Multiplayer

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If you want to play multiplayer, there are basically five ways to do that:

• Play with Friends: Select a world and hit the green "Play with Friends" button in singleplayer menu to start a Steam P2P (peer-to-peer) multiplayer session on your machine. Then you're able to invite friends from your Steam friend list to your game (alternatively they can join your game accordingly). This does not require any additional steps (unless a firewall blocks the connection) and is the easiest solution if you just want to play the game with a few friends.
  
  
• Start a LAN game: This starts a LAN session on your machine. To do that, right-click on the green "Play with Friends" button and select "Play via LAN". People who live in the same household can join to your local IP then (your game should also show up in the server list for them).
  You can also play over the internet, but this requires port-forwarding in your router (port 4255 TCP and UDP). Usually it's recommendable to use the "play with friends" option instead, unless you want to play with users who don't have the Steam version of the game.
  
  
• Play on a public server: When clicking on "Multiplayer", you will find a list of all public servers. There are a few filter options available (as well as the ability to sort the list by playercount or alphabetically). Unless a server is password-protected, you can simply join it. Once you're on the server, you can press T to chat with other players.
  
  
• Rent a game server: If you don't have a dedicated server, and don't want to host the game on your machine, you can rent a game server for Rising World. You can find an overview of official server hosters on our homepage.
  
  
• Host your own server: The server files for Rising World are available for free. You can either find them in your Steam library under "Tools" (download the "Rising World Dedicated Server", or alternatively download them via SteamCMD (no need to have Steam installed, anonymous login possible). If you want to host the server on your local machine, you have to forward the port 4255 TCP and UDP. Also forward port 4254 TCP, so your server shows up in the server list. If you change the default server port, change the forwarded ports accordingly (always forward the serverport and serverport-1).
  If you have a dedicated server, it's definitely preferable to host the RW server there. To find more information about setting up a dedicated server, please see this topic: Dedicated Server Setup[forum.rising-world.net]

To get information about playing multiplayer in the Java version, please see this topic