Creating player (.) (..) (...)

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black_bleu

Refugee
Version
unknown, most recent version
Platform
Windows
I've been running into a huge bug where I am not able to or my friends are not able to join our server. We get stuck on the creating player loading section. We have jumped personal hosted servers where even initially the three of us were able to play but then eventually one of us got faulted. I am hoping that there is some fix to this as this game thrives on pseudo local player connectivity. Multiple persons to take up multiple roles succeed in this game. Our issue is that after maybe sometime, we are no longer eligible to play with each other. I tried to delete my character save data in app data for the server instance and still ran into the same issue. Initially I loaded in fine but one of us, me in this instance was instantly, disconnected. Im hoping for some resolution on this as I've had this game for almost a decade and I do love it but this issue makes having a meaningful player base. :(
 
Reproduction Steps
Load game of a friends
Get crashed
No longer ever able to join even deleting personal character files.
Link to Logs
https://pastebin.com/EbE8NTcP
Link to Screenshot/Video
https://www.google.com/search?q=7+days+to+die+stuck+on+creating+player&sca_esv=8ad6576b13f1899d&source=hp&ei=vS3XaNiBEebJp84P4rfE0Ag&iflsig=AOw8s4IAAAAAaNc7zWtwO8fst66BS-iNRLYmKNTePQGz&oq=7+days+to+die+stuck+on+creating&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz
Hi, this is a port forwarding issue. You'll need to set a static IP for the server, then forward port 26900 TCP and port range 26900-26902 UDP. You can verify this by checking the log for this (if you see LiteNetLib failing and it reverting to SteamNetworking, then it's not setup properly):

Code: 
2025-09-26T19:56:56 56.072 INF NET: LiteNetLib trying to connect to: 173.89.72.49:26900
2025-09-26T19:56:57 56.105 WRN [Steam] Tick took exceptionally long: 71 ms
2025-09-26T19:57:02 61.912 INF NET: LiteNetLib: Connection failed: ConnectionFailed
2025-09-26T19:57:02 61.913 INF NET: Steam NW trying to connect to: 173.89.72.49:26900
2025-09-26T19:57:02 61.914 INF [Steamworks.NET] NET: Connecting to SteamID 90274723530381341
Post automatically merged:

Moving this to Not a Bug, but feel free to respond here or in the general game support section for further assistance if needed
 
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