Can't see your server in the server list? Click Here!

[mbround18]

So you can not see your server in the server list?

Fear not my friend! You can direct connect to your server by following the steps below:

Open Steam, click View, then click Servers

Click Favorites and Add A Server

Enter the ip:port of your server and click Add This Address To Favorites

Note: in this example the environment port is set to 2456 which means the port you should be connecting to is 2457. The port you always connect to will be +1 of the port you set.

Finally, click refresh and double click on your server

NOTE: If you have a password on your server it will prompt you twice for it!

[surister]

This is great but, any chance it'll appear in the server list?

[mbround18]

It technically should but it depends on your networking, NAT, and other configurations.

[surister]

I fixed it, one of the three ports wasn't correctly open.

[Erwyn]

I have set PUBLIC=1 in my docker-compose.yml file, I have:

    valheim:
        image: mbround18/valheim:latest
        container_name: valheim
        ports:
            - "2456:2456/udp"
            - "2457:2457/udp"
            - "2458:2458/udp"
        environment:
            - NAME=Iprogon Empire
            - WORLD=Dedicated
            - PORT=2456
            - PUBLIC=1
            - PASSWORD=REDACTED
            - TZ=Europe/Paris
            - AUTO_UPDATE=0
        volumes:
            - valheim-saves:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim
            - valheim-data:/home/steam/valheim

Those are the ports given by docker ps

0.0.0.0:2456-2458->2456-2458/udp

and ufw:

2456                       ALLOW       Anywhere
2457                       ALLOW       Anywhere
2458                       ALLOW       Anywhere

But still, cannot see my server in the list. What I don’t get is when I first spawned this server (the 2nd of February) it was listed but not anymore. Something changed ? I checked the source code and the -public 1 seems to be effectively passed, so I’m kinda out of ideas.

[zupd]

Remember to add the server using port 2457, (1 above the port in docker-compose) and not 2456 as stated above in the screenshots :)

[zupd]

hmm never mind. I tried it because 2456 did not work. but then I just tried all 3 ports again, and it seems 2456 actually worked now

[mbround18]

ill grab a new screenshot :P

[Hi-ImKyle]

Either way, I'm sure we'd all prefer it to show up in the server browser in-game, yet mine is still not showing up? I checked ports, everything is open, including my NAT. Here's my compose file.

version: "3"
services:
  valheim:
    image: mbround18/valheim:latest
    network_mode: bridge # I added this, I prefer if it's on the bridge network. This can be ignored.
    ports:
      - 2456:2456/udp
      - 2457:2457/udp
      - 2458:2458/udp
    environment:
      - PORT=2456
      - NAME="Sheffield Valheim Server"
      - WORLD="Dedicated"
      - PASSWORD="REDACTED"
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - PUBLIC=1
      - AUTO_UPDATE=0
    volumes:
    - ./saves:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim
    - ./server:/home/steam/valheim

[mbround18]

Environment variable. Tried removing it, tried setting it to 0. Nothing seemed to work.

I am beginning to wonder if this is a problem with Valheim and not this tool. I am see a lot of articles with people experiencing the same issue.

[pamput]

@mbround18 I've tried to fork your tool and remove the flag myself and no dice. I've also tried this other repo: https://github.com/lloesche/valheim-server-docker and guess what? same result.

All seems to point to the devs being silly. Something I wonder is, maybe this is a problem with the linux server version? Can we confirm the version released for windows is the same as the one for linux?

EDIT: it seems they are all 0.143.5. I haven't tried running a windows dedicated server on my local machine though.

[mbround18]

Yeah, if you search Created With in the server list you get a few servers with this repos default name. So some of them are getting through but I think its on the Valheim devs to figure it out.

[pamput]

Maybe than this is a capacity limit? Maybe the browser (or the backend?) has a physical limit on the items that can be subscribed? I can see the items now oscillate around 4800 all the time.

[mbround18]

Maybe than this is a capacity limit? Maybe the browser (or the backend?) has a physical limit on the items that can be subscribed? I can see the items now oscillate around 4800 all the time.

I think you are spot on that this is a limit on Valheims side. For now, I recommend the favorite list connection method <3 hopefully in the future they will fix it. I am certain there are way more servers than 4800 :P

[Erwyn]

Me too and I have the same issue. It seems to be quite an issue on valheim side but I can't wrap my head around how this is not working. Cause obviously they must now how to maintain a server list. I was wandering if it's something to do with steam ports maybe? Le dim. 14 févr. 2021 à 19:57, Kyle <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

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[roastlechon]

I have that theory as well @Erwyn, however I dont know too much about the underlying server software. Maybe need to expose, map, and portforward 27015-27030?

[Erwyn]

Thank you very much for the effort and for your work! Le dim. 14 févr. 2021 à 20:00, Michael <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

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To be honest this sounds like some.jank code form the Valheim devs as my scripts only proxy to running the executable with flags. I'll try without the public variable attached and provide some feedback. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#51 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABSPF7LD4XUEX3B3YUH7H3S7AMS3ANCNFSM4XPXTWOQ> .

[Erwyn]

The only thing is that I'm sure some servers were appearing before and not anymore. Don't know if anything has been changed on valheim side. Maybe we could try not to provide the -public switch just to see what happens Le dim. 14 févr. 2021 à 20:38, Michael <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

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Environment variable. Tried removing it, tried setting it to 0. Nothing seemed to work. I am beginning to wonder if this is a problem with Valheim and not this tool. I am see a lot of articles with people experiencing the same issue. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#51 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABSPF6XVFCRJY2FXIXF3T3S7ARC5ANCNFSM4XPXTWOQ> .

[mbround18]

It looks like they dropped support for the -public flag? Additionally, outside of this repo it looks like this is a huge issue with the Valheim server browser in game. I suspect we are not seeing our servers because of the tweaks they made in recent patches to the server list.

https://www.gameskinny.com/21a7p/how-to-fix-valheim-server-not-showing-up

[Erwyn]

Could be due to this change on their side yes Le dim. 14 févr. 2021 à 20:54, Michael <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

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It looks like they dropped support for the -public flag? Additionally, outside of this repo it looks like this is a huge issue with the Valheim server browser in game. I suspect we are not seeing our servers because of the tweaks they made in recent patches to the server list. https://www.gameskinny.com/21a7p/how-to-fix-valheim-server-not-showing-up — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#51 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABSPF4XBAWO67X4P4GAMDDS7AS5DANCNFSM4XPXTWOQ> .

[pamput]

the -public flag is not mentioned in the (incredibly small) documentation available with the server. I'm not sure if it was ever documented or it got removed. If you check the state of the box it seems there is a listening TCP port open in the range of 27xxx, which is in the range of steamcmd, but nothing responds if you telnet into it. I wonder if the devs are doing some refactoring in this area and things broke?

Also, the server seems to randomly listen to a different port in the range 2456-2458, it's not 2456 all the time. If you can't directly connect to one at some point, test the other two.

[mbround18]

It was in the first release of the servers pdf user guide that is included but now its not included?

[pamput]

I don't know if it was in the first, definitely absent from the one I pulled a couple of hours ago.

[Erwyn]

27xxx looks definitely like the range of steam ports range. Le dim. 14 févr. 2021 à 22:17, Łukasz Kwasek <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

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the -public flag is not mentioned in the (incredibly small) documentation available with the server. I'm not sure if it was ever documented or it got removed. If you check the state of the box it seems there is a listening TCP port open in the range of 27xxx, which is in the range of steamcmd, but nothing responds if you telnet into it. I wonder if the devs are doing some refactoring in this area and things broke? Also, the server seems to randomly listen to a different port in the range 2456-2458, it's not 2456 all the time. If you can't directly connect to one at some point, test the other two. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#51 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABSPF66DRZUJH2GXF4FIYLS7A4WZANCNFSM4XPXTWOQ> .

[TheDakk]

I'm trying to get this up and running on Digital Ocean. I've allowed all three ports both on the Droplet level and in Ubuntu. I can add the server on port 2457 but it won't connect, gives me an error " is not currently playing on any game server". I was the randomly able to connect on 2456, but it seems intermittent. The game server is connected in the logs. Very strange...

EDIT: Looks after you add it on 2457, it connects to 2456 afterwards. It seems to be working now, will keep an eye on it.

[mbround18]

Yeah, low key I am very curious to see if the devs of Valheim will keep on the funkiness with the server ports :P

[choilive]

probably not the most prudent, but would opening the steam port range 270XX potentially resolve this? never seen the server pop up on the public list

[mbround18]

Sadly no they have a hard limit of 4800 servers listed on the ingame list but there are well over 4800 servers online. This is unfortunate but you will have to do the method listed above.

[Erwyn]

I don't know if there is a hard coded limit or not but yesterday I loaded something like 5001 servers. I didn't keep track, did we try without the -public flag ?

[Hi-ImKyle]

I checked the game's code for getting the servers, there doesn't appear to be any limit set anywhere.

[pamput]

@Hi-ImKyle it doesn't need to be on the client side, it's likely on the infrastructure back end. It's almost certain btw. You have over 300k players currently on steam at any time, 5k servers seem a VERY conservative amount.
They are currently the second most played game on steam... Valheim's devops person must be in a corner crying atm.

@choilive already tried opening all the 27xxx ports, no dice. It seems to be a limit of the infrastructure.

[Skysec0230]

what if we can see our server on steam, but it will not connect or show in game?

[mbround18]

@Skysec0230 have you tried connecting to each of the three ports?