The factory keeps running
Your server holds the whole factory between sessions, so nobody has to be the host and nobody has to be online for the others to play. Come back to belts that are still moving.
Factorio
Land on an alien planet with nothing but a drill, and leave it with a factory that runs itself. Build the belts, defend them from what the pollution wakes up, and launch the rocket with the people who helped you build it.
Choose pass
Up and joinable in about ninety seconds.
AT A GLANCE
- Pass needed
- Standard
- Players
- Up to 8
- Setup
- Vanilla, tuned by us
- Freezing keeps
- Your save and its autosaves
One factory, however long it takes
Ninety seconds to joinable
Pick your seed and your password, press deploy, and hand out the address. No config files to edit, no ports to forward, nothing for anyone else to install.
Park it, come back to the same factory
A Factorio save is small. Park the world, put another game in the slot, and pick the factory up exactly where you stopped, down to the belt you were in the middle of laying.
Which pass you need
Factorio starts on a Standard Pass, and the dearer passes are the same game on a bigger box as the factory grows into them.
THE PASS THIS GAME NEEDS
Standard Pass
£6.99per month
Your first factory, eight of you in it, and a map you have explored properly.
IF YOU WANT MORE
Standard Plus Pass
£9.99per month
Room for the factory to sprawl: more of the map charted, more trains, more on every belt.
IF YOU WANT MORE
Premium Pass
£16.99per month
A megabase, and the trains to feed it. The pass for a factory you are still growing a year in.
What you choose
What you get to decide, and what each one changes. We set up everything else.
CHOICE
WHAT IT DOES
Map seed
Leave it empty for a random map. Two servers made from the same seed have the same terrain, so put one in if you want the map a friend showed you.
Password
Set one and only the people you give it to can join. Clear it and anyone with the address can walk in.
Max players
Eight is what the factory is built around. Ask for more and the form shows you how far above eight it will go.
Autosaves kept
How many rolling copies of the map sit beside the current one. Each is a full copy, so more of them is more to fall back on and more space used.
Autosave every
Minutes between autosaves. Saving pauses the factory for a moment, so less often means fewer interruptions and more to lose.
How we set it up
Wube's own headless server
The real thing, downloaded from the builds Wube publishes rather than repackaged by anyone, and set up with every setting written out deliberately so your map never starts on a default nobody chose.
Base game, so everyone can join
Factorio ships its headless server with the Space Age expansion switched on, which means everyone joining has to own it. We take it out, so the friend who bought the base game last week can get in.
Your map is saved on a timer, and again before it parks
Autosaves run while you play, and we save once more before parking, so what comes back is where you actually stopped rather than where the last timer caught you.
Parking keeps the map, not the game
Your save and its autosaves are kept. Factorio itself is not, because we fetch it again when you come back, so you never pay to store a copy of it.
Updates land between sessions
Your server takes each new build while nobody is playing, so you get the newest one without an evening ever being cut short to install it.
Your factory is ninety seconds away
Auto-renews monthly. Cancel any time; renewals are not refunded.