Alternative fix for dedicated server not showing up

[Jiva]

After reading through and attempting everybody's bogus fix for trying to get your dedicated server to show up when the guy at the local host isn't logged in, after discovering that none of that crap worked for me, I'm happy to say I figured it out at least in my situation hopefully this helps for you.

I'll tell you what I'm doing to help you evaluate what you need to do. I'm running a dedicated server which I've run via a batch file that I created downloading steam command updating the app editing the JSON file afterwards etcetera. I'm assuming you've already got that all set up and worked out you can look at anybody else's tutorial how to do that. The problem I'm having is no matter what nobody can find the server when they search for it unless I'm logged in. Even though the server says it's running, nobody can find it and nobody can add it via the game servers in steam as a favorite either. Here's why for me on my end:

I also play Ark survival and run a dedicated server. Palworld came out and I couldn't get the server to show up because Palworld also uses the same port as Ark. As soon as I disabled ark survival dedicated server, PalWorld showed up.

So with Enshrouded, when you look for how to set up your batch file they tell you to use two different ports and open them for TCP and UDP. Those ports are 15636 and 15637, what they don't tell you is that Enshrouded also uses the same freaking port as Ark and Palworld which is 27015.

Now assuming you have logged into your router and enabled the 15636 and 15637, then additionally on the computer running your dedicated server also logged into the windows firewall and added an inbound rule allowing those two ports for both TCP and UDP and it still doesn't show up. Maybe there is a game or a server you're also running that is using port 27015. I closed the other servers that was running for the other games and immediately enshrouded showed up for everybody with no one logged in. We went around in the group with everybody logged out and everyone was able to type in the name of the server and find it and favored it from the game. So long story longer make sure nothing is using 27015 because Enshrouded it's trying to.

[Valquian]

Just so you and anyone else coming across this post will know for the future, port 27015 is a Steam port, it's not a game port. This is the port used by Steam to ping your host and see if your server is up or not. If it can't reach the port, it's considered dead and won't show on the list so that 99% of what's shown aren't old/dead servers.

When hosting a game, you don't need to port forward 27015 in order for people to connect. But you will need to forward this port in order for it to show in the global Steam server list.

Hopefully this helps to solve some of the confusion. There's a range of ports that Steam uses to do this (27015-27050), so when hosting multiple servers from the same WAN connection, you can set different ports for Steam to use. I don't have the command available right now since I don't usually have servers show up in the global list - mostly because I just run servers for friends, and they just direct connect.