Multiplayer losing connection

[Goose]

Works fine for a while but after a bit the person not hosting will randomly lose connection. We are sitting within 3 feet of each other playing on the same wifi. Is there a fix for this?

[Abel_Plant_Dad]

Me and my friend have the same issue. Be careful, if you get too far game ( distance game wise) , your clocks desynchronise and eventually lose connection. If you reduce the distance between you and your friends it syncs back. No other explanation found

[lizardmang]

A lot of people are having multiplayer connection issues lately, so I think a recent update might be at fault. I haven't seen any fixes. Since you're playing at the same location, I would recommend trying splitscreen if you have a controller that one of you can use.

[Mind_Splinter]

Same problem here as well. Tried just about every tip on the subject and nothing seems to work. Including compatibility mode that was recently submitted as a fix on this forum. Split-screen does work since it essentially removes the multiplayer aspect, but it's just not the same.

[Nic j. Fry]

We experience this tonight as well, played all day without any issue but a lot of connection drop recently.

[Awuzup]

Originally posted by Nic j. Fry:

We experience this tonight as well, played all day without any issue but a lot of connection drop recently.

Is this still happening to you? I have been experiencing this since yesterday and I am hoping it is temporary.

[NovelStout]

Legit same issue here. First tried the game through Game Pass PC, had loads of fun then after about 3 hours play time started running into disconnect issues on her end. Thought maybe the Game Pass version was borked and fell in love with the game so bought it through Steam.

and.......same issue. After another 3-4 hours of game time (broken up in different sessions, not 3 hrs straight) we started running into the same issue again. We get maybe 5-15 minutes into a session and then the dreaded "The Server has closed the connection" error pops up on her end.

Tried several fixes, thought I had it for a moment after changing some setting in my router. Managed to play all day yesterday and most of the day today before the issues started happening again. Starting to think it's just a bug with the game at this point. Haven't sent in a support ticket yet. Think I will just to raise awareness.

[Queen Droxxanna]

even a short blip in your wifi/lan can cause a disconnect with co-op. It may be your modem causing the problem, not the game.
The one good thing is if you are NOT the one hosting, you shouldn't lose any items and can return to game back in your cabin. It has happened to me a few times when my friend comes over and I joined her farm. Then it happened to her a few times when I hosted.
Its only the farm hand that gets disconnected, as the host can continue to play for a while without internet connection.
so if this happens, check your wifi speed and wait a few minutes to reconnect.

[NovelStout]

Originally posted by soaringfreedom:

even a short blip in your wifi/lan can cause a disconnect with co-op. It may be your modem causing the problem, not the game.
The one good thing is if you are NOT the one hosting, you shouldn't lose any items and can return to game back in your cabin. It has happened to me a few times when my friend comes over and I joined her farm. Then it happened to her a few times when I hosted.
Its only the farm hand that gets disconnected, as the host can continue to play for a while without internet connection.
so if this happens, check your wifi speed and wait a few minutes to reconnect.

This is a very good point, and I'm not ruling it out completely personally, but I'm finding it unlikely in my case. I've tore through router settings and even went as far as setting up a dedicated SSID/network that just has my wife and I's computer on it and the issue still comes up. Granted, I haven't tried a LAN connection yet, but I don't have any cables here at the house.

It's a very sporadic issue. We're able to sometimes play for an hour or two at a time with no issues, take a break, then come back and still have no further issues. Other times, like today for example, we played for most of the day, stopped for a little bit, then came back and had issues. This last time I watched my network speed as well as incoming/outgoing and nothing stood out that would make me think the WiFi is the issue. Perhaps I'll do a clean boot and rule out some other services tomorrow and report back.

[Choripan]

Same problem here, it's a very random behaviour. After some research looks like a strictly game related problem, probably the lastest patch break something.

[Lone Starr]

Similar issue here, but with less randomness:
We are 4 Players (great game fo a family): My wife and me connected via cable (ethernet), my two kids via wifi, me hosting the game. My wife is the only one losing connection, but on a quite regular basis. We just played a 1 hour mini-round and her PC disconnected about 4 times. 3 of the times she also had to start the game new to be able to reconnect.

Only thing that came to my mind is the fact that she is the 4th player in the game.

But I will have a look at the "to-much-in-game-distance" theory mentioned above, as well.
Since the kids never lost connection in about 10 hours total MP playtime, I would rule out router-issues.

Would be nice to get this fixed, since she is quite frustrated about this :-/

[Zombie Chow]

I had this problem with a friend last night. Unfortunately, second time he dropped, it was as we were both going through a transition screen to get into town.

[vasenessa]

been having this problem with the players who join the game I've been hosting. >_< Other than griping on Steam, is there a way to get support for the issue? I don't know whether it's a Steam issue or a Stardew Valley issue.

[NovelStout]

Originally posted by vasenessa:

been having this problem with the players who join the game I've been hosting. >_< Other than griping on Steam, is there a way to get support for the issue? I don't know whether it's a Steam issue or a Stardew Valley issue.

All signs as it stands points to it being an issue with Stardew Valley itself, specifically after the latest update. You can try your luck at filing a bug report through their support email listed on their website which I what I did. No response as of yet. Could also try posting to their forums to raise further awareness.

I will say though that LAN connection seems to be working just fine, though we only have 2 players going at a time.

Originally posted by Lone Starr:

Similar issue here, but with less randomness:
We are 4 Players (great game fo a family): My wife and me connected via cable (ethernet), my two kids via wifi, me hosting the game. My wife is the only one losing connection, but on a quite regular basis.

I will say it's random in terms of how often it produces. For us, we could play all day long and not have an issue, and then the next day my wife is disconnecting 5+ times as well.

Can you perhaps try hosting a LAN game with just you and your wife and see what happens? Part of me wonders if there's some sort of issue with the netcode when it's connecting through the internet and not showing up via LAN. Like I said above, we just played for an hour through LAN and didn't have a single issue.

[firstborndragon]

BF and I just tried again and we can't get co-op to work. It worked when we played no problem about 3-4 months ago, but we just get no synk issues. We haven't been able to play in over a week for more then a few days game time before loosing the connection.

[Lemon Berry]

I'm having similar issue but in being unable to connect to my friends worlds at all, it won't acknowledge anything other than local co-op, I got it on my mac to play with my friends too