Server updated to Alpha 7.7 lets hope it fixes the connection issues:
Official Alpha 7.7 Release Notes
Changes
- Changed the new roaming hordes that won’t destroy player structures unless they sense the player
- Changed returned to 7.0 terrain and improved the performance. The change was made for visuals, alpha 8 performance and player feedback. Note full smooth terrain will come with Alpha 8 as well as new solutions to mining and ladder placement
- Changed removed bucket of water recipe that used a bottle of water, buckets of water must be obtained from lakes or rivers
- Changed bucket recipe to only create 1 bucket not four
- Changed toilets to drop short metal pipes when destroyed
- Changed refactored internal model handling for performance
- High Quality Lights is now the default after installing the game
- Changed switched off shadows on point lights (all lights in the world) to increase performance
- Changed with the terrain switch, this occasional problem is also fixed: Cannot expand this MemoryStream
Bug Fixes
- Fixed blueberry seed recipe
- Fixed a connection bug
- Fixed cannot shift click from hot bar to inventory
- Fixed low weight forging scrap items no longer vanish when breaking down to scrap
- Fixed buff icon sometimes would cause an error when trying to get buff data
- Fixed quick take stack size exploit
- Fixed slider mouse offset bug
- Fixed menu not showing when clicking fast on the splash screen
- Fixed zombie dog death animation was missing
- Fixed panel fade desync
- Fixed occasional array out of bounds exceptions