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## Level 1: Invite Your Friends

You will need to do some extra steps if you want other people to be able to connect and play.
If you are looking to let people from your *internal* network (connected to the same router as you).

### Port Forwarding
#### Getting your internal IP address (Windows)
1. Open Windows Settings on the computer running the server.
2. Click on "Network & Internet"
3. Look for "IPV4 address". That's your computers local IP. And what people on your local network need to enter into the direct connect menu to join.

If you are looking to let people outside of your local internal network. You will need to do some extra steps to allow external connections.

#### Port Forwarding

The server needs network ports to be forwarded so that people can connect. By default, the game server uses two ports:
* UDP `1212` is used for main game netcode. This is necessary for the *client* to be able to connect to the server. This can be configured with the `net.port` configuration variable.
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