pyFactorioUpdater

About

pyFactorioUpdate was created to eliminate the toil involved in updating a headless Factorio server. When run the script will compare the last-modified header of the Factorio archive available for download against the creation time of the most recently downloaded archive, if the web version is newer it will be fetched and installed. When run as a cron job the script can completely automate the updating of a headless Factorio instance.

Requirements

• Python 3
• factorio-rcon-py library
• Factorio Headless
• Systemd configured to control Factorio server instance
• Factorio must live in /opt/factorio at this time.

Installation

Download pyFactorioUpdater to /opt/factorio_updater/, run with cron on your preferred schedule.

Arguments

• --check_only will only compare the latest availalble version to the version on disk without out downloading or updating. If a newer version is available pyFactorioUpdater with exit with 10 rather than 0.
• -e or --experimental will use Factorio's experimental track rather than stable, defaults to no.
• -f or --force will ignore the last modified time on the server and force a download and install of the latest selected track; defaults to no.
• --tmp_directory specifies where download and staging of the new Factorio archive should occur. Defaults to /tmp/factorio_updater/
• --rcon_port specifies port for RCON client communication. Default is 27015.
• --rcon_passowrd defines password for RCON client communication. In-game broadcasting will not work without this argument set.