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Specimen recordcat. no. 14,330habitat unknownfirst seen 19 Oct 2026

Merica

Online 23.109.125.245:29391 checked 12m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 12
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#14,330
top 64%
Last wipe
25d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123417:0002:0011:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020017:0002:0011:0020:0005:0014:00

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 19 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k19 Oct21 Oct23 Oct25 Oct27 Oct29 Oct

Top 64% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does Merica rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Merica at #14,330, within the top 64% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Merica?

Of its 12 slots, Merica is using 0 right now. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players and reached a peak of 1.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Merica mean?

These are the tags Merica publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp12 (Max players): You can join up to 12 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Merica?

On Rust Population, Merica is filed under these lists: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Merica?

The record holds too few of Merica's wipes to show a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. 25 days 9 hours ago the current world was made.

Settings

Which map does Merica run?

The map on Merica is procedural, made by the game at size 4,250 from seed 50000. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Merica?

No gather rate appears in the name of Merica. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is not running.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Merica run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Merica uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Merica run smoothly?

It ran at 151 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 28. Up to 106,604 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,882 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is Merica online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Merica is online. About 20 minutes ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 19 October 2026.

Where is Merica located?

No region is published by Merica. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You will find it at 23.109.125.245:29391.

Getting in

How do I join Merica?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 23.109.125.245:29391. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp12,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp12
Max players You can join up to 12 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.