How to Connect to Your Squad Server

Squad uses three ports. Players connect on the game port, the browser reads the query port, and a third beacon port is used by the engine. Only the first one goes in a connect line.

Find your address

Open your server at https://panel.playnhost.com. The overview lists the IP and the ports assigned to SERVER_PORT, QUERY_PORT and BEACON_PORT. Give players the IP with SERVER_PORT.

Join from the server browser

1. Launch Squad and open Servers.
2. Switch to the Community or custom browser tab. A community hosted server does not appear under the official list.
3. Search for your server name as it is set in Server.cfg.
4. Select it and join, entering the password if one is set.

Join directly

1. At the Squad main menu press the tilde key to open the console.
2. Enter:

   open 203.0.113.10:7787

   using your IP and SERVER_PORT.

For a password protected server:

open 203.0.113.10:7787?Password=yourpassword

This works before the server has registered with the browser, which makes it the right thing to send while you are still setting up.

Add it to favourites

Once connected, use the favourite option in the browser so the server is one click away next time, regardless of how the search behaves.

If you cannot connect

• Check the panel console. Squad takes a few minutes to load a layer on first start.
• Confirm you used SERVER_PORT and not the query port.
• A version mismatch after a Squad update shows as an immediate disconnect. Restart the server so it pulls the new build.
• If your server runs mods, every player needs them. See our guide on installing Squad mods.