This is a container that runs the excellent Satisfactory dedicated server so you can easily host it and play with friends and family. This container is designed to run the game server, and that is it. All other aspects of backups and persistence are expected to be performed outside if the container using mounted volumes.
The game is pre-installed in the container, but will always update to the latest version at launch. If your server is ever behind the client, just restart the container.
I do not make any symlinks for where the saved games go. This way I don't have
to maintain that location, I'm lazy. Saves are stored at
/home/steam/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames, inside the container.
The Satisfactory dedicated server requires the following ports open for inbound traffic, 7777, 15777, 15000 all UDP. The examples below map those exposed ports as required.
Please note that the game itself is pre-release, the dedidcate server comes with many in game warnings about it being buggy. It is also kind of a beast, in the late game you'll easily need over 8gb of ram.
Finally, this game runs as the steam user internally, rather than root. If you look at the Dockerfile and start-serer.sh and wonder "Why is this guy using chown so much?", that's why.
Run once just temporarily to test...
docker run --rm -it -p 7777:7777/udp -p 15777:15777/udp -p 15000:15000/udp raykrueger/satisfactory-dedicated-server
Run with experimental...
docker run --rm -it -e STEAMARGS='-beta experimental' -p 7777:7777/udp -p 15777:15777/udp -p 15000:15000/udp raykrueger/satisfactory-dedicated-server
Run locally with persistence...
docker run -d -n satisfactory -v /home/steam/.config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames -p 7777:7777/udp -p 15777:15777/udp -p 15000:15000/udp raykrueger/satisfactory-dedicated-server
To run with docker-compose grab the docker-compose.yaml file.
docker-compose start #that's it
There is a Make file for convience, you can use make run and make shell to
test and tinker with how the container is built. The container itself uses
gomplate and gosu
interally for variable replacement and running in user context; respectively.
This image was built with version v05.2.1, it will update on boot.