[TechBro8615]

I hope there is more exploration around a “Factorio Cloud” that connects multiple Factorio servers so you can visit and exchange resources with other factories. I think there have been a few projects similar to this but nothing substantial yet.

In general I like this idea of connecting local sandbox games in a sort of multiverse. It would be cool if there were an open-world, multiplayer game where you could create portals to your game server(s) hosted elsewhere. So you could go to one portal to play a game of Civ, and another to play Factorio. And somehow each game could include a mod that implements a common interface so that your performance in that game can have some effect on your character in the “root” multiverse game.

I get the sense this is maybe roughly what Tim Sweeney wants to do with Epic. And maybe Roblox has similar ideas.

[Sayrus]

Well well well do I have something a for you.

> Clusterio [1] is a clustered Factorio server manager that provides the tooling for implementing cross server interactions in Factorio. It was previously best known for implementing cross server transfer and cloud storage of items via teleporter chests. But this functionality has been pulled out of Clusterio into its own plugin for Clusterio named Subspace Storage.

[1] https://github.com/clusterio/factorioClusterio

[lloydatkinson]

A long time ago when Lego used to produce actual video games (or at least, had game companies do it) one of the games was Lego Loco - a game that I probably spent possibly thousands of hours playing as a child along with all their other games.

It had the concept of being able to send postcards and trains that you made in game to either people on your LAN or to a random player on the internet. Their trains could then move around on your railways - and you could send it to back to them or anyone. The trains would go in and out of train tunnels.

Your comment reminded me of it.