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Deep Sea Merchant — open/closed, direction, last surface time.

!deepEvents
Aliases!deepsea!merchant
Rust team chat showing !deep reply with merchant direction

Reports the Deep Sea Merchant state:

  • Open — the merchant is surfaced. Approximate time until close (always ~3h).
  • Inbound — the bot detected the precursor “off-map shop bundle” that always appears ~5 minutes before the merchant. Replies with the inbound direction (N / NE / E / etc).
  • Closed — not currently surfaced. Time since last surface.

How the inbound detection works

The merchant boat is preceded by an “off-map shop” marker about 5 minutes before it surfaces. Most bots miss this. Rust Pulse catches the precursor, derives direction from the marker's bearing relative to map centre, and announces “Deep Sea Merchant inbound from the east, ETA ~5 min.”