RS-15960Modded server
Cortex
Online 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
Top 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
| 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.
Population
What is the typical player count on Cortex?
Cortex is showing 0 players on 1 slots right now. Over the past seven days, the average player count was 0.
Where does Cortex sit in the rankings?
On player hours across seven days, Cortex is #15,960, inside the top 71% of all ranked servers.
Server tags and lists
Where does Cortex show up in Top Rust Servers lists and filters?
These Top Rust Servers lists count Cortex among their servers: Top modded Rust servers. It appears under these filters 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.
How should you read the tags on Cortex?
gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): There are 1 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, as standard in the game; v2634 (Protocol): This server runs protocol 2634; match it to connect; cs166494 (Build): Running game build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): Region code not set; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): This server is marked Modded, meaning plugins or settings alter the game are the tags Cortex publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page you also see its players now, its queue, and the time its world was made, taken from the tags.
Map and rules
Which map is running on Cortex?
A procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 574433821, created by the game, is in use on Cortex. Viewing it on RustMaps is possible from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.
What settings and rules does Cortex use?
No gather rate is given in the name Cortex. Up to 8 players per group, as the game defaults. It runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed as Modded. Oxide plugins are loaded. VAC anti-cheat is active.
Server details
What is the Rust version on Cortex?
Cortex uses Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 with Windows as its system. Your game needs the same protocol to connect; Steam takes care of updating it.
What is the performance like on Cortex?
Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 145, with a low of 116. At its peak, it held 45,763 entities: everything from buildings to deployables and more. At its highest, it consumed 2,544 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities increase.
What is the server location for Cortex?
No region is published by Cortex. What Top Rust Servers shows is where a server says it is, not where the machine stands, which it does not look up. It answers at 98.142.14.57:28025.
Is Cortex currently online?
Cortex is online at the moment. The uptime it gives suggests a restart around 7 days 19 hours ago. It spent 168 of the last 168 hours online across 7 days, giving 100% uptime. It was first observed by Top Rust Servers on 2 October 2026.
Wipe schedule
When does Cortex wipe?
Not enough wipe data exists yet to identify the rhythm of Cortex. The monthly force wipe applies to every Rust server; the next one is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 12 days 8 hours ago.
Joining the server
How can I connect to Cortex?
Use the console: open Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 98.142.14.57:28025. Or simply click Launch Rust here; it opens the game through Steam and connects you.