!deep / !deepsea / !merchant

Deep Sea Merchant status: open / closed, direction, and time since last surface.

The Merchant is the off-map shop NPC who surfaces, stays open for roughly three hours, then leaves. The bot reports:

• Whether the Merchant is currently surfaced.
• Direction (from your map's perspective) and approximate distance.
• Time since the last surface if he's not currently up.

This is one of the most-asked questions on busy servers — your team can !deep instead of flipping to the Rust+ app each time. See the Deep Sea watcher for the automatic announcement that fires ~5 minutes before he surfaces.