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Add instructions for connecting on the internal network #362

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## Level 1: Invite Your Friends
## Level 1: Invite Your Friends/Family

You will need to do some extra steps if you want other people to be able to connect and play.
If you are looking to let people from your *internal* network (connected to the same router as you).

### Port Forwarding
#### Getting your internal IP address (Windows)
1. Open Windows Settings
2. Click on "Network & Internet"
3. Look for "IPV4 address". Thats your computers local IP. And what your family needs to enter in the direct connect menu to join.
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If you are looking to let people outside of your local internal network. You will need to do some extra steps to allow external connections.

#### Port Forwarding

The server needs network ports to be forwarded so that people can connect. By default, the game server uses two ports:
* UDP `1212` is used for main game netcode. This is necessary for the *client* to be able to connect to the server. This can be configured with the `net.port` configuration variable.
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