Launch the client with the --no-log-rotation parameter if you want to run the server and client out of the same install. It's in the instructions Zavian linked. By default, the world pauses if there are no players connected to a dedicated server. You'd need to alter the server-settings.json file to ...

BTW, this is solved IF:

1. I launch the client first
2. Then I launch the server
3. Then I connect the client to the server. I haven't tried connecting a 2nd client yet.

I am not sure it helps, but it may have to do with a particular settings on the mod. I think I had the same error happening when I tried to duplicate some save files, and sync the mods from one of the duplicate, it would somehow download the correct version of the mod but at the time i thought it w...

This is a mod issue, By the looks of it with one of my mods. Soooooooooo I think I know why just need to time to figure out how to handle it. While there may be an issue with your mod, even with the mod uninstalled, I still ran into the problem and the notice said the mod "level" was at f...

Updated to 17.x (so whatever is latest on Steam). Server and client are running the same exe/data now. I could connect after updating... once. Now I can't connect again and it's back to PickerPipeTools with the error. IT'S LITERALLY THE SAME FILE. :/

So I changed things around so that the server is launched from my Steam install. Steam client has the arg applied. Now I get:

I'm getting this Notice error when connecting to my own server on the same machine: Notice Cannot join. The following mod script files are not identical between you and the server: mod-PickerPipeTools To repro: 1. Do a clean install of Factorio 17.53 2. Connect to my server 3. Let it update my mods ...

Thanks, daniel34. That did the trick.

starholme, I want to run a dedicated server and play on the same box so that the game world continues to run in case I need to stop playing. That way the rest of the family can continue on. Everything is running very smoothly right now.

I'm trying to --start-server and that seems to be running correctly. When I try to then run the game normally, I immediately get an error: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process". Clicking "Okay" closes the error and Factorio. I've tried d...