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title: "Joining your Insurgency: Sandstorm Server"
description: "Learn how to find and join your Nodecraft hosted Insurgency: Sandstorm server!"
source: "https://nodecraft.com/support/games/insurgency-sandstorm/joining-your-sandstorm-insurgency-server"
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published: "2018-12-21T22:46:19.988Z"
updated: "2020-03-09T17:57:00.000Z"
---

# Joining your Insurgency: Sandstorm Server

Learn how to find and join your Nodecraft hosted Insurgency: Sandstorm server!

## First steps

- Firstly, open the game client for Insurgency: Sandstorm from Steam.
- Next, from the Main Menu, click "Play

![A view of the title screen of Insurgency Sandstorm](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/Jh0ExsUrR02YATLTmwXI_Insurgency_joiningserver_title.png)

## Select "Community Servers" Gamemode

On the following screen, you will see 4 game modes listed:

The first three modes, **coop, versus, and competitive**, all involve **automatic matchmaking only**.

If you have created a Insurgency: Sandstorm server at Nodecraft, you will find your server in the **Community** server listings. This is the only way to search for and join a specific server, instead of random matchmaking.

![A view of the gamemode selection screen for the game Insurgency Sandstorm](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/caMe7uQ2Sz6rcrY4qbYQ_Insurgency_joiningserver_modes.png)

## "Community" Server Listings

This will show all the "Community" servers, allowing players to search for and find a specific server. Allow about 5 -10 seconds for the server listings to populate each time you open this screen.

![A view of the Community server listings of Insurgency Sandstorm](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/UMcwelnETaKibqRsi2aQ_Insurgency_joiningserver_community_listings.png)

### Sorting the Server Listings

- Clicking the headers **Server**, **Players**, **Map**, **Mode**, and **Ping** across the top of the listings will sort the server listings.
  For example, clicking "Ping" will sort it from lowest ping at top, to highest ping at bottom. Clicking it a second time will sort it the opposite way, with highest ping at top. **Clicking "Server" header will sort all server names into alphabetical order the same way.**
- In the upper left-hand corner is a search box too, to quickly find your server by name.
- A circled arrow button in the upper right hand corner will refresh the server listings. It will take a short while again to reload the listings.
- In the lower lefthand corner is a button for connecting by IP address, which is probably one of the faster ways to connect directly to your server.

### Join by IP Address

Clicking this button will open a small window directly in the middle of the screen where you can enter the IP address of a server.

You can find the IP address of your server hosted at Nodecraft by looking on the "Overview" tab of the Nodecraft control panel for your server.

> You need to add ":27102" after the IP address (which is the port), or you will not be able to join by IP address.
> For example: `xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:27102`

## Password Screen

If your server actually does have a password, you'll need to enter it, of course.

> Even if you have no password set on your server, you may still see the password box appear. Just click enter/ok to proceed.

![Insurgency_Sandstorm_password_entry](https://s3-assets.nodecraft.com/attachments/PABU8dVTayDcvAmzMsV8_Insurgency_Sandstorm_password_entry.PNG)

## Final Steps to Join your Server

After that, you will join the game, and then see the starting screen for the mission! If successful, you will see a loading screen for the scenario, with a percentage progress symbol in the lower right corner. Wait for the map to load, and then select your starting point, class, and loadout!