... players have opt-in for "experimental" instead of stable, it is your decision also to play on steam, it's not like factorio is a MMO and you join server and it has an update and your stuff is ruined you can't go back. You can back up your save and your version of the game which i recommend if you ...

... players have opt-in for "experimental" instead of stable, it is your decision also to play on steam, it's not like factorio is a MMO and you join server and it has an update and your stuff is ruined you can't go back. You can back up your save and your version of the game which i recommend if you ...

... for the game, there may even be some frustration of epic proportion excuse the pun, but judging from what players do in public multiplayer server, it doesn't appear to be the case that quality is disabled in games. Not even 10% i would say. I guess most players are able to use it eventually ...

... complete new game state every tick in a deterministic way. If you don't look, it's not being rendered, but it's still being computed. The headless server does this: full game state calculation but no rendering.

If you want to switch to probabilistic average calculation, you have to ask: how long ...

... day, out of maybe 10-15, it's not a real statistic, more like a feeling. Maybe it means those people also do not read the description of the server before joining ^^

What do you call "the other controversial change ?"


Because that ship I copy pasted is something I can have delivering rare ...

One way you could test the MCP server is installing LM Studio locally, connecting it to your MCP and now you run everything locally, so as long as your computer is running, the AI can play factorio

I expected this to hapen one day :D Nice initiative!

I'd like to offer some advice regarding the setup. You might have already figured these out in the past few months but if not then here it goes:

For an LLM to succeed playing factorio you'd probably need a different type of harness - coding ...

Interesting. How far Claude went into playing the game and building a factory, in your testing?


Not very far. I've got a couple of blog posts with some random thoughts but in general it's not very good. It burns through tokens so I can't let it just run for days on end. In my experience it will ...

You're building an AI agent to automate playing Factorio, an automation game. Cool! That's the spirit!

Interesting. How far Claude went into playing the game and building a factory, in your testing?

I'm not sure where this fits in terms of the Boards here. It's not actually a mod and it's only sort of a tool. I've been working on a Factorio MCP server which lets you wire up Factorio to a language model and let it try and play Factorio. I'll be honest up front and say that I haven't had much ...

“Space Age” downloads include the Base Game as well as the Expansion content. The DLC features SpaceAge/ElevatedRails/Quality can be en/disabled through the in-game Mods menu if you want a classic experience or to load a non-DLC save or join a multiplayer server.

Good Luck!

... would be extremely embarassed because of the jankiness.


Maybe you never working on a home-brew game engine wrote in C++, with a headless server that work using UDP (CITE ME A MODERN GAME OTHER THAN FACTORY THAT USE UDP maybe cs:go 2 ?), with a lua API so powerful you can pretty much do ...

... environment.

I do the same. I love rsync. I've got a copy of my saves local, but I back them up after every safe to another hard rive on my server, and then back that server up every week or so, onto two other sets of hard drives.
Storage space is so cheap that it's almost free. To me, it ...

Factorio multiplayer games are self hosted. If the official public server list provided by wube goes down, multiplayer games will continue working.

are there any plans to disable multiplayer matching servers for older versions? We're running a heavily modded game (~150mods, 500 ingame hours in) which we cannot easily upgrade to the latest version. (or is this version independent anyways?)

The matchmaking API has not changed fundamentally since ...

Hi all,

are there any plans to disable multiplayer matching servers for older versions? We're running a heavily modded game (~150mods, 500 ingame hours in) which we cannot easily upgrade to the latest version. (or is this version independent anyways?)
The main reason to try upgrade would be, if we ...

... make the reseach go faster, but I just couldn't be bothered. :oops:


the REAL correct solution would've been loading up that save on a factorio server, thankfully i have a server of my own that i self host some of my other stuff on, that was what i did when i built my 1.1 megabase and needed to ...

... and "span". The "grid-world" constituting one of the not so many very different structure. That also is the same from what i saw when joining multiplayer server. Not sure what's used otherwise to consider "what players do.

There are also minor reasons, like "faster trains are more dangerous" :lol:

... over time there's less and less of those "solutions" players mention that are totally new to me. It feels like when i join a random multiplayer server, i can identify/recognize "everything" how it works, which was the choice made. Even when seeing a mess of combinator, the question one may ask ...