The Players page keeps a list of everyone who has played on your server. It is called Everyone who has played. It shows when each player was last seen, how long they have played and how many times they joined. The panel keeps a player in the list for 180 days after they were last seen.
Read the list
- Open Players on your server.
- Find Everyone who has played (1), with the number of players in brackets. Under the title: “From the game’s console log since the panel has kept it.”
- Each row shows the name and:
last seen (when): the last time they were on.played (time): how long they have played here in total.(count) joins: how many times they joined.
- A player who is on now is also in Online. See see who is online.
- Everyone who has played
- What happened
The list shows up to 300 players at a time.
Where it comes from
The game writes a console log, one file for each start, in the logs folder. The panel reads the join and leave lines in it and keeps the result. That is what “since the panel has kept it” means: players from before the panel started reading are not in the list. Times in the log are in the server’s own time zone. The panel shows them in UTC.
The list is a record kept by the panel, not by the game. It is separate from the game’s own lists: the admin list, the ban list and the whitelist.
A server that has never had a player says “Nobody else has played here yet.”
Not checked on 2.1.24 with real players as of 13 November 2026: the join and leave lines come from the game’s own wording for them.
What you can do from a row
Open the menu More for (name) on a row. For a player who is away it offers Ban or Lift the ban, Add to the whitelist or Take off the whitelist, and Make admin or Take admin away. There is no Kick, Message or Mute here: those need the player to be on. See the whitelist.
To let someone in before they have ever played, use Add by name on the same page. Type their factorio.com username, choose a list in Add to, and choose Add.
By hand
On a server you run yourself, start the game with --console-log and read the file it writes, such as logs/console_(time).log. Its lines carry tags like [JOIN], [LEAVE], [CHAT], [KICK] and [BAN]. The panel reads the same file.
How long things are kept
- Players: 180 days after they were last seen.
- Events in the chat and event feed, called What happened (2): 30 days.
After that the panel forgets them.
If it does not work
- The list is empty on a server that has been played. The panel only keeps what it has read. Players from before it started reading are not there.
- A player is missing. They may not have been seen for 180 days, or the list is capped at 300 names shown.
- The numbers look low. Play time and joins count from when the panel began keeping the log.
More about the game: Factorio servers.
Sources: wiki.factorio.com: Console