diff --git a/packages/web_ui/src/components/LogConsole.tsx b/packages/web_ui/src/components/LogConsole.tsx
index f422a73c..c327d4ec 100644
--- a/packages/web_ui/src/components/LogConsole.tsx
+++ b/packages/web_ui/src/components/LogConsole.tsx
@@ -4,10 +4,14 @@ import { Select, Typography } from "antd";
 import * as lib from "@clusterio/lib";
 
 import { useAccount } from "../model/account";
+import useLocalStorage from "../util/useLocalStorage";
 import ControlContext from "./ControlContext";
 
 const { Paragraph } = Typography;
 
+const consoleHeightKey = "instance-console-height";
+const defaultConsoleHeight = 300;
+
 type Parsed = {
 	format: string;
 	type: string;
@@ -99,6 +103,36 @@ export default function LogConsole(props: LogConsoleProps) {
 	let anchor = useRef<any>();
 	let [pastLines, setPastLines] = useState([<span key={0}>{"Loading past entries..."}<br/></span>]);
 	let [lines, setLines] = useState<ReactElement[]>([]);
+	const [consoleHeight, setConsoleHeight] = useLocalStorage(consoleHeightKey, defaultConsoleHeight);
+	const consoleHeightRef = useRef(consoleHeight);
+	consoleHeightRef.current = consoleHeight;
+
+	// The console is resized with the browser's native resize handle, which owns
+	// the element's inline height. Driving the height from React would rewrite
+	// that inline style on every re-render and fight the drag (locking the size),
+	// so the height is only read here (on mount) and persisted (on resize), never
+	// written back through React. The scroll container is the <code> element
+	// wrapping the anchor.
+	useEffect(() => {
+		const element = anchor.current?.parentElement as HTMLElement | undefined;
+		if (!element) {
+			return undefined;
+		}
+		element.style.height = `${consoleHeightRef.current}px`;
+
+		if (typeof ResizeObserver === "undefined") {
+			return undefined;
+		}
+		const observer = new ResizeObserver(() => {
+			const next = Math.round(element.offsetHeight);
+			if (next && next !== consoleHeightRef.current) {
+				consoleHeightRef.current = next;
+				setConsoleHeight(next);
+			}
+		});
+		observer.observe(element);
+		return () => observer.disconnect();
+	}, []);
 
 	useEffect(() => {
 		let logFilter = {
@@ -164,6 +198,10 @@ export default function LogConsole(props: LogConsoleProps) {
 
 	return <>
 		<Paragraph code className="instance-console">
+			{/* Scrollable spacer (one console-height tall) that keeps short output
+			    pinned to the bottom and leaves room to scroll up. Unlike a
+			    padding-top it is scroll content, so it does not constrain resize. */}
+			<div className="console-spacer" key="spacer" />
 			{pastLines}
 			{lines}
 			<div className="scroll-anchor" key="anchor" ref={anchor} />
diff --git a/packages/web_ui/src/style.css b/packages/web_ui/src/style.css
index a26bb9fc..53cd7cdc 100644
--- a/packages/web_ui/src/style.css
+++ b/packages/web_ui/src/style.css
@@ -174,18 +174,25 @@ body {
 	height: 1px;
 }
 
+/* Scroll headroom above the output so short output sits at the bottom; it is
+   scroll content, not box padding, so it does not block dragging smaller. */
+.instance-console code .console-spacer {
+	height: 100%;
+}
+
 .instance-console code {
 	display: block;
 	margin: 0;
 	background: #000;
 	border-color: #252525;
+	/* Drag-resizable (the native handle needs the scroll overflow); height is set
+	   imperatively in LogConsole, border-box keeps padding out of offsetHeight. */
+	box-sizing: border-box;
 	height: 300px;
+	min-height: 100px;
+	resize: vertical;
 	overflow-y: scroll;
 	white-space: pre-wrap;
-
-	/* Make sure there's at least one pixel of scroll space, this */
-	/* is necessary for the view to stick on the scroll anchor. */
-	padding-top: 300px;
 }
 
 .instance-console .factorio-time {