Introduction

When you purchase your Factorio server, by default the additional content is enabled with the base-game. You can disable this if you do not own the content in order to join your server, if you do not you may face a join loop with a constant message shown. (picture below)

Example message on join

This message is shown when your client does not match the content of the server you are running. If you don't own the Space-age DLC for example, you can disable it from our control panel. Steps are outlined below.

Enabling content on joining your server

To enable content you have installed or otherwise own you must do the following:

1) Start your server

2) Launch your Factorio game and attempt to connect to the server

3) You will see a confirmation box appear as shown above

4) Click on synchronize

5) Another dialogue will appear with a list of content required. If you own the content (or have the mod(s) installed) you will see a checkbox to enable them.

6) Proceed to enable this content. If you cannot, then you need to disable the content or acquire/purchase the content. There are further steps outlined below if you wish to disable this content in order to join your server with the vanilla base-game only

Disabling the additional content on your server

1) Stop your server

2) Access the File Manager tool from the left-hand sidebar

3) Navigate to / home / container / mods / mod-list.json

4) Open the mod-list.json file

5) Using the example image below with the numbered references you can turn off the additional content

   i) The file path of the file

   ii) The content entries you can set to false

       * Do not set base to false (line 7)

   iii) Once you have set the additional content to false you can click save

6) Start your server

7) Launch your game and attempt to connect, you shouldn't be met with a confirmation message any further

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