Cant join Multiplayer?

[Thrice]

I bought the game for my son and I to play, but I cannot seem to join a game with him. Both of us have created a new world, then had the other try to join. Ive made sure were both online on our friends list. It will not find any game. Help?

[Short Bus]

Go to his name in your friends list, right click, go to join game...
Other than that make sure the world is not single player or invite only. i.e....(friends can join)

[Tiogh]

I have the exact same problem here. The world is not single player, and I can't join the game by friends list, because the list doesn't show us being ingame, status is just online!

[Tokoshoran]

Are you guys making sure that both accounts have their own, seperate game in their libraries, and that you're launching from Steam, not from your games folder?

[Tiogh]

Yeah, we're both launching from Steam and I also have the Steam-Overlay ingame. It just doesn't state, that I'm ingame.

Could it be a problem, that we use Family-Share-Option (because it's my wife), although we both bought the game in our own accounts?

[Tiogh]

We both deactivated Family-Share, but still the same behaviour. I can't join her game and she can't join my game.

[Tokoshoran]

Originally posted by Tiogh:

We both deactivated Family-Share, but still the same behaviour. I can't join her game and she can't join my game.

That's a bit odd. It doesn't think you're already in some other game? Try opening task manager and making sure any history of having a game open is gone. Reboot your computer if you have to.

[Tiogh]

We've got it working now...and now it's getting really weird: it won't work, if the host starts the game before the guest! But if the guest is starting the game, opens the search and AFTER this the host is starting the game and opening the world, then the guest finds the host magically!

I thought it should be the other way round.

I hope this helps others too.

[Tokoshoran]

Originally posted by Tiogh:

We've got it working now...and now it's getting really weird: it won't work, if the host starts the game before the guest! But if the guest is starting the game, opens the search and AFTER this the host is starting the game and opening the world, then the guest finds the host magically!

I thought it should be the other way round.

I hope this helps others too.

Does it work if the host launches first, but sits on the title screen until the guest is ready? Did hitting the "Refresh" button not work when it wasn't already on the list?

[Tiogh]

The "Refresh"-button looks like a dummy to me. It does nothing. If the host is ready (in the game) it's instantly shown in the list, no matter if the button is pressed or not.

And it seems like the host has to restart the whole game. It's not working, if he is in the game and creates the world after the guest is ready.

[Thrice]

Sorry Ive been out for a day. Just fyi - I got it working based off Mind of Madness' recommendation. Its the only way I can get it to work. I have to actually send a game invite to my son and have him accept it in order to play. Neither of us can find the darned thing through the server list lol.

[klanglor]

FYI: I had a similar issue. it wasn't working for me because the game language was not set to the same due to default language on each machine.

[Snowballghost.ops]

I also have the same issue but like its just raft that doesnt let me join online servers and for me to be joined as well, exept the odd thing is that all my other online games work just fidn with no connection issues, ive tried redownloaded the game and resetting my computer and stuff but nothing seems to work, i think the games is bugged

[bomzikYT]

Хотелось бы чего-то новенького а игре увидеть, а так замечательно