I'm not actually trying to write a mod, but I thought this forum might be able to help. I'm planning to write a Python script for my own use which will take as input a blueprint string, and output another blueprint string, formed by adding some entities to the input blueprint based on some logic ...

The game communication uses UDP while the map download uses TCP. TCP connections can sometimes swamp out UDP packets, depending on network connections and routers used, so what you’re seeing is not too unexpected.

If the server runs on Linux, there’s some fancy network configuration stuff that you ...

I'm running a Factorio headless server and trying to join it as a multiplayer game. I try to join the game by IP address and port (the game is not publicly listed). Whenever I try to join, the Factorio client starts downloading the map, and does so consistently at about 300 to 600 kB/s (as shown in ...