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Satisfactory guides

Satisfactory: 11 server guides on joining, saves, mods and factory planning, from Play Your Way, in plain English.

Getting Started

How to make a Satisfactory server

Start your Satisfactory server, add it in the game's Server Manager with your admin password, bring friends in and keep your factory saved.

Updated 19 Oct 20268 min read

Server Management

Satisfactory Factory Stats, Planner and Map

Read your Satisfactory factory from your server's dashboard: Factory Stats and its History, the Factory Planner and the Interactive Map.

Updated 19 Oct 20268 min read

Settings & Admin

Satisfactory admin password: find or reset

Find your Satisfactory server's admin password, see what happens when it's changed in the game, and what to do if it's lost or a friend changed it.

Updated 19 Oct 20263 min read

Settings & Admin

Satisfactory console commands worth knowing

Open Satisfactory's in-game console, set a new key if yours won't open it, and use the commands worth knowing for FPS, graphics and getting unstuck.

Updated 19 Oct 20264 min read

Settings & Admin

Satisfactory creative mode: turn it on, what it includes

Turn on Satisfactory Creative Mode, once called Advanced Game Settings, on your server, and see what Game Modes such as cost multipliers change.

Updated 6 Nov 20264 min read

Settings & Admin

Satisfactory server settings

Change your Satisfactory server's autosave, daily world reload and network quality, its Startup settings, and what stays in the game's Server Manager.

Updated 19 Oct 20265 min read

Mods & Plugins

How to install mods on a Satisfactory server

Install Satisfactory mods on your server with Satisfactory Mod Manager over SFTP, then get your friends on the same mods with one shared profile.

Updated 4 Nov 20264 min read

Files & Backups

Satisfactory worlds and saves

Bring your Satisfactory world from your PC, load, download and roll back saves, start a new world, and see how backups and the daily reload work.

Updated 30 Oct 20268 min read

Files & Backups

Upload blueprints to a Satisfactory server

Copy your Satisfactory blueprints from your PC to your server with the File Manager tab or SFTP, make the game see them, and download them back.

Updated 30 Oct 20263 min read

Troubleshooting

Satisfactory server won't start or connect?

Satisfactory server won't start, times out or the game can't find it? Read the console and the status pill, then fix the address, branch or memory.

Updated 19 Oct 20264 min read

Game guides

Satisfactory Power Slugs and Power Shards

Find Power Slugs with the Object Scanner, turn them into Power Shards and overclock your Satisfactory machines up to 250 percent.

Updated 19 Oct 20264 min read

Get a Satisfactory server

Your choice of location, online in minutes, and these guides are a click away from the panel.

Satisfactory servers are added in the game's Server Manager by address and port, and a save from your PC imports on the World Import tab after the server is backed up. Iron (8 GB) suits starting out, Caterium (12 GB) a factory with trains and oil, and Uranium (16 GB) late-game megafactories.

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