Claim your Satisfactory server in the Server Manager

A new Satisfactory server has no name, no admin and no game until someone claims it in the Server Manager. On Wilderack we claim it for you on the first start, using your server name and a random admin password. So for you, the first visit is: add the server, sign in as admin, set a player password, then start or upload a game.

This page walks through each step. It also covers claiming by hand, in case the game ever asks you to.

Before you start

• Satisfactory on PC (Steam or Epic), on the same version as the server.
• Your address and port from the address card on Overview, like assembly.play.wilderack.com:30412.
• Your admin password. Open Settings in the panel and set one you’ll remember. We made a random one when we claimed the server, and you can replace it any time.

Step 1: Add the server

1. Start Satisfactory and open Server Manager from the main menu.
2. Select Add Server.
3. Type the address in the address box: assembly.play.wilderack.com. Don’t add the colon or port here.
4. Type your port in the port box, like 30412. It is not 7777.
5. Confirm.

The game may warn you about the server’s certificate. Every Satisfactory server makes its own certificate, so the game can’t check it against a known list. That’s expected. Accept it to carry on.

Step 2: Sign in as admin, or claim it

What you see next depends on whether the server is claimed.

If the server is already claimed (the usual case)

Sign in with your admin password from Settings. If the game lets you in as a player first, without asking for a password, choose the option to sign in as admin and type it there.

Once you’re in as admin, you see the admin tabs, such as Server Settings, Create Game and Manage Saves. Players only see the Status tab.

If the game offers to claim the server

This can happen if the server’s settings were reset. Claim it now, before anyone else does:

1. Choose to claim the server.
2. Type a server name. Everyone sees this name in their Server Manager. Using your address name, like assembly, keeps things simple.
3. Type an admin password and confirm it. Write it down somewhere safe.
4. Open Settings in the panel and enter the same admin password there, so the panel can keep managing your server.

If claiming fails, see the game asks you to claim the server.

Step 3: Set a player password

A new server has no player password, so anyone with your address can join. To keep it to your friends:

1. Open your server in the Server Manager and go to Server Settings.
2. Find Player Password Protection and select Change Password.
3. Type a password for your friends and confirm.

You can also set it in Settings in the panel. Friends type this password once, the first time they sign in.

While you’re in Server Settings, check these too:

• Auto Pause: keep it on, so the factory pauses when nobody is on.
• Auto-Save on Player Disconnect: keep it on, so leaving never loses work.
• Autosave Interval: every 5 to 10 minutes suits most groups.

The config reference explains the rest.

Step 4: Start a game or upload a save

The server can hold many saves but runs one session at a time.

Start a new factory

1. Open the Create Game tab.
2. Type a session name, like assembly.
3. Pick a starting area. The easier start is Grass Fields.
4. Open Advanced Game Settings only if you want creative options, such as no build costs.
5. Create the game. The first load can take a minute.

Upload your single-player factory

1. Open the Manage Saves tab.
2. Choose to upload a save, and pick your save from the list on your PC.
3. When the upload finishes, load that save.

Your saves live on your PC in %LOCALAPPDATA%\FactoryGame\Saved\SaveGames\, inside a folder named with a long number. The backups page has more ways to bring a world, including a zip upload in the panel.

Step 5: Join

Open the Status tab and select Join Game. From now on, the server loads this session on every start. If it ever loads the wrong one, check Auto-Load Session Name in Server Settings.

Now send your friends the address and port, plus the player password. They follow How to join your Satisfactory server.

If you forget the admin password

The easy way is to set a new one in Settings in the panel. Your factory and saves stay as they are.

The manual way resets more, so only use it if the panel can’t help:

1. Stop the server from Overview.
2. In Files, open .config/Epic/FactoryGame/Saved/SaveGames/.
3. Delete the file named ServerSettings. followed by your port and .sav, like ServerSettings.30412.sav.
4. Start the server, then claim it again from Step 2.

Deleting that file resets the server name, both passwords, the auto-load session and the server’s certificate. Your saves in the server folder are not touched. Friends will see the certificate warning once more.