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Guide
Hhhgav23 Jan 2023

Top 10 Multiplayer Survival Games

If you ’ re looking for a thrilling and intense gaming experience , then look no further than the world of multiplayer survival games . These games offer an immersive and challenging experience that will keep you on the edge of your seat…

Guide
Hhhgav23 Jan 2023

Top 10 free-to-play Pc Games

Are you looking for the best free-to-play PC games around? Look no further! We’ve compiled a list of the top 10 free-to-play PC games that you can enjoy right now. Fortnite: Battle Royale Perhaps one of the most popular free-to-play games…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav11 Apr 2022

Complete Guide to the S+ Propagator

Thank you Acecase! But our Dino is in another castle! Isn’t that always the story. There you are shopping for amazing dinos to destroy the lives of those you do not even pity when you realise, oh wait that’s theirs not mine. RUN AWAY! Yes…

ARK: Survival Evolved
JJadeAnabelleWoods3 Aug 2021

A guide to Hope

Hope is a wonderful map combining almost all ark has to offer. From the icy peaks in the North-West and sandy deserts in the South-East; the vast aberration caverns down below to the volcanic wasteland home to deadly wyverns. Hope is a…

ARK: Survival Evolved
JJadeAnabelleWoods18 Jul 2021

Your guide through Cosplay Evolved

In this guide, I'm going to introduce you to the magical world of a wondrous mod called Cosplay Evolved (by Zarum ). It is a fairly new mod it is gaining quick popularity. It is one part due to the fact that it fills an ever so pestering…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav16 Jun 2021

Voting on our Ark PvE Cluster Servers

Why vote for Merric Gaming Communities ARK Survival Cluster? Voting on any Server is extremely important, this is why you find any established community provides rewards for doing so. When you vote this moves our servers further up the…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav12 May 2021

Ark Survival Steampunk Guide

There’s not much out there regarding the inner workings of the Ark Steampunk Mod and this amazing mod can be quite daunting to the new survivor! So fear not! I’ve decided to make a Top 10 Tips for Steampunk guide! Click here to find the…

Valheim
Hhhgav7 Mar 2021

A beginners guide to Valheim

So you’ve fallen on the battlefield, brought glory to your clan and earned you a place in Valhalla! But instead of Valkyries welcoming you to Odin’s glittering hall, you wake to find yourself held aloft by a massive bird called “Huginn…

Rust
Hhhgav25 Feb 2021

Beginners guide Rust

Rust is a survival game at basics. Survive on an island and fight off animals, as well as other players. Build a shelter and turn it into a stronghold. With the right tools you can thrive in the blood of your enemies. This Guide helps you…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav9 Oct 2020

Dino Bars Mod Guide

If you are used to MMO’s this mod will look pretty similar, but if not, it may be confusing. So what is Dino Bars? So what is Dino Bars? It is a mod that puts nameplates above the dinos, this can show the level, health, torpidity,…

Minecraft
Hhhgav5 Aug 2020

Applied Energistics 2 (AE2) Guide

Applied Energistics 2 (AE2) is a mod which allows players to have a truly powerful storage network for all their items, as well as the complete automation of nearly all repetitive systems in ones’ base. People often criticise AE2 for…

Rust
24 Jul 2020

Rust: Basics to base building

There are always players looking for ways to build the “best base” to protect themselves, their team and especially their loot. You can find a lot of base designs on YouTube claiming they are unraidable. Sorry to say there is no such…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav15 Jul 2020

Switching from Automated Ark to S+/SS

Welcome to another guide from Merric Gaming Community in this guide we will teach you how to convert from Automated Ark to S+ / SS

Rust
Hhhgav24 Jun 2020

Beginners guide to Rust!

Are you new to Rust? Wondering where to begin? Well then you’ve come to the right place. Being a fresh spawn myself and being new to the game with only 350 hours, I myself am still having the odd occasion in which I reach a point and…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav23 Jun 2020

How to install ARK: Survival DLC's / Maps with Epic Games Launcher

Welcome all the New adventurers to another in a series of guides from Merric Gaming Community, this guides is very simple. You will find below step by step instructions on how to add the other Maps / DLC’s to your Epic games Ark…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav19 Jun 2020

YOUR ULTIMATE GUIDE TO DINO STORAGE V2

Hello there and welcome to Merric Gaming, stranger! Nice to see you here. This is our guide to one of the Ark PvE cluster mods - Dino Storage V2. Grab a bowl of popcorn, can of coke (coffee or tea works too!) and sit tight. Here we go!…

Minecraft
Hhhgav18 Jun 2020

MInecraft Eternal Installation Guide

What is Minecraft Eternal? This is a massive hybrid mod pack of around 290 mods, adding or changing everything from mobs to tools to quests and a lot more besides. A multidimensional world awaits the avid adventurer that dares to enter!…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav14 Jun 2020

An ARK: Underwater Survival guide

Scuba Gear; Probably the most useful tool for underwater survival, the goggles give you better vision and allow you to see prey or threats from a much greater distance, the flippers will give you increased swimming speed allowing you to…

Rust
Hhhgav2 Apr 2020

Merric Rust Solo & Trio Server Guide

What were our thoughts behind our servers? This is pretty simple, our servers are fast paced 5x! The main reason for this is they are aimed at players who have short spurts of play time. This may be parents, players that have a busy…

Rust
Hhhgav29 Jan 2020

Rust Modded Server Guide for Beginners

Upon waking up on a once forgotten beach, players spawn in with the basic tools and equipment to ensure a good start. Upon joining a heavily modded server like Merric’s 5x solo server, there may be some confusion on how the commands work.…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav24 Jan 2020

Beginners Guide to Ark Survival Evolved PVE Cluster

Hey there, your finally awake! Whoops wrong game…. But here we are. Waking up who knows where after who knows what has happened. You sit up, whats this on my arm? Where am I? Oh I'm on a beach! Where's the bar? Within 5 minutes you are…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav24 Jan 2020

Ark Survival Modded Server Guide

**** PLEASE NOTE **** Some of the mods listed below are no longer on our PvE cluster, but the information is still very useful so we will leave this page as it is! For an up to date list of mods currently running on our PvE cluster please…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav24 Jan 2020

Beginners Guide to Taming in Ark

The cake is a lie! No, seriously, it is. Don’t eat it. That’s not people food. What am I talking about I hear you cry? Why sweet vegetable cake of course! That can mean only 1 thing. Yup! That’s right. Taming!!! Arguably the best part of…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav25 Nov 2019

Ark Survival Evolved Upgrade Station Guide

Ace uses upgrade station – its super effective! That’s right arkers today we are going to take a look at that upgrade station and all the fun and joy that comes with not having to troll through 100 cave runs to finally get that flak…

Guide
Hhhgav25 Nov 2019

A Beginners Guide to Space Engineers

After spawning into the game you will find yourself in your chosen drop pod. Once you land, it before you get out of your seat, check your seat's inventory with ‘I’. You will find a weapon and a couple of magazines. Now you can get out of…

ARK: Survival Evolved
Hhhgav25 Nov 2019

S Plus Mutator Breeding Guide

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this. Take what? Why a giant over-bred rex of epic proportions to bring ruin upon thy enemies! Hello and welcome back to yet another guide for the Merric Gaming Community! Specifically, a guide pertaining…