Cortex
98.142.14.57:28025 checked 10m 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 71% 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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Quick answers
Map and rules
What settings does Cortex run?
No gather rate appears in the name Cortex. That is the game's default: groups of up to 8 players. It runs survival, gather, build, raid: the regular game. Other players can be fought and raided. The server browser lists it under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Which map is active on Cortex?
A procedural map, size 3,000 with seed 574433821, generated by the game, is what Cortex runs. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.
Population
How full is Cortex?
The server Cortex is currently at 0 players out of 1 slots. The average player count for the last seven days is 0.
What position does Cortex hold in the server rankings?
In the top 71% of ranked servers, Cortex holds #15,901 for player hours over the last seven days.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on Cortex?
For the game's server browser, Cortex publishes these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): The server has 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8—the default setting for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs166494 (Build): It runs build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard; $r? (Region code): There's no region code here; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The Modded listing means plugins or settings have changed the game. Also in the tags: its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, and the top of this page shows them.
Where does Cortex appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
The Rust Zerg Life lists that include Cortex are Modded Rust servers for clans and zergs. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server details
What is the uptime and reliability of Cortex?
You can join Cortex now: it is online. The uptime figure it gives suggests it restarted around 8 days 1 hours ago. Across the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, which is 100%. Rust Zerg Life has been tracking it since 2 October 2026.
Is Cortex smooth to play on?
Server fps held an average of 144 for the last 48 hours, with a minimum of 116. It reached a maximum of 45,763 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 2,578 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are the source of the lag players feel.
What Rust version is Cortex on?
On Windows, Cortex runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, which Steam updates automatically.
What is the location of Cortex?
There is no region published by Cortex. Rust Zerg Life displays the location a server claims, not where the machine actually stands. Connect to it at 98.142.14.57:28025.
Wipe days
How often does Cortex wipe, and on what days?
With so few wipes on record for Cortex, its pattern is not yet clear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC it is due next. The world it is running now dates from 12 days 14 hours ago.
Connect
What is the process to join Cortex?
Join by entering client.connect 98.142.14.57:28025 in the console (press F1 first). Or use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs166494,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmvanilla
mp1
ts8
v2634
cs166494
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.