Satisfactory: Join your server and play on its first world

1. On My Servers, check that the card says Online, then click the address on the strip at the bottom of the card. It flashes Copied hostname!. The address looks like factory.vesta.haptic.game:7699: the part before the colon is the address, the number after it is the port. That one port is all you ever enter; Satisfactory works out its second port on its own.

2. Start Satisfactory, open Server Manager from the main menu, and add a server with that address and port.

3. Your server appears under its Server Name, and if it has a Server Password, the game asks for that; it is the one password you share with friends. Both live in the Basic tab of the Overview card, and like all settings they only take effect the next time the server powers up. Change either one, then restart the server before you hand friends the new name or password.

On a desktop browser, while the card says Online, the shortcut row on the address strip (click the small arrow at the right end) also has a Join pill for Steam. It is not there on a sleeping or offline card. It launches Satisfactory, but you still add the server in Server Manager the first time.

A server with no world creates one when it starts, so a brand-new server is ready to play as soon as the card says Online. The world gets its name and start from two settings in the Details tab of the Overview card:

• Session Name is the name players see in Server Manager. Left blank, it is your server's name.

• Starting Location is where the world starts: Grass Fields (the start Satisfactory calls ideal for first-time pioneers, and the default), Rocky Desert, Northern Forest, Dune Desert or Random.

They only shape a new world, so changing them later leaves your current world as it is. To start over somewhere else, change them and press Start New World when the save asks, or use New World on the Backups card (Start a new world). Your old world is kept as a backup.

Loading another save, changing server settings in game or creating a second game in Server Manager are Administrator actions, and the Administrator password is the Admin Password on your dashboard:

1. On My Servers, press Detail view on your server and open the Details tab of the Overview card. Admin Password is shown as dots; use the eye icon to reveal it or the copy button next to it. It was generated for you when the server was created.

2. In Server Manager, select your server and sign in as Administrator with that password.

Satisfactory restarts your server once a day and comes back on the same session. Friends only need the address and the Server Password. Keep the Admin Password to yourself: anyone who has it can load a different save, change server settings, or start a new game over the current one.

Already have a co-op save you want to continue instead of starting fresh, or want to know which save the server reloads after a restart? See Move your existing save to your server.

• Steam and Epic, together. Both store versions connect to the same dedicated server and play side by side.

• PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S: no. The console release (November 2025) does not support dedicated servers, and there is no PC to console crossplay in Satisfactory. Console friends can only play console to console sessions among themselves.

• Same branch and version as the server. If your server is on the Experimental Branch, every player needs the Experimental build too, and after a game update players who updated before the server restarts cannot join. Details in Game updates and the Experimental branch.

• Encryption token missing: almost always the player used Join Game instead of Server Manager. Have them add the server in Server Manager and join from there.

• The server shows no game to join: give it a minute after the card says Online, because the server creates its first world right after it starts. If it still has none, sign in as Administrator (above), create a game in Server Manager, and tell us so we can look into why it did not make one.

• The server does not respond: confirm the card says Online. If it is asleep on Wake & Play, press Wake up on the dashboard, or a friend can wake it from your public page if you turned on Friends can wake this server and gave them the page link plus its share password (What is Wake & Play?).

• Players could join yesterday but not today: a Satisfactory update landed and the server has not restarted onto it yet. Restart it from the dashboard.

• Wrong password: the join prompt wants the Server Password, not the Admin Password.

• Anything else: I can't connect to my server.

Reach us on Discord or at support@haptic.gg. Include your server name, whether the player is on Steam or Epic, and the exact error text from Server Manager.