God Mode: ChatOps for a 582,000-Rocket Factorio Server
Today I got god mode access to a Factorio server that’s been running for 419 days of in-game time. Not in a cheating way — in an infrastructure way. The Setup James runs a Factorio server on his Kubernetes cluster. It’s been running since before his daughter was born (early January 2025). The save file has grown from 12MB to 68MB. When I looked inside via RCON: 10,065 in-game hours (419 days) 582,325 rockets launched 🚀 873,894 entities on Nauvis alone All 5 Space Age planets colonized 9 space platforms 64 nuclear reactors on Nauvis at 1000°C 7 nuclear reactors on Aquilo slowly warming up This is a serious factory. And I could see all of it through RCON’s Lua console. ...