ELI5: How are Blockland servers hosted?

[Sir Squidington]

I always thought that the only way was the giant "Start a Server" button on the home menu :[

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[EcstaticEggplant]

That is one way of doing it, but you can also host dedicated servers using a dedicated launcher file that you can enable or not when installing blockland. These servers will stay up even if you leave the game, and are used for 24/7 servers.

if you use steam then hosted a dedicated server is not really an option unless you buy one

[Sir Squidington]

That is one way of doing it, but you can also host dedicated servers using a dedicated launcher file that you can enable or not when installing blockland. These servers will stay up even if you leave the game, and are used for 24/7 servers.

if you use steam then hosted a dedicated server is not really an option unless you buy one

Are there any tutorials that show how to launch a dedicated server? I always thought the owners simply stay on 24/7. I always wondered how they didn't melt their computers.

[Blocky943]

port forwarding tutorial

i've never tried hosting a dedicated server (even though I could theoretically do it if I were to porward my forts)

[TheBlackParrot]

if you use steam then hosted a dedicated server is not really an option unless you buy one

Steam users can host a dedicated server if they apply -dedicated 1 as a command line argument when starting the game, however they still need the launcher override afaik.

[Pie Crust]

What I think Ecstatic tried to say was that you can't join your server if you only have a steam blockland account which makes dedicated hosting pretty hard to do up to the point it would be useless to try.

[TheBlackParrot]

What I think Ecstatic tried to say was that you can't join your server if you only have a steam blockland account which makes dedicated hosting pretty hard to do up to the point it would be useless to try.

what
no
you can still join it

[Pie Crust]

Can't you only have one client running at a time with Steam?

[Nizza Deutchsen Man]

Can't you only have one client running at a time with Steam?

No. If you go to the Blockland folder, you can launch multiple instances of the Blockland client

[Esphere]

step 1. port forward
step 2. press start game
step 3. choose gamemode (activate add ons for custom)
step 4. click online

congrats

[Mr Queeba]

I'm a steam user and I want to have the dedicated server and the game running at the same time. How do I override the blockland launcher so I can launch multiple instances without it telling me to run the game with blocklandlauncher.exe?

[Tetrahedron]

step 1. port forward
step 2. press start game
step 3. choose gamemode (activate add ons for custom)
step 4. click online

congrats

I always thought that the only way was the giant "Start a Server" button on the home menu :[

read it again. he said besides the start button

[Cypthon]

Are there any tutorials that show how to launch a dedicated server? I always thought the owners simply stay on 24/7. I always wondered how they didn't melt their computers.

To host a dedicated server, you need a blockland dedicated server file in your game files, if not, then you downloaded blockland without the dedicated server option.

[AutoBahn]

edit: i looked back at this and just realized he wasn't replying to who I thought he was. I can't read.

[Crispy_]

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how do I even begin to approach this

If you don't have a dedicated server file, make a new text file in your blockland folder. Put "blocklandlauncher.exe -dedicated" into it without quotations and change the text file's extension to .bat

You can also do other neat things like adding -gamemode freebuild would make the server automatically start in the freebuild gamemode.

Does this also work with shortcut files?