How To Set Up a Server in Enshrouded: Server Settings Guide

Enshrouded is designed to be played with your friends. Exploring Embervale with others makes it a little easier to stay alive among the world’s natural landscape and the monsters that inhabit it. You’re able to set up a private server for yourself or even a public server with up to 16 friends. We broke down how to set up a server in Enshrouded for the next time you want to jump in with your friends.

How To Set Up A Server in Enshrouded

To join your own server on a different PC, follow these instructions:

1. Install the Enshrouded Dedicated Server in Steam’s Tools section of your Library.
2. In Steam, go to the Enshrouded Dedicated Server Tool’s properties and access the files.
3. Open the tool and then close it out.
4. Once closed, use Notepad to open the new enshrouded_server.json file in the tool’s files.
5. Here, you can adjust the server’s name and other attributes.
6. Once you’re done, you can close the file and open the Dedicated Server tool again.

You can also rent a server via a third party like GPortal. This does cost money, but you can have a number of slots for different servers.

How To Host a Private Server in Enshrouded

There are three ways to play Enshrouded when you first boot it up. If you want to play by yourself in a private server, then you need to:

1. Press the Play option.
2. Select the Private play option.
3. Next to the New Game selection, select the Create button.
4. Name your server whatever you’d like.

All of your private servers will be located in this same area.

How To Host Up a Co-Op Server

To host a public game in Enshrouded, follow the same instructions as above except:

1. Select the Host play option.
2. Next to the New Game selection, select the Create button.
3. Name your server whatever you’d like.
4. Set the number of players that can join the server.

How to Join a Server

If you’re looking to instead join someone else’s server, you can do that as well. The same as above, follow these instructions:

1. Select the Join play option.
2. Use the filter or the search bar to look for the specific server you’d like to join.
3. If the server is password protected, you’ll be asked for the password before joining.
4. If there is no password, you’ll immediately join the game.

Enshrouded is available on Steam in early access.