Creating headless server from Steam version of the game

[eds89]

Hi,

Looking to set up a headless server for me and a couple of friends to play on.

I have gotten a local standalone server to run and connect without issue, and would now like to move this to a Windows Server VM.
My query is, do I need to install Steam for the headless server to run, or can I simply copy over the install directory from Steam/common to the VM and run it?

Thanks
Eds

[mexmer]

Hi,

Looking to set up a headless server for me and a couple of friends to play on.

I have gotten a local standalone server to run and connect without issue, and would now like to move this to a Windows Server VM.
My query is, do I need to install Steam for the headless server to run, or can I simply copy over the install directory from Steam/common to the VM and run it?

Thanks
Eds

You will need to download headless from factorio website, and copy over save from your steam game.

Steam version doesn’t run without steam.

If you have linkec your steam account with factorio account, you have access to drm free version

[posila]

There is no special headless build for Windows. You can copy install directory from Steam, and it will work even without steam if you run it as headless server, but I'd suggest you to learn and use SteamCMD for easy updates

[mexmer]

There is no special headless build for Windows. You can copy install directory from Steam, and it will work even without steam if you run it as headless server, but I'd suggest you to learn and use SteamCMD for easy updates

Ah my bad on windows you use client as headless server. Was just hinking about linux, or does not linux version use steam sdk?

Although i will still stick with zip drm version for sever (even on windows), because you have 3verything in one spot

[eds89]

Thanks guys.

Had a go at copying over the install directory, and seems to run without issue.
Will check out SteamCMD for sure!

Cheers
Eds

[mexmer]

i'm updating factorio server manually, because of select set of mods, and other stuff, but as for exe, you can take inspiration from space engineers server script (i used to host SE too)

seserver.cmd

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@echo off
taskkill /im SpaceEngineersDedicated.exe
steamcmd +login anonymous +app_update 298740 validate +quit
steamapps\common\SpaceEngineersDedicatedServer\DedicatedServer64\SpaceEngineersDedicated.exe