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 | **port**                   | number  | Game port | Connection port or query port for the game server. Some games utilize a separate "query" port. If specifying the game port does not seem to work as expected, passing in this query port may work instead.                    |
 | **maxRetries**             | number  | 1         | Number of retries to query server in case of failure. Note that this amount multiplies with the number of attempts.                                                                                                           |
 | **socketTimeout**          | number  | 2000      | Milliseconds to wait for a single packet. Beware that increasing this will cause many queries to take longer even if the server is online.                                                                                    |
-| **attemptTimeout**         | number  | 10000     | Milliseconds allowed for an entire query attempt. This timeout is not commonly hit, as the socketTimeout typically fires first.                                                                                               |
+| **attemptTimeout**         | number  | 10000     | Milliseconds allowed for an entire query attempt (including `socketTimeout`, beware that if this value is smaller (or even equal) to the socket one, the query will always fail).                                             |
 | **givenPortOnly**          | boolean | false     | Only attempt to query server on given port. It will ignore the game's default port.                                                                                                                                           |
 | **ipFamily**               | number  | 0         | IP family/version returned when looking up hostnames via DNS, can be 0 (IPv4 and IPv6), 4 (IPv4 only) or 6 (IPv6 only).                                                                                                       |
 | **debug**                  | boolean | false     | Enables massive amounts of debug logging to stdout.                                                                                                                                                                           |