If you're playing Factorio from Europe and experiencing lag, stuttering, or disconnects on M45-Science servers, our EU Relay system can help smooth out your connection.
Our main Factorio servers are hosted in Michigan, USA (near Chicago and the Great Lakes) by incx. The EU Relay servers are located in Nuremberg, Germany, hosted by Hetzner.
This relay routes your traffic through a stable TCP tunnel from Europe to the US, reducing:
Select one of the servers below to launch Factorio via an EU relay.
Note: If you prefer to connect without Steam, copy the address
(e.g. eu.m45sci.xyz:20000) and use Multiplayer → Connect to address in Factorio.
You can also run our optional Relay software on your computer. Unlike the EU relay links above, it creates a direct tunnel from your PC to the M45-Science servers in Michigan.
This can help if you encounter: