It isn't really relevant to the issue. I know some people did it intentionally, others purely by accident. If your blueprint is too large, servers/clients freeze for a long time. If the blueprint is large enough, they will freeze long enough that everyone is disconnected. It would make sense, by def...

For the moment, I have blocked this with my soft-mod / scenario script.

I think our most players ever was around 40.
5 to 15 is what we commonly see.

20-25 across a few factorio servers is common for us.

A new map will use nearly that much. I have servers that use as much as 5-6GB of virtual, and 4gb resident memory on Linux. That is only after 3 days game time, with no mods. A brand-new map is about 150m resident and about 600mb virtual. I wouldn't even attempt to play on a server with 512mb ram. I...

I see there is something about blueprints in the log just before the crash, so it may have to do with my script deleting large blueprints.
I just added this, because players can load very large blueprints.

Related post:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=83647

I don't know what happened, I wasn't online.
It is a public multiplayer server.
It is running a custom scenario script.

Link to save: https://bhmm.net/u/fact/_autosave291.zip
I was unable to upload it here on the forums, it kept failing.

Running Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS,
AMD Ryzen 7, 32GB DDR4

Sadly, players are using very very large blueprints to freeze servers, sometimes long enough for everyone to be disconnected.
There needs to be some kind of option to limit max blueprint size for multiplayer servers...

Being able to easily skip loading any mods on boot would be great. Something as simple as "hold shift key", so it just loads vanilla or acts as a safe mode if there is a borked mod. Its annoying when your last game was modded, but you are loading up vanilla and have to wait for all mods to...

awesome, thanks I wasn't finding it.
Now there is a post people can find on forums/google .

and yes, technically i could use this: https://wiki.factorio.com/Map_exchange_string_format
to decode it, and write a settings file.

...But it seems a bit silly to have a very nice map exchange format, and not support it on the headless server directly.

It would be wonderful if there was a way to generate a map (on the headless server), from a map exchange string. It would be even better if it could still generate the map preview. This would mean my admins wouldn't have to upload maps 99% of the time, I could just make a discord bot command to star...

Griefer group of 4 people...

Kuba_V777
Nachtlord
crankyrake
benni2605

They all logged in at once and started throwing grenades ( didn't matter, no friendly fire ), and picking up belts/assembly machines, etc...

Banned them all, and just reverted map back one save.

I've looked around, and I couldn't find any information.
One of Factorio's command like arguments is --slope-shade-property SHADEPROP
But I haven't found any additional info... What other properties can we use?

soaxi wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 07, 2016 6:05 am

Jaydee77472: Destroyed most of our buildings (20160907)

the griefer uses grenade to destory our base..

Turn off friendly fire, then they can not kill other players or blow up buildings.

Thanks for merging those :) I just updated our banlist with it (m45). We should make something that auto-merges these lists. scout15 griefed on our server too... i just kicked him first time and said first warning... He waited a while and came back and I watched him, and banned him as soon as he sta...

Connect to server, alt-f4 while downloading map.

You will see a [LEAVE] message, but no [JOIN] message.

M45-Science We currently have 15 Factorio servers that run 24/7: 9 are members-only, but membership is free, and automatic. All of our servers run a custom soft-mod, to help limit griefing (friendly fire is off, new players: no decon planner, can't delete blueprint books, etc) Website/Discord/Steam ...

M45 / m45sci.xyz
2016 - 2018 banlist attached.

Our current 2019 list is live-updated here: https://m45sci.xyz/server-banlist.json

(link updated)

steam hasn't updated yet either... all my servers are updated ( automatic ), but no users have the update to get on server.... on home connection im getting error 503 and 404.

Seems to fixed now.

Randomly crashed after opening blueprints window.
*shrug*log says SIGSEV