Locate HandleInventoryModify() and add a sanity check:

If you use a complete rewrite (no stolen binaries, no reversed assembly) and require users to provide their own game assets, you operate in a grey area. However, most "fixed sources" contain the original game's hashed asset keys, which is a direct violation.

std::chrono::steady_clock::time_point surgeryStart; if (cmd == "SurgeryStart") surgeryStart = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();

✅ Connects to client v4.0+ without proxy. ✅ Surgery works flawlessly. ✅ No memory leak after 8 hours of uptime. ✅ All items from 2020–2025 exist in the database. ✅ Your antivirus says clean .

Implement an atomic save . Instead of overwriting the file, write to world.dat.tmp , then rename() it.