How to make your Factorio Server to Appear in the Server Browser (Public Server)

To be able to join your Factorio server from the in-game server browser, you need to have your server authenticate vs. the Factorio servers. This guide will walk you through getting the authentication token and setting up your server to use this token.

Finding Your Auth Token

There are two ways of locating your auth token. We will look at both methods.

Using Factorio.com

1. Login to factorio.com
2. Once logged in, open your profile

3. You will see Token at the top under your profile. Click reveal and copy your token somewhere so you can grab it to add it to your server.

   

Token in player-data.json

1. On your Windows computer, open %appdata%\Factorio in Explorer
2. Open the player-data.json file with Notepad
3. Find service-token and copy the value somewhere you can access it later
4. Find service-username and copy the value somewhere you can access it later

Setting Your Server's Username and Token

1. Login to the AleForge Panel
2. Open the Startup page
3. Locate the Server Username field and input your service-username or factorio.com username
4. Locate the Server Token field and input your service-token
5. Restart your server to pick up the change