Can you check what happens, when friends try to connect to dedicated server? When they try, there should be some messages appearing in the server console - if there isn't any, then it's something on your computer blocking their connections.

Getting rid of the port-forwarding thing is on the devs todo list, it will get resolved in time. For now this is how it works, Early Access and such. Also, you are confusing what dedicated servers are. Barotrauma has dedicated server setup, it's just means a bit different thing, from the one you're ...

Hi.
How do I set up password for dedicated server? I've found
public="true"
in serversettings.xml, but setting it to false just delists server from the browser.