Check if your Enshrouded server is online

The ports Enshrouded uses

Players enter the game port, and the query port is the number right after it. Both are UDP, both must be forwarded, and since they sit side by side, one range rule for the pair is the easiest way to get it right.

Every port a default Enshrouded install uses

With the game port left at 15636. If you changed it with gamePort in enshrouded_server.json, the other ports move with it.

Router-by-router forwarding steps for Enshrouded

Still offline? Try this

Both open and the query still times out? Check the server's slot settings and that the save has finished loading. A well-developed world carries a lot of terrain data, and the server keeps quiet until it is ready.

What a Enshrouded server needs to run well

Memory, 8 players

12 GB

CPU cores

4+

Disk

20 GB+

Voxel terrain edits are the expensive operation.

Size the memory for your own player count

Which port to type

Enshrouded's server settings have changed since launch. Older installs list a gamePort and a queryPort in enshrouded_server.json; on current versions, after Content Update #2, the file may only have queryPort, because that one port now does everything. Open your file and use what it says: if gamePort is gone, check the queryPort number, 15637 unless you changed it.

Up, but your password is refused

Passwords on a current Enshrouded server belong to user groups rather than to the server as a whole. A player who types the wrong group's password, or a password from before the change, is turned away even though the server is online and answering this check. The server owner can see each group's password in the userGroups section of enshrouded_server.json.

After an update

Clients update through Steam automatically; the dedicated server, app 2278520 in SteamCMD, does not. When a patch lands, update the server and restart it before anything else, because players on the new version cannot join an old server even though it still shows as online.