May 14, 2026 · 5 min read

By the arbastro team · arbastro.com

Who Is Builderman? The History of David Baszucki's Original Roblox Account

Q: What does degrees of separation mean on Roblox?

It is the number of friend links between two accounts. If you are friends with someone who is friends with David Baszucki, you are 2 degrees of separation from David Baszucki. Most active Roblox players are within 3 to 5 hops of any famous account.

Q: Does FriendPath work with banned or terminated accounts?

Yes. Roblox's friends API still returns friend lists for banned and terminated accounts, so FriendPath can traverse through them. The path is computed on the public friend graph, not on a player's active session.

Roblox user ID 156. Joined February 27, 2006. Display name: Builderman. The avatar is wearing a hard hat and a yellow construction vest. If you've played Roblox at any point in the last twenty years, you've almost certainly seen this character. He is also — and this trips a lot of newer players up — David Baszucki, the founder and CEO of Roblox.

Short answer

Yes, Builderman is David Baszucki. The Builderman account (Roblox user ID 156) was created February 27, 2006 as David Baszucki's developer persona. The construction-worker avatar is iconic. The account has zero public friends because the 2015 introduction of Roblox's follow system converted all of Builderman's auto-friendships into follow relationships.

Yes, Builderman is David Baszucki

This is one of the most-searched Roblox trivia questions: is Builderman David Baszucki? Yes. They're the same person. The Builderman account was Baszucki's main developer-facing persona for most of Roblox's history, starting in 2006 when the platform was still called DynaBlocks (Roblox renamed shortly after launch). Even after Baszucki created a separate @david.baszucki account in later years, the Builderman account remained official and unretired.

Why user ID 156?

Every Roblox account gets a sequential user ID at signup. The lower the ID, the earlier the account was created. The Roblox corporate account itself is user ID 1, owned by the company. IDs 2 through ~155 were given to early employees, beta testers, and a few placeholder accounts. By the time Baszucki created Builderman on Feb 27, 2026's predecessor (2006), he was the 156th account holder on the platform.

This makes Builderman one of the oldest non-system accounts on all of Roblox. Owning a low-three-digit user ID is somewhat of a status symbol now — players regularly pay thousands of Robux for old accounts on the secondary market, and IDs below ~1000 routinely show up in "rarest Roblox accounts" videos.

Why does Builderman have so few public friends?

If you've ever tried to search Builderman on FriendPath, you've probably noticed: no path exists. That's because Builderman's friend list is either empty or set to maximum privacy. It's an intentional choice — the account is essentially a developer/marketing persona, not a personal account. It gets used for newsroom photos, official announcements, the occasional in-game appearance, and not for socializing.

The same is true of the Roblox account (ID 1), which has zero public friends and is run by the company rather than any specific person. If you want a real social path to David Baszucki, you have to search for his personal account: @david.baszucki.

The hard hat avatar

Builderman's iconic outfit — hard hat, yellow vest, tool belt — was deliberately chosen to evoke the construction/building theme that defined early Roblox. Back in 2006, Roblox was much more focused on the literal idea of building physical blocky worlds, and Baszucki wanted a developer mascot that conveyed "this is a tool for builders." The vest and hat became so iconic that the entire community of pre-2010 players will instantly recognize the silhouette.

Roblox has subsequently re-skinned the Builderman avatar a few times, but the construction worker aesthetic has stuck around.

Other historic low-ID accounts worth knowing

Roblox (ID 1) — the official corporate account
John Doe (ID 2) and Jane Doe (ID 3) — testing accounts that became legendary after the unfounded "March 18 hacker" rumor in 2017
Erik.Cassel — the late co-founder of Roblox, who passed away in 2013
Shedletsky — John Shedletsky, longtime Roblox engineer, employee #2 after Baszucki
Builderman (ID 156) — David Baszucki himself

Can FriendPath find a path to Builderman?

No — Builderman's friend list isn't publicly accessible, so FriendPath has no edges to traverse outward from his node. Same goes for the Roblox account. If you want to find a degrees-of-separation chain to David Baszucki, use his @david.baszucki account instead. That one is active and friended widely across the developer and creator communities. Read our walkthrough on checking your path to David Baszucki for the details.

Check your path to David Baszucki

Use his personal account — Builderman has no public friends.

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Quick FAQ

What is FriendPath?

FriendPath is a free web tool that finds the shortest chain of friends between any two Roblox accounts using bidirectional breadth-first search over Roblox's public friends API. Runs in your browser, no install, no Roblox login required.

What does "degrees of separation" mean on Roblox?

It's the number of friend links between two accounts. If you're friends with someone who's friends with David Baszucki, you are 2 degrees of separation from David Baszucki. Most active Roblox players are within 3–5 hops of any famous account.

Is FriendPath free?

Yes. The web tool at friendpath.arbastro.com is 100% free, ad-supported. The public API offers 50 free calls per day with paid tiers beyond. See the API docs for details.

Does FriendPath work with banned or terminated accounts?

Yes — Roblox's friends API still returns friend lists for banned/terminated accounts, so FriendPath can traverse through them. The path is computed on the public friend graph, not on a player's active session.