Factorio Save Management

I don't typically play games on my computer, and so I don't have much of an interest in creating and using a Steam account which I recognize would make what the repo accomplishes redundant but I digress.

I recently purchased (and fell in love with) Factorio for the Switch and have since purchased a copy for my computer. To make switching from my desktop to my laptop easier, I wrote main.sh.

Getting Started

Handle Env Variables and Pathways

Create a config.sh with the following variables:

#!/bin/env bash
factorioLocal=route/to/local/files
factorioRepo=route/to/this/repo
factorioBackup=route/to/backup/folder

This config file isn't necessary if you export the above variables from your .bash_profile, which I've done. I created this config file for my laptop, which I don't work off of and therefore haven't created a .bash_profile for. If you'd like to omit this process, remove line 2 from main.sh

For Mac users, your local Factorio files can be found in: /Users/userName/Library/Application Support/factorio (note: be sure to wrap the path in double quotes to avoid globbing and word splitting.

Using the Script

The script itself is incredibly simple. First we pull in those variables initiated in the config.sh file I mentioned. There's a simple die command to exit if a command was not given to the script.

sh main.sh push

All the files from $factorioLocal are copied to $factorioBackup first, then to $factorioRepo, afterwhich everything is pushed to the repo.

sh main.sh pull

Everything will be pulled from the repo, then copied to $factorioLocal.