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What is the proper steps to take to make changes to rooms and shops? I have successfully added items to shops and trainers and NPCs to rooms. However the changes don't seem to persist. The next time the system is restarted the changes I've made to seem to vanish.

For example, I added the sysop trainer to the room north of the support chamber.
I also changed the gold jeweled ring to be unlimited, and changed the shop to sell 1000 of them.
Neither of these changes stick.

Another example, would be that I just created a searchable exit below the bishop in the Temple of Silvermere in the room with the bishop. I went in, I got monsters to spawn, I edited the descriptions, all is well! Then the edits stopped working, some rooms the editor showed the change, but the game did not. Then after a server bounce the room is still present in the data, but the exit information is blank.

If someone has the proper steps to take in order to make lasting changes to rooms and shops I would appreciate it.

make sure you choose to save in each area ya make changes (items,monsters, rooms etc) after making or editting you have to do a compile then you also need to run the offline util to do a recovery. to compile click on tools then compile update file then compile full update file. you can also select to auto save changes in some of the editers (rooms items shops etc) thou i have it like that but still hit the save button

Alright thanks. I've never used the compile update tool.
Is there a guide or resource anywhere for creating rooms and monsters?
Or more advanced things like switches, levers, traps, etc?

dunno check at the nightmare website

also you could join the fb majormud developers group

If you're not compiling a full update file, none of your changes are going to stick. There's some things you can change with the board up (like inventory of players), but a lot of changes require that you compile a full update after the change is made. THe result of not doing this will be temporary edits that revert as the database is called/saved.

I'm slowly figuring it all out.
Compiling it made all the difference.
All my edits are sticking now.
Thanks for the help.