You need to understand that every client in Factorio runs EVERYTHING the server does.


I know, i was just trying to find a more streamline why of getting into my game than stopping the service, downloading the save file, opening it on my desktop, making a few changes, uploading to the server ...

Nidan wrote: Thu Oct 06, 2022 8:33 am There are multiple clients available, but factorio's documentation on how to use the rcon interface seems to be lacking.

You weren't kidding their documentation is lacking, I now know what commands to send to my game, but I still can't figure out how to send it.

You're probably overcomplicating things.

I do see were you are coming from, but you need to know the difference between my laptop, desktop and my goals, my laptop is a newish (I bought it last fall) MSI gaming laptop with octo core (even though I know that means nothing for Factorio) that is ...

Greetings Fellow Ship Crash Survivors,

Currently I am running a game on a laptop running as a server (the laptop is new-ish and beefy so its not having issues) and the only thing it is connect to is my desktop, I am doing this mainly to prevent me from leave my much larger and power hungry system ...