Factorio Space Age Server Guide
Space Age is Factorio's 2024 expansion: after launching your first rocket you build space platforms and factories across four new planets, Vulcanus, Fulgora, Gleba and Aquilo, with the new quality and elevated rails systems along for the ride.
How Space Age works on a server
The expansion ships as four official mods, space-age, quality, elevated-rails and, since Factorio 2.1, recycler, toggled in mods/mod-list.json. Every SurvivalServers Factorio server supports Space Age at no extra cost: you choose it when your world is generated. In the Command Center it is the Space Age World toggle in Server Config › World Generation; on a self-hosted server, enable or disable the four mods before creating the world.
The one rule that matters
The choice is per-world and locked at creation. Toggling Space Age on an existing world breaks the save. If you want to switch, generate a new world instead (the Command Center's Generate New World flow handles this).
Who needs to own the DLC
- The server: nobody. Hosting a Space Age world needs no extra purchase.
- Joining players: everyone. Each player connecting to a Space Age world must own the Space Age expansion on their own account.
- Vanilla worlds work for every player, with or without the DLC.
Achievements
The official expansion mods do not disable achievements: Space Age adds its own achievement set, and a Space Age server with no third-party mods stays achievement-safe.
Ready to take a factory interplanetary? Host a Factorio server with Space Age supported out of the box.