is on?

[dreamy condor]

i got in so my friend would have to do that?

[loud trail]

You have to forward you port on your network for external connections to be made

[dreamy condor]

for him to even SEE the server?

[frank bobcat]

it's a 3rd party server

[loud trail]

ah

[frank bobcat]

cybrancee

[clear lagoon]

hey look, you're running engine for game FactoryGame 😉

[loud trail]

Oh holy hell it just started working!!!

[hazy spoke]

good evening from the trouble

is what you would help me I can’t update my server. c is a serv windows and i use steam cmd
i use this command :
steamcmd +force_install_dir ~/SatisfactoryDedicatedServer +login anonymous +app_update 1690800 validate +quit
is it still valid or incorrect?
thanks

[dusty vortex]

if it works for you but not him, then its likely a user error.
as your paying for a service whom take on the responsibility of hosting and trouble shooting, you can try raising a ticket with them (you are paying them money for a service afterall)

[clear lagoon]

the server fails to update if it is running when on windows. make sure it is stopped first

[dusty vortex]

its correct, but wont work if its still running

[loud trail]

Singleplayer?

[frank bobcat]

i'm typing in the IP and port exactly the same, but for me I just get this:

[clear lagoon]

are you in the server manager?

[loud trail]

Yeah

[clear lagoon]

oh that's cursed, I never noticed that

yes, it does do that

ignore it XD

[loud trail]

Yeah

[dusty vortex]

you need to claim the server and create a world

[loud trail]

I just started the server and now It's saying 0/4 players

Weird bug

[frank bobcat]

@dreamy condor already did that

[dreamy condor]

Yep server def has a name, and a save game on it

[clear lagoon]

you need to join game. if you haven't played single player I recommend actually going up to tier 2 in single player for the story content before going onto the server

you can upload single player saves in the server manager

[loud trail]

I've been playing satisfactory ever since 0.3, I just made this server to play with friends

[loud trail]

cool

Thanks so much for helping me through this!

[clear lagoon]

there's a lot of new dialog in the onboarding experience

[loud trail]

Really?

[clear lagoon]

ADA has a much stronger personality too now

yes

really

[loud trail]

I'll have to check it out

[clear lagoon]

you don't have to do it but I always like to recommend to watch the new dialog 😛

[tender thicket]

Ada got some fire lines

[loud trail]

I've been meaning to start a new save to play 1.0 from scratch

[clear lagoon]

dedicated server sessions start at tier 2

so you miss out on the early stuff

[loud trail]

Singleplayer save*

Should have clarified that

[hazy spoke]

thanks for the information

[raw yacht]

I have the same problem but mi friend can join to the server and i cant

[clear lagoon]

👀 I think you replied to the wrong thing since I mentioned doing the single player experience in that message since dedicated servers start on tier 2

they're looking into having more of the onboarding, if possible, on servers in the future

[raw yacht]

We cant play in a server?

[deep turret]

isn't gunter and Delphium stop udp listening problem fixed in past update (1.0.0.3) ?

[clear lagoon]

they tested today so I would assume no

[clear lagoon]

you can, but if you start a new session on a dedicated server it will start the game at tier 2 and not at the start

[dusty vortex]

Seems not... i personally dont have the issue, works 100% perfectly fine for me, but i was helping Gunter to try test things on his server which for some reason does suffer from the issue.
We both have very similar setups, so was trying to identify differences between us, why mine works and his wont 😦

[raw yacht]

Ok, i dont care about that, but my friend prepare a new server and he can join but i cant, any solution?

We have de ports, the ip, everything in the tutorial but i cant enter

[clear lagoon]

What error are you seeing in the game?

[clear lagoon]

1 sec I'm gonna go grab a soda. I'll be back in five

[raw yacht]

Thanks

[slate schooner]

Authtenticate with the admin password and set it up

[raw yacht]

how?

I cant see any option to do this

[clear lagoon]

so first you fill in ip and port... (#1)
you should get a certificate warning (#2)
enter a name (#3 and #4)
now you choose an administrator password (#5)
server is now ready to load a game

[raw yacht]

I didnt create the server, my friend can enter and do all of this, but i cant do it, i didnt see the warning message

thanks by the way

[clear lagoon]

@dusty vortex I just realised in the menu that an unclaimed server should say 'Idle', not 'Offline', just fyi

[dusty vortex]

also strangely enough the only issue that players on my windows based server have experienced thus far is that a single member somehow now has infinite jetpack fuel and flew right up to the top of the space elevator and there is a single personal crate that sometimes renders in and sometimes does not (but can still access it).

no crashing when anyone leaves, blueprints that have belts in are working 100%, like almost all the issues that others seem to report, we just aint seeing any of it.

we now have multiple large factories and on the cusp of T7 linked together with various trains.

with tickrate at 60 and serverstreaming set to 0, its quite smooth for us too.

dunno why its being so stable, but clearly the god of luck has been with us, must have rolled a D20 and scored high!

[clear lagoon]

okay in this case there's a connection issue between you and the server, this is usually due to a misconfiguration on the server's side.
are you connecting to your friend's external IP address? which ports did your friend forward through their router?

[raw yacht]

Yes the port is 7777

[clear lagoon]

Delphium: what's this serverstreaming stuff and can I benefit from it? 😄

[clear lagoon]

The server uses two ports:
Port 7777 of the TCP protocol; and Port 7777 of the UDP protocol

[raw yacht]

Yes

[dusty vortex]

#dedicated-servers message
possibly! (if it does help, please share your feedback, i share the suggestion to a few and get less than 10% feedback, they just disapear to never hear from again lol)

[clear lagoon]

if your friend configured the server correctly, you should be able to go to this address in your webbrowser
https:// your friend's ip here :7777/api/v1 and see a certificate warning in your webbrowser

Delphium: you know you can stick that config in the actual ini file right? 😛

[raw yacht]

Im going

[dusty vortex]

yup (i actually have it in the config and the command line, dunno which its listening to but i have both)

[clear lagoon]

👀 wp.Runtime.EnableServerStreaming = "0" LastSetBy: SystemSettingsIni

I think I already have this set somewhere

[deep turret]

for the jetpack thing I think it have to do with input locking
they were close of elevator before crash
input jetpack boost
crashed/disconnected
the server kept boosting until they die up there when they reconnect
then the crate is also in a weird state

[trim tree]

How do I update the Dedicated Server through SteamCMD :(

[dusty vortex]

yer as i suggested... it looks like its at 0 by default already... but somehow did not take effect until i added it to .ini / command line.

[raw yacht]

didnt work sorry

[dusty vortex]

#dedicated-servers message
my bud flew up, and then flew down, no crashing or disconnects 😂

[raw yacht]

I will reinstal and try thank your for all

[clear lagoon]

then your friend did not forward port 7777 of the TCP protocol correctly

[raw yacht]

Could be

[clear lagoon]

the issue is not on your side, it is on your friend's

[clear lagoon]

exact same command as you used to install. including force_install_dir if you used it

[raw yacht]

Ill kill my friend so

[clear lagoon]

i.e. for me the install command was

steamcmd +force_install_dir /home/sparxy/SatisfactoryDedicatedServer +login anonymous +app_update 1690800 validate +quit

and I use the same for updates

[deep turret]

bio fuel
sometimes the fuel does not get down until you reconnect
so if it's client side I think you can infinit boost

[dusty vortex]

maybe, hes reconnected several times today, he still has it infinate, can just hold space and fly about no issues... i said to him DO NOT reload your jetpack as i bet it will reset it lol

embrace it, dont try fix it lol

of all the bugs that could be experienced, we'll take it!

[clear lagoon]

wait till you have a pile of dismantle crates at 0,0,0 xD

[dusty vortex]

been there in U8, was expecting the same already to be fair.
heck knows why we became so lucky this time!

[clear lagoon]

instead of going the SCIM route I went the hypertube route to access them. kind of regret it because I discovered an absolutely cursed conveyor belt rendering glitch that way XD

#screenshots message

[high obsidian]

only problem we have had is when someone logs in and doesn't come near where someone is putting mark2 wall power... it crashes them. But if they load the area, its fine. Was a weird one when we figured that out the other night.

[dusty vortex]

the game works in mysterious ways, it seems to be a right ole gamble and roll of the dice sometimes 😆

[clear lagoon]

did you see straight belt glitches yet? XD

[dusty vortex]

thats a thing? (i mean sure why wont it be heh) but no not yet 🤞

[clear lagoon]

if you're curious, sometimes if buildings are very slightly offset due to bumping into architectural things it can sometimes do this in straight mode. #screenshots message

the first time I saw it, lmao

[dusty vortex]

thats special haha

[clear lagoon]

nice, smooth, straight corner right there

really needs a third person photo mode tho x_x

[fossil hinge]

I need more help... Im reading these darn wikis and they have information that doenst match anything im seeing like the filepath forlderit gives for where the server config files are to edit the ini files doesnt exist for me... I need to change the port and specify an IP address so I can use Hamachi instead of my public IP because my ISP is a POS and doesnt allow me to open ANY ports... im usually pretty good about being able to edit this kinda stuff but this server makes 0 sense to me

it also says i can change the port in the command line or the server start batch file except there is no server start batch file...

[covert tusk]

Bummer, I was hoping that patch fixed the server shutdown when people log off thing..

[clear lagoon]

o_o then how do you start the server?

[fossil hinge]

I run the factoryserver.exe its not editable i tried

[clear lagoon]

if you make a .bat file with notepad in the same folder you can write in it

start FactoryServer.exe -multihome=1.2.3.4 -Port=1234

[fossil hinge]

and the cmd window it runs wont let me type in it

aha thats the kinda info i need!

[clear lagoon]

(fixed it, sorry not that experienced with windows batch files)

@fossil hinge ^ corrected

[fossil hinge]

thank youi

[tender thicket]

multihomes not used anymore afaik

unless that was just an example

[fossil hinge]

Based on the wiki that was how you specify an IP is that dif now?

[clear lagoon]

you can still use it if you explicitly want to bind to a specific IP address

by default the game server binds to all IPv4 addresses

[tender thicket]

oh i thought it was outright removed/bugged

cool

[fossil hinge]

hopefully this works like i want. Im putting my hamachi IP and port in that file to try and bypass the fact that my ISP blocks the ability to port forward anything

[clear lagoon]

CGNAT?

[tender thicket]

ur isp does?

what goofy ass isp does that

oh yeah cgnat would do it

ur on starlink or smth?

[fossil hinge]

Optimum. they give you a shitty UBEE router that you cant access to even change the name and pw

all ports are closed by default

[clear lagoon]

lmao imagine running a game server on starlink

[tender thicket]

u cant access or u dont know the user/pw

[fossil hinge]

they block access

[tender thicket]

yeah not ideal

[fossil hinge]

even their support employees hate their devices

[tender thicket]

can u flash openwrt or smth on it?

Like is there a jtag header on the board

u would have to disassemble it

[fossil hinge]

idk what those 2 mean but im assuming not cuz my brother is a professional in network IT and coudltn find a way thru it

[tender thicket]

which is a relatively larg amnt of work

[fossil hinge]

I have a friend who works for the ISP and she told me how i can get rid of this and i bought a new router but i cnat do any of that til monday cuz of the hurricane

[clear lagoon]

.. is that these guys?

[tender thicket]

yeah if ur brother works in IT and cant access it then its probably not a case of just putting in a user/pw

[fossil hinge]

yeah and thats a lie

the link is dead

it just says "unavailable at this time" for everyone. reddit is full of people complaining of this same crap for like the last 3-4 years

but theyre the only option outside of mobile networks in the area so they do what they want

[tender thicket]

did u consider getting ur own router?

[fossil hinge]

like give me 25mbps on this crappy babys first router model theyre feeding off coax when i pay for a gb of fiber

I have one, but i cant use it til i get a dif modem from their office on monday]

[tender thicket]

Maybe u can ask the ISP for their login info or smth

oh cool

short term problem then

[fossil hinge]

i tried. they dont even have the access i need at their level

[tender thicket]

hopefully

[clear lagoon]

practically solved already 😛

[tender thicket]

mhm

[fossil hinge]

even when i get the new device, I gotta make sure they actually disable their own wifi signals cuz they try to use customer devices as piggybacks

[tender thicket]

u have fiber to the home?

[rugged tide]

cable modems usually don't let you play with a whole lot, if they don't want you to. gets the running config from their side when it boots up.

[fossil hinge]

nope but that didnt stop them from selling me that package

I had ATT before this and they were fine

[clear lagoon]

coming sometime this year to my neighbourhood happy noises

[tender thicket]

kinda crazy ur buying a gig line but theyre only giving u 25

[tender thicket]

Nice, I have it in my apt and its sick

[fossil hinge]

i ran 100' of cable thru my house to hardline to the modem for my gig

its just the wifi thats garbo

[clear lagoon]

I already have gigabit downlink over coax tho so generally happy xD

[fossil hinge]

thankfully my wired connection is pulling 900+mbps

[tender thicket]

cant u just run more cables for ur other devices?

or is this like phones we r talking

[tender thicket]

yeah then why u getting fiber

[fossil hinge]

lol the shitty UBEE unit has 2 ports

[tender thicket]

u getting a 1500 line or smth?

[tender thicket]

switch?

[clear lagoon]

??? uplink 20mbit lmao

[tender thicket]

I have a 5 port switch I use

[tender thicket]

Oh yeah thatd do it

[fossil hinge]

just more shit i shouldnt have to buy if they provided a device that anyone under the age of of 90 could work with

[tender thicket]

thats fair

a switch is just generally useful tho

[clear lagoon]

it's coax. eurodocsis. it's very asymmetric

[fossil hinge]

im already about to try to force them to compensate me for the router i bought because of their failure to provide the service i paid for with their equipment

[clear lagoon]

it all starts with a switch and before you know it you have a whole server rack in your basement

[fossil hinge]

i just moved into a 1br 1 ba apt. a server rack would never fit - tho i used to have one when i lived somewhere i could afford a house

[tender thicket]

Im the same, i wish i could get a rack in here

I just have a minipc sitting on the floor next to my router

thats whats running my server

and dns adblock

not much more than that tho

[clear lagoon]

well it's not a full-height one

I have a smol one

[tender thicket]

Even a small one would be a bit rough in here

im in an old building

[rugged tide]

careful... it's a slippery slope. my 48 core proxmox server is probably using more juice than its worth. lol

[fossil hinge]

thankfully i upgraded my little tower to be beefy enough to host servers on

[tender thicket]

bro I wish (I got an n100 minipc as my only hw rn lol)

[fossil hinge]

Satisfactory sees my hamachi IP/port!!!!

[tender thicket]

mines alright, 32gb ram, but the CPU is whatever

it can host these servers but not by a massive margin

[fossil hinge]

now i need a friend to connect to test but it looks like it worked

[slate schooner]

I have seen a lot of small rack like half the size in width !

[tender thicket]

If u go to https:// ip:port in ur browser and u get a json respose with an error in it then its available

the public IP that is

[fossil hinge]

you woudlnt know how to up the numbner of pplayers allowed from 4 to maybe 8 or so would you?

[tender thicket]

The wiki has that

its an argument you add to the launch command

[fossil hinge]

aha i saw the arguement but couldnt find where it went. add that to the same command i gave for the port then?

[tender thicket]

yup

just tack it on to the end

[rugged tide]

can always find old servers on the cheap. this guy is an old dual E5-2697V2 xeon board I picked up on ebay for near nothing. lots of cores... but they be old... so they don't like newer things so much, or things like like single core speed.

[clear lagoon]

I have like this startech 12U open-frame rack

[tender thicket]

Yeah 1br tho, cant have a roaring loud server in the same place I sleep

[rugged tide]

oof yeah... and she's a heater 🙂

[tender thicket]

No AC either, gotta be calculating about what I put in here

Yup

[clear lagoon]

primary home server is a HP Elite 800 G9 i7 12700 with 64GB RAM

#minipc

[clear lagoon]

yes oof 2u fans are the noise machines

[tender thicket]

ooh nice, did u swap the mem urself?

[slate schooner]

Beefy one

[clear lagoon]

yes. mirrored nvme SSDs too

[tender thicket]

Nice

My pc has a 4tb nvme but no redundancy

I dont rly store anything important on there so

not stressing

[slate schooner]

minis forum got one so cool ipmi and dual 10g sfp, but it's soo expensive

[rugged tide]

oh this thing is rigged... lmao. MB was for a 1-2U chassis, and I put it in a 4U case, so it depended on case airflow, and has passive coolers, so I zip tied some 120mm fans blowing down on them , hanging from case rails... We're totally Mcgyver in this house.

[tender thicket]

nice

if it works it works

esp if u got it on the cheap

[rugged tide]

yup 🙂

[tender thicket]

I wonder if there is rack hw that is geared for more hobbyist stuff, like low power use and noise

but still on a rack mount

ive never looked into it

[rugged tide]

oh yeah... they have a ton of lower power pcs you can buy as management units for networks and stuff.... trying to think of where I got my last one....

[clear lagoon]

there are half-depth cases that is usually for smaller stuff like network switches. you can put shelves in too to put e.g. minipc on. finish it off with a power strip and bam, mini-rack

[tender thicket]

yeah that makes sense, ive seen similar

was just wondering if anything was ever actually custom made for those racks

[clear lagoon]

my rack is pretty much that if you ignore my 2U NAS and the whole battery backup thing I've got going on

[tender thicket]

prob too niche of a market realistically

[fossil hinge]

with adding that max players part, wiki says "MaxPlayer=X" where do i put that tho? after adding that it crashes on startup

im assuming cuz its part of the "start" command?

[tender thicket]

The thing starts with ini: iirc

thats part of the cmd

[rugged tide]

oh... yeah last one I got was a superlogics

[tender thicket]

so if ur just changing a MaxPlayers part then ur looking in the wrong place

[fossil hinge]

I dont have any ini files showing in my server folder

[clear lagoon]

start FactoryServer.exe -multihome=1.2.3.4 -Port=1234 -ini:Game:[/Script/Engine.GameSession]:MaxPlayers=8

[tender thicket]

There u go ^

thats it

[fossil hinge]

anddd wasnt the max playuers crashing... it was changing the ip to my playit.gg IP in hopes i wouldnt have to get my friends to install hamachi...

[clear lagoon]

can't bind to an IP address that isn't attached to a hardware or virtual device on your computer

isn't playit.gg essentially the same kind of thing as hamachi?

[fossil hinge]

i was hoping only i would have to use it tho

but hamachi seems more reliable

[clear lagoon]

every time I hear it I'm surprised it even still exists

[fossil hinge]

I havent touched it since old minecraft hosting days

[clear lagoon]

brings me back like what, 18 years?

[tender thicket]

I have nothing but respect for hamachi

I remember using it for exactly that as well

playing mc with a friend

It did its job

not necessarily well

but it did it nonetheless

[chrome pumice]

If none of your .ini files are there then changing the max players will not work. The only way I have seen to force those files to be created is to quit the server from the server manager console.

[fossil hinge]

if this doesnt work i will try exactly that. thanks!

aha! I have ini files!

[mellow solar]

server restarted and i see that is it normal?

[clear lagoon]

it's loading the latest save file after a restart

[mellow solar]

oh okay i almost shat myself don't wana loose 180h on phase 4

[slow crest]

Hallo i have a problem i try to host a dedicated server so i startet Satis Dedicated server and start the gema i try to connect with my ip to the server but it says the server is offline 😦 and i can't figure out why

[clear lagoon]

yes, some of the terminology in the server manager ranges from mildly confusing to straight-up incorrect

[clear lagoon]

if you're running the dedicated server on the same computer or LAN as the game you'll need to connect to it using the internal IP address

[deep turret]

if you dont want, just download the save

[clear lagoon]

and here I thought I'm the only one paranoid enough to download her save every time before logging off xD

[deep turret]

I mean, now it's easy to download

if feared, go download and put in SatisfactorySavedGames directory in your important usb key or something

[radiant berry]

is it Dedicated servers? or is homing ammo janky and wants to clip the ground?

[slow crest]

thanks one step further 🙂

but now the people the want to join need me ip or ?

[clear lagoon]

they need to use your external IP and you will need to have the necessary ports forwarded through your router and possibly allowed into your computer firewall

that is, port 7777 TCP and port 7777 UDP

[clear lagoon]

It shoots from the character's origin coordinates, i.e. their feet. you need to be flying to actually use it.

i.e. https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/66e59c69772a987f4a8b08bf

It's a bug

[fossil hinge]

Thank you guys for the help! My friend was able to connect to my server and I got the player count up to 8!

[clear lagoon]

You are welcome 🙂 Good luck on MASSAGE-2(A-B)b, pioneers!

[sage pecan]

Is there a way to get imported blueprints to show up on a dedicated server without reloading the save?

[clear lagoon]

As far as I know, you'll need to save and load or otherwise restart the server

[sage pecan]

That's a shame, wish it were more seamless.

[slow crest]

ok i think i did it rigth 😛 maby somone try to join so i can see it works ?

[clear lagoon]

you can have a friend try it, they'll need the ip address, port and player password protection, if any

[slow crest]

maby tomorror no one ist online 😦 but Thanks for the help

[clear lagoon]

if you DM your IP and port (!Not your game password, I don't want/need it) I have a script I can fire at it to test

[frigid yew]

Do blueprints need to be on both server and client or just server?

[clear lagoon]

just the server, they get asynchronously loaded to the clients after they join

sometimes is a bit slow and you can see them pop in the menu if you have lots

[scenic birch]

I had set my dedicated server to restart every 24 hours, but I turned that setting to 0 now in server manager, but it keeps restarting every day at 7PM

How do I make sure it doesn't do that anymore?

[inner idol]

how can we see the release notes for patches where they update things.. my server says it updated yesterday but I dont know what they did.. is there a place we can read on this ?

[still canyon]

#patch-notes

[inner idol]

thx

[rich jasper]

Is anyone else having problem setting up a docker server?

[misty smelt]

ive ran steamcmd +login anonymous +app_update 1690800 validate +quit on my ubuntu server 5 times and it still hasnt updated. does anyone know why that is?

[timid birch]

any idea why i keep gething this i just starded a new game and cant scann harddrives

[clear lagoon]

Did your install use force_install_dir? As the parameter is now missing it would create a new installation in the default steamcmd folder instead

[timid birch]

not sure what you mean

[clear lagoon]

You can't. The configuration is incorrectly called an interval but it's the daily restart time. It will restart every 24 hours regardless

[clear lagoon]

Alternate recipes are locked behind milestones as well. If you haven't progressed far enough you may not have any available to unlock yet

[timid birch]

ive played with a friend online and it wokes when i play with other people but not when i play buymyself

[clear lagoon]

The full list is available here together with the minimum milestone https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Hard_Drive#List_of_alternate_recipes

[timid birch]

thats the other thing i have another game that ive made it to caol power and non of the hardrives do anything

[clear lagoon]

Is this on a dedicated server you run?

[timid birch]

no its not

[clear lagoon]

Is this on a dedicated server at all?

[timid birch]

no its not

[scenic birch]

It should be restarting at midnight then

[misty smelt]

thanks, i used force install dir without the directory because i thought it would automatically go to the cwd

[clear lagoon]

I'm not sure how configured timezone or lack thereof impacts the timing

[clear lagoon]

No, steamcmd is amnesiac. The only information it has available is from the directory you give it unfortunately

Also doesn't care about current working directory

It's honestly a clunky tool xD

But it gets the job done. Mostly. Usually.

[clear lagoon]

If you shift it by an hour you'll notice the restart time shifts with it at least, so you can math out sometimes you're catching Zzzs

[still canyon]

write script that will constantly move restart time every day 💀

[fleet rain]

Apologies to interrupt here but i was wondering. Is anyone else's "server manager" not working? Im trying to input the server details of a hosted server and for some reason its not saving any info i put into it; it just doesn't save the server info and resets to nothing at all. Then when i try and put the IP into the "join game directly" menu i get the error "encryption token missing". Other friends i know are able to connect to the sever and play just fine so its not server side.

[clear lagoon]

You can't use the regular join game directly function to log in to a server, the error is expected. You can only join through the server manager. What happens after you (try to) add the server in the manager?

[fleet rain]

I try to add the server, I input the correct Ip and port and when i go to hit confirm it give me a little chime and then does not save the server or try and connect me

[clear lagoon]

Can't say I've seen that before. Does saving in single player work?

[fleet rain]

Ya single player works, joining other peoples local games works, and even hosting my own local game for others works. it just seems anything with the server manager does not

[clear lagoon]

So if you send me a screenshot of the server manager now it's entirely empty?

[still canyon]

1. restart the game
2. check game files
   i think that is what i would do first

[clear lagoon]

Can you verify game files? I'd also suggest resetting your configuration files (make sure you back up everything before touching those)

[fleet rain]

This is a relatively fresh install that i have and i verified the whole game a few hours ago with no issues, ive restarted both my game and entire computer too just in case there is anything funky

Would a VPN have any effect? or do i need to have an epic account?

[still canyon]

Are you playing on steam?

[fleet rain]

Yes

[clear lagoon]

Possibly on the VPN. Verifying game files doesn't check any setting directories. You don't need an epic account to play on servers

Steam works fine

[fleet rain]

Ohhhh thats interesting i didint know that about the settings directories

[clear lagoon]

To test your connection to the api of the server you can go to https server ip :7777/ in the web browser

You'll get a certificate warning normally

[fleet rain]

Just to verify we are talking about the config files in the appdata location right?

[fleet rain]

Fantastic idea

[dense bobcat]

I cannot just copy pasta these files on the QA page, if anyone feeling frisky, please let me know how to stop our private server from crashing please

[clear lagoon]

I'd suggest trying without the VPN if at all possible to eliminate that as the issue

[fleet rain]

VPN is off and test connection is all good

[grim mica]

If you enter an incorrect IP (i.e with a space somewhere) it wont accept it and has that behavior - the IP you are entering is valid and has no weird characters? Are you typing it in or copy+paste?

[rich parcel]

Anyone seen this error on their servers? When i try to remove a blueprint of containers the dedicated server just closes and this is the end of the long. If i try to load a different save or create a new game it does the same thing...

[clear lagoon]

Yes. I would guess something related to the server manager might be corrupt. Do you have non Latin characters or special accents on your username in windows?

[pastel ether]

is anyone having issues with their dedicated servers since this last patch? I've been laggy and disconnecting. 😦

[fleet rain]

I do not its all Latin based alphabet

[grim mica]

Think its a known issue with BPs on servers, try to load the blueprint and re-save it then try to remove stuff from it. If you are trying to clear something existing - probably have to use SCIM to clean it up

[clear lagoon]

Can't open files rn so answering blind: any chance you have any structures or bits that stuck out even only slightly past the inside of the blueprint designer?

[rich parcel]

You issue looks very similar to mine. Did you place a smart spliter as part of a blueprint recently?

[dense bobcat]

I mean yeah, like all the time :<

[rich parcel]

I dont think so, the containers would not go againt the edge, and it seems to be related to removeing the belts in the middle, not a container on the edge...weird

[rich parcel]

Does it crash when you are trying to remove something, or instantly when launched?

[clear lagoon]

Partially deconstructing blueprints especially parts of conveyors or lifts is crashy right now from what I've seen in the channel today

[dense bobcat]

it is crashing while just running with no players in it, it's supposed to auto restart the server every 24 hours, and some days it will just crash

[rich parcel]

If i remove a blueprint as a whole with the blueprint disassembly it does the same thing 😦

[clear lagoon]

Probably something corrupt somewhere on the map. You can probably figure out which machine from the minidump and kill it with SCIM

[clear lagoon]

You'll probably have to use a save editor then to delete it

[dense bobcat]

i'm unsure what you just said, but a friend in discord knows what this is

i'll ask them to help

[clear lagoon]

Yeah sorry y'all caught me as I was heading to bed. I can take a look tomorrow if necessary

[fleet rain]

Alriiiight so nuking the settings did not work sadly, im gonna just try for a fresh install at this point bc ive exhausted all other ideas

[dense bobcat]

npnp

[fleet rain]

I really apreciate the help Lena and ModerNik

[still canyon]

where i can find up to date save editor for 1.0?

[grim mica]

satisfactory-calculator.com = SCIM or a world editor

[still canyon]

🤔

[grim mica]

Interactive map tab will let you load the save

[rich parcel]

What is SCIM?
I did link it to the blueprint. If i load the blueprint then clean the designer it crashes the game. I think I in one of the contianers in the blueprint. After i saved then cleared the blueprint when i first built it, It left one container in the designer which i thought was weird...i think that container is breaking everything

[clear lagoon]

https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map save upload is on the right hand panel

[rich parcel]

ah, yea that, i use that

[dense bobcat]

how do you tell something crashed the server tho?

[clear lagoon]

It's a tool on the website I just linked. SCIM is short for satisfactory calculator interactive map

[rich parcel]

Anyone know how to change what save is being loaded when the server boots? I tried to delete the autosave files but it keeps loading back into the same point in time

[rich parcel]

Look at the end of your log file. Like maybe 20 lines up it says critical error, then a bunch of lines that start with ERROR

[clear lagoon]

It always loads the most recent save of the active session. You can change which session starts with the command line parameters or just move the save out to a different folder

[dense bobcat]

okokok tytyt

the word critical wasn't found in the crash log

[honest comet]

Since yesterday I experience an error message trying to connect on my satisfactory server. Any ideas?

[rich parcel]

did u update the server? there was an update recently

[honest comet]

Normally automated through a docker image (normally it works flawlessly). I will try to force the update. Thanks

[clear lagoon]

Look for the assertion failure. I took a quick peek, it's crashing on a mk3 lift

[dense bobcat]

WTF!!!!! also tyty

[dense bobcat]

also.. how would one just find that mk3 lift, i have the file on the map thinger, i have a friend skimming the logs, we might be able to find this lef to our own devices

[clear lagoon]

Specifically one attached to a smart splitter

[dense bobcat]

aahh we don't know how to read this :<

[clear lagoon]

You might be able to identify it by the numbers on the interactive map tool

[dense bobcat]

OOOOOOOOOO

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[rich parcel]

I identified which container in the blueprint was causing the crash. I had to go through my entire storage room and delete every 7th container in SCIM to fix it 😦

[untold finch]

Got a prob tonight, built a steel foundry layout from a blueprint, one of the lifts isn't working in the blueprint, if I delete the lift or the belt from the lift from the instance stamped from the blueprint, the server crashes & exits immediately.

[clear lagoon]

Whoooo another broken connection blueprint crash. Delete it in SCIM is the only fix for now

[rich parcel]

yep i just dealt with that. Load your save into https://satisfactory-calculator.com/en/interactive-map and delete every one of those lifts that you placed with that blueprint

[untold finch]

thankfully I only placed once instance of the blueprint.. I'll nuke the whole thing from scim once everyone has disconnected & gone to sleep

[dense bobcat]

how do you search on your map for item...

[dense bobcat]

okok, i don't know how to search the map site for specific instance of that lift, but i'm certain i know which bluprint was causeing me issues and i'll just tear them down and delete the bp ty for the help

ty everyone for the help

[clear lagoon]

In advanced debug you can match the Persistent_Level to the numbers I circled on the crash

There's probably a better way but I'm not gonna figure it out on my phone xD

[dense bobcat]

i will try this!

[crisp loom]

Hey guys, I am hosting a dedicated server on an ubuntu machine. When I go into in-game server manager and click download save where does that go on my windows machine?

[untold finch]

into the windows save game dir for satisfactory, so you can load the save from the client as a savegame.

by default thats in %localappdata%\factorygame\saved\savegames

[crisp loom]

found it thanks so much. I actually checked app data and just did not see FactoryGame my first look through lol

[grim mica]

Cant do it atm the on dedicated, use normal to start and then you can upload the save to DS

[rare grove]

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this keeps getting set to true on every restart?

[sweet basalt]

you using a deditcated server ?

[rare grove]

I have changed it manually in the GameUserSettings.ini and added it to the Engine.ini along with the config header but no luck

Yes

I have also set it through the UI

[sweet basalt]

Just wondering with your server do you know how to not tkip the intro my server is auto setting to tier 2 some resson ?

[rare grove]

As far as I am aware there is no way to not skip the intro and I thought the tier 2 thing was fixed. I never had that issue though so I have no idea

[sweet basalt]

on your server what tier did you start on?

[rare grove]

1

[sweet basalt]

how did you do it been trying to do it for 9 god dam hours 😭

[rare grove]

No idea

It just worked

I know I at first made a word that had some of the advanced settings changed but i deleted that then made a new one

[sweet basalt]

u think u could take a look and show me that

[rare grove]

Nope

I have no idea how to help you. Me taking a look will do nothing for either of us

Wanted to throw this back in so it doesn't get lost.
Any ideas as to why Auto Pause keeps getting turned on after every restart? I have tried turning if off through the UI, through the console, GameUserSettings.ini, and Engine.ini but it just keeps turning back on.

[knotty meadow]

Have and interesting one. Maybe someone woul;d have any ideas. I'm getting crashes when trying to connect to my dedicated server. seems that save file gets corrupted but only for me or maybe at set times because I'm the only one who is connecting at this time. third day in a row magically crashes and then at some point no issues at all. loading save locally same thing happens and definitely not signed out in a vehicle.
Crash code: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x000000000000001f
Cant find anything with this code :/

[knotty meadow]

after chaning in GameUserSettings.ini, and Engine.ini did you set these files as read only? maybe that would help

[rare grove]

Thats not a terrible idea

[rare grove]

Nope its still somehow writing to it

[tender thicket]

might be ur memory dying. Run a memcheck?

[knotty meadow]

good idea

[distant cargo]

would more cores be better or Higher freq/instructions (basically a newer cpu)

for performance cause starting t6 and its laggin a bit

cause rn its running on a old laptop (a8 7410 4C 4T 2.6Ghz i think)
and wanna upgrade to either a i7 8700 6C 3.2GHz or a Xeon W-2145 8C 3.7Ghz or a Xeon E5-2680 12C 2.5Ghz? but they are older and slower

[quick mist]

Higher clock speed is more paramount than number of cores

Most game servers including Satisfactory are heavily weighted toward one thread.

[distant cargo]

aight

i shall re direct my searches the other way lol

[knotty meadow]

well memtest showed no issues

[quick mist]

Scrolling up and skimming: is the issue that your client is crashing with a given save, whether on a server or locally?

[knotty meadow]

jep

but happens with server saves only

[quick mist]

That sounds more like a corrupted save than a potential hardware issue.

[knotty meadow]

but weirdly its corrupted for me only, other 2 players have no issues

[quick mist]

Have you tried:

• Creating a brand new session on your server, loading it up, and connecting?
• Creating a save locally, getting up to tier 2 (or skipping the intro), and uploading that save to the server?
• Verifying/re-downloading your game client?
• Reinstalling your GPU drivers? (admittedly kinda spitballing here)

[knotty meadow]

and now like in last 2 days loads just fine... tomorrow probably will get crashes again. will try your advises. thx

[quick mist]

Good luck!

[vernal wyvern]

Okay, I'm struggling to get the train to work. Keeps saying station on reachable

[tame lantern]

Is anybody having issues with some functions not working on dedicated servers? I cannot use the resource ping option on V. I was able to use it previously but loading it in today i am just unable to use it. Other people in the server can but i cannot. We reloaded the server and it did nothing for me. I have rebound the button but it refuses to work or even update on my hud

[clear lagoon]

have you tried force respawning your pioneer already?

[clear lagoon]

you should only change ini files while the server is stopped, the server will overwrite your changes on shutdown otherwise.
are you sure the parameter isn't being overridden by a commandline argument you set on the server?

[clear lagoon]

This is normal. Dedicated server sessions start in tier 2. You will need to load a single player save to have earlier onboarding experience.

[knotty meadow]

Just cleanly reinstalled game with deletion of all files. Game runs way smoother. guess having installation since update 7 corrupts some stuff 😄

[clear lagoon]

if you placed your rails with blueprints, make sure they're actually connected and not just visually touching

[regal marsh]

sometimes you will just download the updated steam libraries
here you can see when the server was updated last, branch public
https://steamdb.info/app/1690800/depots/

[clear lagoon]

client and server normally updates in tandem because the net implementation validates the changelist version

[upper fable]

Can anyone tell me, how to create one?

Like

I have 0 idea

[dusty vortex]

create one what?
a dedicated server?
have you read the wiki? - https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_servers

[tame lantern]

so turns out this has been a bug for a while for any kind of server. The affected person must be killed and they need to respawn not rez. This bug has not been fixed and has persisted for over 3 years it looks like dating back to release of early access multiplayer

[upper fable]

I tried

But

Couldnt do that

[dusty vortex]

so at which step in the wiki did you get stuck at precisely?

[upper fable]

At start menu-_-

I have dedicated server in steam

Then I open the game

And then what

[dusty vortex]

so you completed section 6 of the wiki and confirmed the server was running, right?

[upper fable]

What

Im so dumb

I dont understand anything

[dusty vortex]

so when i asked, at what stage of the wiki did you get stuck at precisely, you suggested you had read it and completed it.

If you you do not understand many of the steps, have you considered looking at hosting providers that offer services to take on the reasonability of hosting, security and maintenance of the server for you?

There is a small learning curve thats needed to understand the basics, not everyone is comftable doing this, but this is where hosting services can be really useful as they do all the heavy lifting for you.

[upper fable]

And where do I find these people?

[dusty vortex]

google? there are many service providers out there, find one that offers services in your region and meets your budget.

[upper fable]

Okay...

[dusty vortex]

alternatively, have you considered... is standard multiplayer sufficient for your needs, as no server is required and is easier to setup.

[upper fable]

I know

Just

My friend is the host and he is busy 24/7

But now Im thinking that I dont really need it

Thanks for help anyways

[clear lagoon]

I just guessed something went wrong with the Pioneer's state machine, and afaik it resets on respawn. I'm guessing that fixed the issue?

[regal marsh]

not really sure what do you mean
I am just saying that sometimes you update server via steamcmd and it might just download the updated steam/steamcmd libraries/dlls, but the dedi server didnt update ( it might look like it did )

[clear lagoon]

oh that, I thought you were implying it installed an update to the dedicated server, which it does not. steamcmd is a self-updating client much like steam itself. you can clearly distinguish between it updating and a game updating

[native minnow]

This is legitimately still not been ack'd? lol

[dusty vortex]

Seems to be the case, shame really, can only suggest those that are affected by the issue to continue up voting it on the QA till it is.
There is a handful of folks each day reporting it in here, but those reports mostly get lost in the noise here, but then not everyone cares to create an account to up vote

[native minnow]

Shame

[dusty vortex]

while i personally am not affected by it (despite similar setups as others) im keen for all to be able to enjoy the game as they should.

[stable hull]

Hi pioneers. I am unable to see the server in client side. I have a server running on a vpc which I could connect to the first day. I was testing on a small server first and the server crashed after couple of minutes. Now that I have got a bigger server, I am unable to see the server entirely. I tried deleting saves and serversetting file but to no avail. I tried running wolveix docker image too but nothing is getting detected in client side. Is there any troubleshooting I can do on client side too?

[abstract garnet]

firewall?

😮

@stable hull

[stable hull]

@abstract garnet That doesnt seem to be the case. The windows firewall has two rukes for the game for udp and tcp and for all ports.

I tried by disabling the rules as well.

[abstract garnet]

windows. I can't help 😄 Sorry

[native minnow]

It's certainly gonna be firewall / port related though if you cant see the server

[stable hull]

Client as in the game is windows only, right?

For server side, I am able to confirm that I can reach the server using http.

[native minnow]

Yeah the client is what you are trying to connect to the server with

If that doesn't see the server at all - then the ports are likely not forwarding traffic, you should check the server guides on which ports to forward and make sure this is correctly configured on the windows firewall. I believe the satisfactory wiki also shows you a way to verify externally if the ports are open.

[stable hull]

The server I am running is linux based and am able to connect using host:7777 http and telnet

[native minnow]

Ok, it sounded like you was talking about a windows server cause there's no reason why you'd want to adapt your firewall on your client to connect to the server lol

[clear lagoon]

does it have ufw or firewalld installed? any iptables rules?

[abstract garnet]

netstat -tlnup to list bound services. iptables -L to show firewall rules

[stable hull]

Yeah. I felt there was a misunderstanding too. I will play with windows firewall too in meantime to test further.

@clear lagoon yes ufw is enabled for 7777

[clear lagoon]

both TCP and UDP?

to test TCP you can go to https:// server-ip-here :7777/ on a browser on your client pc, since it's an HTTPS endpoint
if you want to test UDP connectivity you could use this python script (on the client) I yeeted together (Yes I know I suck at python) https://gist.github.com/SparxySys/4e96f18c567a0e33cf37e95980dbfc74

[stable hull]

Yes, it is enabled for both. Let me share the diagnostic.

I tested a nodejs server earlier on 3000 for testing purposes too.

[abstract garnet]

does your server have public address? 😮 and does the server bind correctly to ipv4?

[stable hull]

Although the server is not given a static ipv4, I am able to connect the auto assigned ipv4 and also to static ipv6

[abstract garnet]

netstat -tnlup

[clear lagoon]

I would expect to see two four entries for FactoryServer-Linux-Shipping

[abstract garnet]

did you start up the server?

[stable hull]

Server was down at the moment. Let me start it.

[clear lagoon]

looks good. if you add the server by port&ip in the client, what happens?

[abstract garnet]

and you can't see or connect to it? You didn't answer if you have public address, btw

[stable hull]

Current ip address: 18.141.10.173

It just shows Server Name Pending, The server appears to be offline

[abstract garnet]

ip addr show Sorry. Just making sure, you're not giving a router address

[clear lagoon]

is that server running in your LAN or directly bound to a WAN IP? I'm not getting a UDP response from it

[stable hull]

This is running on aws currently

[clear lagoon]

172.16.0.0–172.31.255.255 is in the NAT range (B class private network).
did you need to configure port forwarding anywhere in AWS?

[stable hull]

No. I did not do any port forwarding.

[clear lagoon]

UDP packets on port 7777 are not being routed correctly through the NAT router

[stable hull]

Oh. What should I do to resolve that?

[clear lagoon]

what kind of cloud instance is that on aws? I'll try and see if I can find anything on it

[stable hull]

One thing that may be relevant is that the one time I was able to connect, it was allotted a static elastic ip.

I removed it later as I wanted to save on cost. I wanted to use ipv6

[abstract garnet]

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/amazon-ec2-instance-port-forwarding-with-aws-systems-manager/ does that seem correct?

[clear lagoon]

ahh you want to use ipv6, not ipv4?

[stable hull]

It is t2.large ubuntu image

[clear lagoon]

if you want to use ipv6 you will need to use the startup argument -multihome :: since the default setup breaks on binding the ipv6 port properly

[stable hull]

Got it. Although currently it is not working on ipv4 too

[clear lagoon]

it's not gonna work on ipv4 unless you know how to have the UDP packets traverse through the AWS NAT gateway to your ec2 instance

[clear lagoon]

if he has AWS VPC

[stable hull]

Oh. Will ipv6 work in such case? And what should i do to resolve the udp issue?

[clear lagoon]

ipv6 should work since there is no NAT involved

[stable hull]

I missed the link. My bad. I will follow the instructions and get back

[clear lagoon]

you will need to set the -multihome :: parameter as mentioned for ipv6 though, otherwise it will bind to port 7778 TCP and an entirely random UDP port

[stable hull]

I tested ipv6 though by running with multihiome argument. It did not work

[clear lagoon]

can you do a netstat -tulpn | grep Factory for me after starting the server with that change?

[deep turret]

fail

probably because you told them m
-multihome :: instead of -multihome=::

[stable hull]

tcp and udp are on different ports for ipv6

Testing Shark's argument

[deep turret]

it's just broken it didn't get your argument

[clear lagoon]

thanks, I am blind 🙈

sorry droidfone, my bad

[rare grove]

Yup tried it while the server was off and i dont believe there are any command line flags that are setting it

[deep turret]

I mean I hope you're not being sarcastic
then no problem

👍

[stable hull]

Now ports are being set

[deep turret]

btw wait a second
so it means it break the same way on windows

So it's not Linux socket weird interaction but actual bug

I mean it would be bug anyway
but it's really in the dedicated software logic then

[stable hull]

I am not sure what that entails but I was not able to connect

Do we need to add [] like in browser to connect to ipv6 address?

[clear lagoon]

Testing connection to Satisfactory Server at 2406:da18:b7:9dd3:63eb:bad8:ff91:bd2f port 7777
Connecting to HTTPS endpoint https://[2406:da18:b7:9dd3:63eb:bad8:ff91:bd2f]:7777/api/v1, expecting 404 with errorCode errors.com.epicgames.httpserver.route_handler_not_found.
TCP Test: Success.
TCP Response: {"errorCode": "errors.com.epicgames.httpserver.route_handler_not_found", "errorMessage": ""}
Sending UDP LightweightQuery Poll Server State packet to 2406:da18:b7:9dd3:63eb:bad8:ff91:bd2f:7777.
UDP Test: Read timeout.
Test complete.

still an UDP issue 🤔

[rare grove]

This is the startup script and the command that executes it just sets the port could I add --FG.DSAutoStart=0 to that and it work?

[clear lagoon]

no, and also don't edit the script that is shipped by the server, it'll get overwritten by steamcmd

[deep turret]

Did you double check you use the correct ipv6 address ?

[clear lagoon]

not sure why your config is not persisting

[rare grove]

I mean that is the script that has been running the server the entire time and it hasnt changed

[stable hull]

I thing udp must not be passing the security group

[clear lagoon]

he posted his addresses above, the tcp connection is fine but it fails on udp. I suspect that some firewall over at AWS is messing things up

[stable hull]

Let me check

[clear lagoon]

AWS is like wildly outside of my knowledge base XD

[deep turret]

or their own firewall is missing udp settings ?

[clear lagoon]

I tested from my end

and we already saw the UFW config of the server

[deep turret]

wdym you test from your end ?
I'm talking about their aws machine firewall

oh ok

[stable hull]

It worked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was security group issue. Thanks a lot guys. You are the best!

[clear lagoon]

You're welcome! Looks like it's working on both ipv4 and ipv6 now too 🙂
Good luck on MASSAGE-2(A-B)b, pioneer!

[stable hull]

Cool.

It is currently showing version mismatch but I think I will be able to diagnose that.

[abstract garnet]

just update both client and server

[deep turret]

Update!

[stable hull]

Yep!! Thanks again to all of you!

[dry night]

hi guys i have question, can i build a dedicated server without using openwrt? (i am using windows if thats matter)

[clear lagoon]

if you want to have the server reachable from the internet, you will need to be able to do port forwarding.
if your router can do that (most routers can) you don't need openwrt or other open router software

(not sure where you got the idea from)

[dusty vortex]

openwrt is a router firmware that people could choose to install on their routers if they desire.
its not a requirement.

[dry night]

i am new to this "building dedicated server"

reading some stuff from internet to build

[dusty vortex]

im guessing the wiki... it has a section that shows examples of configuring openwrt routers for port forwarding.... but really if someone has installed openwrt onto their router, then such users would be the least likely to need instructions on how to port forward

[dry night]

this is my source: https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_servers#Starting_the_server

[clear lagoon]

There is apparently a very helpful (/s) other section for non-openwrt routers https://satisfactory.wiki.gg/wiki/Dedicated_servers#Other_2

[dusty vortex]

yer, you dont NEED openwrt... i think the wiki was just trying to provide a sample/example

[dry night]

got it thx

[clear lagoon]

one liner, which I guess is fair since it's a game specific wiki xD

Check the service provider or router manufacturer's documentation on port forwarding.

if you need help figuring it out we can probably assist if we know the isp and router make/model

[dry night]

could you join my dedicated server for verify if you are avaliable and

i cant use openwrt

because it is locked with password

[clear lagoon]

you'll need to use the password to do the port forwarding. you should have received the necessary usernames and passwords from your internet provider when the internet line was installed

[dry night]

hmm

got it

well back to single player than

thx for help

[clear lagoon]

I was gonna say internet providers don't bite but uhhh, I can imagine people don't want to spend two hours on hold because they forgot their password 😂

[clear lagoon]

If you're still interested in a Dedicated Server, there are plenty of commercial satisfactory server providers out there that sell it as a service. That way, for a cheap fee, they can setup everything for you on their systems with no technical hassle for you.

[bright steppe]

I have a question for people hosting their dedicated servers with an external provider, what is your average cost($)/hour for running your server? I want to know if I'm in the average.

[clear lagoon]

I've no experience in the matter. Might be useful to mention which currency you want it in more explicitly since there's lots of different $ currencies

[bright steppe]

Any currency, I can do the conversions afterwards, I'm assuming people are paying it in their own currency to avoid problems, if not, USD $ is fine.

[rare grove]

cost per hour isnt really how it is normally measured. it is normally in cost per month which I pay $16 usd per month for my server but it is also self hosted using pterodactyl panel so it wasnt just pay for it and start the server i had to setup the panel

I lied its actaully $12.50

[unreal crystal]

however many hours in a month = $130 a month.

[clear lagoon]

unmanaged services are always going to be far cheaper than managed services, to be fair

[bright steppe]

I imagine for people who have a /month cost that your server is up 24/7 ?

[unkempt tusk]

I pay $6.64 USD per month so about $0.0092 per hour and server is up 24/7

[noble sluice]

€4.5 + vat.

[brazen turret]

wouldn't that be like $21 per day if it was $0.91 per hour?

[unreal crystal]

yup

5900x with 1tb nvme + 64gb RAM + 2gb up/down

[unkempt tusk]

you're right, got the decimal wrong lol

[brazen turret]

oh haha i was surprised for a second

[ionic pilot]

guys i loaded in my save and im seeing my character as offline and i have no inv. I know all i have to do is kill him and take my stuff, but i lost all my hotbar aswell, are these saved in a file somewhere?

[rare grove]

100%

[rare grove]

Eyyy I use contabo also

[clear lagoon]

pioneer inventory and hotbars are stored in the save file, yes. you can load the save up in Satisfactory Calculator Interactive Map to display and change them

[bright steppe]

Thank you all for your answers. I think it cost me more than average by hosting on Google Cloud Platform then.

[abstract garnet]

iirc i paid some 30€/month and didn't get a smooth satisfactory at some point. Now I have an old pc under my desk, and it costs the electricity

could have been more too 😄

[bright steppe]

Yes, I imagine all those costs must be factored with the performance you get out of it. I am very satisfied with what I have on Google Cloud Platform, even if I'm a little bit over average (which means I probably won't change anything)

I realize I hadn't posted my info, if anyone was curious:

• Google Cloud Platform
• c2-standard-4 virtual machine (4 CPU / 16 GB RAM / 10 GBps egress bandwith)
  It costs me about 0.66$ USD per hour it is up (it doesn't run 24/7)

[unkempt tusk]

any reason why you don't just rent from a reputable server hoster over managing it yourself?
I run my own dedicated server for things like email, filecloud, vcs, etc too but for a game server I'd rather take the convenience of renting it over setting it up myself, I don't see any downsides

[clear lagoon]

👀 you think setting up a proper mail server is easier than a satisfactory server?

[unkempt tusk]

mainly due to hw requirements being much lower. and I'm 100% in control of the data.
a satisfactory savegame I don't care that much about 😄

[bright steppe]

There was a few reason initially, but I guess it can all boil down to personal preferences. Some of the reasons for me was:

• I wanted to experiment GCP (this was a home project on the side that I could transfer knowledge from home to work)
• I can change the instance type easily if I want more power withouyt having to reinstall anything (it actually helped at some point because my initial machine was 4 CPU / 8 GB RAM and at some point our save was so big the machine was crashin with Out of Memory errors). That's why now I run 4 CPU / 16 GB RAM on a compute-optimized instance type.
• No fuss reserved external IP address

And I have to side with @clear lagoon , setting up a Satisfactory Server is quite easy compared to many other sysadmin tasks.. Once it's setup, it mostly runs itself. I was pleasantly surprised when 1.0 launched, the only thing I had to do was to add the TCP 7777 rule in the firewall, boot it up (it hadn't run for a year) and it just updated itself to 1.0 and I could connect to it right away.

[rare grove]

Costs more

And you can set something like pterodactyl up and run just about any game server with eas

[unkempt tusk]

does it though? OP mentioned $0.66 / hour while mine costs me $0.0092 / hour.
and in the control panel I can easily switch between hundreds of games with a click

[rare grove]

What specs are you getting for $7 a month?

[unkempt tusk]

I can also scale the server hardware up or down with the click of another button and it will keep the games and files/saves

[rare grove]

I can do that also with the hosting provider I have 😂

[noble sluice]

No it's not. Satysfactory is just a docker compose script or a steamcmd line. Mailserveres is WAAAAAAY more work.

[clear lagoon]

🍿 🙂

[rare grove]

I can also run anything else off of this server including any game servers I am running OP is paying more for using GCP

[clear lagoon]

my thoughts exactly 😂

[unkempt tusk]

the actual specs are hidden away with the provider I use but in over 1000h of gameplay I have yet to notice any performance issues

[rare grove]

For some people its a cost effectiveness that we need

[rare grove]

So you don't know how much ram you are actually getting or what cpu they are using?

Thats also a reason I like to host it on a vps instead of a dedicated game hosting provider

[unkempt tusk]

I never said it's less work btw 🙂
to ME it's not worth the trouble of finding hardware that's performant enough to run a game server over a mail server

[rare grove]

It all comes down to personal preferences and what you have to work with/how much effort you are willing to put into it

[noble sluice]

Mailserver can be runed on the same VPS as Dedicated Satysfactory runs on.

[rare grove]

I think they mean finding hardware that would run a game better than any old hardware that will run a mailserver

[clear lagoon]

your considerations of opsec concern me xD

[rare grove]

If I had to guess Mailservers will multithread and such while most games are high single core usage

[noble sluice]

It will... Given that you get/send a mail every now and then.. he he

[rare grove]

There could never be a problem with hosting a mail server on a game server

||Sarcasm btw||

[clear lagoon]

security wise? one usually holds either PII or other confidential information and the other is a security blackbox with a tendency of being a sieve

oh

sarcasm xD

right that's a thing 😛

[rare grove]

LOL

[noble sluice]

That really depends on the mailserver.
Microsoft Exchange on a 4 vCPU and 6GB VPS...... No Way...

[clear lagoon]

I know how to human, trust me, fellow normal human being