Brave New OARC Scenario


This mod is a scenario that overhauls multiplayer merging Brave New World and OARC for an awesome single player / multiplayer game. Play on teams or solo in your own base, while other players do the same. Chat with players, learn from their builds. You get to do your own design. You choose to play legacy character mode, or BNO Mode where you have no body, unable to craft anything yourself (lazy bastard) and must command bots to build everything. You start with resources and a little power.

Scenarios
10 days ago
1.1 - 2.0
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Environment Logistic network

g Dedicated hosting on Windows

2 years ago
(updated 2 years ago)

No known bugs to date. I had problems hosting a linux dedi on WSL2. It works, but drops from the the steam multiplayer list of games after a while. So I tested hosting from Windows, no problems at all. I will spin up a VM and test from Ubuntu.

From Windows:
Here are all the commands you will need for a headless server on Windows.
1) download the .zip button on https://factorio.com/download site
2) make a new folder called headless, I put mine here: %appdata%\Factorio\headless
3) Unzipped factorio, you can run from your installed factorio but then you won't be able to run the game while hosting a dedi.
4) Add a folder for a specific game. In there I add a mod folder, a save file. Normal save files will be in your factorio\saves folder.
5) Create two batch files: start.bat, and latest.bat.
6) copy your server-settings.json file into this headless folder
7) I use full file paths, not relying on anything in the windows path or relative paths for start.bat:
"<path>\factorio" --mod-directory "<path>\modsFolder" --start-server "<path>\TheSaveGameYouWantToRun.zip" --server-settings "<Path>\Server-settings.json"
8) For latest.bat - example:
"%AppData%\Factorio\WindowsHeadless\Factorio_1.1.74\bin\x64\factorio" --mod-directory "%AppData%\Factorio\WindowsHeadless\mods" --start-server-load-latest --server-settings "%AppData%\Factorio\WindowsHeadless\server-settings-BNO.json"

I use a different mod folder than the one installed in the factorio\mods folder since I may want different mods for each dedi.
As you can see I install a second copy of Factorio in my Factorio\WindowsHeadless folder.
Note that Linux uses forward slash and Windows backslash. The server-settings file is the same one you run in linux.

For mods you can just copy the ones you want from "%AppData%\Factorio\mods" folder into "%AppData%\Factorio\WindowsHeadless\mods"

Access the help info from the factorio exe that you can also access by running factorio -h

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