# Core Keeper 1.1.2.3 Patch Notes - Product: Core Keeper (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/core-keeper) - Vendor: Pugstorm - Date: 2025-08-14 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1621690/view/536609788663956850 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/core-keeper/releases/2025-08-14-1.1.2.3-patch-notes What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — All PC platforms now support joining and playing in Steam dedicated servers using direct connections - **added** — Dedicated servers using direct connections can now be joined using the servers IP, Port and Password - **added** — Dedicated servers can now be setup to allow only players from specific PC platform - **changed** — Dedicated servers now allow shorter game ids (15 characters) - **added** — Dedicated servers now notifies player during start-up if any issues were encountered ##### Gameplay: - All PC platforms now support joining and playing in Steam dedicated servers using direct connections - Added instructions how to properly support direct connections to README.txt - Dedicated servers using direct connections can now be joined using the servers IP, Port and Password - Dedicated servers now allow shorter game ids (15 characters) - Dedicated servers can now be setup to allow only players from specific PC platform - Dedicated servers now notifies player during start-up if any issues were encountered