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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 start a new map from the exchange string.

If this already exists, I apologize. I didn't see anything about it in --help

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.