Cortex
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 38%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
98.142.14.57:28025
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Top 38% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 98.142.14.57:28025
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 1
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 01:23 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 2 Oct 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What are Cortex's rules and configuration?
The name of Cortex does not include a gather rate. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins running: Oxide. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on Cortex?
A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 574433821 is in use on Cortex, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What do Cortex's tags signify?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Unchanged vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): Room for 1; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166494 (Build): Game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays are the tags Cortex puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
What Boongarust lists feature Cortex?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for Cortex: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Is Cortex laggy?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 175, with a low of 30. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 46,490 entities. At its highest, memory consumption was 2,353 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
Where can you find Cortex?
From Cortex, there is no region. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. Connect at 98.142.14.57:28025.
How often is Cortex online?
Online: Cortex, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 40 hours ago. Last 5 full days: 100% uptime, with 120 hours up out of 120. The first record Boongarust has is 2 October 2026.
Which Rust build does Cortex have?
On Windows, Cortex runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
Cortex wipes on what schedule?
Cortex's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 6 days 5 hours old.
Population
Ranking wise, where does Cortex place?
Ranked #9,009 on seven-day player hours, Cortex is in the top 38% overall.
Is Cortex busy?
Cortex is showing 0 players on 1 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 1.
Join the server
How can you get into Cortex?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 98.142.14.57:28025. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs166494,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.