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title: "How to Quickly Find and Join your CounterStrike: Source Server"
description: Learn how to find and connect to your Counter Strike Source Nodecraft server from within Steam.
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published: "2019-09-17T01:14:08.436Z"
updated: "2019-09-23T14:57:00.000Z"
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# How to Quickly Find and Join your CounterStrike: Source Server

Learn how to find and connect to your Counter Strike Source Nodecraft server from within Steam.

One of the fastest ways to quickly find your newly created Counter-Strike: Source server is to use the "Favorite" servers feature of Steam.  Add your server's IP to the server window in steam, and the server will then appear in the "Favorites" tab in the in-game menu.

## Launch Steam

Once you have the Steam application running, look at the very upper left corner of the window, and you will see a row of small words across the top.

![A view of the Steam application, showing one of the menus.](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/8bKiBUjIQKOOSie1lsmz_CSS_join_server_steam_account.PNG)

Click on the word "view", and a small drop-down menu appears.

![A view of the dropdown menu for the "view" menu option in Steam](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/0GO7O9InQbG9gl4blRvA_CSS_join_server_view_servers.png)

On that drop-down menu, click the word "servers" and a pop-up window will appear.  Click the "favorites" tab across the top of that window.

![A view of the add server window in Steam](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/vPyoBsjOTBCv4sWxK0qm_CSS_join_server_addserver.png)

Click on the "Add a Server" button near the the lower right corner, and a second window will appear.

![A view of the add server window in Steam](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/l7T8joA8QcWHrQMJfKQf_CSS_join_server_add_serfer_IP.PNG)

In that box, enter your server's IP address, followed by a colon, and the port number "27015".  Your server should now show in the big central window.

![A view of the add server window](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/eieUhbAoQbu5UnjJIQsf_CSS_join_server_steam_addserver.PNG)

## Start Counter-Strike: Source in Steam

After you start the game, in the main menu for Counter-Strike: Source, click on "find servers".

![A view of the main menu title screen for Counter-Strike: Source](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/7Z8q0qMgTvmxX9ff9ff1_CSS_join_server_CSS_main_screen.png)

A window will open up for selecting servers, and click on the "Favorites" tab, and there you will see your server listed!

![A view of the add servers window in Counter-Strike: Source](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/iltRbDyHSUeAenfWOyRj_CSS_join_server_CSS_server_screen.png)