Shortcuts

01What it does

Shortcuts is the page you'll probably open the most. It's a grid of buttons that do the jobs you'd normally have to log in and type out by hand. Click one, confirm, and the bot does it on your server straight away.

Under the buttons you'll find two big switches: Server Wide PVP and PVB (player vs building damage). Those let you switch off fighting or raiding across the whole server in a second, which is handy for events, build days or when something's gone wrong.

Below those is Locked Crate Timers Value, where you set how long a Locked Crate takes to hack open.

02Every shortcut explained

Event calls (safe to use, they just add something to the map):

• Call Patrol Helicopter: sends a Patrol Heli onto the map. Blocked if one is already flying around.
• Call Chinook: calls in a Chinook. Blocked if one is already on the map.
• Call in Airdrop: triggers a normal airdrop event.
• Call Cargo Ship: spawns a Cargo Ship. Blocked if one is already on the map.
• Reset Monuments and Scientists: resets monuments and their scientist groups, so monuments that have been picked clean get repopulated.
• Reset Puzzles: resets every monument puzzle (card doors, fuses and so on) so they can be run again.

Clean-up actions (shown in red, because there's no undo):

• Kill All Scientists: kills every scientist NPC on the server.
• Kill All Animals: kills every animal on the map.
• Delete All Cars: removes every car.
• Delete All Motorbikes: removes every motorbike.
• Delete All Pedal Bikes: removes every pedal bike.
• Remove All Junk Piles: clears every junk pile.
• Delete all Locked Crates: removes every locked hackable crate currently on the server.
• Delete All Nodes: removes every sulfur, metal and stone ore node. It keeps going until none are left.

03PVP and PVB switches

• Server Wide PVP: when OFF, players can't damage each other anywhere on the server.
• PVB (Player vs Building Damage): when OFF, players can't damage buildings, so nobody can raid.

Both are ON by default. Flip the switch and it applies right away. The little ON/OFF badge next to each one shows the current state.

Surge remembers what you set here. If your server restarts, the bot puts your PVP and PVB choice back once the server is up again, so you don't wake up to find raiding switched back on after a crash. You'll see these saved values listed under Server Settings → My Settings.

04Locked crate timer

Locked Crate Timers Value is how many seconds a Locked Crate takes to unlock once a player starts hacking it. Rust's default is 900 seconds (15 minutes).

1. 1Type a number of seconds in the box, or tap a quick pick: 5 min, 10 min, 15 min (the default) or 30 min. The panel shows what your number works out to, for example 600 = 10 min.
2. 2Click Save. The bot sends it to your server straight away and checks the server accepted it.

• Any whole number from 1 to 86,400 seconds (24 hours) works.
• Live now shows the timer your server is really using, read straight from the server when the bot is connected.
• It applies to crates hacked from now on. A crate that's already counting down keeps its old timer.

05Using it

1. 1Open Management → Shortcuts.
2. 2Click the action you want. A confirmation box pops up telling you exactly what's about to happen.
3. 3Click Run. The button shows Running... while it works, then you get a success or error message at the top.

Only one shortcut runs at a time, so the other buttons are greyed out until the current one finishes.

06Good to know

• The heli, Chinook and Cargo Ship buttons check the map first. If one's already out, you'll get a message telling you to wait until it leaves or gets taken down. That stops you stacking three helis by accident.
• Delete All Nodes runs in the background because it can take a little while on a big map. You get a message saying it started. Clicking it again while it's still going just tells you it's already running.
• Airdrop and the two reset buttons have no such check, so pressing them twice really does run them twice.