How to quickly join/find your server in-game
Not all games have an easy-to-use server browser or a join by IP feature ingame. This can make it difficult to immediately find your server ingame. Thankfully Steam provides a feature with it's desktop client to allow you to monitor and join your server.
First make sure your server is
Online
. If it is marked asOffline
orStarted
it will not be discover-able. Some servers take a minute or two to fully start up and show asOnline
.Open Steam. Using the top menu go to
View
and then selectServers
Click on the
Favorites
tab.Click "Add a Server"
Enter the Hostname or IP address of your server with the port as well. For example an ARK server might read
ark-us.nodecraft.gg:27015
. Check theOverview
Tab in NodePanel if you are unsure what your details are. NOTE: You may need to use the query port to find your server in this list. For PixARK/Dark and Light, this is 27016 by default in our platform.Now you can click on the server when it's listed in the tab, and join it immediately.