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Your first Enshrouded server

Your name and password, and the two ways players find your server.

1. How do I set the server name and password?

In the Startup tab: Server Name, Server Password and Max Players. They are copied into enshrouded_server.json every time the server starts, so change them in Startup, not in the file. Then Restart.

2. How do my friends and I join?

Enshrouded has no box for typing an address. Find the server by name instead:

1. Choose Play, then Join a Private Game. 2. Type your server name in the search box at the top right and wait a few seconds. 3. Pick your server and enter the password.

If it does not show up, add it to Steam favourites: in Steam, open View, Game Servers, Favorites, choose the + button and enter the part of your address before the colon, a colon, and the Steam Query Port from the Startup tab. It then appears under Favorites in the game.

3. Players get a version error. What do I do?

The server and the game must be on the same version. When Enshrouded updates, Restart the server: with Auto Update on in Startup, it fetches the update as it starts.

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