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What is better than Factorio? Factorio with friends. Multiplayer in Factorio allows you to team up with friends to grow, defend, and scale your factory to new heights. While you can host a multiplayer game on your local machine, your friends and collaborators will rely on that local machine running to access the game and with everyone’s busy lives, this may not be ideal. Today I’m going to show you how you can host an ongoing Factorio multiplayer game on DigitalOcean that anyone can access whenever they want.
DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. In our case today, that means deploying a Factorio headless server so that we can get help from other people in building the world’s biggest factory. The way that we’re going to accomplish this is by deploying a DigitalOcean droplet to host our multiplayer Factorio game. To get started with this, we’re first going to log in or sign up for a Digital Ocean account.
If you prefer a video version of this tutorial, you can watch it here