that seems to have done it. make sure to do an initial start of the service, wait for it to start up, then stop it, change the file, and start it back up.

sucks that the initial start forcibly overwrites mod-list.json.

absolutely. and i'm doing far more than that, i'm recreating the server with ansible.

upon initial creation and before first start, they are set to false.
I can start the service and see its still set to false, however once I try to connect it still complains about the mods. then I restart the ...

thanks. I tried doing that and set the following:

{
"mods":
[

{
"name": "base",
"enabled": true
},

{
"name": "elevated-rails",
"enabled": false
},

{
"name": "quality",
"enabled": false
},

{
"name": "space-age",
"enabled": false
}
]
}


the minute I restart the factorio ...

awesome. is there a download link for factorio headless that is not space age? I only see 1 download link for headless on the downloads page

Just purchased factorio and downloaded the 2.0.28 dmg.

I also setup a headless server running factorio-headless_linux_2.0.28.tar.xz on ubuntu 24.04 lts.

when i connect to the server via local lan ip, it comes back with a message:
Sync mods with server. I click confirm, it relaunches the game, but ...