Online98.142.14.57:28025checked 7m ago
Cortex
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 72% 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.
Similar servers
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What are the rules and settings on Cortex?
The name of Cortex gives no gather rate. Groups can reach 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, the normal game, with gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins number Oxide on this server. The server has VAC on: Valve's anti-cheat.
What map is used on Cortex?
A procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 574433821 runs on Cortex, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, because size and seed determine the map.
Player count
How many players are on Cortex?
The current population of Cortex is 0, out of 1 slots. The average player count for the last seven days is 0.
Where does Cortex stand in the rankings of Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, Cortex ranks #15,913 for player hours, placing it in the top 72% of all ranked servers.
Server tags
What are the tags on Cortex and what do they mean?
These tags are set by Cortex and read by the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Vanilla survival gameplay; mp1 (Max players): The slot count is 1; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): Game build: 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is not set; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): This server appears in Modded, as plugins or settings modify the game. Its current players, queue, and world creation time come from the tags and appear at the top of this page.
Where does Cortex appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?
These When Is Rust Force Wipe lists include Cortex: Rust modded servers, listed live. Filter Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks to find it on the server list.
Server info
Where can Cortex be found?
There is no region published by Cortex. What you see on When Is Rust Force Wipe is the server's own location claim; the machine's real spot is not looked up. Connect using 98.142.14.57:28025.
How smooth is the performance on Cortex?
The average server fps over the last 48 hours was 143, with a low of 116. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to a peak of 45,751 entities. Memory use peaked at 2,578 MB. When fps is low and entities climb, players feel it as lag.
What is the uptime and reliability of Cortex?
You can connect to Cortex at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 8 days 3 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw it up 168 of 168 hours, 100% of the time. The first sighting of it by When Is Rust Force Wipe was on 2 October 2026.
What Rust version is Cortex on?
On Windows, Cortex runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
Wipe info
On what schedule does Cortex wipe?
Too few wipes of Cortex are recorded for its rhythm to be known. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server wipes at that point in the month. The world in play now was built 12 days 16 hours ago.
Connect
What steps are needed to join Cortex?
Use the console: press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 98.142.14.57:28025. Another option is Launch Rust on this page, which launches Rust via Steam and connects you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished 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.