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<title>Brickadia Port Forwarding Guide</title>
<h3>Before you read:</h3>
<ul>
  <li>Ignore the Network Utilities thing on portforward.com.</li>
  <li>Dedicated servers perform much better than servers hosted from the in-game menu</li>
</ul>

<h1>Port forwarding instructions</h1>
<ol>
  <li>Visit <a href="https://portforward.com/router.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this guide website</a></li>
  <li>Find your router by model</li>
  <li>Follow the instructions and when you get to the point where it becomes relevant the actual port you want is <b>UDP 7777</b></li>
</ol>

<h1>Brickadia server connection troubleshooting guide</h1>

<ol>
  <li>Check if port 7777 is forwarded for UDP</li>
  <li>Check if the computer the port is forwarded for has the same IP as the <code>IPv4 Address</code> when you run <code>ipconfig</code> in a cmd</li>
  <li>Check if there is only one currently active adapter when you run <code>ipconfig</code> in cmd (Inactive may say "Media Disconnected")</li>
  <li>Check if Firewall -> Advanced Settings -> Inbound Rules -> brickadia-win64-shipping is checked for public or private networks</li>
  <li>Check if Ethernet (or Wireless) Settings -> Click the connected Network -> Network profile is the same as the one from firewall settings</li>
  <li>Check if Ethernet (or Wireless) Settings -> Change Adapter Options -> Only one network connection is Enabled and Connected</li>
</ol>

<b>Other things to note:</b>

<ul>
  <li>
    If you have multiple networks at the same time:
    <ul>
      <li>Make sure you forward for the address of whatever adapter Brickadia is using</li>
      <li>If you are running Hamatchi, this is likely a problem. Try killing the task and disabling the adapter.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>

  <li>
    If your port forwarding requires you to put a <code>Local IP Address</code> and an <code>External IP Address</code>:
    <ul>
      <li>Leave the section that does not have Start/End Port or Protocol alone</li>
      <li>Set Local IP address to the <code>IPv4 Address</code> from <code>ipconfig</code></li>
      <li>External IP address should be <code>0.0.0.0</code></li>
    </ul>
  </li>

  <li>
    If your port forwarding requires you to put a <code>Source IP Address</code> and an <code>Destination IP Address</code>:
    <ul>
      <li>Set Source IP address to <code>0.0.0.0</code></li>
      <li>Set Destination IP address to the <code>IPv4 Address</code> from <code>ipconfig</code></li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>

Submit changes to this webpage at its <a href="https://github.com/brickadia-community/portforward">github repo</a>.