World / Server Creation And Joining

[Joel Phantom]

It has become an apparent issue since the migration from F2P and all the new features and worlds were implemented that it has become increasingly difficult (*at least for me and my friends) to start out own server up and play together. We both have tried everything we can think of and nothing has done the job. We have made worlds public, whitelisted (and non-whitelisted), using the dedicated server tool, etc. Nothing has worked. So I dont know where else to turn for advice and I really am hoping the community can help. I love Creativerse and want to see it do well and if one of us has the proper info we can spread it better as a community.
Lotsa Love!
-Regen

[entuland]

Please check the guide, it's linked by various "?" and "Help" buttons in game, here is the link for your convenience:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rAeuk7qFinUyPRJGk4x6Dim3rmQN2zoLaR3PNR0roU4/edit

The guide provides the details about how multiplayer works now that we had to shut our servers down to save the game (or no one would have been able to play it anymore).

In short, to host a world behind a LAN, you need to add port forwarding (and possibly a static reservation) - hosting it on a regular server outside of your LAN doesn't require port forwarding.

If needed I can provide live support - you can contact me on Discord, entuland#7134

[Joel Phantom]

Originally posted by entuland:

Please check the guide, it's linked by various "?" and "Help" buttons in game, here is the link for your convenience:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rAeuk7qFinUyPRJGk4x6Dim3rmQN2zoLaR3PNR0roU4/edit

The guide provides the details about how multiplayer works now that we had to shut our servers down to save the game (or no one would have been able to play it anymore).

In short, to host a world behind a LAN, you need to add port forwarding (and possibly a static reservation) - hosting it on a regular server outside of your LAN doesn't require port forwarding.

If needed I can provide live support - you can contact me on Discord, entuland#7134

Thank you for a swift reply, I cant seem to message your discord for some reason, I have tried to add and do direct message and it will not allow me to, apologies if I am missing something. I have sent the link to the server host however and I expect she will take a look at it, at her earliest convenience. Thanks for your support and time. Its appreciated. We love the game, we just found it a bit jarring to set up a server. We dont plan on doing LAN, we want to do online. So if a third party hosting service is needed (like a certain other popular block building game often needs) let me know and I will forward that information to the host yet again :)

[entuland]

You're welcome - if you can't message me it's probably due to your privacy settings on Discord - I have mine set to allow messages from anyone, doesn't matter if we share a Discord server or not.

If you're not sure you're getting the contact right you can join the Creativerse Discord Server - https://discord.com/invite/creativerse - then right click on my name there and message me from there.

Renting / buying / borrowing a remote server is not necessary, you can host the world from your own computer with the port forwarding - conversely, if you're going to host the world on a remote server you do not need any port forwarding.

If you're not going to host the world yourself but some other player is going to, it's better if you have that player contact me directly to speed things up (so that you don't have to dispatch comms / info back and forth, and so that I can get the info first hand from them).

[entuland]

Also, just to be sure, hosting behind your LAN with the port forwarding doesn't mean that only players within the same LAN can play that world - that's the whole point of port forwarding, allowing players _outside_ the LAN to join the world.