Originally posted by Imhotep:

Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

Try posting in the "looking for group" section, adding friends to steam, and setting up times to play.

If you read the posts you would actually recognize this is what i'm not trying to do. I want to simply click "Start" and then have someone join my fresh new world or character. I don't wanna have to post in a forum to find someone to join. I also don't have time to play all the time so making friends and even adding them to my list on steam, not really my thing. That also takes time.

That is literally what this post is about. There should be a better and built in way.

Most people don't play that way. They've all ready made friends and aren't looking for a new world when you want them to be looking for your new world and the people that are looking for that are usually griefers that just want to cause trouble and trash your new set up.

Without setting up specific times to play with specific people you are taking pot luck in which case you should just set up a new world on an open server and post that on the looking for group section. Don't be surprised if people come in with maxed out characters and rush all the bosses just to annoy you and any other legit players.

This is not something the devs can fix. They have given you the tools and its up to you to whitelist/blacklist players or password protect your world so that only trusted players can join.