Cortex
Online 98.142.14.57:28025 checked 13m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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, measured since 2 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 38% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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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What is the wipe schedule on Cortex?
Not enough of Cortex's wipes are on record yet to tell its rhythm. Every Rust server wipes at the monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world was made 6 days 7 hours ago.
Players
How busy is Cortex?
Right now Cortex has 0 players on 1 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 1.
How does Cortex rank against other Rust servers?
Cortex is #9,010 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 38% of all ranked servers.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on Cortex?
Cortex gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players can fight and raid each other. It is listed under Modded in the server browser: plugins or settings change the game. It runs Oxide plugins. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does Cortex run?
Cortex runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 3,000 with seed 574433821. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on Cortex mean?
Cortex publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmvanilla (Game mode): Vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs166494 (Build): Game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^o (Oxide): Runs Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Listed under Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.
Which Zongarust lists and filters include Cortex?
Cortex fits these Zongarust lists: Best modded Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
The server
Where is Cortex located?
Cortex publishes no region. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 98.142.14.57:28025.
Is Cortex online, and how reliable is it?
Cortex is online right now. It last restarted about 42 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 5 full days it was up 100% of the time, 120 of 120 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 2 October 2026.
Does Cortex run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 174 server fps on average, never below 30. It carried up to 46,490 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 2,353 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does Cortex run?
Cortex runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join Cortex?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 98.142.14.57:28025. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.