Opening Ports for SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt using Your Router

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September 24, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt is Image & Form's Action, Adventure, and Platformer game released in 2013.

When you play SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt you will enjoy the following styles of play.

Port Forward SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt

When you are playing SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt 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 on occasion 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 find your router's IP Address

The easiest way to locate 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 fastest way to do this is to use Network Utilities. Network Utilities can forward your ports in just a few clicks, and close them back down when you are done just as easily. You can also do it the manual way.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt Require

The ports for SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt are as follows:

SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt - PC

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SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt - Playstation 4

  • TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt - Switch

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
  • UDP: 1-65535

SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt - Xbox One

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

SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt - Steam

  • TCP: 27015-27030, 27036-27037
  • UDP: 4380, 27000-27031, 27036

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and SteamWorld Dig: A Fistful of Dirt simply follow one of these links:

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