Five steps. Same five every time, whatever we're playing.
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Install Tailscale
Our server is not on the open internet, so you can't just type in the address and
join. Tailscale is a free app that lets your computer see it.
Think of it as the key to the front door.
Install it, then ask an admin to invite you. An admin is whoever sent you this
link. Until they invite you, it won't work.
Leave Tailscale running the whole time you play. Close it and you get kicked off.
Download Tailscale
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Buy the game
You have to actually own whatever we're playing. Buy it, install it, then open it
once and let it finish setting itself up. Nothing below works until you've done
that.
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Get the same mods as everyone else
Mods are extra stuff added to a game. A bundle of them is called a
modpack. Some games we play with one, some without.
If a card up above lists a modpack, you need the same one, at the same version
number. Not a newer one. Not close. Identical. This is the number one reason
people can't get in.
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Join the server
Open the game and look for Multiplayer, Add Server
or Join by IP. Hit the Copy button below, paste it in, and connect.
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If it doesn't work
Check these three, in this order. It's basically always one of them.
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Is Tailscale actually on? Open it. It has to say connected.
Installed is not the same as connected.
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Is your version exactly right? Compare it to the card above,
number for number. 1.21.1 and 1.21.2 are not the same thing.
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Did the address paste properly? No spaces at either end, nothing
missing off the end of it.
Still broken? Ask in Discord, and say which three you already checked so nobody
makes you do them again.