The headless version doesn't require a license. You can setup a free account on factorio's website.

If you are running a server you can look at Bisa's script for management and updating. I think the update script from Narc0tiq will patch the install for you easy-peasy.

ya, this is on linux tho ...

How to build a Factorio Dedicated Windows 7 Virtual Machine
Assumes

* you have the Steam version of the game for Windows
* you have a spare Windows 7 license to use for the virtual machine
* you can follow instructions - i'm not supporting this if you can't get it to work.
* you are comfortable ...

The headless windows doesn't exist as it's not needed. You can just run the zip version of the Windows game with the start server flags to run it as a server.

it would be preferable because then you could enable automatic updating via a script... https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t ...

Hi,

Is it possible to publish a Factorio Dedicated Server distribution that does not require a license? (i.e can be pulled from the Anonymous steamcmd user?)

failing that - is it possible to publish a headless Windows client that doesn't require an account with Factorio.com?

I've spent a fair ...

thanks for the reply - my start up script is;

${BINARY} --config ${FCONF} --port ${PORT} --start-server ${SAVE_NAME} --autosave-interval ${AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL} --autosave-slots ${AUTOSAVE_SLOTS} --latency-ms ${LATENCY} ${EXTRA_BINARGS}"

Peer to peer is enabled via extra_binargs from the Factorio ...

So in the space of a little over a week, I've put about 90 hours into Factorio - including about 40-50 in multiplayer - super awesome game.

We played it on LAN (GbE and all current or n-1 gen Core i5 machines) and found that hosting and playing was absolute garbage after 3 players. So I spent ~15 ...