List your Factorio server in the public list

A new Factorio server is not in the public list. To list it, you need three things: your factorio.com username on Startup, the token for that account under Passwords, and Listed publicly switched on. Players can always join an unlisted server by its address.

What you need

A factorio.com account. The game asks for its login before it lists a server.
The account’s username.
The account’s token, not its password. See token and username.

Steps

Open the Startup page.
Type your username in factorio.com username. Save.
Open the Config Editor tab and choose the source Passwords.
Paste the token into factorio.com token. Save.
Choose the source Server settings, open the group Server list, and turn on Listed publicly. Save.
Restart the server so the username and token are used.

The username and the token are written into the game’s settings at every start. Listed publicly takes effect at once on a running server, but it can only list the server once the game has the username and token. So restart after you set them.

The panel’s own note on Listed publicly says: it needs the username on Startup and the token under Passwords. Without them the game says so and stays unlisted, and players can still join by address.

By hand

In server-settings.json the three parts are visibility.public (true), username and token. Loafhosts writes username and token at every start, so a hand edit of them does not stay. Set them as above.

Players find it

Players open Multiplayer, then Browse public games. The game asks them to sign in to factorio.com. Give your friends the address as well. They can always use Connect to address.

Listing a server with a real account has not been checked on 2.1.24 as of 13 November 2026.

Name and description

The list shows your server name and description. See change the server name and description and tags. A description applies at once. A name applies at the next start.

If it does not work

The server is not in the list. Check the three parts above. The game logs Matching server connection failed: Error when creating server game: Missing token. when the token is missing. Read it on the Console tab.
The Crashes page says “The server could not list itself”. A public server needs a factorio.com account. Set the username and token, or turn Listed publicly off.
Nothing changed after you saved. Restart the server.
You used your password as the token. Use the token. The server never writes the account password into its settings.