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Hello everyone,

I can't find any info about it anywhere, maybe I'm just blind but I might as well leave a topic here. I was looking at Steam's top selling games and I stumbled upon Factorio. I watched some let's plays on YouTube and different tutorials and I already know that if I might buy it, I'll be addicted from the start. However, I wonder if it's possible to have an own private multiplayer server for me and one or two friends where we can have our own Factorio world together. So.. is this possible? Thanks in advance

Yes, you can . And if you have the proper hardware for up to 65k friends (but proper hardware may be purchasable sometimes in the 2150 )

Phillip_Lynx wrote:Yes, you can . And if you have the proper hardware for up to 65k friends (but proper hardware may be purchasable sometimes in the 2150 )

Alright man, thanks for the quick answer! Do I need to open up any ports or can I just create a server with a password and give the password to my mates?

Gontho wrote:Do I need to open up any ports or can I just create a server with a password and give the password to my mates?

Yes, look here: https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Multiplayer

Gontho wrote:

Phillip_Lynx wrote:Yes, you can . And if you have the proper hardware for up to 65k friends (but proper hardware may be purchasable sometimes in the 2150 )

Alright man, thanks for the quick answer! Do I need to open up any ports or can I just create a server with a password and give the password to my mates?

Yes, there is a port 34197. And up to now, no password. You have to tell your friends the external IP. But the devs are working on this.

Ahh thank you Is it correct that if I want to play multiplayer with someone in my own house, we don't have to port forward anything to play together?

Gontho wrote:Ahh thank you Is it correct that if I want to play multiplayer with someone in my own house, we don't have to port forward anything to play together?

If you are on the same LAN/WLAN, you don't have to port forward.