Satisfactory Mods: How to Install Them With Satisfactory Mod Manager (Including Dedicated Servers)

Satisfactory mods all come from one place: the Satisfactory Mod Repository at ficsit.app, installed with Satisfactory Mod Manager (SMM). SMM downloads each mod, its dependencies and the Satisfactory Mod Loader (SML) into the right folders, so you never unzip anything yourself. SMM can also connect to a dedicated server over SFTP, which means one app manages both your own game and your server.

This guide sets up mods on your own copy of the game first, then puts the same mods on your hosted Satisfactory server, then covers keeping the two in sync when the game updates. Mods are PC-only (Steam and Epic). Consoles cannot load them. For first boot and connecting, see Getting started with your Satisfactory server.

Before You Start: Are Mods Working on the Current Version?

Satisfactory mods break when the game changes underneath them, so check this first. As of 27 September 2026:

So the mod scene is up to date with 1.2, and the most popular mods have 1.2 builds that include a Linux server version. Satisfactory runs on Unreal Engine 5.6.1 as of 1.2. After any big update there is a gap of days or weeks before SML and the larger mods catch up, so check the mod's page before you update your server.

Part 1: Mods on Your Own Game

Set up mods on your own game first. Then you can test your mod list in single-player before any of it reaches the server.

1. Launch Satisfactory to the title screen once. SMM expects the game to have run at least once on that computer.
2. Download SMM from ficsit.app, or from smm.ficsit.app, which picks the right build for your operating system. On Windows you can run winget install SatisfactoryModding.SatisfactoryModManager instead. On Linux the AppImage may need chmod +x before it will run. If your browser says the file "is not commonly downloaded", choose Keep.
3. Pick your install. SMM finds Steam and Epic installs on its own. If you have more than one, choose from the Install dropdown.
4. Set the funnel filter to Compatible. Only mods that work with the selected install are listed.
5. Click the download arrow next to a mod. SMM installs SML and any dependencies automatically.
6. Play as normal. You do not have to launch through SMM. It writes the files into your game folder, so a normal Steam or Epic launch loads them too. To go back to vanilla, click Mods off in the top left. Don't delete files by hand.

Make one profile for the server

Profiles are named mod lists, and switching to one unloads the previous one. Create a profile named after your server and install your server's mods into it. Part 2 uses the same profile.

Part 2: Mods on Your Dedicated Server

SMM 3.0 and later can manage a remote server over SFTP. The server then shows up in the same dropdown as your own game, and you install mods to it the same way.

Step 1: Get your SFTP details

In the panel, open your server's Settings tab and find SFTP Details. You need the SFTP Server address, the SFTP Port (usually 2022) and the SFTP Username. The password is your panel password. How to upload files via SFTP explains each field.

Step 2: Stop the server

Stop the server from the Console tab. A running server keeps its mod files locked, so installs and removals fail. It also needs a restart to load mods.

Step 3: Add the server to SMM

1. In SMM's left panel, under Other, click Manage Servers.
2. Under Add a New Server, set the protocol dropdown to SFTP. Don't use FTP.
3. Fill in the fields:

4. Add the server. If SMM reports no installations found, the path is wrong. Point it at the folder that contains FactoryServer.sh.

Our egg launches the Linux server binary directly (Engine/Binaries/Linux/*-Linux-Shipping FactoryGame), but FactoryServer.sh is still in the server root, and that file is what SMM looks for.

These steps follow the Satisfactory Modding team's dedicated-server documentation and our SFTP setup, but we haven't yet run SMM against one of our Satisfactory servers ourselves. If SMM can't connect, can't find the installation, or the mods don't load after a restart, contact support and we'll help.

Step 4: Install the mods

Select the server in the install dropdown. With the funnel on Compatible, SMM lists only mods that have a dedicated-server build. On ficsit.app itself, a mod's Latest Version section shows a Server column, and a tick for Linux server means it will run on ours. Select your server profile, or install mods one by one. SMM uploads each mod with its dependencies and SML into FactoryGame/Mods/.

Most mods support dedicated servers, but not all of them. A mod without a server build is either client-only or not ported yet.

Step 5: Start and check

Start the server from the panel and watch the Console as it boots. Then join from a client that has the same mods.

Keeping Players and the Server in Sync

A client can only join if it has the same mods as the server. SML tries to explain a mismatch in the disconnect message, but it can't always.

The modding team's advice is to manage both your own game and the server from one SMM with the same profile. Then export the profile and send the file to your players. They import it, and their mod list matches yours.

You may add a mod that only exists on one side, such as a client-only UI mod or a server-only admin tool. At that point you need two profiles, one for your game and one for the server, because the modding team says a client profile cannot always be applied to a server.

To pin a mod version, expand the mod in SMM and open Change version. Click the left side of an entry to lock that exact version, or the right side to lock that version or newer. Everyone on the same pinned version rules out mismatches caused by an update.

Mod settings on a server

SMM cannot change a mod's settings on a remote server. Configure the mod in your own game, then upload its config file to the same place on the server, FactoryGame/Configs/. Some mods misbehave if client and server configs differ.

Some mods have savegame settings that you can only choose when a save is created, and the Server Manager's save-creation screen does not show them. To use one, create the save in your own game with the settings you want, then upload it to the server as described in How to Upload Your Existing World.

Game Updates, Auto Update and Your Mods

Game updates are what break a modded Satisfactory server. On our panel, Automatic Updates in the Startup tab is on by default. With it on, every server start runs SteamCMD and pulls the latest build of the branch set in [Advanced] Branch Name. When Coffee Stain ships a patch, your server takes it at the next restart. That can happen before SML and your mods support it, and then the server either won't load the mods or players can't join.

For a modded server:

• Turn Automatic Updates off once the server is working. Mods stay on the build they support.
• When a game update comes out, check ficsit.app first. SML's page and each mod's page list the game builds they support. Once your mods are updated, turn Automatic Updates back on, restart once to take the update, update the mods in SMM, and turn it off again.
• Your players' Steam or Epic will update their game on its own schedule. If the server stays on an older build while clients update, they can't join until the server catches up, so don't leave updates off for long.
• Branch Name accepts public or experimental. Server and clients must be on the same branch. Experimental builds are often what breaks mods first.

Back up before you validate

[Repair] Validate Server Files tells SteamCMD to check the game's own files at the next start. Take a backup from the Backups tab before using it on a modded server, and check that FactoryGame/Mods/ is still there afterwards.

Installing Mods Manually (Not Recommended)

Use SMM if you can. The modding team does not support manually installed servers, and a manual install is where most broken servers come from. If you have to:

• Never copy your own game's Mods folder to the server. Client builds don't work on a dedicated server and fail with vague errors.
• On the mod's ficsit.app page, open Versions, choose a version whose game-version range includes your server's build, and use the Download dropdown to get the LinuxServer build.
• Open the .uplugin file inside the download. If GameFeature is true, the mod goes in FactoryGame/Mods/GameFeatures/. Otherwise it goes in FactoryGame/Mods/.
• The mod's folder must have exactly the same name as its .uplugin file. SML goes in a folder named exactly SML.
• You have to install every dependency yourself, including SML, at the version the mod's page lists.

Mods arrive as .smod or .zip archives. Unzip them on your computer, then upload the folder over SFTP. The panel's File Manager cannot upload folders, but it can Unarchive a zip you upload.

Popular Server-Compatible Mods

All of these had a 1.2 build with a Linux server target on ficsit.app on 27 September 2026. Check each page before you install, because compatibility changes with every patch.

Two changes from older mod lists. Daisy chaining power is now part of the base game in 1.2 (the Upgraded Power Connectors MAM unlock), so you don't need a mod for it. Pak Utility Mod is a library that other mods depend on, and SMM installs it automatically when a mod needs it.

Common Issues

What to Read Next

• Getting started with your Satisfactory server for first boot and the basics
• Configuring your Satisfactory server for the INI files and which settings survive a restart
• Satisfactory Dedicated Server Commands, API and Settings for admin access and Creative Mode, the base game's built-in cheat options
• Satisfactory Console Commands and Cheats for the real cheat commands the Satisfactory Mod Loader unlocks
• How to Upload Your Existing World for moving a modded save onto the server
• Is Satisfactory crossplay?. Mods are PC-only, which is part of why console and PC players stay apart

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