Offline 98.142.14.57:28025 checked 6d ago
Cortex
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 1 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
ResultsWipes
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
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server details
Is Cortex online, and how reliable is it?
Offline right now, with a last sighting 6 days 23 hours ago: Cortex. 14 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 8% of the time. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 2 October 2026.
Which Rust version is Cortex on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows: that is the setup at Cortex. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is Cortex located?
Nothing on Cortex states a region. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. 98.142.14.57:28025 is the address.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on Cortex mean?
The game's server browser reads these tags from Cortex: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival, vanilla style; mp1 (Max players): It holds 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2634 to get in; cs166494 (Build): It runs game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer RakNet is in use; $r? (Region code): There's no region code on this one; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Cortex?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include Cortex are: Modded Rust servers, live. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server rules
Which map is running on Cortex?
Cortex runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,000, seed 574433821. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on Cortex?
The name of Cortex does not say what the gather rate is. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. build, gather and raid in the standard game: that is the survival game mode. You can fight and raid other players here. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. It runs plugins: Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Live counts
What is the population on Cortex at the moment?
Down at the moment, Cortex was last seen 6 days 23 hours ago. Averaged out across the past week, the count is 0 players.
Where does Cortex sit in the rankings?
The last seven days put Cortex at #15,318 on player hours: top 69% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Cortex?
The record holds too few of Cortex's wipes to tell its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe lands, and every Rust server wipes. 27 days 11 hours ago, its current world was made.
How to join
How do I join Cortex?
In the Rust console (F1) type client.connect 98.142.14.57:28025. Alternatively, Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and drops you straight in.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp1,ptrak,$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.