Default Events
Change the timers on Rust's own events: how long the Bradley APC takes to respawn, how often the Patrol Helicopter comes and how long it stays. Free on every server.
01What it does
Default Events is where you tune the events that come with Rust. You don't build anything here. You set a number, press Save, and Surge sends the matching console command to your server.
- Bradley Respawn Timer: minutes until the Bradley APC comes back after it is destroyed.
- Heli Respawn Timer: how often the Patrol Helicopter gets called in.
- Heli Lifetime: minutes before the Patrol Helicopter starts to leave the map.
Open Events > Default Events to find them. Each card shows the value your server is using right now, a box for the new value and a few quick picks.
Default Events is free. You do not need Premium to use any of these settings.
02Bradley Respawn Timer
Control the amount of time after the Bradley APC is destroyed, that it respawns. Time is measured in real-world minutes.
- Vanilla is 60 minutes.
- You can set anything from 1 minute up to 7 days (10080 minutes).
- Surge runs
bradley.respawndelayminutes <value>, for examplebradley.respawndelayminutes 60.
03Heli Respawn Timer
This one isn't in minutes. It is a multiplier on the Patrol Helicopter's normal cooldown, so lower numbers bring it in more often and higher numbers make it rarer.
- 1 is vanilla. The heli comes round about once an hour.
- 0.5 is faster, about every 30 minutes.
- 0.1 is very fast, about every 6 minutes.
- 2 is slower, about every 2 hours.
Surge runs events.cooldowntimemultiplier event_helicopter <value>, for example events.cooldowntimemultiplier event_helicopter 0.5. The card works out roughly how often that means the heli will show up.
These times are rough. Rust adds some randomness to its events, so the heli will not arrive on the exact minute.
04Heli Lifetime
Defines how long before the Patrol Helicopter starts to exit, in minutes.
- Vanilla is 15 minutes.
- You can set anything from 1 to 1440 minutes.
- Surge runs
heli.lifetimeminutes <value>, for exampleheli.lifetimeminutes 15.
A longer lifetime gives players more time to take the heli down before it flies off.
05Saved to My Settings
Rust forgets these values when the server restarts. Surge saves every timer you change to My Settings and sends the commands again after each restart, so your timers stay the way you set them.
- You will find them under the Default Events group in Server Settings > My Settings.
- Removing one from My Settings stops Surge re-applying it after a restart. It does not change the value on the server right away.
You can only change these while the bot is connected to your server. If it is offline the page shows the last values Surge saw and the Save buttons are disabled until it reconnects.