dedicated-servers

[glad pasture]

after running the start file it said something like "the operation completed successfully" but then crashed at the end

I kinda caught the end of it

[feral dawn]

lol love it

"I Crashed: Success!"

good ol windows

anyways erm

[glad pasture]

lmao

looks like i may be missing some parts of the game?

idk im not really great with this

[feral dawn]

Validate would have fixed that if that was the case

[foggy agate]

what happens when you run FactoryServer.exe directly

[glad pasture]

nothing

[feral dawn]

also outta interest, if this on ur own PC at home, or a windows dedicated server/vm u have?

[glad pasture]

i cant run it

PC at home but im not there

so im using a remote desktop

[feral dawn]

ah righto okay

i'll pm you.

[glad pasture]

left it in a place where I have good internet lol

kk

[burnt blaze]

ok linux server up and running too! Sweeeeeeet. Now my "solo" save can run all the time getting up tickets.

[slim spoke]

congrats

[burnt blaze]

I already had another on Windows, but used this as an excuse to get some linux exposure.

[grizzled bear]

This may be a multiplayer thing and not just dedicated servers, but does anyone else notice that trains run way slower when you're in them?

[slim spoke]

not something i heard around here

maybe in exp room

[feral dawn]

I'll be really interested if you also get kicked from your game, if you drive a Explorer around for about 5 minutes (or just sit in one).

Backup your save before doing this though.

[slim spoke]

it stops and player is stuck in the explorer unless they rejoin

[feral dawn]

i get something different

I get a Timeout, and my old player is stuck in the Explorer forever.

i reconnect, and spawn brand new (including hotbars) at the hub.

[slim spoke]

player is stuck in the explorer unless they rejoin

if they rejoin into body they can get out

[feral dawn]

yah, for sure.

but never works for me lol

[slim spoke]

anyways

more of exp thing

[fallen swallow]

Anyone having issues with draw distance on a dedicated server? I have my in-game draw distance set to Ultra but when I'm playing on my dedicated server, I don't see grass at a distance of more than a few meters and those firefly looking bug pod things pop in a few meters from me as I'm running through the map.

[feral dawn]

Yah, i get the same issue with most animals (other than the big bouncy boys)

[slim spoke]

should check the bug site

[burnt blaze]

Oh thanks for the heads up. I use the explorer primarily to get on the world. I'll test it out this weekend

[sonic ridge]

I quite enjoy dumping my buggy, and myself, at 0,0,0 ...

anyone else experience that? You get disconnected, you log in as a new character... bounce the server and login at the 0, 0, 0 coordinate as a buggy

explorer

[slim spoke]

u just went back into player

player equips the vehicle

should chat in exp with everyone

[acoustic python]

just got the 'host closed the connection' thing for the first time, as i was jumping to get a slug near a gas plant, without a mask 🤔

hooray for autorestart

[glad carbon]

I can't seem to get my dedicated server to switch the session to Friends Only via the savegame trick. I'm running the servers on an Ubuntu server, and I play the game on a separate windows machine. I copy the save game over, I'm able to load it, the session is automatically in Friends Only mode, I see a session ID. So I save to a new file, move it back over to the server's save directory, wipe all other saves out, and it still is stuck on private. Anyone have any advice on this?

[slim spoke]

dedi will play mp on private it doesnt matter

that was just to keep listen server private so people wouldnt just pop into ur game and do things

[glad carbon]

how can anyone join my dedicated server?

I have some friends on steam, some on epic, how do they join my dedicated server without a session ID?

[slim spoke]

give them the ip and player password if u set 1

not the admin pass

[glad carbon]

ok that makes sense now. For some reason I thought they had to join the "session". The instructions are not very clear

friends were able to join thank you for your help

[slim spoke]

goto wiki and search dedicated servers

[glad carbon]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers this page?

[foggy agate]

yes

[deep forge]

[2021.11.06-07.08.32:755][922]LogNetPlayerMovement: Warning: ServerMove: TimeStamp expired: 171.336777, CurrentTimeStamp: 173.001389, Character>
[2021.11.06-07.08.33:406][927]LogGame: Cannot Pathfind: Dot discrepency. 0.87
[2021.11.06-07.08.33:408][927]LogGame: Cannot Pathfind: zOffsetDiscrepency. zOffsetOne = 5.20 | zOffsetTwo = 19.80
[2021.11.06-07.08.33:409][927]LogGame: Cannot Pathfind: xyOffsetDiscrepency. xVariance = 37 | yVariance = -37

hmm.. it crashed

[potent oasis]

I set up a dedicated server, and my friend can see it on his server manger. However when he tries to join it won't let him. never prompts for a password or anything

port forward is good

[deep forge]

Could we get an admin command to kick every char out of the vehicle? there is a explorer stuck in my base 🙂

[alpine dawn]

All 3 ports are forwarded?

[potent oasis]

Wiki said not to do 7777

I did 15000 and 15777

[alpine dawn]

Hmm I am fairly certain all 3 are needed

[potent oasis]

friend found the server and is an admin without password

when joining won't work

[alpine dawn]

7777 is the actual game data the other 2 are the beacon and query

So yeah it's required

[slim spoke]

wiki says that u need 3 ports setup

query beacon data

[alpine dawn]

Not sure where you are seeing this

[potent oasis]

okay I forwarded 7777, yet friend cannot join server.

[keen orchid]

udp?

[potent oasis]

I cannot change sever from Private to friends only

[slim spoke]

that option is for listen servers

[potent oasis]

@slim spoke How do I get my friend into the dedicated server

[slim spoke]

check ur ports

make sure they are right

run a port scanner from web for udp

and check tcp to see if there is overlaps

[potent oasis]

they are and he has connected to it using my public IP. he sees the server name and when clicking join it takes about 20 seconds then it locks up his game and it restarts

[alpine dawn]

I am going to go out on a limb here and say software firewall is blocking something if your router is all setup correctly and it's still not working

[slim spoke]

tell him verify files or reboot

or ur 7777 might been used already

[potent oasis]

60ms ping to my server

[alpine dawn]

Or yeah it's also possible the issue is on his end

[slim spoke]

u could turn off server scan ports for udp and tcp

see whats open

and he can fix his side

[alpine dawn]

@potent oasis are you connected and playing on the server just fine from your lan?

[slim spoke]

you can use the net ip and test it urself

it just goes out and circles back to u

[potent oasis]

Thanks all. It was the 7777 port. Once I removed it from the other port forward and added it to my server he was good to go

[alpine dawn]

That don't work universally

[slim spoke]

it should if its setup right

he can play on net and if net works then he will get back to server

[alpine dawn]

@slim spoke depends on the router

Needs to have nat reflection enabled

[slim spoke]

ur literally sending it outside the router and then it routes back to u

[alpine dawn]

Like I said it depends on your router

[slim spoke]

it shouldnt stop u from sending stuff out

if it gets out then it only matters if the server works on the net

if its stopping u on way out then its affecting ur game when it wants

[alpine dawn]

I don't understand what you are talking about but it sounds like he fixed it

[slim spoke]

its literally why the cdn gov got a new network for federal pens

yup thats the important thing

rest is chat

[potent oasis]

he is connected and running around. Thanks @slim spoke and @alpine dawn

[slim spoke]

congrats have fun

[clear birch]

i just joined my server to see one foundation + my cable constructor missing - what happened here xd

[alpine dawn]

gremlins

[blazing willow]

frage

question

What i must do on Linux to update the Satisfatory Server?

[clear birch]

depends on the way you setup your server

if you used the systemd setup - every restart looks for new updates

so just (sudo) systemctl restart "satisfactory"

[blazing willow]

i have used the steamcmd

[deep forge]

did they just put out an update? server won't start anymore after crash (on linux)

[blazing willow]

and the tutorial from the satisfactory wiki

[clear birch]

do you already used -multihome start command?

[blazing willow]

i have used this steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir ~/SatisfactoryDedicatedServer +app_update 1690800 validate +quit

and i have startet with ./FactoryServer.sh

[slim spoke]

you dont need multihome that was fixed

make sure server is up to date

[blazing willow]

how?

[slim spoke]

install it

[blazing willow]

must i restart the Server?

or install the Server new on the same place?

[slim spoke]

check the wiki page see if there is update cmd

u want to install in same place if ur going to put newer files in the server

[blazing willow]

i must stop the service from linux

before i intall

with sudo service name stop

but what must i write in the name

[clear birch]

visudo

and than you can edit it

if you dont know what youre doing - dont do it

is this your only user on this server?

[snow sierra]

Hi, have somebody same problem?
i updated the server 5 minutes ago..

[full vector]

You probably want to include the path where its installed in command file

170636 is already two updates out of date

[snow sierra]

thanks, i try it

thanks for the tip, it helped

[blazing willow]

how can i restart a service

on me not working

ok

[vapid bramble]

linux/systemd service?

[blazing willow]

what is the service name?

[slim spoke]

lol what service did u stop

[blazing willow]

it worked

i have it

[whole nacelle]

My friend is getting this when trying to connect

[blazing willow]

digga

my all game play is lose

diggi why

[slim spoke]

no start a save then u use load session

load save u were playing

[whole nacelle]

Any ideas to solve this ?

[slim spoke]

try again or check server ports

[whole nacelle]

So, idk if i'm doing this the wrong way, but the port scanner doesn't show any ports open, even though my friend can see the status of the server

[slim spoke]

u need 3 ports

shutdown server .. scan tcp and udp

[whole nacelle]

I did shut down server

[slim spoke]

look for 7777 15000 15777

u dont want them open til server is up

all udp when server is up

[whole nacelle]

wait what ?

I'm just using port scanner to see if they're open

[slim spoke]

ya

u dont want those 3 open at all when server is down

[whole nacelle]

Yeah but how do I check then ?

[slim spoke]

browser.. look for port scan tcp udp

run on the external ip of server

[whole nacelle]

Great, it shows no open port

[slim spoke]

ok start server and check

[whole nacelle]

all open

but filtered

[slim spoke]

what

[whole nacelle]

wait a sec

Shows this for 15000 and 15777 too

[slim spoke]

did u forward the ports?

[whole nacelle]

wdym ?

[slim spoke]

router

[whole nacelle]

Redirecting from the router towards the pc ?

[whole nacelle]

If that's what you mean then yes

If not, then probably not

[grand finch]

Hi, anyone got experience setting up a traefik 2 rule to forward traffic to the game server (not part of the docker stack, where traefik is running)

[alpine relic]

Does CPU bottleneck cause some glitches?

[austere mural]

having the same crash at the moment where it runs FGfoliageremoval fails and then after a few runs the whole things dies

[dapper blaze]

is there a way to add Mods to the current dedicated-server build?

[ornate pilot]

just played normaly and the server crashed now everytime i start [2021.11.06-11.06.24:882][268]LogGame: Warning: Can't find a slot size! No arbitrary, no item in the slot and no itemDescriptor passed for FuelInventory! is in the console and it crashes then

with no error this is the only one

[brisk cobalt]

Quick question about hubs and respawning.

Has anyone tested the behavior of multiple hubs added to the world through save editing?

The wiki says the oldest hub acts as the respawn and the rest function normally.

Can anyone confirm that's true on a dedicated server world as well?

[dapper blaze]

How to change the Session from "Private" to "Friends Only" - to get a SessionID ?

[dim grail]

My game crashed while sitting in a train. When I rejoined a got a new character, with empty inventory and hot bar. I can't kill me old character, since he's in the train, and I can't delete the train. Anyone know any solutions?

[foggy agate]

you don't need a session ID with dedicated servers, just use the server manager and add the IP, like you did for yoursellf, if you have other questions related to Update 5 use the channel #satisfactory-experimental

[foggy agate]

there is none, the devs are allready looking into this.-

[foggy agate]

ask on the mod discord.

[foggy agate]

seems to be normal, have this too and even higher.

[dapper blaze]

Well a friend cant connect, it always hangs in loadings screen... so i had the idea to invite him

[foggy agate]

the devs have talked about that in their last steams

[foggy agate]

you can't.

[alpine relic]

I mean all loads are on single core.

[foggy agate]

not all, but mostly yes.

[foggy agate]

might check the ports in the wiki. check your firewall / router.

[dapper blaze]

Well he had build stuff already, he can connect but it hangs by "Respawn_Sequence.bat"

[foggy agate]

restart the server?

[dapper blaze]

that was my first thought 😉

[dim grail]

Durn it. Is there a bug on it?

[acoustic python]

does the server.SaveGame <filename> command only work via the server console, and not the in-game console? e.g. this bit

i couldn't get it to work the other day

[foggy agate]

there is no server console yes. and at least for me saves work.

[acoustic python]

hmmmmm

i'll try again

and surely there is a server console

oh, sorry, i think i understand now

[foggy agate]

only ingame, but in the log windows, you won't get registered anything.

[reef gull]

If devs are looking, there is a ticket... probably on the qa site

[acoustic python]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/902606535551774790/906201334108266547/unknown.png did i do something wrong?

was testing if the file extension was required but...

no files were created

[mellow goblet]

SaveWithNewSessionName Savename Sessionname try this i have so create a new save

it works for me

[acoustic python]

is that the whole cmd? do you not have to use server.SaveGame

[mellow goblet]

the server.SaveGame command didnt work for me , and i found this and this works

[latent nebula]

I got my ports forwarded, and the server running in cmd on linux on my laptop

I disabled iptables firewall service

what IP do I need to connect to? my public IP? It won't show up in the server manager

[zinc totem]

I would have to double check, but shouldn't it be TCP on the ports? UDP is usually used for broadcast traffic, not direct connections

[latent nebula]

I think it's UDP because of the engine

[zinc totem]

Ah look at that, I may have just assumed TCP and done mine wrong, but it worked 😛

[latent nebula]

on linux too?

[zinc totem]

I am running mine on Windows

[latent nebula]

oof

[rose lotus]

have anyone here had problems with AMP Instance manager? It says I need an update and wont start up anymore

[acoustic python]

has anyone had this before?

crashed the server

[deep forge]

yep, 4 times this morning

and disconnected while driving a train

[timid slate]

Yeah also got disconnected while driving a train. Also trains on auto pilot don't seem to accelerate above 40kph

[deep forge]

only when you are in them

got them stuck on a hill, step out, it just goes up

[timid slate]

Ah okay, will keep that in mind then

[latent nebula]

the server is up supposedly but idk how to connect

udp   UNCONN 0      0                                     *:15000            *:*    users:(("UE4Server-Linux",pid=14523,fd=44))
udp   UNCONN 0      0                                     *:15777            *:*    users:(("UE4Server-Linux",pid=14523,fd=38))
udp   UNCONN 0      0                                     *:7777             *:*    users:(("UE4Server-Linux",pid=14523,fd=43))

[acoustic python]

my second only c rash

started a new game though so, much less complex

my pipes for my coal factory just disappeared

i did not dismantle them

dismantled some belts nearby though

[ancient sand]

any one experiencing client crashes when loading path on vehicles?

[acoustic python]

then tried to rebuild them and this happened]

might need to restart the server

[eager scaffold]

Hey, idk why my server won't go up
It's been fine for the last 3-4 days without much to any problems

[atomic patio]

I get this error every time i start the server and can't figure out how to fix it i've tried creating symlinks to what i believe is the correct steamclient.so file but no luck

[2021.11.06-14.16.44:428][800]LogGenericPlatformMisc: Error: SetEnvironmentVar not implemented for this platform: SteamAppId = 526870
dlopen failed trying to load:
steamclient.so
with error:
steamclient.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dlopen failed trying to load:
/home/factory/.steam/sdk64/steamclient.so
with error:
/home/factory/.steam/sdk64/steamclient.so: cannot open shared object file: Not a directory
[S_API] SteamAPI_Init(): Sys_LoadModule failed to load: /home/factory/.steam/sdk64/steamclient.so

machine is a i7 4790k 10gb of ram running ubuntu 20.04 server in headless mode

[acoustic python]

yup, borked. and crashed again

phew, restart seems to have fixed it, my pipes are back 😄

[pearl wadi]

Hi, I am trying to install the dedicated server on Fedora. When I try installing libstdc++.i686, it conflicts with files from libstdc++.x86_64 is there an easy solution? I assume I need the i686 version because steamcmd.sh cannot find/execute the steamcmd binary, even though it is in the right place.

[steady hollow]

@pearl wadi did you install steamcmd?

i686 is just 32bit version of the x86_64 package

[dense gyro]

i've been trying to build a simple fluid train station on my dedicated server, and every time i connect the pipes they either dont place but you can collide with them or they put down a "permanent ghost"

[rocky violet]

they are actually there, just not showing up

[acoustic python]

yes indeed

not sure why?

[rocky violet]

if you load the save locally everything is fine

[acoustic python]

some kind of desync maybe

yeah unfortunately i don't have access to the server save files yet

friend is hosting it

he's sorting out nextcloud, it's a brand new server

restart seemed to fix it 😅

[rocky violet]

only for a moment 😄 expect them to disappear quite soon

[acoustic python]

seems ok so far

what's the bug, exactly?

[rocky violet]

i have actually built my coal power pipes locally and then put the save back to server

have no idea, probably some kind of desync

actually had my client crash because of this desync

[acoustic python]

oof :/

will look out for it, thanks 🙂

[rocky violet]

although went to overboard with replacing "missing" pipes

[sour yoke]

That pipe dysync happen with non-hosts on live MP right now

[rocky violet]

so not limited to dedicated servers?

[sour yoke]

I imagine it's a similar problem I have seen this on Update 4 a few times and restarts fix it

The Host however doesn't have an issue seeing missing pipes

[pearl wadi]

Yes I have. When I try executing it without installing libstdc++.i686, I get the following error:

/home/steam/Steam/steamcmd.sh: line 37: /home/steam/Steam/linux32/steamcmd: No such file or directory``` 
The error doesn't make sense, because the binary `/home/steam/Steam/linux32/steamcmd` does exist.

[dense gyro]

what os are you on cyclonit?

[pearl wadi]

Fedora

[steady hollow]

whats the permissions octal?

[dense gyro]

i'm using fedora too, i use LGSM to run my dedi

[steady hollow]

just remove the colon

[dense gyro]

Linux Game Server Manager

dnf install -y curl wget tar bzip2 gzip unzip python3 binutils bc jq tmux glibc.i686 libstdc++ libstdc++.i686

this is the list of dependencies i installed

as per the guide on the LGSM website for satisfactory

[pearl wadi]

-rwxrw-r--. 1 steam steam 4839761 Jan 5 2018 steamcmd

[steady hollow]

can you 777 it?

I know its a bad idea but /shrug

(rwxrwxrwx if you don't do octals)

[pearl wadi]

Doesn't change anything. The shell script doesn't change users and I execute it using the steam user

[unreal cave]

Does anyone know if there are optimizations planned in terms of CPU usage for the server?

[pearl wadi]

Afaik there are no specific optimizations planned. If you are referring to multi threading, the game is multi threaded as much as possible already.

[unreal cave]

Not really, mainly referring to the fact every additional player takes ~30% cpu power

[long vale]

I just realized that the game saves the IP in a file when using a DNS for Serveraddress... and the dns is dynamic. Oh boy 😄

[rose valley]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com

[quick mist]

I have added a seven-step troubleshooting process that should catch (or identify) at least the 80th percentile of configuration issues to the Wiki.

[errant willow]

Is there a known issue of being unable to craft portable miners on a dedicated server?

[quick mist]

Not that I am aware of; I've never had any such trouble

[errant willow]

Logging out and back in appears to have fixed it, not sure what happened there

Just didnt show up in the workshop

[quick mist]

bizarre

[warm canyon]

Holy I finally got a server running

[quick mist]

spiffy!

[warm canyon]

Do I have my friends put in my IPV4 address for them to get in?

[neat iris]

Yes your public IP

The one you get when you google "what is my ip"

[foggy agate]

make sure your ports on your router are forwarded to your PC 🙂

[neat iris]

I actually just started mine, do I have to port forward all three ports? @foggy agate

[quick mist]

yes, you do

[neat iris]

or can I delete a rule

oh okay

[warm canyon]

When I did it I put my ipv4 address into the router port forwarding thingy

Is that how I do it?

[foggy agate]

prob? check the manual of your router.

[quick mist]

Looks good, Kev

[neat iris]

awesome

[warm canyon]

Oooh looking good so far, I'm connecting and I see a unloaded dune desert

[foggy agate]

you can check with a port scanner on the public IP, make sure you get open | filtered as a result.

[foggy agate]

looks great! 🙂

[warm canyon]

Does my friend have to forward their ports as well to join the server?

[foggy agate]

NO

just give them the IP and they should connect fine. 🙂

[neat iris]

Think minecraft but not

[warm canyon]

Hm okay

[quick mist]

thanks!

[foggy agate]

they can't connect?

[sturdy sierra]

Quick question: does the server auto-restart itself based on some config option? I have a friend with a dedicated server running as a service via systemd and a cron job to force the service to restart every day at 5AM UTC (which includes having SteamCMD check for updates), but it's obviously not 5AM UTC right now and the server just came back from a reboot and had been providing warning notifications.

[quick mist]

The server internally does a self-restart every 24 hours of uptime

but does not self-update

[warm canyon]

Yeah we tried my IP and IPV4 address and it says 'NotAuthenticated' I'm in the server just fine

[quick mist]

I have a steamcmd update build into my systemd confiiguration as described on the Wiki

[sturdy sierra]

@quick mist yeah, same here.

[quick mist]

did you set up a Player password?

[warm canyon]

Oooh

That would make sence

[foggy agate]

just hand them the password (or set the password empty) and everything should be fine. 🙂

[quick mist]

the server does throw some warnings (mostly related to EGS and Steam overlay stuff) that are expected and innocuous

[warm canyon]

Still saying NotAuthenticated

Is there any other settings?

Or do I need to apply them?

[quick mist]

have your friend type the password correctly

[warm canyon]

When he enters it it says 'This Server Appears To Be Offline'

No pasword promt

[sturdy sierra]

@quick mist I was moreso meaning the "Server will restart in X minutes" messages that I was seeing in game. Question though: shouldn't the service satisfactory restart command reset the uptime? We configured the cronjob yesterday afternoon.

[warm canyon]

Should I open and close the server tool

[quick mist]

yes, I believe it should

[sturdy sierra]

interesting... I'll have to check to see if the restart failed

[foggy agate]

go into the server settings, hit player password, make sure its empty and then press ok.

then your friends don't need to enter anything.

[sturdy sierra]

@quick mist I'm not too familiar with systemd, but I would assume that there's a way to output a service's logging output to a file instead of journal?

[foggy agate]

if that works, set a password and tell your friends this password, they need to hit on authenticate and it should be fine if they type the password.

[foggy agate]

yes there is. 🙂 can't hit you with a link here, but would send you per DM. 🙂

[quick mist]

even when running as a systemd service, it still writes to a logfile

from the server install directory, look in FactoryGame/Saved/Logs/

[rich ember]

how can a friend join my server?

[foggy agate]

just give them the IP and they need to enter it on the server manager within the experimental version of the game. 🙂

[sturdy sierra]

ahhh okay. I still would prefer to keep the logs for it out of journal to keep from cluttering up journalctl -xe. @foggy agate I would appreciate that very much. 🙂

[rich ember]

@foggy agate which ip? the ipv4 adress?

[foggy agate]

can't send a DM 😄 wait a sec, post it here

[quick mist]

@sturdy sierra I'd have to RTFM systemd but I'm pretty sure there's something you can put into the unit file to clean up the Journal

[foggy agate]

prefered yes.

[foggy agate]

StandardError=file:/home/user/log2.log```

you just need to put those lines in the .service file and it should work fine. 🙂

[warm canyon]

It's still saying this for him

I have full access to the server though

[foggy agate]

then something with your portforwarding isn't right. 🙂

[warm canyon]

He has to put in port 15777 right?

[foggy agate]

if you used standard ports and didn't change it, then yes. 🙂

[sturdy sierra]

Much Appreciated! I will try to get that added tomorrow. Unfortunately, I don't have access to make the changes and the two people who can are busy today but it helps to know that this can be sorted out easier.

[warm canyon]

When I did it I had both the start ports and the end ports the same, would that have been alright?

[sturdy sierra]

I didn't have to put in the port on mine, but it was the default port so the client does assume 15777 if no port is given.

[rich ember]

@foggy agate for my friend it says the server is offline but the server is online

[foggy agate]

then check your portforwarding or your firewall.

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

[warm canyon]

I'm having that issue as well

[quick mist]

@sturdy sierra quick warning

the provided config will destroy old logs on restart

use this instead

the key being the append directive rather than the file directive

[foggy agate]

no it won't, it will just use the new file instead of the "old" files, but the old files, will still be there.

[quick mist]

you might also want to set up logrotated to keep them from getting too big over time

[foggy agate]

append should only be used, if write to an allready existing file.

[sturdy sierra]

@rich ember and @warm canyon if you're sure that you've given them your public IPv4 address, port forwarding would be the thing to check

[warm canyon]

So does the server only run when I have the prompt open?

[quick mist]

HRA4242 by my reading, if you use file:/path/to/log the logfile at /path/to/log will be nuked and started from nil at service startup

[warm canyon]

Would that apply even if I'm able to connect?

Also, it is UDP only right?

[quick mist]

yes

[foggy agate]

yes thats right, but I don't think he had a log file in the first place 😄 but you should something like logrotate anyways to avoid that.

[sturdy sierra]

yes, because you are not using your public IPv4 address to connect to your local server. And yes, it's UDP only

wrong message to reply to, derp

and yes, you have to keep the prompt open

[warm canyon]

Ooh okay

Okay I'll take a look at it again after dinner

[sturdy sierra]

only way you don't is if you use the Running as a Service options

@warm canyon if the ip you provided them was a 192.168.x.y IP (typically x will be 0 or 1 unless you did custom network design on your router), that's your private IP which would explain the issue entirely

[rich ember]

@sturdy sierra i just checked and it seemed to be the ports are not open

[sturdy sierra]

and you have them open in your router?

[foggy agate]

just read this please: https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers#Configuration_Issues

[warm canyon]

Oh, which one do I use?

[foggy agate]

should help you the fastest. 🙂

[foggy agate]

your public IP. You can find this with myip . is

[warm canyon]

Can I see it on network properties?

[sturdy sierra]

your public IPv4 address (there are sites like IPinfo that can tell you your public IP address.

[foggy agate]

no, only with a website like that 😄

or in your router (if it shows you that information)

[warm canyon]

Oh okay

So I was allowed to use my private address but others aren't?

[sturdy sierra]

Correct

[warm canyon]

Well thats my issue then

[quick mist]

your private address is private; it only works for you

your public address is for not-you persons

[sturdy sierra]

Private Address work only for you and those behind your router. Everything else requires the public address

[foggy agate]

we maybe should add a section on DSLite/Dualstack, because you can't host a server with that kind of network type.

[lethal yacht]

Is there a way to retrieve a forgotten dedicated server admin password?

[quick mist]

Go for it- the Wiki is open to all for edits (:

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers#How_do_I_reset_the_Administrator_password.3F @lethal yacht

[lethal yacht]

sheesh, thanks I'll look it over

[quick mist]

o/

[sturdy sierra]

Thought they fixed the requirement for the -multihome=privIP flag?

[quick mist]

Yes, they did; the crash bug is resolved

[foggy agate]

that has nothing to do with that 😄

[quick mist]

you still can use -multihome if you want to but it's no longer needed to keep the server from dying on startup

[sturdy sierra]

Thought the whole reason for needing the multihome flag was because IPv6 was messing crap up?

[foggy agate]

yes that was the problem, but that has nothing to do with Dualstack.

[sturdy sierra]

ahhh, you're referring to non-native DS rather than Native DS (both IPv4 and v6 have their own traffic setups in Native, whereas DS Lite is Carrier-level stuff.) My bad, disregard

[trail linden]

where are the game config files located when running a steamcommandline server?

i was able to find them when i installed from within steam

[foggy agate]

you have to create your own, there is none.

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

[trail linden]

is there any info on that? i tried copying the direct windowsserver folder that had all of the ini files into the same spot, but it didnt seemto work

i mean like the .ini files for changing max player cap

[quick mist]

the locations of the config and save files are separate but both enumerated on the Wiki

[trail linden]

saved/config (on steamcmd pc) only has CrashReportClient for me 🤔

but saved/config on my local computer has /windowsserver in th ere

C:\gameservers\satisfactoryserver\FactoryGame\Saved\Config

is there where it should be?

[quick mist]

if C:\gameservers\satisfactoryserver\ is where you told SteamCMD to install the server, yes

[trail linden]

it is, but that's what i'm saying- there's only CrashReportClient

i'm running the sever, and have 4 people logged into it remotely...so it works

but the config files arent in there

[foggy agate]

do you run it as a service?

[trail linden]

nope

[rose valley]

I thought we're handling dual stack well now but apparently we don't. Can someone elaborate on what doesn't work well?

[foggy agate]

in germany, we have some providers not assigning public IP Adresses (neither on IPv4 nor IPv6), tested yesterday with a Vodafone, and so you can't get the server to run properly.

at least in that case, we asked vodafone to assign one on to the router...

[quick mist]

if, uh, you don't have any public address (wat.), clearly you cannot run a public service

[foggy agate]

yeah looked the same, bound the service on IPv6, didn't work, until I figured out they used the private IPv6 space for that connection and handled it via CG Nat....

[quick mist]

ew.

[foggy agate]

but in general, you would need to tell people, that they have to use the IPv6 Adress and bind on that (but the issue is, most routers in a CG Nat Network dosn't allow to open ports in the first place, if they even have an interface to interact with in the first place.......)

[jolly bough]

yeah HRA i had the discussion with vodafone until i got a own public ipv4, cause of home server and services, but most of the customers are getting IPv6 tunnels and there are sharing a IPv4 cause of the limit of available adresses. i was fighting with them over an half year an needed to use a proxy tunnel to be avaible on my home servers.

[foggy agate]

but that IPv6 Tunnel, don't seem to be a direct connection from the public IP to the router, so if they send to packets all over the Carrier WAN, you won't be able to host anything 😄

[quick mist]

...the whole freaking point if IPv6 is there are more adresses than atoms in the universe or something.. why in the heck are ISPs being stingy with IPv6 addys?

[foggy agate]

because, they havn't implemented IPv6 properly.... 😄

[quick mist]

🤦‍♂️

[rose valley]

But it feels harder to not implement it properly than to do so.

[waxen prawn]

hey guys,
a friend is trying to join my Server but it always appears offline for him.
The weird thing is that a other friend is already playing on the server without any issues.
Any ideas what the problem could be?

[quick mist]

sounds like your friend may have an issue.. if the other friend is in and playing you have confirmed an end-to-end happy path

have sad-friend double-check the IP address, that ey has the correct password if any I guess?

[maiden flume]

Hi Guys! I am sorry to bother you guys, I just wanted to know, how to increase the player slot limit on the server to more than 4? we did change it in the game.ini apparently but its still not working? xD

[quick mist]

did you, in order:

• shut down the server
• edit the .ini file
• restart the server?

bear in mind that forcing a higher player count is not officially supported.

[maiden flume]

I think that is what we did though xD we just want to be 5 though xD

[waxen prawn]

there is no password set and the ip is correct. I've tried entered it using TeamViewer

[quick mist]

I've seen some people report that the altered max player setting did not work unless that setting's section was at the top of the configuration file. maybe try that?

[foggy agate]

Bogdan, you wouldn't believe what I know about german ISPs 😄 they send you a router and you can't do anything on them, mostly it dosn't even have an reachable interface to interact with, so I can't explain exactly why they do it that way, but it seems. because the endpoints on their ends arn't ready for handeling incomming connections, also if you think about it, why would you want to implement that for less then 1% of your customers 😄

[trail linden]

TotalNetBandwidth=240000
MaxDynamicBandwidth=60000
MinDynamicBandwidth=50000
[/Script/Engine.GameSession]
MaxPlayers=12```

in `Game.ini`  in `A:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\SatisfactoryDedicatedServer\FactoryGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer`, & still getting max connection errors, is something not setup right here?

[maiden flume]

Thank you so much! xD

[foggy agate]

look at message above, you might need to put it on top of the file 😄

[rose valley]

I'm mostly interested in what we can do to help people with these kind of connections. Some form of P2P may be needed at some point.

[foggy agate]

Thanks for trying, but not even google could do anything about that, besides P2P (if thats allowed withing the WAN) 😄

[trail linden]

oh whoops lol, so like this?

MaxPlayers=12
[/Script/Engine.GameNetworkManager]
TotalNetBandwidth=240000
MaxDynamicBandwidth=60000
MinDynamicBandwidth=50000```

[quick mist]

yeah, give that a whirl, and good luck (:

[foggy agate]

I think, the CEO of google germany talked about that at some point. 😄

with stadia, they had so many issues with that kind of stuff, you wouldn't believe it 😄

[calm saffron]

It got a lot easier to deal with my Vodafone router/modem after I switched it into bridge mode 🤔

[maiden flume]

Damn still didn't work, xD

[rose valley]

I recommend removing the bandwidth related entries from the ini and running FG.NetworkQuality 3 from the server console.

[quick mist]

could we have further details on the FG.NetworkQuality command and its settings (and their meanings) so that it can be documented on the Wiki?

[trail linden]

ohh i think moving to top worked for me maybe

[calm saffron]

I tried to set up IPv6 on my network, but my German is so bad I couldn't actually google for anything useful 😂

[foggy agate]

should mean the same as within the UI (I think)

[quick mist]

I try not to make assumptions, as I do not like making an ass out of u and mptions.

[rose valley]

It's the same CVAR that is also used for the in game UI. It will also be exposed as a server setting in the server UI.

[warm canyon]

I don't understand step 4 of transferring your save files to the server?

I've got the save file I need in the server folder

[foggy agate]

the session name is the thing thats before _autosave

[rose valley]

ConfiguredInternetSpeed, ConfiguredLanSpeed, MaxClientRate, MaxInternetClientRate, TotalNetBandwidth, MaxDynamicBandwidth and MinDynamicBandwidth right now but it's always subject to change.

[warm canyon]

Ooh I see

[dim grail]

I posted earlier about the game crashing when I was in a train, and when I rejoin I spawn as a new character, with no inventory and reset hotbar. Someone said the devs are working on it, but I can't find the bug report on questions.satisfactorygame.com. Anyone know which it is?

[quick mist]

I have for instance a savefile with the name of 'Experimental Satisfaction_autosave_0.sav'. The Session Name for that save is Experimental Satisfaction.

[warm canyon]

Yep it worked, cheers

So are steam dedicated servers servers provided by steam?

[foggy agate]

no, they just host the files.

[quick mist]

the software is delivered by Steam but it is provided by Coffee Stain Studios

[warm canyon]

So Coffee Stain Studios is providing the servers?

[quick mist]

no, they provide the software

[foggy agate]

yes, of course.

[quick mist]

the users provide the servers on whatever hosting devices they care to deploy onto

[foggy agate]

(the files for the server, not the server itself)

[rose valley]

I can confirm that we do know about the problem.

[warm canyon]

So my computer is acting as a server lol

[quick mist]

yes.

[dim grail]

Awesome

[warm canyon]

Coffee stain studios provided the instructions to act as a server

[foggy agate]

a server is nothing else then a computer in the first place, in fact some server are even using the same hardware.

[warm canyon]

Oh nice, and I assume all of the bugs will be getting fixed over the experimental period

[quick mist]

probably not all of them

but many of them surely

[burnt blaze]

Probably not all of them haha

[warm canyon]

Well yeah not all of them they will get fixed in the long run but the major ones will be fixed in experimenta

[foggy agate]

basicly a server is a computer who serves a service (who would have gussed that). and a client is the one who uses the service.

[calm saffron]

All? Not a chance, because fixing bugs usually introduces more bugs (ideally, it solves more than it adds!)

[warm canyon]

So good at serving

[warm canyon]

Lovely lol

[foggy agate]

of course, check https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/ if you find any bugs and report them. 🙂

[quick mist]

the whole point of Experimental is to knock off the most incisive rough edges so that the mainline release is smoother, and more polish can be added there

[warm canyon]

Fixing one bug essentially splits it into little bugs

That must be fun for devs

[calm saffron]

99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs in the code. Take one down, patch it around 117 little bugs in the code.

[warm canyon]

Oof alright, thanks guys I understand a little more about servers and the pains of devs

[foggy agate]

I would imagine most devs don't like to fix bugs, because they try to not produce them in the first place, some larger studios even have special devs, who just fixes bugs all day 😄

[gentle onyx]

Has anyone run it to this when connecting to their server

[neat iris]

Has it worked previously?

[warm canyon]

I've had that with player sessions

[neat iris]

That is due to a port not being open or not forwarded

[quick mist]

@gentle onyx https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers#Configuration_Issues

[gentle onyx]

Yeah for about 4 days with no problem

[foggy agate]

might wanna restart the server, I had this issue too, just restarted the server and it runs fine again. 🙂

[gentle onyx]

Done that a few time and still no luck

[foggy agate]

did you restart the server or the service 😄

[quick mist]

how is the server hosted, Rabbit?

[gentle onyx]

On a windows dedi box ive checked the ports and made sure the other servers we have are not running on the same port

[quick mist]

okay. Go to that link I just gave you and work through the questions one by one in order

double-check that the host's LAN IP address hasn't changed

(home routers tend to do that from time to time)

[gentle onyx]

It should not do as we have a box with hetzner

[quick mist]

'should not' means definitely double-check (:

[foggy agate]

he prob has an dedicated server with them.

so basicly he runs the server in a datacenter

[quick mist]

'probably' also means definitely double-check

[foggy agate]

haha, I know that 😄 just wanted to make sure @gentle onyx confirms that 😄

[gentle onyx]

Yeah its all good has not changed

[quick mist]

o/

[foggy agate]

so you are able to reach the server over that IP?

[quick mist]

I have to go for a bit bit you're in good hands with the rest of the folks here; I'm sure you'll be back in business in no time, Rabbit (:

[foggy agate]

and have a dedicated server with that?

[gentle onyx]

Yeah I can get into the server manager but can not connect into the game

[foggy agate]

not in satisfactory, I mean you reach the server, how you would, if you would want to do anything 😄

[gentle onyx]

Yeah I can still get onto the box as I was working on some of the other servers

[foggy agate]

did you check the satisfactory service is running? I mean you prob did 😄

also havn't enabled the firewall on that robot thing or how they call it?

might check your local firewall, if you worked on services, and they changed anything.

[gentle onyx]

Yeah that up and thats all fine as we sorted because it was giving us issues with arma 3 so no problem there

[warm canyon]

I've given my friend so many IP's lol and none of them are working

I've tried myip. is

few other websites

I'm thinking I might have not forwarded one of the ports correctly

[alpine dawn]

In your router make sure the internet ip it shows is the same you are getting from various ip check websites. It's possible you are double Nat in which case it will not be possible to host from your house. Have you successfully hosted anything before?

[foggy agate]

its called CG Nat 😄 (or DS-Lite/DualStack)

not double 😄

[warm canyon]

Well I'm able to connect to it personally

[foggy agate]

because you are within the same network 😄

[alpine dawn]

Is it on your lan?

[warm canyon]

Can I change my CG NAT?

[foggy agate]

no, only your ISP can.

[warm canyon]

What is an ISP?

[foggy agate]

but you could use the IPv6 Adress (that the one with the letters thats really long)

[sturdy sierra]

Internet Service Provider

[warm canyon]

Oh

[alpine dawn]

Not if someone just stuck 2 routers in their home...I have seen it done

[warm canyon]

I use sky, they're not currently using CG NAT

[foggy agate]

sky is no ISP 😄

[warm canyon]

Whaaa

[alpine dawn]

It's uk isp

[warm canyon]

Well it's a ISP

Because I'm using it lol

[foggy agate]

right sorry 😄

[warm canyon]

Should I try any other IP's I get from 'ipconfig' in cmd

[alpine dawn]

No

The ip your friend needs is your public facing ip attached to your router

[bold atlas]

Seems like the connection timeout is too low. I have a server that seems to be working correctly, but friends in Australia can't join. tcpdump shows everything going back and forth correctly; it just times out anyway.

[warm canyon]

Hmm I used myip .is

[foggy agate]

does it show you the same IP as your router does?

[sturdy sierra]

If you check your router and see an IP that is between where the first number is 100 and the second is in the range is 64-127 (so 100.65 counts), you're behind CGNat and there's nothing you can do.

[alpine dawn]

I asked before, is the ip you get from that service the same one showing in your router for it's public ip?

[foggy agate]

besides, asking your ISP 😄

[warm canyon]

Do I look at my router configuration page>

[alpine dawn]

Yes

[warm canyon]

Okie be back in a few minutes

[sturdy sierra]

Good luck getting any ISP using CGN to turn it off for you without paying a pretty penny for a static IP (if they can offer it at all)

[alpine dawn]

Yeah that's not usually an option

LoL

[foggy agate]

from what I learned with german providers, you might have to ask one or more times, so they assign you a dynamic IP, without extra cost...

[alpine dawn]

Though I have seen cg Nat isp offer public ipv6

So that might be his only option

[sturdy sierra]

Germany has it lucky then. Either in the States or the UK, pretty much expect to be told no. Thank God I don't have to deal with CGN

[foggy agate]

but then you have the right to cancel your contract, because they arn't delivering what is promissed to you...

[alpine dawn]

My only gripe with my isp is they don't have native dual stack

[sturdy sierra]

Most residential broadband providers here in the states actually state in their AUPs that hosting servers is in violation unfortunately. And yes, they get away with that.

[alpine dawn]

Yup

Some actively filter ports

So you can't host web servers or mail servers

[sturdy sierra]

I pay for a business line just so I don't have to worry about issues with my cable provider wanting to shut me down because I have game servers running (I've heard that my provider's residential side has done that to people). Well that and no data cap + better upload speeds.

[rose valley]

Try adding this in Engine.ini:

[/Script/OnlineSubsystemUtils.OnlineBeacon]
BeaconConnectionInitialTimeout=30.0

EDIT: Do this on both clients and server.

Default value is 5. We will bump the default in an upcoming patch.

[warm canyon]

So I'm looking for a WAN IP right?

[foggy agate]

yes

[warm canyon]

Is it an IPv4?

[foggy agate]

it could also be a one with a lot of letters (IPv6)

but yes it should be IPv4

[warm canyon]

There is a lot of IP's so I have no idea which one it is

[foggy agate]

just look for the one you got from myip .is 😄

[warm canyon]

For some reason it isn't working

[foggy agate]

myip. is isn't working for you? 😄

[warm canyon]

The one that says: Your IP Is: *** isn't working for my friend

[foggy agate]

why your friend, just look for YOUR IP Address and check if you can see that within the router 😄

or call sky and ask them about CG Nat 😄

[warm canyon]

When they're adding the server the port number is just the default 15777 right?

[foggy agate]

yes, if you didn't change it, then its right.

[warm canyon]

Okie

I looked my broadband up on google and it uses dynamic IP addressing

Not CG NET

[jolly bough]

did you forwarded all ports ? MonkeyChad69

[warm canyon]

Well I think so

If I haven't forwarded a certain port correctly would it prevent others from joining?

[jolly bough]

UDP 15000, 15777 and 7777

[warm canyon]

I might double check

But I did do those

I could have entered it wrong by accident

I set the start port and the end port for each at the same so I hope that was okay

[jolly bough]

you could check it even over canyouseeme org

[foggy agate]

yes. 🙂

did you check your windows firewall too?

[warm canyon]

Would the IP I'm supposed to be using be just numbers or would it include letters as well?

[foggy agate]

you can use both.

if you only get one with letters, you prob should use this. 🙂

[warm canyon]

I did my firewall port forwarding first thing

[warm canyon]

It just says Error: I could not see your service on --.-.---.--- on port (7777)

The dashes is my ip, i censored it out

[hybrid bane]

make sure you forwarded udp and not tcp

[warm canyon]

I did forward UDP

Im gonna check I forwarded the right ports

[hybrid bane]

what os you running it on, is there a software firewall running, or if on centos selinux?

[jolly bough]

the server needs to be running monkey when you check it

[warm canyon]

It is running

[alpine dawn]

is the server on windows or linux?

[foggy agate]

New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow Satisfactory default inbound ports" -Direction Inbound -Action Allow -EdgeTraversalPolicy Allow -Protocol UDP -LocalPort 15000,15777,7777

did you run this within an administrative powershell?

[warm canyon]

What does that mean?

[warm canyon]

Windows

[alpine dawn]

oh ok

yeah you need to make sure the windows firewall isnt blocking then

[foggy agate]

that configures the firewall on your PC

[warm canyon]

I use a third party anti-virus

So I just did all the ports on there

[foggy agate]

that might be the issue 😄

[alpine dawn]

hmm yeah

[foggy agate]

run the powershell command anyways and then retry 😄

[warm canyon]

Should I disable my firewall and see if it works for him?

[foggy agate]

just run the powershell from above.

[warm canyon]

But would it work with my anti-virus?

I'm downloading powershell

[foggy agate]

it shouldn't, but it would open the ports in the windows firewall, who knows if that 3rd party is doing anything

[foggy agate]

NO

its integrated into the system

[warm canyon]

Oh where?

[foggy agate]

just press the windows button and type powershell

then start it as administrator

[warm canyon]

Run as administrator

Yup okay

[foggy agate]

then copy and paste the powershell from above and retry.

[warm canyon]

Okay I did it let me check

It's saying not authenticated for him

But then it's not letting him authenticate

[foggy agate]

but the server is online?

[warm canyon]

Yeah

Should I restart it?

[foggy agate]

for him the server is online?

[warm canyon]

Well it just says this server is currently offline

For every kind of IP i give him

Is it okay if the server is running but paused when he tries to do it?

[worn heath]

thats normal on servers?

[flat forum]

Yep

All hail the sky chainsaw

(actually it is still normal on all multiplayer)

[bold atlas]

The sky-chainsaw sees all.

[sturdy sierra]

I have a Sky Pioneer drinking coffee in midair XD

[neat iris]

not to make it any more obvious that I am in experimental but, is there any way to turn that huge red banner off?

[foggy agate]

No and thats good as it is. 🙂

also this dosn't belong here #satisfactory-experimental

@craggy shell did you check your cpu usage?

I found this to happens, when the server saves or the cpu usage is super high

[craggy shell]

the

doubt its that.

as saving only takes a second.

ill keep an eye on the console next time though.

[foggy agate]

could you check cpu usage too?

might wanna post the link to your Question too.

my instance used like 140% or more during these "not connecting powerlines"

[agile bay]

what amount of ressources does the DS like to have

cores/ram

[glacial patio]

@Mish Reply to a post in 'Experimental' from yesterday about Use/Interact ceasing to function: Just wanted to mention that I have had 2 or 3 cases where the 'Interact' button stops working for me on my dedicated server. Haven't nailed down how to 'make' it happen. But the last time was shortly after I interacted with a storage container. Save/leave session and rejoin fixes it. Played a good 6 hours straight last night without the issue happening. So it's rare, but debilitating when it happens.

[fringe lance]

is it possible to put a existing save onto a sever or does it require a new start/save?

[acoustic python]

yes

you can take a save from a session and run it on a server

it's a bit fiddly atm though, you have to create a new game with the same session name

and then swap in the save file

[fringe lance]

ok

[fringe lance]

does it require to stop the server or just throw the file on it

[acoustic python]

yeah you have to tell it which save to load

[foggy agate]

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

[foggy agate]

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

[rotund rain]

Anyone feel that the last update was more crisp and less buggy? Been reading through post and seems to be the case... any optimizations for Linux?

[bold atlas]

as in update 4?

[rotund rain]

Err sorry, the minor update from a couple days ago

[bold atlas]

Also, is there a way to automate saves? I have a cron job to restart my server every 12 hours, wanted to see if I could cron force save before this happens c:

[acoustic python]

automate saves... what do you mean?

[bold atlas]

is there a command to force the server to save that I can execute through terminal?

or is there a way to configure the frequency of autosaves

[foggy agate]

no 😦

[fringe lance]

how do u let other player join a server thats setup an ready

[foggy agate]

it will come in the future

[foggy agate]

they need to install experimental

and then use the servermanager with the IP and Port you've set up

[bold atlas]

what about changing autosaves

[foggy agate]

also a sad no.

[bold atlas]

what is the default interval?

fuq

[foggy agate]

15 mins

sorry 😄

or is it 😄

wait have to double check 😄

[bold atlas]

I think its an hour

I did more than 15 mins of work

and a restart wiped it all haha

[sacred peak]

I feel it

[foggy agate]

yes one hour

[gentle thorn]

Any information on when the official Docker image will be published? Days? Weeks? Months?

[foggy agate]

months.

TBD

[foggy agate]

the system, as is right now, works, decent enought, for most people. So I don't think it will be a huge priority to create a docker container. But might wanna ask on https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/

[lilac juniper]

So I am running a dedicated server with plenty of resources. I harvest beryl nut's but they do not show up in my inventory. Any ideas? I have restarted the server and the host server.

[fringe lance]

how do you restart a server

[lilac juniper]

I'm sure you have seen this page. https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers

[fringe lance]

i have but i didnt see any restart commands

[turbid ridge]

You can use this works fine, https://github.com/vinanrra/Docker-Satisfactory

[woven prism]

Exit then relaunch

[raw pulsar]

Does anyone know if it is possible to play multiplayer on one Steam-owned game? Did the dedicated server make this possible? Me and my brother want to play together, but we share our steam account.

[abstract plaza]

hi, i use a dedicated server and started a game. it is in friends only mode. the id is the same as the id my friend i want to play gave me for his local game to join. i can't invite him via "invites" -> "invite players" as he and all other players are shown grey. is there trick?

[fringe lance]

i setup a server through steam an when i close my start server window the server goes down, did i do something wrong? is it using my pc as a server ? shouldn't the server stay up an running after closing the start dedicated server window?

[foggy agate]

if you share the account, only one player at a time can launch the game, so its not possible.

[foggy agate]

you need your friend to install the experimental version of the game, then put the IP in the server manager with the assigned port and you should be good to go.

[foggy agate]

if you run the server locally, you have to run it on your pc......

if your PC shuts down, then the server isn't running anymore.

its just a programm like every other, if you want to run the server 24/7 you need to host on a pc that runs 24/7, by a hoster or datacenter.

haha no, neither steam nor CSS provide any server.

[viscid lodge]

So I have a dedicated server and I had setup a Admin password when I first launched it.

Now, I am unable to access any admin features (Kick, Sessions Settings, Etc.)

It says I need to authenticate and when I enter the password nothing happens.

I am newer to the game and not sure where exactly to get support.

Thanks

[foggy agate]

so you see this right?

[viscid lodge]

Yep and when I enter the password, nothing happens

[foggy agate]

then this?

[viscid lodge]

yep

[foggy agate]

now press confirm

[viscid lodge]

yep

did that

still nothing

[foggy agate]

thats the trick 😄

[viscid lodge]

Still doesnt work

[foggy agate]

then your password isn't correct.

[viscid lodge]

It is hahah. but is there a way to reset/fix it?

[foggy agate]

just checked what happens when you type a wrong password in

[viscid lodge]

nothing

[foggy agate]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Dedicated_servers#How_do_I_reset_the_Administrator_password.3F

[foggy agate]

right 😄

[viscid lodge]

If I reset the password (delete ServerSettings.port) will it delete the save?

We dont wanna loose the progress

[foggy agate]

no it will just delete the config for the server manager, you have to reclaim the server and enter the session name (that everything before _autosave)

[fringe lance]

so basically setting up a server through steam is only there if u have your own server/pc your hosting the game from right?

[acoustic python]

bug whereby nobelisk gets stuck on your feet

is that server or version?

[foggy agate]

in my case that would be HRA4242

[viscid lodge]

Okay I will do that

[foggy agate]

thats known. Take a look at https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/

[viscid lodge]

thanks for the help 🙂

[foggy agate]

yes. Thats just the server files, not more. No server assigned to it, just like the game itself, a programm.

[fringe lance]

ok thanks

[acoustic python]

thanks - not searched there for it yet

[foggy agate]

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/617f0876831c852052357f23

its marked as "in progress"

[acoustic python]

thanks 🙂

jummp to throw

simple workaround, yay 😄

have to say, so far the dedi server seems very stable

haven't found any bug/issue that i would consider major

[foggy agate]

yeah they are super stable for "super early version"

[acoustic python]

right?

wasn't sure what to expect but i'm impressed

they must have done a fair chunk of internal testing

[grizzled bear]

I've had quite a few game breaking issues, but they were easily fixed by reloading an earlier save

Lag is also quite bad now that we're getting bigger but yeah overall it's been great

[acoustic python]

yeah new world for me and it's largely just been me playing

30hrs in

prob some more optimisation work to be done

[craggy shell]

64 hours runtime.. things finallly falling apart and gonna need to restart.

[acoustic python]

70% max on one core on my old save

[craggy shell]

converting belts from mk3 to 4 and some of them are bugging out and not coming back

[ripe apex]

Does anyone know which config file and what the variable is for player count limit?

[foggy agate]

[/Script/Engine.GameSession]
MaxPlayers=12
[/Script/Engine.GameNetworkManager]
TotalNetBandwidth=240000
MaxDynamicBandwidth=60000
MinDynamicBandwidth=50000

in Game.ini in A:\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\SatisfactoryDedicatedServer\FactoryGame\Saved\Config\WindowsServer

this if for windows... the Game.ini file should be in your install directory....

@ripe apex

[grizzled bear]

Yeah it's likely optimization and also trains (but that's a normal multiplaye rissue too).

But we're making Radio Control Units in Tier 8 right now and it's nearing unplayable for me 😦

Huge lag spikes, especially on autosaves, can't ride in trains because they go 20-30 KPH for some reason, but it's hard to ride on top of them since lag/rubber banding throws me around. Plus belts just randomly stop working.

Worst of it though is sometimes we crash in a train/truck and wehen we get back we're dead and can't delete the vehicle bc it thinks we're still in it

[acoustic python]

oof :/

glad i started a new game

😛

[grizzled bear]

Oh this is a new game lol

[acoustic python]

i'm sure it will all be sorted though

lol ok 😄

[grizzled bear]

We started from scratch 🙂

[acoustic python]

how many of you? and how many houjrs?

[grizzled bear]

But yeah it's Experimental I 100% expected stuff like this.

3 of us. Hard to tell hours because he has it set to continue running when we're not on lol

So it's at like 211 hours, but we def haven't played that many 😂

[foggy agate]

one thing that seems to help with the lag s, was spreading factorys all over the place, but as the item count increases, the main game loop runs so hot, can't handeled by a single core anymore.

Devs talked about it in their last stream, so might wanna check that out.

[grizzled bear]

We're doing that actually, but yeah it's definitely a great tip for people who aren't doing it. We probably are just going a little too big haha

This is our map, to give you an idea for how spread out we are

[acoustic python]

that explains it 🤣

we opted to pause it when no players are connected

[grizzled bear]

Oh do you think the runtime effects it?

[acoustic python]

oh wow, cool map!!

[grizzled bear]

That's interesting

[acoustic python]

that's a loooooot of construction

almost certainly Kroozin

memory leaks possibly, little quirks and things

it will all add up

[grizzled bear]

haha yeah, trains are my favorite thing, so I absolutely love the method of building a bunch of remote factories all connected via a train network

That's a great point, we might wanna pause it then

[stiff hatch]

Thanks for raising attention to this bug & updating the QA post (use/interact stops working, https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/617b316f831c852052355430). This really is a nasty one, so much so that I've had to stop playing completely 😢 Be interesting to see what your log files say :)

[foggy agate]

what hardware do you use? Hosting in a datacenter or locally (please no brand name, no advertising rule..)

[grizzled bear]

My friend set it up, but he's hosting in a datacenter

[foggy agate]

the devs will ready anything, anyways and sooner or later fix those bugs, next update will start rolling in next week 🙂

[foggy agate]

you should take a look at CPU usage, most data center cpus are a bit too slow for satisfactory... single core is prefered over cores....

allready seeing issues with 2.2 GHz, but not as far as you guys are 😄

get sometimes 140+% CPU usage 😄

[grizzled bear]

Good shout, I'll have him take a look, thanks!

[stiff hatch]

I'm sure they will, and I'm reminding myself that a dev team of many people will often mean that bugs that are completely unrelated and seem trivial will get addressed first, without impacting work on those more seriously affecting people.

Just extremely frustrating to lose a weekend's play. No way I can make this weeek's community highlights now :P

[grizzled bear]

I'm a noob with this stuf fhaha

[foggy agate]

as allways, its experimental, so you should expect that kind of stuff here and there...

[acoustic python]

i played al ot of modded minecraft @grizzled bear and itwas a matter of routine to set an automated daily, if not more frequent, restart

cos it'd be unplayable otherwise

[feral dawn]

Has the server always had an automatic restart feature? Just had a notification in game saying it's going to restart itself.

[acoustic python]

of course that's a bunch of crazy mods

SF will be cleaner than that, but nonetheless, shit can happen - and easy to try toggling the option off and see how it goes

[foggy agate]

yes it restarts every 24 hours of runtime right now..

should be back up within a few minutes tho..

[feral dawn]

ah righto, thanks 🙂

[acoustic python]

restart it after you turn the option off though

[stiff hatch]

Of course, of course :P I've been playing on experimental for ever and not had something this bad before :P I guess the frustrating thing is that it's a random but frequent soft-lock that seems to only be affecting a small number of players. Literally the worst to experience, and from my professional experience, the worst to debug too ><

[foggy agate]

haha yes, I know, was more for people who are just reading and thinking about setting up a server themselves 😄

[grizzled bear]

Good to know for sure, thanks again!

Even with all the bugs, I'm having an absolute blast with this update so no complaints here lol

[quiet turret]

hey does the -log arg actually save a log file somewhere or does it just dump out the info to the console

[spiral root]

There are log files indeed.

Under FactoryGame/log/

[quiet turret]

😕 thats weird because i don't actually have a log directory

i assume you mean under appdata/local

[spiral root]

Under Saved.

Or atleast on Linux that is where it puts them..

FactoryGame/Saved/Logs/FactoryGame-backup*.log

[quiet turret]

yeah weird i dont have a logs dir under saved

[spiral root]

And no not under appdata but actually where your FactoryGame.exe is.

[quiet turret]

thought im using the windows server

yeah i dont have a saved dir in there either

just Binaries and Content

[spiral root]

Will need someone who is running on windows to chime in sorry.

Hope you get your answer though.

[quiet turret]

Np. Thanks anyway

[spiral root]

On that note it is almost 2am and I have been playing since 11am - time for bed.

Only 112hrs played since Dedicated Servers were released lol.

[quiet turret]

my lord lol

[feral dawn]

Out of interest, does your server (if u have one) restart correctly?

mine just got to the "it's restarting in 30 seconds!"

logged an error to the console, and we're still goin 😄

[quiet turret]

Ah

[quiet turret]

For you Windows users who installed under program files by default like a moron like me, make sure you start the server as an administrator so it can actually write the log file to that directory

[foggy agate]

yes mine does start correctly

[feral dawn]

hm very odd

ah well, no matter.

ty for responding 🙂

[quiet turret]

Or actually probably dont and reinstall it somewhere else because running a gameserver as admin is probably a bad idea but ymmv

[foggy agate]

might wanna restart the service, maybe something broke during the restart 😄

[hoary trench]

My server kicked me, when i rejoined i was at spawn. I went back to the train i was driving, and it says it's full.

how might i recover my items and/or get out of the train? (please ping if you reply)

[slim spoke]

hahahah u try and get luck to get put back in ur body but probably not .. most likely scim in #welcome ... load ur save and deleting trains and that fun

[bleak hawk]

i am trying to create a save file to edit my character from being unstuck. I am having some issues with it, the console is responding the save names i am typing are not valid

[slim spoke]

use session name

or look on wiki

[bleak hawk]

i looked at wiki but now im realizing the name of the save doesnt go in quotes as it implies on the wiki

thanks

[umbral tree]

were is the map saved if you used steam cmd

[quick mist]

The Wiki describes the save location depending on your OS

[umbral tree]

i tryed but that folder is empty

[slim spoke]

you would have put the sve in the server

if u played it before then server should be able to find if ur searching session

[bleak hawk]

what is the order the server will load saves?

[quick mist]

Most recent first for the current Session Name

[bleak hawk]

to confirm: by date modified?

[quick mist]

I believe so

[bleak hawk]

thank you pal

[quick mist]

o/

[slim spoke]

it loads save u say or the one u played

after teh update u start a new save then just load your save using session name

[umbral tree]

satisfactorydedicatedserver\FactoryGame\Saved i have only config and logs

[slim spoke]

i would go where the save was put b4

guessing u loaded hte save on the server

[umbral tree]

no i created a map

[slim spoke]

just search *.sav

[quick mist]

you.. created a map?

[slim spoke]

find where ur stuff is

[quick mist]

Or had the server create one?

[tranquil idol]

Ok, so like, how do I save with the save command because right now it just yells at me and says "name" is not a valid save name and if I don't put quotes around it it saves to " which clearly isn't right.

And I tried searching chat already and I can't find anybody actually saying the command

[slim spoke]

if it doesnt like " then dont use them

[quick mist]

Quotes are only necessary for the save name if you want a space in it

[tranquil idol]

Ok, so apparently, it's just breaking if you use quotes originally somewhere. And the second I try to show you guys what I'm talking about it suddenly works.

🥲

[quick mist]

Welcome to the world of tech support, where asking for help magically makes the problem disappear

you're welcome

[burnt owl]

Does anybody know if clearance is bugged on dedicated servers? I can't seem to place a coal generator within the hitbox of another coal generator (but outside clipping range).

The building won't place

It does the animation on the resources but won't place

[umbral tree]

ok i found the save but i cant get it to load because i cant manage saves yet

[lofty slate]

As long as the save is in the server saved folder you just need to start a game with the session ID of the save you want.

[umbral tree]

would that just be the file name

[lofty slate]

Usually yes but it could be different. It is capitalization specific too

[slim spoke]

session name like it says on the wiki and it should search or whatever

[indigo cape]

wow how do I edit the wiki for this? because the running as a service for windows save files location is wrong and it took me a while to finally find it C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames

[slim spoke]

urs is wrong i think

[indigo cape]

I just loaded the game there and now my server is running it

[slim spoke]

should be in where game saves are in localappdata

so the devs could use system calls to find it

[indigo cape]

I've been trying for 4 days to get our save file to run and it wouldn't load kept loading a "NEW GAME" instead where i was in the middle of nowhere and only had 10 hours played

put the save in that location and it started right up

[slim spoke]

all u had to do was start and load the session name

[indigo cape]

windows 2012 r2 server, using the recommended NSSM to run it as a service

never worked

tried it 40 tiems

times*

when I moved it to that folder and loaded the session name it loaded right up

[slim spoke]

anyways ur setup and outcome is ur setup

windows is for windows not ms server support

[indigo cape]

lol so dedicated server running on windows 10... I see well that explains a lot

[slim spoke]

thats why it says widows .. not microsoft server 2012

[indigo cape]

well might note that if anyone wants to run it on an actual server machine as a service the location is different

[slim spoke]

thats ur setup though lol

[indigo cape]

it's a server

[slim spoke]

there is others running it on ms servers

[indigo cape]

most normal people run a server ON a server machine

[slim spoke]

didnt have that big issue

its a game and full of kids

and ur pretending its a corp envirnment

[indigo cape]

umm a rented server is a rented server

[slim spoke]

u know ur wrong if im voice of reason

have a good one

[quick mist]

Just to clarify, are you stating that the save location when run as a service is different on Server/Enterprise editions of Windows than from Desktop editions (e. g. Home/Pro)?

[indigo cape]

Yes

[quick mist]

I can't say I'm shocked if so, but if you added that info to the Wiki as you implied earlier, thank you!

[indigo cape]

and I was just wanting to add it because it was hell trying to figure out why it wasn't where everyone kept telling me it was

I was asking how to :/

never edited a wiki