@Dogwood I ended up getting the minecraft server running, but now I have a few issues with it and players can't connect; are you able to help with that too or should I ask around?
@Felthry I'd love to help! What specific issues are you noticing?
@Dogwood So, the other player (I haven't tried yet but am starting minecraft now) can't connect, with a timed out error each time they try.
Additionally, the forge console shows the average tick time occasionally spiking up to quite a high number, sometimes as high as 800 ms, which has me a little concerned about how it'll work
it can usually stay below 20, but there are a lot of can't keep up messages in the log
@Dogwood update: I also get the connection timed out thing, it just boots me off the server. I get a single frame of seeing the world and then it kicks me off.
@Felthry I found this youtube video about timeout errors, dunno if it'll help your specific issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2P5Y9RBPV8
any log output in Ngrok that might be helpful?
@Dogwood fortunately (since the verdict there seems to be "nothing you can do"), it seems like the problem that post is about is not the one that we have here.
@Dogwood i'm pretty sure the issue is server-side, too, and the video you linked seems to only address client-side fixes, unfrotunately
@Dogwood for what it's worth, I *am* able to run a basic server with nothing but forge installed and connect to that just fine
which suggests to me it's something in one of the mods that's the problem. or possibly just the sheer number of mods
@Felthry I'm unfamiliar with Zerotier -- not a problem, just dunno much about it
Here's a reddit thread about exactly this issue though https://www.reddit.com/r/zerotier/comments/b65xwp/trying_to_play_minecraft_lan_using_zerotier/