Setting up a Factorio Server on Amazon Cloud

Tutorial on how to set up a dedicated server for the game Factorio on Amazon Web Services. Come play with me on the server. Find it in the server browser as Hexagons. ----- Firewall opening: Port 34197 UDP Commands to download and extract server software: wget https://www.factorio.com/get-download/0.13.20/headless/linux64 mv linux64 linux64.tar.gz gunzip linux64.tar.gz tar xf linux64.tar Use WinSCP to edit data/server-settings.example.json Commands to create game world and start server: ./bin/x64/factorio --create ./saves/game.zip screen ./bin/x64/factorio --start-server ./saves/game.zip --server-settings data/server-settings.example.json Use "Ctrl-A d" to disconnect from screen. Use "screen -r" to reconnect. ----- Update: For v0.15+ the archive file format has been changed, so to unpack the archive use: mv linux64 linux64.tar.xz tar xvfJ linux64.tar.xz