Opening Ports for Merchant of the Skies using Your Router

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May 21, 2020 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 3 minutes

Merchant of the Skies is a Role-Playing, Strategy, Simulation, and Management game published by Coldwild Games released in 2020.

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Merchant of the Skies includes the following genres of gameplay.

Forward Ports for Merchant of the Skies

When you are playing Merchant of the Skies 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 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

An easy way to do this is use our Network Utilities software. It can open your ports with just a few clicks. Then when you are done you can just was quickly close your ports again. Alternatively you can do it by hand.

The general process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does Merchant of the Skies Require

The network ports for Merchant of the Skies are as follows:

Merchant of the Skies - Steam

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

Merchant of the Skies - Switch

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

Merchant of the Skies - Xbox One

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

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Merchant of the Skies simply follow one of these links:

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