_ _ _ __ | |__ | | ___ __ _ | '_ \| '_ \| |/ _ \ / _` | | |_) | | | | | (_) | (_| | | .__/|_| |_|_|\___/ \__, | |_| ...2017-02-08 |___/ Factorio server in Docker There's really no reason to pull an image to run Factorio inside docker. The headless Factorio server behaves nicely inside docker (though it does emit an error message about not being able to open stdin, this is totally okay), it also reacts correctly to SIGTERM, so when you docker stop the container, the Factorio server shuts down gracefully. The official Debian Jessie image is just fine (tm). Here's what you need to do, in your bash: # Acquire the latest version (may change) wget https://www.factorio.com/get-download/0.14.22/headless/linux64 -O f.tgz # Extract tar xf f.tgz && rm f.tgz # Configure (see wiki for info on configuration settings) pushd factorio mkdir saves cp data/server-settings.example.json settings.json vim settings.json popd # Generate map docker run --rm -ti -v `pwd`/factorio:/factorio \ --workdir /factorio/ --entrypoint ./bin/x64/factorio \ debian:jessie --create ./saves/the-world.zip # Start the server docker run -d -p 34197:34197/udp --name factorio -v `pwd`/factorio:/factorio \ --workdir /factorio/ --entrypoint ./bin/x64/factorio \ debian:jessie --start-server-load-latest --server-settings ./settings.json Internet stuff You need to route UDP port 34197 to your dockerhosts IP. Security I have a user for file-system level isolation between docker processes and other users, which I've called "dockerfs" and given the uid/gid of 9000. If you want to do something similar, the following steps can be taken. Assign user/group ownership to your isolation user on the factorio directory. Add --user 9000:9000 to run commands, or whatever your isolation users id is. Free bonus Knowing how to start the server is only half the fun, you also want to control and maintain it, you should also know how to start/stop and remove it. Here are some additional commands you can run in bash: # Observe logs (stop looking with Ctrl+c) docker logs -f factorio # Stop the server (if you need to do that..) docker stop factorio # Start a previously stopped serveer docker start factorio # Remove stopped server (not removing datafiles as they are stored on the host) docker rm factorio Other stuff Wrote a bit more on the phlog, so now headlines are anchored. Anchors are a too- little used feature of HTML and URLs, but they're awesome, they allow you to not only link to a page, but to a specific PLACE in a page. It works by allowing you to right-click on any headline and choose "copy link location", now you can link directly to that section of a phlog entry. Very useful indeed. I actually wanted to start looking into fuzzy searching, but I didn't get around to it, and it's a bit too late now at 00:19. It's 00:49 I wrote a search function, couldn't stop myself, it's not very good, but it kind of works okay for some things.. Basically the phlog can be queried by visiting /find with a query string. For example you can (fuzzy) search for Factorio by visiting: http://dusted.dk/pages/phlog/find?Factorio granted, it's not that good at all, but it'll be fine enough for me to be able to find what I need. -OUT.