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title: How to quickly join/find your server in-game
description: Learn how to quickly find and join your Nodecraft hosted Steam server.
source: "https://nodecraft.com/support/games/pixark/how-to-quickly-join-find-your-server-in-game"
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published: "2017-07-27T19:24:53.605Z"
updated: "2020-03-03T19:18:00.000Z"
---

# How to quickly join/find your server in-game

Learn how to quickly find and join your Nodecraft hosted Steam server.

Not all games have an easy-to-use server browser or a join by IP feature ingame. This can make it difficult to immediately find your server ingame. Thankfully Steam provides a feature with it's desktop client to allow you to monitor and join your server.

1. First make sure your server is `Online`. If it is marked as `Offline` or `Started` it will not be discover-able. Some servers take a minute or two to fully start up and show as `Online`.
2. Open Steam. Using the top menu go to `View` and then select `Servers`
3. Click on the `Favorites` tab.
4. Click "*Add a Server*"
5. Enter the Hostname or IP address of your server with the port as well. For example an ARK server might read `ark-us.nodecraft.gg:27015`. Check the `Overview` Tab in NodePanel if you are unsure what your details are. **NOTE: You may need to use the query port to find your server in this list. For PixARK/Dark and Light, this is 27016 by default in our platform.**
6. Now you can click on the server when it's listed in the tab, and join it immediately.

![Steam](https://cms-a.nodecraft.com/f/133932/572x375/f13e7b1be7/steam_2017-07-27_15-12-36.png/m/ "Steam")