diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
index 3fae109d3c..c34d9848f0 100644
--- a/config.yaml
+++ b/config.yaml
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ worlds:
 
 server:
     #Database Configuration
-    DB_URL_FORMAT: "jdbc:mysql://%s:3306/cosmic"
-    DB_HOST: "localhost"
+    DB_URL_FORMAT: "jdbc:mysql://%s:3306/cosmic" # If the docker ENV for DB_HOST is anything but "db", this string format should be changed from 3306 to 3307 (or whichever port it was changed to in docker) 
+    DB_HOST: "localhost" 
     DB_USER: "cosmic_server"
     DB_PASS: "snailshell"
     INIT_CONNECTION_POOL_TIMEOUT: 90    # Seconds
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index e6861b0004..90bbb04fc0 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ services:
       - ./scripts:/opt/server/scripts
       - ./wz:/opt/server/wz
     environment:
-      DB_HOST: "db"
+      DB_HOST: "db" ## Remember if this is present it will OVERRIDE the host in the config.yaml, if you put here anything other than db, you'll need to change the config.yaml jdbc string to port 3307, and not port 3306
     
   db:
     image: mysql:8.0.23
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ services:
       MYSQL_DATABASE: "cosmic"
       MYSQL_USER: "cosmic_server"
       MYSQL_PASSWORD: "snailshell"
+    ports:
+      - "3307:3306"
     volumes:
       - ./database/docker-db-data:/var/lib/mysql
       - ./database/sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d