dedicated-servers

[keen orchid]

whatismyip.com/

[bronze apex]

how do I see the port?

[velvet abyss]

the default ports are on the wiki

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers

[keen orchid]

7777, 15000 and 15777

udp only

[bronze apex]

?listen -Port=10000 -ServerQueryPort=10002 -BeaconPort=10004 <- I did this but when my friend tries to join with my external IP address it doesent work, he tried all ports none worked

and the server exists

[bronze apex]

doesent work

[keen orchid]

those are the defaults

[velvet abyss]

you need to port forward or open or whatever

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers#Port_forwarding_.26_firewall

[keen orchid]

that too

[minor narwhal]

this is the same issue i had, you need to log into your router and forward the specific ports for them to be able to join

[bronze apex]

huh?

[velvet abyss]

if you follow the instructions in the wiki it should work. if you have specific questions someone can try to help. i don't know how helpful it will be for someone to just read the wiki to you

[bronze apex]

I read the wiki

[velvet abyss]

did you forward the ports in your router/setup firewall rules

[minor narwhal]

find out what the IP for your router is, could be 192.168.1.1, could be something else depending on what brand you have.

Then in the routers settings, you need to open the ports 7777, 15000, and 15777 using UDP

[bronze apex]

Can you set the port with ?listen

[snow belfry]

6€ per month, is not bad^^ should do for just me and 2 friends running good at the moment, lets see how good when we are further

[frosty gale]

Is there anyone who tested if you can connect to a domain name (witch is forwarded to ip of server) like for example connect to game.factory.com? Or does the game only accept ip address?

[snow belfry]

@bronze apex if you need help port forwarding https://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/general-port-forwarding-guide/

[snow belfry]

i tried just a minute ago, only ip adress

[frosty gale]

Ok thx @snow belfry then i do not need to try 😋

[snow belfry]

np mate

[bronze apex]

what port do I need to join ServerQueryPort?

[frosty gale]

Should be nice if they integrate this feature...

[snow belfry]

thats the port you need to enter on the bottom yeah, if you forwarded the default then dont change it

[snow belfry]

i am sure in the future they will, i am sure there will be a master server as well, and with that a server browser in the future

tbh its already quite good for exp servers

[bronze apex]

I did ?listen -ServerQueryPort=10002

[snow belfry]

i did not follow what exactly your problem is.

[minor narwhal]

you need to forward the ports in your router

[snow belfry]

why is it 10002 ?

cant you use the default ? 15777 ?

[frosty gale]

@snow belfry are you using steamcmd? Or amp? I get lot of errors in amp logs....

[bronze apex]

what the port is

[minor narwhal]

they've not forwarded their ports on the router despite being told they need to by multiple poeple

[snow belfry]

steamcmd^^ and thank fuck steamcmd is supported, i am used to steamcmd

[bronze apex]

I hate do be a default

[snow belfry]

lol seriously ?

well you have to open the ports

like people have been telling you

[bronze apex]

Imagine being a default skin in satisfactory

[snow belfry]

its not a skin.. its a port.. and you are making it harder for yourself

[frosty gale]

@bronze apex are you running it from home computer or vps?

[snow belfry]

do not change ports if it is not nescesarry

[bronze apex]

pc

computer is to default

name

[snow belfry]

and you want others to join ? or just test yourself

[frosty gale]

Using a firewall or anti virus?

[bronze apex]

others to join

[snow belfry]

because for yourself just connect to localhost 😉

okay.. what router do you have ?

[velvet abyss]

that is your local ip

[snow belfry]

the name of your router

[velvet abyss]

you need to give the friends your external ip

not us

[frosty gale]

Yep

[snow belfry]

this.. what brand ?

[bronze apex]

??? one tells me router IP the other external IP

[bronze apex]

Idk

[unreal cloud]

Fritzbox

[frosty gale]

External ip is needed. Internal if you are on same network at home

[snow belfry]

lol i know i was asking him what he has

[velvet abyss]

if you don't know the brand, you can't log into it, so you can't do the port forwarding you need to be connectable

[snow belfry]

okay here is my honest opinion... you should not create a server.. you have no clue what your router is or how to forward ports.. this will never end good for you

[unreal cloud]

Sorry, thought you ment the brand and not the model. Havent seen one of those outside of germany 😄

[frosty gale]

Lol

[snow belfry]

i would suggest you go to a server provider and pay for a server that is setup for you

[unreal cloud]

Are there already some providers?

[snow belfry]

i am really not trying to be funny or a dick.. but those are facts

[snow belfry]

yeah i know at least nitrado has them, i dont know of any others

but i am sure there are some others

[frosty gale]

Or go to zap hosting or other hosting. They already host satisfactory servers...

[snow belfry]

i mean hosting on own pc is kinda defeating the purpose anyway 😄

really weird why someone would do that tbh^^

[unreal cloud]

ZAP is dogshit in my opinion

[snow belfry]

other than for testing

[frosty gale]

Yep agree

[unreal cloud]

We did that when multiplayer was down

[snow belfry]

i have to do some savegame editing ! 😄 i am not researching all that crap again^^ but i also dont want to use old save 😄

so i will just unlock all hte stuff

[hushed garnet]

Nice

[snow belfry]

your server still going ? did a restart script yet ?

[hushed garnet]

nop server is still going strong 🙂

[frosty gale]

@snow belfry do you know the steamcommand to check for updates?

[snow belfry]

its the same as with install

[velvet abyss]

its the same as to install the game i think

[frosty gale]

ok thx

[snow belfry]

app_update 1690800 validate

just make sure you are in the correct folder

or add the force dir again

[frosty gale]

thx buddy

[snow belfry]

np

[marsh charm]

someone can help me because when I put my session in friends only it automatically puts it in private

[bronze apex]

neither for you

[snow belfry]

not sure what you mean by that, but i am only trying to help dude..

[bronze apex]

If you are so smart did you see that someone else already tell me that I need the router?

[dusk flicker]

yet you still haven't forwarded the ports

[snow belfry]

yeah not going to bother anymore

[dusk flicker]

this conversation is going no where

[bronze apex]

yes

[dusk flicker]

because you don't listen and/or don't understand

[marsh charm]

someone can help me because when I put my session in friends only it automatically puts it in private

[bronze apex]

I listen and I understand but if veryone tells me something different

[dusk flicker]

you need to port-forward the ports required on your router so your friends can connect to your server. if you can't do that / don't know what router you have, we can't help you

[bronze apex]

I know which I have

[dusk flicker]

no one has told you anything different

[bronze apex]

wanna know

[bronze apex]

ohh no not like you did in the beginning

and now stop

[snow belfry]

this is about dedicated servers, looks like you are talking about normal multiplayer

[dusk flicker]

i wouldn't diss people who are/have tried to help, digging your own grave

[snow belfry]

ignore him, seems like he does not want help

[bronze apex]

not from you two

[snow belfry]

the way you talk to people, you won't get any help from anyone in here

[frosty gale]

@snow belfry i created a bat file, and seems to work. with this command: steamcmd +login anonymous +app_update 1690800 +quit

[snow belfry]

yeah i would suggest always to add -validate tho just to make sure, but technically yeah not needed 😄

[bronze apex]

you dont want to help lol

[dusk flicker]

He isn't obligated to

[bronze apex]

Then why is he

[dusk flicker]

He tried helping out of good will, you don't listen

[bronze apex]

Then why is he not letting me talk with only ONE person

[bronze apex]

I do but I will only listen TO ONE PERSON AT A TIME

[frosty gale]

@bronze apex it is not that he does not want to help, he wanted to say, if you do not know how port forwarding works, you are going to be in trouble in future...

[bronze apex]

this is a help server

no just STOP ANNOYING ME

[subtle cairn]

Right Otter, Ill give you a hand, if you want, just listen and reply to me only. What have you done so far? Have you forwarded the ports on the router? Do you know what port-forwarding is?

[snow belfry]

no you are just either not willing or able to answer simple questions or do simple things.
The reason you cannot connect is because you did not open your ports.. you just changed the frikkin port number.. that is used.. but that does not open them in your router.. and the reason i told you to rather get a server from a website like nitrado.. is because you will end up fucking up your router settings.. because you have clearly no idea what you are doing.. now.. that being said.. i told you that to help you and you started being a dick and that is why this conversation between you and me is done.

[bronze apex]

yes AND I DID IT AND IT WORKS

[subtle cairn]

Ok, So are your friends able to connect now? Or are you still having troubles?

[bronze apex]

And you cant be quiet and stop pinging me

[bronze apex]

yes

you know what "working" means????

[subtle cairn]

Awesome, lets just leave it at that and all stop acting like we are 5, no need for any of this in a help chart

[bronze apex]

why does everyone now only listen lol

[dusk flicker]

dead set scum of the earth

[subtle cairn]

Lets just leave it out guys, no need for any of this, it is working, leave it at ath

[dusk flicker]

rude and obnoxious to people here that want to help. its a chat server, if you only want to talk to ONE person private message the person who is helping you, here anyone can talk or respond to you

[bronze apex]

and you can stop

[subtle cairn]

Totally agree, but rising to it makes it worse and he is probably frustrated as well trying to figure this out, no point making it any worse than it is

[bronze apex]

you are being rude now

[velvet abyss]

do any of yall have suggestions for getting the server to autorestart on windows

[bronze apex]

how do I know who helps?

[velvet abyss]

i tried setting up the nssm thing on the wiki but didn't have any luck with it

[dusk flicker]

okay mr. i want the last word, thought you were done

[snow belfry]

if you run it with -unattended it already will auto restart

[dusk flicker]

deadset, you have your server working, run along now

[velvet abyss]

oh will it

[bronze apex]

Ohh i thought you would stop

[snow belfry]

well it should^^ 😄 windows can be weird^^ thats why everyone uses linux ;D

[dusk flicker]

on startup louis?

or if you shut down the server?

[subtle cairn]

Is it running at all as a service or can you only get it to run standalone?

[velvet abyss]

if it crashes

[dusk flicker]

i would have thought it would auto-restart

[snow belfry]

oh sorry then i misunderstood you, then you really need to add it as a service

[velvet abyss]

i think the problem i had was i couldn't get it to actually start as a service

[dusk flicker]

oh okay thought you had it as a service already

[velvet abyss]

like i could follow the instructions and set it up and i could see the service but it wouldn't start

[subtle cairn]

What is happening when you try to run it as a service that stops it from working?

Ok, service wont start, if you look in taskmanager does it show up under the services tab at all?

[velvet abyss]

ya, the service started there but it wouldn't start the server, i mean

[subtle cairn]

Im guessing you trued the "nssm.exe start SatisfactoryServerService" command yes?

[velvet abyss]

yeah

[dusk flicker]

heh, the joys of unraid and auto-start docker containers 🙂 don't have to fiddle with windows at all lol

[velvet abyss]

i think it gave me some kind of error message about login credentials

let me see if i can find it in my google history

[subtle cairn]

Ok, and whats the output of "nssm.exe status SatisfactoryServerService"

[velvet abyss]

"The service did not start due to a logon failure" is the message i was googling

[subtle cairn]

Ive sent you a PM with a link to a website with a possible fdix, it may be worth trying this, i would post it in here but links are banned

Would reccomend running and adblock and script block as it doesnt look the most reputable site but does have a good tutorial for a possible fix

[velvet abyss]

ty

[dusk flicker]

So I'm wondering, does the save file store location data for all placed objects?

eg. copied my local single player save to my server, but ugh

[subtle cairn]

Was it a update 5 save file? I know they were saying if it was update 4 certian objects dont have the right rotation data currently and will have to be replaced?

[dusk flicker]

everything i copied over was placed during U5

[subtle cairn]

hmm, not a clue then, posibly stored differenly on server vs client

[dusk flicker]

this is why im asking

[velvet abyss]

at first glance i thought that was a photo of some beach house

[subtle cairn]

Way cleaner than my mess of a factory for sure

[dusk flicker]

yes but look at the conveyor lifts

and where the item animations are

[velvet abyss]

i notice the animation is off on mine

not quite that bad

of course now that i go over to take a picture it looks fine

[subtle cairn]

Ive had it a few times but a server and client restart fixed it, seems to be a server/client de-sync rather than location data being off at least on my side, i thought you meant placed objects being in the wrong orientation

[dusk flicker]

nah simply animations etc

i could try restarting the server

[subtle cairn]

Yeah, id imagine its just server/client de-sync then, at least in my experience thats all it has been so far

[velvet abyss]

i haven't done any weird save game moving stuff and mine was off like that. would show going up past the model

[dusk flicker]

nope server restart didn't fix it heh

[hushed garnet]

does anyone know how to switch savegames on dedicated server?

[velvet abyss]

you can just use the load command once you're connected as admin, i think

[dusk flicker]

or change the session name

[quaint acorn]

is there a centralised place to report server crashes? Never used the Q+A site before + all I can see is single posts

[wispy hinge]

Anyone having weird dissappearing elevators

and conveyors

[velvet abyss]

belts yes

[quaint acorn]

We had a server crash and things are a bit sticky now. Can't make any sense of the errors around the time of the crash:

[crude tapir]

Same our hosted server died sometime last night, before dying some belts started disappearing. We had just upgraded those belts from Mk2 to Mk3, so it seems it's an upgrading issue. They seem to work fine, you can just no longer interact with them to further upgrade. Seems to already be a bug submitted on it. Server now won't load at all, but that seems to be more a G-Portal issue, than the current game.

[foggy agate]

who knows, would never pay G-Portal

[crude tapir]

Meh, they've done great with my Valheim and Conan servers, and the Satisfactory one has been smooth. It's all still very experimental, so it's just a matter of submit the bugs, and be patient.

[solid forge]

someone with a well running server interested to test something? I have an issue with save games from certain size onwards on a dedicated server

[wintry panther]

@solid forge what you need tested?

[solid forge]

maybe someone could check if you get the same reesults when loadng it to your server

[wintry panther]

@solid forge dm me and i can try load it onto a server for you

[foggy agate]

sure hit me up 🙂

[quaint acorn]

I can't get server.SaveGame "[filename]" to work - it always says "balh" is not a valid save name

[foggy agate]

try without ""

just server.SaveGame Test

or test with lower case letters

[quaint acorn]

perfect - worked with capitals

[quaint acorn]

4 of us are getting a lot of timeout errors - looks like timeout between server and clients - same as post above

[quaint acorn]

#dedicated-servers message

[finite canopy]

maybe restart server?

[quaint acorn]

Yeah - but having to continually restart - interested in what the root cause is

[gaunt wyvern]

I have a question regarding Dedicated servers and mod support. I know none of the mods are working yet, but I am wondering how the dedicated servers are going to handle mods (if anyone knows yet). Would that be something the modding community will handle or something that's been/being developed by CSS?

[foggy agate]

prob it will be first handeled by the mods team, but CSS promissed to make mods easier, so they will have a solution (LATER) as well.

About the current mod support, it might be better to ask on the mods discord itself

[acoustic python]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Multiplayer#Performance_improvements do these perf improvements and 'temporary lag solution' still apply to using the dedi server?

[gaunt wyvern]

Thanks 🙂

[foggy agate]

it shouldn't apply to the game currently.

just if you use the real multiplayer option

[acoustic python]

ok

[blazing willow]

hello

i have question

[spark burrow]

Quick question, is the official dedicated server docker image out now or is it a community build?

[blazing willow]

Have someone a good Tutorial to setup the Server on linux?

[quaint acorn]

There's a few YouTube vids and the wiki

[blazing willow]

can you send me the link pls

[quaint acorn]

The wiki was enough for me for Windows

Google dedicated server satisfactory wiki

[dusk flicker]

I know there is a docker, but its not the CSS built one, I'm using it for Unraid - it uses Steamcmd

[tame solar]

channel description or pins

[blazing willow]

?

[tame solar]

🤦 https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers

[blazing willow]

yes, but it is too confusing

I don't know which of these comes first

[tame solar]

find the section called "server tool installation" and continue from there

[blazing willow]

is this for linux?

[tame solar]

yes...

[acoustic python]

have the devs confirmed this anywhere?

[mental gate]

I have other games that can only be played on windows so my entire steam library was installed in a VM set up with PCI Passthrough(aka it has direct access to hardware such as GPU or USB devices)

[blazing willow]

what from this must i write in the console?

[lavish breach]

Probably been answered before but, if there are 0 players on. Will the factories still run or does the server pause?

[acoustic python]

it's an option in the server settings

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/902621736602861588/903612049001689128/unknown.png

[lavish breach]

Thanks!

[fickle zinc]

So a friend of mine got kicked from the server while in a vehicle, and when he logged back in it created a second character now his first is stuck in the vehicle, is there anyway to get his old character out of the vehicle?

[crude tapir]

Dismantle the vehicle?

[fickle zinc]

cant when someone is inside

[blazing willow]

this error come on me

[fickle zinc]

I'm going to revert back to the last auto save

[blazing willow]

what must i do?

[rocky sentinel]

Verify permissions on your install directory, looks like you switched from root -> user right before running the game, did you install the server as root?

[fickle zinc]

crap, it deletes autosaves too quick now I only have the last 7 minutes.

anyone know how to remove a body from a vehicle?

[blazing willow]

yes but it comes this error message

[rotund nova]

Have you tried googling it?

[rocky sentinel]

Which is accurate, you should never run it as root, you should also install the server as the user you intend to run it in.

[turbid ridge]

I recommend all of u guys u have no much experience with console and servers, use Docker and some container with a prebuild server, to avoid problems

Because most of errors I'm seeing here are novice errors

[rocky sentinel]

Docker isn't exactly a novice thing to install either

[ashen pecan]

Lmao definitely not. So far, having folks install it via steam on windows 10 has been the easiest and most straightforward. The wiki doc got me up in running in about 10 minutes, ignoring all the Linux stuff

[turbid ridge]

Hosting ur server in Windows inst the best idea

[ashen pecan]

The most abstract part is router settings to get your ports open

[ashen pecan]

It's a great idea for simplicity, and it's really easy to maintain.

[turbid ridge]

For most people yep

[blazing willow]

How can i made a user with Admin ridge

on linux

[rocky sentinel]

That's a matter of opinion, I choose Linux with Docker because that 's what works for me, others may have different experiences.

[ashen pecan]

That's what I always say, use what works best for you. But it's irresponsible to tell newbies new to the concept of a dedicated server that they should learn docker lmao. It's a bit of a more convoluted process. Easy to set up and use on windows, but if you want to do docker right, you got to learn Linux too. Or at least WSL2.

I happen to already have a ton of windows machines sitting around running Ark survival, so just slapping a dedi satisfactory server on there was simple

[rocky sentinel]

You don't need admin privs to run the dedicated servers. Make a normal user, run your steamcmd inside that user to install the server, and then run the server from that same user.

[ashen pecan]

I think the only thing that tripped me up last night was making sure I had port 7778 forwarded as well. Seems a pretty common thing, Ark does it too. Server port +1

[blazing willow]

a ok also i must make this command "steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir ~/SatisfactoryDedicatedServer +app_update 1690800 -validate +quit" in the normal user that i have createt?

[rocky sentinel]

Check your command line switches, if you are still using -GamePort then it will auto increment the port, you should be using -Port instead.

Unless you are running two servers on the same server, then it will do that anyways

[rocky sentinel]

Yes, that's accurate

[ashen pecan]

Oh I'm just running it in windows via the steam launcher, headless with the cmd window. Seems you can't really customize the ports yet, so I just left it as is. Found my mistake pretty quickly and forwarded the range I needed

[turbid ridge]

You can

Let me a sec

[ashen pecan]

Oh yeah? I'll have to check the wiki again once I have my coffee ^^

They seem pretty stern about not being able to change it

[rocky sentinel]

Ah, ok... you can customize your ports. It's defined in the wiki as to the command line switches, but you'd have to run the console from a command prompt instead.

They say you can't redirect them, not change them, there's a differenc e

[ashen pecan]

Ah slick! That's my sleep deprived brain for you last night lol

I was going to say, I'm used to my ark servers that don't really care what ports they're on, as long as the ports are there lol

[turbid ridge]

I think you can with this at startup parameters
​Port=PORT_NUMBER

Example: Port=9999

[ashen pecan]

Off the top of my head, I know there's a website out there that walks people through port forwarding on just about any router. Has anybody pinned that link? Might be useful, since I see that's where a lot of people get tripped

[ashen pecan]

Oh sweet, thanks! Yep, sleepy me miss the crap out of that lol

[rocky sentinel]

That'd be nifty to have, might help many people.

[turbid ridge]

Thx bit

[ashen pecan]

Oop

[turbid ridge]

portforward(dot)com/

[ashen pecan]

I'll do some snooping once I'm caffeinated. Feel silly to mention and not even remember what it is lol

Oh snap, there it is LOL

I've been so spoiled since I moved to a unifi system a few years ago. Every time I help my neighbors with their Netgear stuff I want to gag x3

Anyway, thanks for the advice on the ports!

I don't know if their bot has a way to make commands? That port forward one that Queen shared could be useful ^^

[rocky sentinel]

I have a unifi system myself, had no problems with it. I also have static IP's that are in a DMZ so I'm spoiled there as well, no need to port forward.

[ashen pecan]

It's pretty legit, isn't it? I need to get off my butt and get a fancier set up going for my servers. It was definitely the situations like "Oh this works", time to move on lol

[blazing willow]

its that normaly?

and what should i do?

[rocky sentinel]

you can ignore that

[ashen pecan]

Yeah you should be okay to ignore it. Honestly I mostly ignore the CMD window until something goes wrong haha

Also, super random, but also related in case it helps anyone in the future: once you have your server up, your friends might get the "unetconnection" error. That one rattled us for a few minutes, until I had both of them reboot their routers and do a DNS flush (they both run the game through Steam on Windows).

[blazing willow]

amd what must i do next

this with the ports?

[ashen pecan]

Obviously "reboot your router / modem" isn't always great if you have a family running on there too :S

[rocky sentinel]

Connect to your server, try to at least

see what happens

[blazing willow]

ok

also is my server finished?

[ashen pecan]

Once it's installed and running, and the ports forwarded in the firewall set up? Yeah it's basically finished. Next step is to see if you can connect to it ^^

[lost plover]

Does anyone else have the issue if no one is on the server for a few hours it shows offline till you restart the server?

[blazing willow]

what port must i connect on Satisfactory?

what is default port?

[ashen pecan]

Default connection port is 15777 iirc

[rocky sentinel]

yes, that's it

[tiny yarrow]

how do i give my friends my server IP on a local host?

[blazing willow]

Hi

How can i load my world from my pc in the Server with Filzilla?

[reef lily]

so im really confused. im setting up a server as well thru steam cmd. everything is installed but i cant figure out the port forewarding. im in my routers settings and the port forewarding area, but the wiki has 3 ports, iv tried all of them in all the configurations i know but hte server logs still show errors connecting to those ports. not sure what im doing wrong

[humble tusk]

Is there a way to specify the auto save interval?

[humble tusk]

You might need to turn off your firewall on windows or allow those ports through

[reef lily]

firewall is off

[rocky sentinel]

Ok, first, you need to make sure the Session Name you created when you first logged into the server is the same as the session name of your saved files. There's ways to change that once you have the server started, but the easiest is to just set it when you create the game. Second, you need to upload the save files into ~/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/server.

[humble tusk]

make sure you forwarded UDP and not TCP?

[reef lily]

yup

using a spectrum router from a few years ago. in port forward its asking for internal port and external port tho. just add the ports in both under UDP protocolright? internal host is autofilled as my local pc's ip address. external host is blank but not required apparently

[humble tusk]

they should both be the same

internal host would be the 192.168 IP address of the machine running the dedicated server

[reef lily]

both ports should be the same right?

[humble tusk]

yep

[reef lily]

so yeah thats everything. internal host is the IP of this pc that im trying to launch the server on. both ports are set up the same. under udp protocol. for all 3 ports in the wiki 7777-15000-15777.

also im confused as to what the override arguements are in the wiki and where they go

that might be my issue

[blazing willow]

ok and how can i find my world on the pc?

[rocky sentinel]

I believe they are in %appdata%\Local\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames under your steam ID

[rocky sentinel]

The error you are having is right in that log, it's unable to bind to port 15777, you may have something running on that port already, or no permissions to open that port.

[hybrid bane]

For anyone having issues with the game mode being stuck in private vs friends only, you can load the save into single player, make the change, and then move it back onto your dedicated server. Not sure if this matters but that is how I got it to change. My issue was something different so didn't affect me by making the switch.

[steady salmon]

We have confirmed, on three separate servers, that changing the MaxPlayers variable in the game.ini file does not increase the player limit beyond 4 on Experimental Dedicated Servers.

Does anyone here have actual proof that it's possible? Not just repeating the same advice over and over, but actual proof that more than 4 players can join?

[hybrid bane]

I dont see that variable, are you adding it manually?

[livid olive]

Is there a place to set what employees start with when the server starts?

[hybrid bane]

Haven't seen any options for that.

[steady salmon]

Yes. In the game.ini file located on the hostsystem under the FactoryGame directory.

[steady salmon]

You would likely need to create a mod for that. Right now the default is that the first player on the server gets the default resources, and all others start with a spanner. I recommend until we can change that, to create a storage facility close to the hub with the basic resources inside.

[rocky sentinel]

That location doesn't sound right, can you post the full path to the game.ini you are modifying?

[reef lily]

how would i check the port for current use

[hybrid bane]

I just added it to the game.ini here, /home/steam/SatisfactoryDedicatedServer/FactoryGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/game.ini, but not sure if the game actually shows max player amount anywhere or if you need people to try and join.

but didn't see that variable in there by default.

[steady salmon]

@rocky sentinel I'm confirming that with our server admin now. As far as I know it's located at FactoryGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer, but I'm not sure where the FactoryGame directory sits.

@hybrid bane It's not there by default. It needs to be added.

At least, that's what I was told.

[urban berry]

it's there by default if you start the server (the file)

[rocky sentinel]

I can't confirm it works, but that sounds like the right location

[heavy copper]

hi I just reinstalled experimental are there any public servers I could join?

[steady salmon]

@urban berry Our admin reported that it was not created when the server started.

[urban berry]

the file or the setting?

[steady salmon]

Both. Strangely.

[fossil sinew]

@steady salmon are you 100% sure its not being overwritten once the server starts?

[rocky sentinel]

the LinuxServer and WindowsServer directories and files are not created when the server starts, you have to issue a graceful shutdown of the server to create those directories and files

[hybrid bane]

The file should exist by default, but only options in there for me were ...[/Script/Engine.GameNetworkManager]
TotalNetBandwidth=240000
MaxDynamicBandwidth=60000
MinDynamicBandwidth=50000

Can confirm you need to restart the game server for things to write to those locations.

[rocky sentinel]

If you just kill the process, those directories and files will never be created

[hybrid bane]

Hmmm, I don't know about that doing a systemctl restart worked for me.

[urban berry]

what he's saying is that the file isn't there at all

[rocky sentinel]

That issues a proper SIGINT, so it shuts the process down gracefully

[hybrid bane]

Gotcha thank you

[lost plover]

Is it normal that my factory is taking 11GB of ram?

[elfin nest]

How do I increase the player limit?

[hybrid bane]

I'm running 8gb, and at 75% utilization.

[steady salmon]

100% sure. Here's what we did:
1. We updated the game.ini file located at FactoryGame/Saved/Config/WindowsServer to include
[/Script/Engine.GameSession]
MaxPlayers=10
2. We started the server and confirmed that the file did not change, and the value was still present and set to 10.
3. We had 6 people try to log in. 2 failed to do so due to "Server Full" error.

We checked the file values after this again and they were the same.

[lost plover]

Most of my cores are maxed and it's using 11-12GB of ram

[hybrid bane]

How many cores did you assign, I gave it 4 for the hell of it and it is only at 10%

[steady salmon]

Not true. We manually created the file and edited its contents after shutting down the server.

And then started the server again to utilize that file.

[lost plover]

6 cores

[opal frost]

Anything to check for fixing the error "Server name pending/Notauthenticated "?

[elfin nest]

Hmm

[hybrid bane]

What are you running the vm on?

anything else on it?

[livid olive]

Is there a wiki or doc of all options in the game.ini?

[lost plover]

I have other stuff running on it I was just saying how much my factory is using

[steady salmon]

That much we did for sure. But I still have not seen actual proof that anyone has had more than 4 players in their server.

[elfin nest]

Can you change max players from the in-game console?

[rocky sentinel]

Yeah max I've had is 3 people, lol I don't have that many friends who play satisfactory

[steady salmon]

@elfin nest I don't believe so.

@rocky sentinel Yup. I'm hearing a lot of annecdotal evidence that it's possible, but 0 proof at all.

[hybrid bane]

@lost plover linux or windows?

[lost plover]

Linux

[hybrid bane]

run top

[steady salmon]

I think a lot of people are talking out of their butts about it.

[heavy copper]

hi guys idk if this is the right place to ask but are the any public servers I could join?

[steady salmon]

@heavy copper I recommend you check Reddit.

[heavy copper]

thx

[steady salmon]

There is a reddit thread at reddit.com/satisfactory with a list of public servers.

[fossil sinew]

Come join the GhostCap server now

test it out

[steady salmon]

@fossil sinew I did that this morning.

I had 6 viewers come and join me.

4 of us got in.

[fossil sinew]

I'm saying now

Not this morning

[lost plover]

@hybrid bane

[rocky sentinel]

If you've tried it on different servers and it's not working, I'd look on the QA for it and if it's not there post a bug report so it can be fixed.

[steady salmon]

Ah, did something change in the last 30 minutes?

[fossil sinew]

I modified the instance this morning

but come check

[steady salmon]

Ok. One moment.

Do me a favor and check the logs, see whether you edited things before or after "Max the Catfish" joined the server.

[fossil sinew]

I edited them about 2 mins ago

So not sure when your morning is lol

[steady salmon]

Ok! We tested this 27 minutes ago.

So let's see!

[fossil sinew]

Only need 2 people to come join. We got 3 on alraedy

[steady salmon]

Yup, I'm player 4.

[elfin nest]

How are you guys seeing that much utilization lol

[ashen sluice]

I'm happy to test this too, want to see if I can set up my dedi for more then 4 as well

[fossil sinew]

It seems after a restart CPU usage goes wayyyyy down. We went from 2 threads at 100% to one with a simple restart

[steady salmon]

That'd be great @ashen sluice, we need 1 more to join us. I've asked one of my mods to join but I'm waiting for a response.

If you can hop on now, that'd be great. IP is at the top of the satisfactory subreddit.

[fossil sinew]

come join crompton. ill dm you the address

[blazing willow]

i can't find it?

[rocky sentinel]

Pay attention to the path I posted it's in ~/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/ you aren't in the right directory

[blazing willow]

ok

[heavy copper]

I can't find any public servers on the reddit

[mortal scaffold]

👋 im being real stupid here im sure, Trying to get a service setup on Ubuntu headless. following the Alternative SystemD configuration from the wiki. However when i try to start it, i get the following 3265 ExecStartPre=/usr/games/steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir /home/steam/satisfactory +app_update 1690800 validate +quit (code=exited, status=127)

[steady salmon]

@fossil sinew, looks like that fix worked. What was it?

[fossil sinew]

nothing. its the game.ini

[steady salmon]

Did you need to restart the server?

[steady salmon]

Can you screenshot/copy the contents of the file here for us to see? I'm wondering if there's an order of operations here that's necessary.

[fossil sinew]

Yeah, it needs to start with the settings.

MaxPlayers=40

Thats all that is in there. However are you using a Windows server?

[steady salmon]

We are, yeah. Are you on Linux?

[fossil sinew]

Yep

[steady salmon]

I had a feeling that might be the case.

[fossil sinew]

Windows was jank for me for whatever reason

So I didnt even bother

[steady salmon]

That's the one variable we haven't isolated yet.

[blazing willow]

must i restart the Server?

[fossil sinew]

I'll have a guide on getting it setup on Linux exactly how I have this server setup in about 12 hours

[steady salmon]

Sweet deal. I'll work with my team here to see if we can replicate it on Linux ourselves.

Thanks for your help on this. We're getting closer.

[fossil sinew]

Send me a dm if you get stuck

[blazing willow]

how can i stop the server on linux?

[ashen sluice]

have you set it to run as a service?

[hybrid bane]

@lost plover so your server is taking about %40 of the cpu consumption towards the game server and it looks like only 7% of the RAM, Where are you seeing higher utilization? I'm a little confused by the 699 on the first pid.

[blazing willow]

I do not know

[mental gate]

damn the server does actually consume a decent bit of resources...

[hybrid bane]

@lost plover If possible I would run it on a separate vm dedicated to just the game.

[mental gate]

thank god its on linux, fighting with Windows over the CPU isnt fun...

[blazing willow]

but when i write stop then it don't stop

[reef lily]

as far as i can tell in my ipconfig theres nothing on the port already. and idk how to check if i have permissions but i have my router settings up and i can attemp changes in the ports but its not working. does it have to be the port number + 1 thing that happens sometimes? and where do the override arguments for those ports on the wiki go?

[ashen sluice]

If you got the linux box open, can you see the log of what the server is doing in a terminal like screen?

[mental gate]

But I think I'm missing something important... CPU is likely set to powersaving mode...

[hybrid bane]

@blazing willow is it running in the terminal, like you see all sorts of things crolling on the screen? ctrl c

[lost plover]

I am going to get a new dedicated server just for the game soon, it's only going to have like 16GB of ram so I think that should be good

[modern escarp]

16 GB is plenty

[hybrid bane]

@lost plover I'm doing fine on 8, you'll be good.

[humble tusk]

where's the best place to report dedicated server crashes?

[lost plover]

Okay cool

[mental gate]

What crashed?

[modern escarp]

Did it crash when you used a rebar gun?

[humble tusk]

yeah

rebar

[modern escarp]

Known bug

[humble tusk]

ok

thx

[modern escarp]

Yup

[mental gate]

Rebar... ugh...

[lost plover]

@hybrid bane Are you able to test if you can get on my server?

[mental gate]

I wanted to shoot my friends with the Rebar gun...

now I'm finally researching the best technology

upgraded power poles

[blazing willow]

ok thanks

[humble tusk]

If anyone's interested I got a k8s manifest that successfully launches the server on a single-node cluster. happy to share it.

[elfin nest]

is anyone running the lgsm version of the dedicated server?

[broken haven]

Humm, should I report some wierd log messages I get in the dedicated server?

Been running mine constantly for 80 hours and I have this [2021.10.31-03.17.24:791][966]LogScript: Warning: Script Msg: Divide by zero detected: 10.000000 / 0

[mortal scaffold]

has anyone seen this before? ` satisfactory.service - Satisfactory dedicated server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/satisfactory.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2021-10-31 17:16:00 UTC; 1min 8s ago
Process: 1347 ExecStartPre=/usr/games/steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir /home/steam/satisfactory +app_update 1690800 validate +quit (code=exited, status=127)

Oct 31 17:16:00 satisfactory systemd[1]: satisfactory.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Oct 31 17:16:00 satisfactory systemd[1]: Stopped Satisfactory dedicated server.
Oct 31 17:16:00 satisfactory systemd[1]: satisfactory.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 31 17:16:00 satisfactory systemd[1]: satisfactory.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 31 17:16:00 satisfactory systemd[1]: Failed to start Satisfactory dedicated server.`

server fails to start with status 127. cant seem to figure out why!

[broken haven]

I think its the steamcmd that exited

Not sure without seing the service script, I am running it on win 2016 so don't have something I can test in front of me:P

[mortal scaffold]

I agree, i think i made a mistake in the service config, i put the User=your_user to be steam not my actual user

[hybrid bane]

@lost plover sure, you can dm me info

[inland summit]

where can i find the dedicated server thing on steam (i already activated the tools tab and it doesnt show up)

[reef lily]

anyone willing to DM me and help me thru my dedicated server issues? feel like its all getting lost in the shuffle. lol

[acoustic smelt]

there is a bug with it showing up that they are working on

[blazing willow]

it didn't work

how did i do that

[inland summit]

oh okay thanks guess ill wait

[blazing willow]

to take it in

my world

[quaint canopy]

Do dedicated servers work when you run satisfactory from epic games?

[acoustic smelt]

you can use the steamcmd from the wiki to install though

[elfin nest]

So has anyone here got more than 4 players to work?

[ashen sluice]

Yes, there were 5 on one server earlier

[quaint canopy]

How do I get that to work?

[elfin nest]

What was the fix?

[acoustic smelt]

so has anyone done perfomance metrics? my server is an old AMD A8-6600K with 8gb ram, is this gonna suck once the factory gets built up?

[hexed cliff]

i've a question, can we play multiplayer in dedicated server ? when i tried to invite someone, it said my session is private. i changed it to friend only but it went back private. any tip for multiplayer ?

[fossil sinew]

They need to join the dedicated server directly.

[fossil sinew]

Nothing. It was simply the game.ini. You need to make sure its not overwritten as launch.

[hexed cliff]

plz enlightend me more how to

[fossil sinew]

You give them the IP address of the dedicated server. Then they add the IP to their server manager.

[elfin nest]

./serverfiles/FactoryGame/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/Game.ini
seems like it did get overwritten

[hexed cliff]

ip address from window cmd -ipconfig ?

[acoustic smelt]

only if your server is directly connected to the insternet, otherwise your going to have to find you router's ip and set up port forwarding

[hexed cliff]

i see, my router ip. got it and thanks for help

[ashen sluice]

you'll need your public Ip, if you search my ip on google it should show it to you

[quaint acorn]

Hi - I keep getting an error like this + the server crashes. It's normally happens when someone is leaving or entering the game - server log seems to list the client IP addresses. Players can't rejoin. I have to restart the server. Here's the standard error:

I have already added these lines on someone's suggestion:
[/Script/OnlineSubsystemUtils.OnlineBeacon] BeaconConnectionInitialTimeout=35.0 BeaconConnectionTimeout=45.0

[hexed cliff]

my follow up question, is it same method for creating fresh new server ? or can i use localhost ?

[neon hedge]

me-too

rebar shoot crash...

[acoustic python]

is there a known issue with rendering of items on belts where two belts connect, when connected to a dedi server?

items stack up against the end of the belt, and then shoot off on the new belt, instead of acting like one contiguous section

[humble tusk]

i've noticed that also

[acoustic python]

right?

might record some video to test it

locally and on server

it's quite jarring cos it looks like there's an issue when there isn't one

like a throughput issue, cos items are backing up

i suspect it's a rendering issue only but connected to the networking aspect of the server

[steady salmon]

Yes. We've seen this as well.

Just a heads up, everyone. We've found that Dedicated Servers hosted on Linux seem able to support more than 4 players. But Dedicated Servers hosted on Windows servers cannot - even after editing the game.ini file located in appdata.

If you are running a large Satisfactory Dedicated Server on Windows and find a way to enable more than 4 players, please let me know ASAP. Otherwise for now, I would recommend that server owners looking to support more than 4 players use Linux servers only to host their server.

[quaint acorn]

Potentially helpful - what kind of errors do you see on Windows Server? I'm getting the problems above with Game.ini set to six players, but only 3/4 in the game

[steady salmon]

@quaint acorn No errors. It's that the MaxPlayers variable in the game.ini file doesn't seem to actually increase the player limit on Windows Servers, but it DOES on Linux servers. When a fifth player attempts to connect they get the client-side error: "Server Full"

We ran a test of this on two Windows servers and neither was able to support more than 4 players.

[acoustic python]

good to know - i scrolled through experimental bugs only on the site and couldn't see it reported, although i didn't search either

[steady salmon]

And then we ran a test on a Linux based server, and it worked as intended - raising the max player count above 4 players.

I'm going to post this to the QA with our findings @acoustic python

[acoustic python]

thanks, link it and ping me afterwards and i'll upvote it and add video if necessary 🙂

[steady salmon]

Will do!

[foggy agate]

server told me it will restart in 30 minutes 😄

[steady salmon]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/617edca5831c852052357d11

@acoustic python Here's the link to the QA post. Anyone who's having issues increasing their player limit on a Windows-based Dedicated Server, go ahead and add your information to the post and upvote it.

[acoustic python]

oh, lol, was thinking of the other issue i posted about earlier 😄

thanks though 😄

[steady salmon]

Ahh! Ok

[trail umbra]

I have an own server now and sometimes I join as the host player and sometimes as an other guest player. So there are two players with its own inventory for me now. I seem to join randomly one of this two. Every time I join it seems to be random which one of the players gets loaded and so I lose the items from the other players inventory

[violet canyon]

how can i join the servers ?

[steady salmon]

@trail umbra Do you happen to own the game on both Steam and Epic?

[trail umbra]

Only epic

[foggy agate]

you must download the experimenal version and then select the server browser and know the IP or Hostname of a server.

[violet canyon]

where can i get the experimental version

[foggy agate]

on steam or epic games

but please ask on #satisfactory-experimental

[violet canyon]

i see

[clear galleon]

do you have tried more than 4 player same time?
game play is fine?

[torpid sand]

any issues with trains loading on dedi?

unloads fine but wont load material

[clear galleon]

is it train?

[torpid sand]

yes

[quick mist]

I've seen one report that it took ripping up all the stations and re-laying the monorail, but it was fixable

[clear galleon]

i have tired 16 players dedi server same time

[torpid sand]

I redid the stations 3 times

[quick mist]

and the lines?

[clear galleon]

but buffuring is so crazy

[torpid sand]

no i didnt mess with the lines

[quick mist]

that's what it took for the person I talked to the other day

[torpid sand]

why woul dthe rails effect it?

[quick mist]

I have no idea, and I don't know if it was orthogonal to the fix or not. All I know is that's what the user reported: tried replacing stations, didn't fix; replaced the lines and it started working. Correlation may or may not be causation.

maybe old lines don't have "block" metadata?

[fossil sinew]

It seems like trains or tractors that rely on paths get "stuck"

[lucid jasper]

so i placed all the tracks today an all the stations today - but no loading or unloading :/

[torpid sand]

same issue

[blazing willow]

hello

i need help to load a word from my pc on the Server

when i do this it doesn't wokr

pls help

[steady salmon]

What do you mean by "Load a Word" @blazing willow?

[blazing willow]

world

[steady salmon]

@blazing willow https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers#Loading_a_save_file

[solid forge]

what doessn't work

[steady salmon]

This has all the information you need. Have you followed these instructions?

[blazing willow]

yes i have followed it but i understand it

[steady salmon]

You do or you don't understand it?

[blazing willow]

i don't understand it

[quick mist]

what do you not understand?

[blazing willow]

i must kopie the world from my pc in the server Folder

and then when i do this wat must i do next?

must i change the session name to the name from the world?

[quick mist]

Yes, as that's how the save files are identified

[blazing willow]

but when i write the name in the session name then it take every second i edit this it write atomatic the old name there

[quick mist]

that is a known issue; you have to type in or paste the desired Session Name and quickly press Enter.

[blazing willow]

this didn't work

i have try it 3 times

[torpid sand]

i had to start a session, put the save file in the "server folder" in save, load the save game then delete the session i started

was a pain

anyone willing to discord call with me, make sure the error is not me with train?

[dim grail]

My game just crashed and when I rejoined my server I started out as a new player without my inventory. What should I do?

[finite canopy]

@dim grail did everything get "removed"?

[dim grail]

Actually, I just got it working again by grabbing an earlier save

[mellow thicket]

How do you get rid of a ghost player?

right in the middle of the grass and I cant build

[dim grail]

Beat them up?

[cyan storm]

Hello Guys, do somebody know what should i do in order to enable more than 4 players on satisfactory dedicated server? LinuxGSM install

[torpid sand]

now just liquid train wont load

@quick mist

[blazing willow]

it doesn't work

[frosty gale]

anyone have a server i can join in satisfactory

[vocal jungle]

most people in here

[frosty gale]

can some one let me plz join them in satisfactory on thier server id plz

[vocal jungle]

why

[cyan storm]

Nevermind, got it:D

[vocal jungle]

you found game.ini in linux good work that was tricky find for me

sorry i didnt see you question earlier

[brittle arch]

Anyone have any issues with shutting down their server then upon startup it doesnt recognize the save files?

[blazing willow]

Uploding a World on my Satisfactory didn't work i have tryed it 5 hour

and it didn't work

[vocal jungle]

are you putting it in the right place

[blazing willow]

it is in the server folder ridge?

[vocal jungle]

windows or linux

[quick mist]

There are two "server folders"

[blazing willow]

linux

[quick mist]

see the Wiki for exact locations

for Linux, look in ~/.config/Epic/[...]

[blazing willow]

i have see but nothing work

[lofty locust]

Can you add mods to a dedicated server?

[blazing willow]

yes

the Wiki thing didn't work

can someone make a video how to do it

[quick mist]

step-by-step instructions are more concise (and easier to keep current) than videos

[vocal jungle]

/home/steam/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/server

where steam is the user

[blazing willow]

yes in this i have take the world

[quick mist]

That may not be entirely accurate if steam is not the name of the user running the server

[vocal jungle]

once you put the save in the folder go in to you current game and hit the load save and you will see the other saession and be able to load that save

it will

[rocky sentinel]

This is strange, my server keeps dropping my connection. The ping spikes from 5ms -> 50ms and times out, I restart the server and everything goes back to normal for about 5min and then starts to time out again. Before today I was able to stay connected for 5+hrs without a timeout. The map is essentially blank, and it's just me playing on it.

[blazing willow]

must the Benutzer name "steam"?

[vocal jungle]

thats how i did it

the steam is the user you made in linux

if you used your user it will be your username

[quick mist]

If you are asking if the role user must be named steam, no, but you should have a user whose purpose it is is to host the game server.

[blazing willow]

must i kopie the folder?

[vocal jungle]

once you load the game it will kick you and load the uploaded save and it will continue with that save from that point on

[blazing willow]

do it in the savegames Folderß

[rocky sentinel]

n/m, it's not a Satisfactory issue, the host server ran out of memory, lol.

[blazing willow]

ok

and thenß

[vocal jungle]

and then what

[foggy agate]

have you done it?

[quick mist]

and then follow the instructions on the Wiki

[vocal jungle]

or do what i said both work

[foggy agate]

then you need to put the session in the server manager unter settings and press enter

[quick mist]

to wit: go to Server Settings, punch in the Session Name for the save you want to load

[blazing willow]

and in the Server setting?

[vocal jungle]

?

[foggy agate]

right there

right in the session name 🙂

then press enter and the server will load the save game

[blazing willow]

ok

[vocal jungle]

its case sensitive i think but not sure

[tribal parcel]

are there any public dedicated servers?

[torpid sand]

a ton i #looking-for-group-old

in*

[blazing willow]

must i have steamcmd install on Steam user or root user?

[vocal jungle]

on the steam user

never run anything as root user

[blazing willow]

ok also i must install steamcmd on Steam user

[vocal jungle]

fallow the steamcmd wiki

follow

[foggy agate]

you can't install it as the steam user 😄

the packmanager requieres root privileges.

you just shouldn't run the server as root.

[vocal jungle]

you can install the server as Steam

user without root

[foggy agate]

not steamcmd itself 😄

[vocal jungle]

there is a differnce between root user and a user with root access

[foggy agate]

the steam user has no root access per default

[vocal jungle]

so when i say never run as root i mean root@servername

[foggy agate]

he asked how he should install steamcmd and that not possible with the steam user per default via packagemanager.

[vocal jungle]

not say username@server name with sudo permas

and i said dont run anything as ROOT

[quick mist]

You do need to use superuser privileges to install anything with the package manger, but you can also install steamcmd locally as a nonprivileged user.. just not with the package manager. using sudo to invoke the package manger as root is fine, the point is to not be running steamcmd itself or the game server as root

[vocal jungle]

ie sudo usermod -a -G sudo steam

[quick mist]

no

[foggy agate]

Thats super supid and dangerous.

[quick mist]

don't give the gameserver user sudo privileges

[foggy agate]

because now the steam user is sudo!!!

[quick mist]

there is no call for that whatsoever

[vocal jungle]

just saying you could not you should

[foggy agate]

if you have no clue what you should do stop talking please.

[vocal jungle]

nothing i said was wrong so stfu

[quick mist]

saying "well you could really_bad_idea_here" to someone looking for help/instruction is really bad form

[vocal jungle]

that was toxic @foggy agate sorry

[blazing willow]

hello

can someone call me

i can screenshare

and someone can see what i made false

[marsh hedge]

Does de dedicated server autosave?

[foggy agate]

yes

[marsh hedge]

Okey thanks

[austere yoke]

I open the server without any problems, but the ports are closed

[austere yoke]

15777 port

What is the problem?

[wet cedar]

it looks like you are running this server from your home computer?

[vocal jungle]

are the powers open on router

[wet cedar]

Your router will block those connections if you have typical internet

You have to forward those ports

[austere yoke]

No, dedicated server rent

[vocal jungle]

ufw ?

[austere yoke]

what?

[vocal jungle]

game server or vps ?

[austere yoke]

VPS

[vocal jungle]

is there a firewall in the distro

[foggy agate]

your ports are open

could you try to connect to the server via satisfactory?

[wet cedar]

Just curious, why are you renting a Windows VPS?

[austere yoke]

Yes windows

[foggy agate]

can you try to connect to the server?

[mellow thicket]

Your server worked btw

[vocal jungle]

yea it works

you should claim it

[mellow thicket]

its offline now though

[austere yoke]

Game crashes when I try to connect

[foggy agate]

try to validate your files.

prob something wrong with them

[mellow thicket]

BTW, Unreal Crashes for me with this same error every time I exit Satisfactory.

[austere yoke]

Could it be a problem because they have Turkey servers?

[mellow thicket]

na

[austere yoke]

@foggy agate we tried three different friends, where could the problem be, everyone has the same error

[foggy agate]

#dedicated-servers message

[stuck hatch]

my bad

[foggy agate]

did you try to validate your files?

[austere yoke]

yes

[foggy agate]

if you want to post that #looking-for-group-old

[foggy agate]

still the same issue?

then prob. something with the server ist wrong.

[stuck hatch]

thanks mate @foggy agate

[austere yoke]

@foggy agate I downloaded the server from steam

Satisfactory dedicated server

download

[foggy agate]

could you check the logs, might be a hint within them.

if the client crashes, it prob wants to ruin something on the server wich dosn't work

[sacred peak]

Try to use the linux subsystem and use there satisfactory dedicated server with the installer from lgsm

[zinc wharf]

On linux, where are the logs kept for the DS?

[idle flower]

anyone else having pipes that disappear or wont build when placed?

[sacred peak]

It disappear after a time but they still there but invisible for everyone after a restart from the server the are visible again

[idle flower]

thank you, will restart my server to confirm.

[weak void]

not sure if this is the right place. but me and a friend cant figure out how i can join his dedicated server

[foggy agate]

have you installed the experimental version?

if yes use the server manager and drop in the public IP of your friend.

and try to connect.

[weak void]

i did but it says its offline while its online

[foggy agate]

then prob your friend hasn't opend the ports in his router or a firewall is in the way.

prob should check the windows firewall

[brisk parrot]

where are the save files for the dedicated server on linux

[hybrid bane]

dont have it open right now but its in the wiki

[zinc wharf]

~/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/server

[hybrid bane]

I think in the steam folder then ~/.steamapps/factorygame/somewhere

There you go

[brisk parrot]

ty

trying to troubleshoot lag, rubberbanding, various glitches which seem to be getting worse over time, wanted to switch servers see if its server related

[zinc wharf]

Anyone seen this one before?
satds kernel: [ 1381.648858] traps: UE4Server-Linux[2138] trap invalid opcode ip:(removed) sp:7ffdd6aca0a0 error:0 in libUE4Server-Core-Linux-Shipping.so[7fd3ab848000+52a000]

[plush iris]

i added the application in my firewall to allow the ports, also manually allowed the ports (15777, 15000, 777) in my firewall to be sure and set up port forwarding on my router but still my friend can't join... i'm confused

[brisk parrot]

you need to allow satisfactory dedicated server exe through as well as ue4...

[weary walrus]

Is there a bug that prevents more than 4 people joiuning a dedicated server?

[zinc wharf]

It isnt a bug

[weary walrus]

we got one running and slots are on 16 but people cant join

[brisk parrot]

officialy the game only supports 4

you have to manually edit the game.ini on the server to allow more

[weary walrus]

thats what we did

it says 16 in the ini

[brisk parrot]

hmm

[weary walrus]

and its read only

does it matter if its windows or a linux server?

[brisk parrot]

no it shouldnt

[hybrid bane]

make sure you restart the server after making the change, I think it needs to fully shut down and come back up. One dude said he had it going with 6 but not sure what else he did.

make sure the file doesn't rewrite itself when the server comes back up.

[plush iris]

i tried, i even tried installing a ubuntu server.. added the firewall rule in the docs and also set my port forwarding and still no success :/

[hybrid bane]

you did udp and not tcp right?

[plush iris]

i did both

🙃

[hybrid bane]

is it not showing up at all in server manager or popping an unreal error?

[brisk parrot]

you said you did 777 it should be 7777 but i think you probably did that

[weary walrus]

the file is engine/saved/config/game.ini , yes?

[brisk parrot]

no

let me get it for you faliga

in the dedicated folder go to FactoryGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer

or linuxserver if your on linux

[weary walrus]

ah

thx ❤️

we'll try there

[brisk parrot]

and @plush iris you said you edited the firewall but you need to forward the ports from the router to your pc as well

[plush iris]

yeah so i installed ubuntu, installed steamcmd, installed the server... then i added the firewall rule as in the documentation on the satisfactory.fandom page.
i opened the ports with port forwarding on my router, started the server with ./FactoryGame.sh

i can connect to my server locally and start a game but my friend can't join

[brisk parrot]

you want to give me the address i can try to connect, you can dm it to me if you want, but it does sound like a ruouter / firewall issue, or wrong ip, how did you get your ip

[plush iris]

my router has my ip, can i dm you?

[brisk parrot]

sure

[sudden creek]

hey guys, hope anyone can help me here!

followd all the steps on YouTube:

• installed SteamCMD
• Opened ports on firewall
• Forwarded ports on Router

I run the game through the Epic Games launcher

[meager summit]

isnt nat detection usually ports/firewall?

[quick mist]

You can ignore those warnings, they always appear even when the server is operational with no network issues

[meager summit]

doesnt sound great lol

[sudden creek]

Still it says NotAuthenticated when I add a server on my local IP, both on port 15777 and 15000

[quick mist]

There are similar ingorable warnings for "I can't start the EGS Overlay" and the like

It will say NotAuthenticated until you log in for the first time

[sudden creek]

Server appears to be offlin?

how can I log in

[quick mist]

first step is to double-check that the server is in fact listening on those ports. Is this a Linux or Windows server?

[sudden creek]

Windows

[quick mist]

and are the UDP ports open on the Windows firewall?

[sudden creek]

as far as i know, yes

inbound rules > New rule UDP > 15777 etc

[quick mist]

okay. Run this command in PowerShell and make sure that the ports show up as having an active listener:

Get-NetUDPEndpoint

[quick mist]

you can get more helpful data with this longer command:

Get-NetUDPEndpoint | Where {$_.LocalAddress -eq "0.0.0.0"} | select LocalAddress,LocalPort,@{Name="Process";Expression={(Get-Process -Id  $_.OwningProcess).ProcessName}}

okay, that's promising

and when you go into satisfactory, what is the host address you punched in for the server?

[sudden creek]

my local IP

192.168 blabla

[quick mist]

is the server running on the same host as the client in your case, or is it a separate computer entirely?

[sudden creek]

same

[quick mist]

just for grins, then, try adding a new server to the in-game Server Manager with the address 127.0.0.1

[sudden creek]

decent desktop PC with ehternet cable

[quick mist]

great! Give your server a name!

[sudden creek]

What did I do differently here? what's this IP?

[quick mist]

127.0.0.1 is the universal IP address for "the computer I am on"

sometimes home routers act strange with computers trying to talk to themselves via the router.

[meager summit]

127.0.0.1 is localhost > connect to yourself

[quick mist]

using that address takes the router out of the picture

[sudden creek]

ok so it's totally fine for me to use this?

and can I tell my friend to join here?

[idle flower]

I changed a couple of paramters around in pfSense, anyone mind connecting and playing around for a bit to see if it drops again? ndboost.com:15777

[quick mist]

your friend would use your WAN IP address

[lost plover]

Sure

Give me a min, there's a bug where the servers don't ping for like 5 mins

[sudden creek]

which is? the 192.168?

[idle flower]

sure, np, mind if I DM you?

[lost plover]

Sure

[quick mist]

no, unless they're in the same local network (generally: the same building)

go to ipchicken dot com and give your friend the IP address you see there in large friendly blue numbers

[sudden creek]

ok last question, how do i drag the save game here?

[quick mist]

there are directions for that on the Wiki; check the pinned messages in this channel for a link

[sudden creek]

Thanks for your super fast replies!!!

[quick mist]

happy to help! Gives me something to do while waiting for useful information on this work call I'm stuck on (:

[sudden creek]

hmm my friend can't connect

to the ipchicken server

[quick mist]

just to double-check- ey is trying to connect to the address you see when you go to that site, right? Not the address your friend sees?

your friend will see eir own address there rather than yours, you see.

[finite canopy]

@quick mist @sudden creek better is using command promt on the pc you have the server on, then do ipconfig, and then its the IPv4 Address

[quick mist]

No

that will show the LAN address

that does no good to someone trying to connect via the internet

[sudden creek]

yes, i sent him my screenshot

[quick mist]

in that case, since you can connect internally, that sounds like an issue with the port forwarding on your router

[finite canopy]

if the server runs on localhost, then you do need to connect to your own adress

[sudden creek]

argh

[quick mist]

Orz, Wtr is able to connect locally; eir friend is not on eir LAN

[sudden creek]

i followed the router ipv4 forwarding thoroughly through youtube examples

[finite canopy]

@sudden creek are you using the same pc as where the server runs?

[sudden creek]

yes

[finite canopy]

so for you its localhost

[quick mist]

can you show a screenshot from your router's port forwarding settings?

[quick mist]

and what IP are those ports forwarding to?

[finite canopy]

15777 uses satisfactory

[quick mist]

and that address is the same address as the host upon which you are running the server?

[wispy arch]

why are you hiding your local ip

[sudden creek]

i have no clue 😄 youtube vids seemed to be secretive so i thought might as well be

[finite canopy]

also instead of ipchicken.com you can search my ip

[quick mist]

youtube technical demos are rarely well-informed (:

[sudden creek]

my public ip address is damn long

2a02:a463blablabla

[quick mist]

that's an IPv6 address

[sudden creek]

ah

[quick mist]

you should also have an IPv4 (or just IP) address

[sudden creek]

im hosting it on the 127.0.0.1

[quick mist]

the server does not play well on IPv6

[finite canopy]

@sudden creek that is localhost

for you at least

[sudden creek]

yes that's the same as ipchicken

[quick mist]

wtr- you are connecting to the server locally using that address

[sudden creek]

that screenshot my friend got

[quick mist]

your host will have an internal IP address, starting with 192.168

the port forwarding settings must direct the ports to that internal IP

[sudden creek]

if I add that 192.168 to my server manager it says offline

[quick mist]

once that is properly set, your friend can connect to your public IP address,

we went over that, your router doesn't like bouncing traffic back to the internal server

so your client is connecting directly to itself -- successfully -- using the loopback address

[sudden creek]

how to do this ?

[sudden creek]

this is the right spot, right?

[quick mist]

by answering the one question you haven't so far: Is the IP address you have set up in the port forwarding settings, the one you blacked out, the same internal IP address as the host running the game server?

[wispy arch]

you did here i'm pretty sure

[zinc wharf]

Ugh just found out the hard way that Opteron 61xx and 62xx cpus will not work

[sudden creek]

IP running the game server == IPchicken IP right?

[quick mist]

there are three IPs you need to know

[lofty latch]

Indeed, nothing older than Ryzen will on the AMD side

[quick mist]

127.0.0.1 is "myself" in any context.

[lofty latch]

because of missing instructions

[quick mist]

the 192.168 address is the internal, or LAN, address

[lofty latch]

although it does work on Windows, even if it doesn't on Linux

[quick mist]

the one you get from ipchicken is the public, or WAN, address

[lofty latch]

not sure if the Windows build doesn't use those instructions or if Windows can emulate them

[sudden creek]

ok gotcha

[quick mist]

your friend needs to use the WAN address

[zinc wharf]

That sucks because my newer xeon fried on monday

[quick mist]

your router forwarding settings need to use the LAN address

[sudden creek]

✅

[lofty latch]

even the A8 APUs don't work

[quick mist]

and that LAN address needs to be the LAN address of the computer running the game server

[lofty latch]

I'm not sure if it's AVX or if it's one of the SSE sets

[sudden creek]

as it's the same computer I'm rather sure it's the same LAN

[sudden creek]

so this should work then?

[quick mist]

your router can send traffic to any of -- depending on the router -- 255, or 32768, LAN IPs

for the third time

Is the LAN address your port forwarding settings are directing the traffic to the same LAN address the computer running the game server has?

[sudden creek]

uhh wifi>ethernet>settings>ipv4 address is slightly different

[finite canopy]

@quick mist i think the server auto gets that Lan address

[sudden creek]

just googled how to find it

the DNS is identical to the one I had

[quick mist]

then you need to correct the IP your router is sending the traffic to to match the one the game server host has

[sudden creek]

not the address

I thought the login-server of my router would be the address you mentioned

but it seems thats the DNS servers' address

[quick mist]

if your router is doing DNS passthrough that makes sense

[sudden creek]

ok so now I might be able to connect server manager to thát IPv4 address

[quick mist]

use this powershell command: Get-NetAddress --AddressFamily IPv4

that will give you all of your computer's internal IP addresses

[quick mist]

the one you care about in this case will start with 192.168

sorry - Get-NetIPAddress

[sudden creek]

ok that is mentioned there

wuuuhh I can connect it

now to have my friend connect

ah crap he is out with familyu

anyone of you guys care to check if it works?

[wispy arch]

are you sure you want to share your ip address with random people

because you'll have to

[sudden creek]

come on don't berate the new kid 😄

I'm already proud I can interpret you guys

[whole jasper]

confirmed, when setting up the dedicated server on AWS, likely need "sudo yum install SDL2" instead of "sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0-0:i386"

[quick mist]

I would try but I am doing Work Things at the moment (:

[sudden creek]

thx for helping out while working @quick mist !

ok I followed the loading a save file-steps but I can only seem to start an entirely new game

[wispy arch]

did you change the session name accordingly to the save and did you restart the server

[sudden creek]

yep

[wispy arch]

did anything happen when you changed the session name

did it say like creating a new world or something along those lines

[sudden creek]

you need to create or load a game before you can join it

session name == save file name in /server

[wispy arch]

huh..

does the save work locally

[sudden creek]

yep

[wispy arch]

and are you sure you loaded the correct one

the latest i'm guessing

[sudden creek]

just to be sure i entered 'exit' in the console command line

and restarted again

[wispy arch]

you could maybe try to load another one

from another world

maybe it's the spaces

though i doubt it

[sudden creek]

I'll save one without spaces

I made sure to 'end' @ console and restart twice

[wispy arch]

then i think i'm out of ideas... it worked (almost) flawlessly for me, i followed the same steps. sorry

[sudden creek]

im gonna create new game, then delete that one, and change the filename through satisfactory-calculator.com

[wispy arch]

did you just rename the .sav filename or is it the actual session name ?

[sudden creek]

i haven't renamed anything yet

it wouldve been my last resort

ok i think i got it

[pseudo yew]

Session name used for server has to be same as session name for the save.

[sudden creek]

it's not though 😮

so what I did