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The Thunderdome

Offline 174.56.227.165:49183 checked 6d ago

moddedoxide
Sp1 · players now 0/ 20
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
No hourly readings in the last 48 hours
0
7-day average
peak –
#15,262
rank
top 69%
28d ago
last wipe
no schedule published
–
next wipe
too few wipes seen yet
UTC checked 6d ago

Li2Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

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.

Li4Rank

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.

Bx1Wipe 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.

6 days
usual gap
between real wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
100%
crowd held
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.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:37 UTC FW28d ago 3 – running 0
Fri 25 Sep, 18:28 UTC34d 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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LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What does wipe day look like on The Thunderdome?

The average peak across its recent wipes is 2 players. 7 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 100% of its recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on The Thunderdome?

The record of The Thunderdome's wipes is not yet long enough to show a rhythm. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe resets every Rust server. 28 days 5 hours ago the server made the world it is on now.

Population

How busy is The Thunderdome?

The last time The Thunderdome was seen was 6 days 4 hours ago, and it is offline now. Averaged over the past week: 0 players.

How does The Thunderdome rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over seven days put The Thunderdome at #15,262, in the top 69% of ranked servers.

Map and rules

Which map does The Thunderdome run?

The game generates the procedural map on The Thunderdome.

What are the rules and settings on The Thunderdome?

No gather rate appears in the name The Thunderdome. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. The server runs survival, standard play: gathering, building and raiding. Combat between players and raiding are both possible. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Plugin count: Oxide. Anti-cheat: Valve's VAC is on.

Server details

Which version of Rust does The Thunderdome run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows is what The Thunderdome runs. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.

Is The Thunderdome online, and how reliable is it?

The Thunderdome is down just now; the last sighting was 6 days 4 hours ago. It was up 20 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 12% of the time. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 25 September 2026.

Where is The Thunderdome located?

No region is published by The Thunderdome. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. 174.56.227.165:49183 is its address.

Tags

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The Thunderdome?

Modded Rust servers, by live population are the Rust Heatmap lists that The Thunderdome fits. These are the filters that return it on the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on The Thunderdome mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags The Thunderdome publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp20 (Max players): This server has 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, run the same version: game protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): Build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): Settings or plugins alter the game, which puts it under Modded. Also in the tags, shown at the top of this page: players now, the queue and the time the world was made.

How to join

How do I join The Thunderdome?

Enter client.connect 174.56.227.165:49183 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.

KeyServer 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 form.
mp20
Max players This server has 20 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2634
Protocol To join, run the same version: game protocol 2634.
cs166494
Build Build 166494.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here.
^z
Modded Settings or plugins alter the game, which puts it under Modded.

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.