"Could not connect to master server"

[Hinashi]

I can't access the public servers, I always get the same error from previous versions.

 

 I already uninstalled and reinstalled, checked the firewalls, reinstalled the .NET and nothing works.

 

 Has anyone had the same problem and managed to solve it?

[Brady_The]

Open "clientsettings.json" in %appdata%/VintageStoryData/ and check what the "masterserverUrl" is set to. It should read: "https://masterserver.vintagestory.at/api/v1/servers/". If it is set to something else, fix the line to the correct one mentioned in this post. That should do the trick.

Edited September 13, 2024 by Brady_The

[Theotius]

that is what mine says and I'm still getting the error

 

[B3NJI]

On 9/13/2024 at 3:21 AM, Brady_The said:

Open "clientsettings.json" in %appdata%/VintageStoryData/ and check what the "masterserverUrl" is set to. It should read: "https://masterserver.vintagestory.at/api/v1/servers/". If it is set to something else, fix the line to the correct one mentioned in this post. That should do the trick.

mine was correct already

[Lenvda]

Open "clientsettings.json" in %appdata%/VintageStoryData/ and look for "webRequestTimeout". The default setting was 10 for me, I changed it to 30 and this solved the issue for me.

Edited June 25, 2025 by Lenvda

[Marshall Atkins]

Still having this problem if anyone has found anything yet. tried editting clientsetting.json , turned off firewall and fully re installed the game to no avail

[Gnomsky]

I think they should just create a webpage so we can check online.

[Teh Pizza Lady]

13 hours ago, Gnomsky said:

I think they should just create a webpage so we can check online.

you mean like this one?

https://status.vintagestory.at/

[Gnomsky]

6 minutes ago, Teh Pizza Lady said:

you mean like this one?

https://status.vintagestory.at/

That's a cool thing. But I meant like a server list we could pull up online. Maybe they can even generate revenue, I'm sure they could make money from servers running ads. 

[Eric Kroeplin]

i have the same problem

 

[daitama]

I ran into this as well and after a bit of troubleshooting managed to figure out why the issue was happening to me. By running Vintage Story from my terminal and looking at the output after trying to pull the server list, I could see that it was trying to query https://masterserver.vintagestory.at/api/v1/servers/list for the server list but was timing out after only 10 seconds. I slapped that address in a browser and managed to get a rather large JSON object containing connection details for a lot of servers but it took more than 10 seconds to download the full list. So I went ahead and increased the "webRequestTimeout" value in my clientsettings.json file to a value that would give my system enough time to download the full list and tried again with resounding success. I can't say for sure that this is the cause of the issue for everyone else here but I hope that this helps.

Also, if the devs are reading this, I think you might want to consider pagination to avoid downloading the full list of servers every time and ensure that results can be returned in a reasonable amount of time.