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
172.240.236.96:29340
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
Down 2123 places on last week. Top 34% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 172.240.236.96:29340
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 12
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 4 Oct 2026, 07:06 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 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 settings does Merica use?
There is no gather rate in the name of Merica. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC is off: Valve's anti-cheat is not running.
What's the map on Merica?
Merica uses a procedural map of 4,250 that the game generates with seed 50000. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on Merica?
These tags come from Merica and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp12 (Max players): Room for 12; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167058 (Build): Game build is 167058; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Which Boongarust filters show Merica?
The Boongarust lists that take Merica are: The busiest community servers in Rust. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Performance of Merica: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 131 server fps; the floor was 98. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 103,001 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,219 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
Where can you find Merica?
No region is published by Merica. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 172.240.236.96:29340.
What's the uptime like on Merica?
Merica is up as you read this. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 3 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does Merica have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 on Linux: that is Merica. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at Merica?
Recent wipes peaked at 1 players on average. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in.
When does Merica wipe?
With so few of Merica's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are on was made 3 days 23 hours.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Merica place?
Player hours over seven days put Merica at #8,164, in the top 34% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on Merica?
Right now, 0 players are on Merica, which has 12 slots. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 1. It was busiest at 05:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 1 players on average.
How to join
How can you get into Merica?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 172.240.236.96:29340. 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 mp12,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167058,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.