Dedicated Server Issues 1.0

[MrGowdy]

SOLUTION: Use SERVER MANAGER in main menu. Connect to your dedicated server. All your friends connect the same way, using SERVER MANAGER. You can either enter CLIENT or ADMIN password here. This solves the issue.

Getting this setup is beyond frustrating. Three ports, no useful explanation as to which if not all are required for port forwarding.

Even when you do forward them all, have all your stuff seemingly setup correctly.

EVERYONE trying to join gets:

"Encryption Token Missing" error.

[froggleston]

It's broken right now. The server doesn't listen to HTTP requests properly it seems. If you try `Join Game` you get the encryption token error, and if you try through the server manager, you get the API error.

[Bacon]

7777 is all that's needed now, needs TCP and UDP. You also need to remove `-Multihome=*` from your start parameters. It used to be standard but now isn't.

[chillkill]

Originally posted by Bacon:

7777 is all that's needed now, needs TCP and UDP. You also need to remove `-Multihome=*` from your start parameters. It used to be standard but now isn't.

I have tried all of this and am still getting the API error.

[Spikenard]

you also need ports 15000 and 15777. I added those both and the encryption error went away for me. Without those two ports I could only connect on my local network and not through the external IP. With all three ports forwarded (I did both UDP and TCP for all three) I can connect through the server manager both as regular player and as admin, internally and externally.

[Skiin]

The "join game" option is broken, everyone can enter the server using the "server manager" option, you only need to insert a password to client/player, who connect only need your ipv4 and the client/player password and they connect as a normal player.

About API error the solution is open port 7777 in your modem firewal and pc firewall (dont need port fowarding) with TCP and UDP protocols (before 1.0 realease, dedicated server ask only for UDP, now is TCP too)

Making both configuration make the server work properly

[chillkill]

I'm hosting a server via a docker container in unraid. I had to change my containers Network Type to Host. That resolved the issue for me. I had already opened up the other ports needed but this was the last thing that fixed it for me.

[michaeljhuman]

I tried to get it working for over 30 minutes with similar issues as reported in this thread, then gave up. Hopefully they fix it, as they spent time in videos explaining how they went out of their way to ensure dedicated server, and good multiplayer support :)

[shiftydarkshadows]

could we do hamachi with lan? for are freinds only? wouldnt that be easier unless that does not work like that lol

[Kaybo]

This is 1.0?
Instead of releasing videos on YouTube, it would be better to release a quality product. The dedicated server has become worse than it was in early access. Server crashes with the impossibility of playing on it even after a restart - a brilliant release. This is not what I was waiting for all these years.

[michaeljhuman]

The people who are doing the videos, are not the same people writing the code, and probably not the same people whose sole job is to test the code :) I get the frustration, I really do. But releasing videos surely has little to do with the state of game functionality.

[Distroier]

Hey had the same issue with the encryption error and opening the ports helped.
As many dedicated server experts are here:
My friend hosts a server on a spare PC. His IP changes daily.
Is there an easy and free way to set his IP fixed or can you use a session ID so that I do not have to enter the new IP every time?

[Ftee]

Originally posted by Distroier:

Hey had the same issue with the encryption error and opening the ports helped.
As many dedicated server experts are here:
My friend hosts a server on a spare PC. His IP changes daily.
Is there an easy and free way to set his IP fixed or can you use a session ID so that I do not have to enter the new IP every time?

..try a dyndns service.

[MrGowdy]

The solution is to use the SERVER MANAGER from the main menu.

Connect to the server, set it up or enter a password if it's already setup. EVERYONE connecting to the server must use the server manager to connect. They simply enter a CLIENT password and are able to join as a client.

In other words, the SERVER MANAGER menu feature handles certificates and accessing servers (such as Dedicated Servers). Trying to directly connect by simply adding the IP + Port in a Join Game option won't work for a vast majority of people.

[HuggernautNL]

for anyone having the same issues as me:

apparently, when you start the server through a .bat file, it doesn't use FactoryServer.exe but instead launches FactoryServer-Win64-Shipping-Cmd.exe located in your server directory under Engine/Binaries/Win64.

For me, adding that particular executable in my Windows Firewall fixed the problem of not being able to reach my server.

I do not use the -multihome parameter or the 15000/15777 ports.