This page will serve as a link hub to various parts of the NT community, record-keeping and a brief history of tournaments.
Throne Media
Nuclear Throne |
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NT on Steam |
Currently the most up to date version to by Nuclear Throne on with full beta access. |
Nuclear Throne Together |
Online co-op & mod loader for PC. Intro guide. |
NTT Mods |
List of community made mods for Nuclear Throne Together. |
Vlambeer |
Developer Page |
Vlambeer's other games available on Steam. |
Itch Page |
Vlambeer's other games available on itch.io, including Wasteland Kings. |
Vlambeer's website |
Includes links to all the major Throne projects, though the site is bare-bones currently. |
JW's site & newsletter |
Projects and newsletters from JW, who presently owns all of Vlambeer. |
Community Links
Throne Servers Discord account required to view/discuss. |
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NT Discord | |
Nuclear Throne server for any English speakers. | |
NT Russian Discord | |
Nuclear Throne server for any Russian speakers. | |
NT Spanish Discord | |
Nuclear Throne server for any Spanish speakers. | |
Throne Discussions Publicly viewable, account required to discuss. |
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Nuclear Throne Subreddit | |
The subreddit for any NT-related discussions. | |
Steam Discussions | |
The Steam discussion boards. |
Throne Resources (Dailies) |
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Thronebutt | |
Online leaderboards for Daily/Weekly runs, officially integrated by
Vlambeer! Temporary site is up while a remake is in the works. |
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Daily Scouting Sheet | |
Mutation seed scouting for the Daily & Weekly challenges on Steam
and Switch versions. Information can be shared over the NT Discord for editors to add. |
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p9.run | |
Interactable page that takes data from the daily & weekly scouting
sheet, for route planning. No current support for the 2025 openbeta. |
Records Tracking
Some record sheets have submission forms on the sheets themselves, while others require submission via Discord by pinging an editor.
Record Sheets (Evidence Required) |
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Records Sheet | |
Collection of all the WRs. Record holders get the "verified" role in the NT discord. |
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Speedrun leaderboard | |
Speedrun-specific records with expanded categories. | |
Record Sheets (Allows grillskills mod) |
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L10+ Sheet | |
List of every player's PB that reached at least Loop 10, and WR history. | |
Challenge Run Sheets | |
Tracking for Hardmode, Ranged and Challenge runs. | |
Character Records | |
Collection of the top 50 runs on each char (L3+) |
Thronebutt Top 100 tracked the top players of all-time for Thronebutt, which compiles all daily/weekly run history. Tracking stopped as of January 2024 due to the 'buttpocalypse' where the original site went down.
Some data is inputted manually and should be treated with ~99% accuracy, particularly for the first two years of sheets.
Thronebutt Top 100 Quarterly Tracking for Thronebutt.com |
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Dec 2018 | Apr 2019 | July 2019 | Oct 2019 |
Jan 2020 | Apr 2020 | Jul 2020 | Oct 2020 |
Jan 2021 | Apr 2021 | Jul 2021 | Oct 2021 |
Jan 2022 | Apr 2022 | Jul 2022 | Oct 2022 |
Jan 2023 | Apr 2023 | Jul 2023 | Oct 2023 |
Jan 2024 |
Tournaments
There have been multiple community-run tournaments over the years. These are typically announced through the main NT Discord server and would be hosted through Twitch. Some variation of cash prize and a colored role in the NT Discord for winners were often included, helping drive participation.
Nuclear Throne World Cup (Winter 2022)
The NTWC was hosted by Hello with contributions from programmers and artists within the community. It was announced on January 5th, 2022 and began on January 10th, running through February 10th. Unlike other tournaments this one was hosted over the course of the month based on scoring from daily and weekly challenges without a centralized stream, allowing for wider community participation throughout the competition rather than an elimination tournament.
Each group would create their own team name and icon and could have up to three players, with joining midway into the tournament being allowed. There were over 50 teams that participated with 36 of these teams having a full 3 members. The goal was to get the best cumulative score across 31 dailies and 4 weeklies between all team members. Scores would be collected from thronebutt.com once a daily/weekly has ended.
Many played on the stable (non-beta) version or 2021 openbeta while using the community scouting sheet for mutation seed sharing. If a daily was particularly bad some players would go so far as to play on an outdated version, u98, for a different mutation seed while risking possible crashes.
Along with teams competing to have the best total score, all teams would have an overall total that when crossing certain thresholds, would unlock a new custom skin in NTT. 11 of these 12 kill goals were reached and can still be downloaded from Itch. Rogue's kill goal was not reached and her skin remains unreleased. Full character credits can be found in the 'readme' file.
The full data from each day can be viewed here. There is also a stats breakdown with many of the highest scoring teams, compiled by Lee-Mon.
Crown Clash (Summer 2023)
Crown Clash was hosted by ryguy65. It was announced on July 26th, 2023 and began on August 7th, running through the 15th. This was hosted on Twitch where both streams could be viewed at the same time while commentated over by various community members.
This was a single elimination bracket where each player would run the same seed on NTT v100 with the goal of getting as far as possible. Falling too far behind the other run in terms of distance would result in disqualification to prevent slow runs. Each match was the best of three, and used the grillskills mod to let people pick any mutation they wanted.
Two matches were held daily throughout the week until the final match took place. The initial set of rounds saw higher character variety, while later rounds had more preference towards Crystal who's considered the best in late game. Before a round started sometimes players would agree to both run a more challenging character for more varied matches.
The entire tournament details can be viewed here and every stream was posted on a YouTube playlist.
Nuclear Throne Summer Games (Summer 2024)
NTSG was hosted by Senjey. It was first announced on June 4th, 2024 and began on July 6th running through September 30th. Similar to Crown Clash this event was hosted on Twitch where both streams could be viewed at the same time while commentated over by various community members.
This competition was unique in that players could sign up for any of three different categories, and those with the best cumulative score would progress to the finale. This section will serve as a summary of the official ruleset, with some added context. Streams of the competition can be viewed through Twitch with any titled NTSG, though some footage may be missing. All runs were done on NTT v100.
The first competition was Speedrunning. Both players
would run on the same seed and used a special tournament mod which would
revive the player if they die at all to prevent a complete loss,
although it did give a time penalty. Each round players had to choose a
character that they did not previously pick that match.
Winner was decided with a best of 7. The results for the speedrun round
can be viewed here.
- Rounds 1-3 speedran Thronesitting as quickly as possible.
- Rounds 4-5 speedran beating Captain as quickly as possible.
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Rounds 6-7 speedran all bosses, which meant going to Captain only
after defeating the Technomancer on 6-1 L1.
- Because it is first to 4 wins, only 13 of the 27 matches included at least one all bosses.
The second competition was NoMelee. Both players would
run on the same seed and used a special nomelee mod that removes long
arms from the mutation pool and any melee weapons from the drop pool.
The mod would also let them see every mutation set in advance in order
to let them plan out an optimal route right before the match began.
At the start of the match both players could pick a character to ban for
the duration of the entire match. Most of the character bans included
Crystal, Horror, YV and Eyes due to each having high survivability or
more favorable mutation rng.
The first two sets of bracket rounds were a best of 3, while the third
round onward was a best of 5. The results for NoMelee can be viewed
here. Those who lost
their matches would be moved to the losers bracket to be given a second
chance, as the winner from the losers bracket would go up against the
winner in the finale.
The third and final normal competition was Rapid. Both
players would run on the same seed and used a special rapid mod that
significantly speeds up the game by skipping multiple loops and less
challenging non-boss levels to reach more difficult loops (L12+) much
faster, among many other optimizations. Runs would also use the popular
grillskills mod that completely removes mutation rng, as each player
would have a fully optimal build of their choosing.
Similarly to NoMelee at the start of the match both players could pick a
character to ban, though in the case of Rapid tournament Crystal was
automatically banned for everyone likely due to her highest tier
status.
The first three sets of bracket rounds were a best of 3, while the
fourth round onward was a best of 5. The results for Rapid can be viewed
here. Similar to
NoMelee there was also a losers bracket, with the winner from the main
and losers bracket would face in the finale.
Following the completion of the normal rounds, the top 8 scoring players
with cumulative placement scores from all three competitions were given
priority to participate in GrandMasters finale if they chose to. Players
could state their preferences to play either Rapid, NoMelee or
Speedrunning and would be given matchups in the finale based on that.
Each match was a best of 5, aside from one Speedrunning match played
being a best of 7. The results for GrandMasters can be viewed
here. Of the 7 matches one
was Speedrunning, two were NoMelee, and four were done with Rapid.
Nuclear Throne Christmas Challenge (Winter 2024)
NTCC was hosted by Senjey. It was announced on November 22nd, 2024 and began on December 1st running through the 30th. This event was not streamed but rather players would submit proof of their successful runs via a Google form.
The competition consisted of challenges being posted daily by the Challenge Griller bot who picked from a pool of user-submitted challenges prior to the events announcement. New challenges were posted through Dec. 25th as daily challenges could be completed through the course of the event, while weekly challenges were on a time limit awarding points to the top placement.
A full link of the challenges and leaderboard can be viewed here. Most of these challenges included specific mutation or character builds that were particularly difficult such as Melting Revolver only on Hardmode, or defeating Throne 2 on Loop 50 using the debug mod. Notable outlier challenges included playing the original Wasteland Kings or runs using the Platformer / 3D mods.
Nuclear Throne Summer Games: Plasma Ball Run (Summer 2025)

Plasma Ball Run was hosted by Senjey. It was first announced on June 5th, 2025 and began on June 28th running through July 19th. This was hosted on Twitch where both streams could be viewed at the same time while being commentated over.
During the competition each player would face off in a duel with similar rulesets to the previous NTSG competition, which consisted of either a Speedrun, NoMelee or Rapid format. The full rules of the competition can be found here.
Uniquely this competition also had a game board where players would roll a die and move spaces, with colored spaces offering different modifiers. Winning matchups would give more advantageous rolls to progress through the board faster, with opportunity of extra rolls by placing high on daily/weekly leaderboards. Secret areas could be used to get through the board faster, but were also risky to land on and missed Vault spaces. (Pizza Sewers also had an upside at the cost of visiting an extra space.)
The goal of the game was to reach the Throne and then win another match in order to Thronesit. At the end a decision was made to instead take the top 8 players on Palace spaces to have a final bracket elimination style.
The results for the game board phase can be found here, with the final result brackets found here.