How to Connect to Your SCP: 5K Server

SCP: 5K servers are found in the in-game server browser. Your server has a game port that players connect on and a query port the browser reads.

Find your details

Open your server at https://panel.playnhost.com. The overview shows the IP and the ports assigned to SERVER_PORT and QUERY_PORT.

Join the server

1. Launch SCP: 5K and open the multiplayer server browser.
2. Clear the filters, particularly the ones hiding empty and password protected servers.
3. Search for your server name as set in your startup settings.
4. Join, entering the password if one is set.

Favourite it

Mark the server as a favourite once you find it, so you do not have to search each session.

The first start takes a while

A new server loads its first map before it is listed. Watch the panel console rather than the browser.

If you cannot connect

• Check the panel console for the server reporting the map has loaded.
• Confirm you are using the SERVER_PORT value and not the query port.
• A version mismatch after a game update hides the server from updated clients. Restart the server so it pulls the new build.
• If the server never appears, check the map rotation. A map name the build does not recognise stops the server reaching a playable state, and the console names it.