Glad you sorted it.

I think that's the reason:
Environment: DISPLAY=:0 WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0
Video driver: x11
You are running Wayland but X11 gets involved somehow, and game crashes. Maybe Steam is telling it to do it - do you have Steam installed indirectly via some Snap or Flatpak?

I've ...

pioruns wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2026 9:49 am Try running directly, not through Steam. Download the game from https://factorio.com/download

Huh, works just fine this way. Any idea why? I'd like to avoid having to move my saves, blueprints, etc. out of the steam cloud.

EDIT: changed write data directory to .factorio and got all my saves etc.

Factorio crashes on startup and the proccess remains running. It appears on the taskbar but never goes into fullscreen.

Crash log (also attached as file):

0.000 2026-03-20 22:00:08; Factorio 2.0.76 (build 84451, linux64, steam)
0.000 Operating system: Linux
0.000 Initializing Steam API.
0.000 ...