How To Port Forward Sea of Thieves

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July 18, 2017 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

Sea of Thieves is an Action, Adventure, Open-World, and Role-Playing game published by Xbox Game Studios released in 2018.

Sea of Thieves Anniversary Edition cover artwork
Sea of Thieves Anniversary Edition cover artwork

Ports Required for Sea of Thieves

The necessary ports for Sea of Thieves are as follows:

Sea of Thieves - Steam

  • TCP: 3074, 27015, 27036
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500, 27015, 27031-27036

Sea of Thieves - PC

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

Sea of Thieves - Xbox One

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

Sea of Thieves - Xbox Series X

  • TCP: 3074
  • UDP: 88, 500, 3074, 3544, 4500

We have guides that are custom tailored for Sea of Thieves that will show you the required incoming ports.

Sea of Thieves includes the following styles of gameplay.

How to Port Forward Sea of Thieves

When you are playing Sea of Thieves you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and frequently even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to locate your Router's IP Address

The easiest way to find your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

The easiest way to forward a port is to use our Network Utilities suite of tools. With our software you can quickly and easily turn your port forwards on and off for multiple programs at any time. Or just keep reading to learn how to do it by hand.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

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