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The Thunderdome

Offline 174.56.227.165:49183 checked 5d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 20 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,323top 69%
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k25 Sep2 Oct9 Oct15 Oct22 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

usual gap6 daysbetween real wipes
wipe-day peak2players, last three wipes
crowd held100%of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctFri 25 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 7 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:37 UTC FW27d ago 3 – running 0
Fri 25 Sep, 18:28 UTC33d ago 2 held half 6 days 0

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server setup

What map is in play on The Thunderdome?

The map on The Thunderdome is procedural, made by the game.

What rules has The Thunderdome set, and what settings are in force?

The name of The Thunderdome carries no gather rate. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server facts

What region hosts The Thunderdome?

No region is published by The Thunderdome. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. Connect at 174.56.227.165:49183.

On what Rust version does The Thunderdome operate?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows is what The Thunderdome uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

Does The Thunderdome stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Currently offline, The Thunderdome was last seen 5 days 16 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 44 of 168 hours were online, giving 26% uptime. On 25 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Wipe schedule

When does The Thunderdome wipe, and how often?

The Thunderdome's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 27 days 17 hours ago.

What does a typical wipe day on The Thunderdome involve?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 2 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 7 hours after it began. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.

Tags, lists

How should you read the tags on The Thunderdome?

These are the tags The Thunderdome makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp20 (Max players): 20 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs166494 (Build): It runs build 166494; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does The Thunderdome come up?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry The Thunderdome: Modded Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player counts

Against other Rust servers, where does The Thunderdome place?

Player hours over the last week put The Thunderdome at #15,323, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players does The Thunderdome have at the moment?

The last recorded sighting of The Thunderdome was 5 days 16 hours ago, and it is offline now. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.

Getting on

What is the way to join The Thunderdome?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 174.56.227.165:49183, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp20
Max players 20 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2634
Protocol The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version.
cs166494
Build It runs build 166494.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.