Installing on VORP

1. The item

Run install/vorp/items.sql against your VORP database.

2. Restart the inventory

restart vorp_inventory

Do not skip this

vorp_inventory reads the items table once at start-up and caches it. Until it restarts it does not know the item exists — and a harvest will complete, print a payout in the server console, and put nothing in your bags. That looks like a bug in the script and is not one.

3. server.cfg

ensure vorp_core
ensure vorp_inventory

ensure rm_crayfish

Order matters only in that rm_crayfish should come after the framework. It probes at runtime rather than at load, so it will bind correctly either way — but keeping the order tidy avoids a confusing first line in the console.

4. Staff

Either of these works. The resource checks both, plus the ace:

/addGroup <your server id> admin

add_ace group.admin rm_crayfish.staff allow

Relog after /addGroup

VORP loads your group when your character loads, so the change does not reach a session already in progress.

VORP keeps two separate group columns — users.group, which /addGroup writes, and characters.group, which /addGroupChar writes. The resource checks both, so whichever you used is fine.

Item images

Copy everything from install/items/png/ into:

vorp_inventory/html/img/items/

VORP already ships meat, biggame and corn. Overwrite them or skip those three, whichever you prefer; the other nine are the ones it has no icon for.

Restart vorp_inventory afterwards.

Skipping this is only cosmetic — VORP falls back to placeholder.png and every item still works. See Item Icons.

Verifying

/crayfish_fill
/crayfish_warp 13
/crayfish

The last one prints the bed as your client sees it next to what the server holds. They should agree.

If something is wrong

Symptom	Cause
Console says Standalone	vorp_core was not started when the resource probed. Put ensure rm_crayfish after it, or pin bridge = { framework = 'vorp' }
Harvest works, no crayfish	vorp_inventory not restarted after the SQL — step 2
You do not have permission	The console prints the groups you actually hold next to the ones allowed. Usually a missing relog after /addGroup
Lure book opens empty	You carry no meat, or your item names differ from config/lures.lua — map them with bridge.itemAliases

Full symptom list: Troubleshooting.