(Old) Thronebutt

Thronebutt is a website that is officially integrated within Nuclear Throne. While server hosting is done by Vlambeer, the website is ran by Team Thronebutt who are mainly volunteers and work largely independently. The website hosts active leaderboard tracking for daily and weekly challenges, with an archive for any past challenges. Anyone who participates in a daily or weekly will have a user profile automatically generated that participates in the Steam version of the game.

Thronebutt Features - Leaderboards

Thronebutt actively tracks Daily and Weekly leaderboards. Once a run is finished scores will be added to the website after a brief delay. Placement on these are based on kills only, not distance or any other factor. The data shown for each player is as follows:

• The player's Steam pfp & name.
• The mutant they were playing as and what skin they were using.
• Loop and Area that they died in, or if it ended in a victory.
• Kill score upon death. Post-mortem kills are not counted.

Every run is a drop-down which can be expanded to view additional stats.

• Which ultra mutation was taken, and any other mutations based on their ID. NOT in order of what's taken in the run.
• What weapons were being held upon death/victory.
• What crown was being ran upon death/victory.
• Killed By, which shows the death cause of the player unless if the run results in a victory.

Each page will display 30 entries. Sometimes the last page will not display any scores, but the URL can be edited to simply go back a page from there to see the actual last place runs. Some entire pages will lead to an error caused by specific profiles, meaning that some scores are unviewable outside of player specific profiles.

After rollover the top 5 runs from the previous daily or weekly will appear on the sidebar, and the leaderboard will start over with a blank slate. If a daily is finished after rollover there is a CHANCE it will apply to the right daily, otherwise the run calendar will disappear and not submit. For weeklies this will apply to the following weekly, however high scoring runs are likely to be purged from the leaderboard.

All-Time Stats page adds the total kill count of every daily & weekly challenge combined from a player. Weeklies only count the best run from a player, not adding every attempt together. Ranks were broken on players profiles for a few years before the buttpocalypse, meaning that the only way to accurately see rank was to view the all-time stats page.

Archives shows historical data for all daily and weekly challenges for that iteration of Thronebutt, going back to February 21st, 2016. The URL could be edited to quickly jump around to specific dates as the calendar to select dates was buggy. Dailies in the url used archive/DDMMYYYY while weeklies used archive/WWYYYY, with WW as the weekly number from 01 to 52 in a given year.

(Error pages would also link /about in the header, which just leads to another error. Likely used on the old Thronebutt website and is now defunct.)

Thronebutt Features - Syncing Account

Any player can optionally sync their Steam account with the website to access a few features.

• 'Your Profile' will replace the log in box upon syncing. This offers quick linking to one's own Thronebutt profile at any time. The rank underneath the name has been broken for years.
• The mini-profile also includes a Twitch button that allows for linking of a Twitch profile, which will appear on the profile/leaderboards for other players to see.
• On the actual profile there will be an option for adding profile backgrounds which is viewable by anyone.
• Aside from the default background there are 5 options. 3 of these are taken from the sidebars in game (Rogue, YV and Crown Vault) while 2 of the backgrounds are taken from official promo art, being Crystal with a Sledgehammer and Fish fighting a Snowbot.
• Viewing other people's profile adds a 'compare' button which will have two profiles on the same screen in order to compare stats more closely.
• There is also a Run Tracker present, further details below.

Thronebutt Features - Profile

A TB profile has the Steam name and pfp at the top, as well as a link to the Steam account. There will also be a Twitch account link if applicable.

The right top will display a Badges section. There are 3 badges with 2 being normally attainable.

• Wins Badge appears upon winning at least 1 daily or weekly challenge and serves as a win counter.
• Experience Badge is given to anyone who participates in a daily or weekly challenge. The exact number doesn't mean too much.
• The exact calculation is 5 XP per. daily/weekly played, 2 XP per. 100 kills, and XP based on in-game level multiplied on 5.
• Thronebutt Staff to signify if a player is a developer or moderator to recognize their contributions.

Records features the player's best achievements.

• Total Kills is the total kill count across all dailies/weeklies played.
• Below that is the most runs done by a specific character; currently broken.
• Highest score simply pulls the best kill count also seen in top 5 runs.
• Below this is the most runs done with a specific weapon; currently broken.
• Highscores is listed below all these which shows the best 5 runs based on kill count, and the stats for each run.

Next is the graphs section, which gives more in-depth overview of a players stats.

• Characters will be a pie graph showing how many each character has been played. No way to differentiate between A-Skin and B-Skin.
• Having excessive dailies will cause characters with few dailies to be obscured. Viewing page source and Ctrl+F can find the exact data.
• Weapons tracks the total number of runs holding a specific weapon; currently broken.
• Rank History will display a line graph for the placement on each daily - not weeklies. These are negative numbers with the closer a rank to 0, the better.
• Score Over Time will show how the overall kill count improved over the last 30 runs between dailies and weeklies.

The section for Latest Scores is simple, showing the last 30 runs played whether it is a daily or weekly.

Tracker is a tab only viewable to the player's own self if logged in. It serves as a tracker for vanilla runs, which doesn't effect anything else on the site but more of a personal tool. Any runs that are over 60 kills will be logged here if the Stream Key is on and display the date, kills, area and character. While Thronebutt is broken do not enable Stream Key as it has been known to cause crashes on some versions. Secret areas on this tracker would show their areas from the code, such as Pizza Sewers showing 102-1 as the death area rather than 2-?.

Thronebutt's Bugs

This iteration of Thronebutt had many bugs, here is a brief documentation of it.

• All-Time Rank: Player's profiles will incorrectly list the wrong rank. Bug appeared around March 2020 where everyone's rank froze. Any new TB profile would always show them as #1 instead.
• Broken Pages: Sometimes entire pages will be unviewable due to broken accounts.
• Profile Data: Most used weapons/characters would not display correctly for many years.
• Some data will not appear correctly for a runs statistics. Rarer death flags would appear as a broken image though could still be deciphered. Cluster Launcher also had a broken image url.
• Heavy Heart and Skeleton's Damnation would not appear at all if used in a run.

Thronebutt's Origins

Thronebutt's first iteration went live in January 2015 and was a site that took daily information directly from the leaderboard. It was a fan site created by Darwin and ran on donations for maintenance and hosting. While the site was popular in the community, it also was fairly limited in its early stages due what information was shared over steams' servers.

The original TB stayed up for about 9 months, when in October 2015 update 94 released and featured weekly challenges which caused the site to go down; however this was just the nail in the coffin after multiple issues were mounting over time. On the thronebutt site, which was reposted to reddit, a message announcing the shutdown shared all the issues were addressed leading to the shutdown. This including no reliable way to pay for the servers, steam servers giving limited info, and a lack of time and interest. The code for the site and database was left with Darwin's parting words, as this was supposedly the end of Thronebutt's short but well spent life.

This was fortunately not the end, as Vlambeer took notice and offered to officially integrate Thronebutt with Nuclear Throne for server hosting, while Team Thronebutt still operated largely independently based off of volunteer work. The site was ultimately down for just 4 months when on February 21st, 2016, the site officially launched again with daily/weekly challenge tracking. Any data from the 2015 was not carried over to the new website, however all the data since 2016 has been consistently tracked to present time with any past daily/weekly still able to be viewed in the archives back to that date.

Since then Thronebutt itself remained relatively the same over the years. There are some features that do not work properly anymore, it still works as a functional leaderboard for any player on steam. This remained true for 8 years until March of 2024, where due to hosting issues Thronebutt faced weeks of downtime. See the intro section for more details.

At the bottom of Thronebutt it links to various tools and socials, however some links are to pages that are no longer operational. These are as follows;

• ThroneStats was a stats overlay that picked up data during a run (such as weapons using, crowns) primarily used for Twitch streamers. Made by Lietu, the site likely went down in 2016.
• ThroneFeed was a similar stats overlay that displayed data found in the pause screen (area, loop, kill count) that was primarily used for streamers. Made by harrewarre, the site went down sometime after 2018.
• Throne2speech was not directly linked on TB but was on Stats/Feed sites, was another streamer tool made by Lietu that would use text 2 speech in order to actively commentate over a player's actions during a run.

While these sites are no longer operational, they would all link each other as sort of sister sites and are worth remembering, as well as Thronebutt's origins as a whole.