How to Port Forward Autonauts in Your Router

Autonauts is a Strategy, Management, and Simulation game published by Curve Digital released in 2019.

Autonauts has the following styles of play.

• Strategy games tend to focus on planning and skillful thinking in order to beat either real players or bots. They can be either real-time in which the play clock ticks continuously or turn-based where each player has a dedicated turn to finish their action. It is not uncommon to include exploration and resource management.
• The management style can be either resource management such as wood and ore, or player management such as a sports game.
• In a simulation game the primary goal is to simulate a real life situation either for education or entertainment. Simulation games have a huge vareity of types including sports, driving, flying, and dating. Some of the most popular sims of all time are SimCity and Madden NFL.

When you are playing Autonauts 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 intermittently 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.

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

• Your router's IP address.
• Your gaming machine's IP address.
• The TCP and UDP ports that need to be forwarded.

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.

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 normal process for forwarding a port is:

• Open a web browser and navigate to your router's IP address.
• Find your routers port forwarding section.
• Put the IP address of your computer or gaming console in the correct box in your router.
• Put the TCP and UDP ports for your game in the matching boxes in your router.
• Sometimes you have to reboot your router for the changes to take effect.

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The exact ports for Autonauts are as follows:

Autonauts - Steam

• TCP: 27015, 27036
• UDP: 27015, 27031-27036

Autonauts - PC

• We do not know the PC ports for Autonauts yet. If you know them please send us a message using our Message System.

Autonauts - Xbox One

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

Autonauts - Xbox Series X

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

Autonauts - Switch

• TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
• UDP: 1024-65535

Autonauts - Playstation 4

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

Autonauts - Playstation 5

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

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

• Autonauts - Steam
• Autonauts - Xbox One
• Autonauts - Xbox Series X
• Autonauts - Switch
• Autonauts - Playstation 4
• Autonauts - Playstation 5

That's all it takes to forward your ports. For more on how to port forward, check out our list of games and applications.