Moved from Technical Help to Suggestions. Keeping a link. I also deleted the article, that linked it from suggestions before, cause it is now useless and no one answered till now. To the suggestion itself: Even if myself owns a MacBook we (the community) need to think about that only a small minori...

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In Finder, use Command+Shift+G to open a "Go to" style box. (if you've got a Windows keyboard, it'll be the Windows key instead of the Command key) Inside it, paste the following: ~/Library/Application Support/factorio/ You should see a folder called "mods". Inside it you will be...

I've found a micro-solution which involves mounting the dmg through system calls, followed by copying files over.

This does work, and I'll use it as a backup if you're unable to provide a tarball-like distribution.

Hey there! This question is aimed towards the game's developers. I have recently started work on a project that aims to allow easy installation of mod packs, and it rides on top of your wonderful API sitting at https://mods.factorio.com/api/ . I wish to be able to let users run mod packs on their ch...

There is no specification of the protocol, other than the source code. And we're not giving away the source code. And, as others have mentioned here, what you are trying to do would require you to reimplement the whole game, because you'd have to change the clients as well to be able to work with y...

I don't know about the devs providing their net specifications (but I wouldn't bet on them doing so). What I know is that even if you had the complete specifications you still wouldn't be able to write your own Factorio server. The server isn't just there to manage communications between players, i...

Hey there everyone. I'm interested in making a version of the Factorio server that wouldn't be peer-to-peer (since we all know how annoying it is when there's that one 250ms ping person on..) But to do so, I need a specification of the net protocol.. So I'm reaching out to the devs in this post (who...