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Easy mode — host your own server
Built for non-technical hosts. If you can install Discord, you can do this.
What you'll need
- A Windows PC (Mac and Linux support coming later)
- A copy of Rec Room 2020.03.10 — the specific old build DorkNet targets. You acquire this yourself; see Getting the 2020 client below.
- ~5 GB free disk space
- About 10 minutes
Step 1 — Download DorkNet
Grab dorknet.exe from the latest release.
Windows SmartScreen may warn you. The exe is code-signed; click "More info" → "Run anyway".
Step 2 — First launch
When you open DorkNet for the first time, you'll see a welcome screen asking what you want to do.
Click 🏠 Host a server.
Step 3 — Patch your Rec Room install
DorkNet needs to redirect Rec Room to talk to your server instead of the official one. This is a one-time patch.
- Click the Patch game tab.
- Click Browse for Rec Room install... — point it at the folder where
Recroom_Release.exelives. - Click Patch. Takes 30 seconds.
✅ You're done with patching. You won't need to do this again unless you reinstall Rec Room.
Step 4 — Start the server + tunnel
- Click Start server on the Status tab.
- After ~5 seconds you'll see a public URL like
https://abc-def-ghi.trycloudflare.com. Anyone with that URL + a matching join code can connect to you.
Step 5 — Share the join code with your friends
- Click the Share tab.
- Click Copy join code.
- Paste it to your friend in Discord / iMessage / wherever.
That's it for hosting. Your friend opens DorkNet, picks "Join a server", pastes the code, and they're in.
Getting the 2020 client
DorkNet doesn't ship the Rec Room game itself — that's Rec Room Inc.'s intellectual property. You acquire your own copy through legal means.
Common paths:
- If you bought Rec Room on Steam before 2020, you can use SteamDB depot
tools to download the old build (manifest
4651244957411961725forRecroom_Release_Data). - Friends who already have a 2020 install can share files with you under whatever license terms apply on their end.
DorkNet's authors can't help you obtain the game. Search the web for "Steam depot 2020.03.10 Rec Room" if you need pointers.
Troubleshooting
See troubleshooting.md for common issues.
The most common ones:
- "This site can't be reached" when joining — your tunnel URL changed. Get the new one from the Status tab and share it again. (Cloudflare Quick Tunnels give a new URL each session. See advanced-setup.md if you want a stable one.)
- Friend can't connect — they need to use the same Photon region as
you. Settings → Photon region. Default is
eu. - Game launches but stays on the loading screen — your friend isn't patched. Make sure they ran the Patch tab in their copy of DorkNet.