---
canonical: https://darkpawns.org/docs/host/player-management/
title: "Saved character management"
description: "Edit a disconnected character’s equipment, inventory, flags, name, and password in the admin console, with clear save and delete boundaries."
type: guide
audience: operators
verified: v0.1.8
---

The **Players** page (`HIGOD`, level 36 or higher) edits saved characters in SQLite. A character must be completely offline before you can touch their record, including linkdead sessions and characters sitting at the login prompt, so a late game save can't clobber your edits.

## Equipment and inventory

Choose a character and open **Equipment & inventory**. Every wear slot is listed, including empty ones. Click **Equip** beside an empty slot to move a carried item into it or spawn a **New copy** by name, keyword, or [vnum](/docs/reference/glossary/#vnum). Choose **Give item** to drop a new copy into carried inventory.

![The player editor showing a synthetic character's level, vitals and attributes.](/media/docs/admin-player-editor.png)

Carried containers show their contents nested underneath. **Hide contents** folds a bag; **Show contents** opens it back up. A container and everything inside it move together when you equip or unequip it. To pull one item out of a bag, choose **Carried inventory** from that item's destination menu and click **Take out**.

**Unequip** moves a worn item back to carried inventory. **Remove** queues deletion of the item and anything inside it. You can undo a queued removal with **Discard changes** until you click **Save changes**.

Stat and item edits share a single save bar so you can adjust both tabs and commit them in one transaction. Save or discard those edits before switching to flags, names, or passwords. If the character logged in while you had the editor open, **Save changes** refuses the write and keeps your draft open so nothing is partially overwritten.

:::note[God hands ignore mortal wear rules]
The admin editor does not check whether a mortal class or alignment could legally wear an item in game. If you strap a two-handed sword to a mage's wrist slot, the database will let you. You can queue up to 100 item edits per save (up to 2,000 total items on a character). Whether an item disappears on logout (`!RENT`) is defined on the prototype in **Objects**, not on individual copies.
:::

## Rename

Open **Players**, choose a character, and select **Identity**. Enter a new name that follows the standard character creation rules. Names already taken, reserved for staff, or listed in the invalid-name filter are rejected.

Renaming updates the character's name across their saved record, aliases, and bulletin board headings, while keeping their mudmail, clan membership, and house access attached to their underlying character ID.

## Delete

Choose **Delete character…** on the **Identity** tab and review the confirmation dialog. For immortal characters (level 31 or higher), type the character's name to confirm. You cannot delete your own account or a level 40 implementor.

:::danger[Permanent deletion]
Deleting a character removes their record, saved equipment, inventory, and aliases, and frees the name for anyone to register again. This cannot be undone.
:::

Old mail and house access remain tied to the deleted character's numeric ID, clan membership is cleared, and old board posts stay on the boards as history. If someone creates a new character with the same name later, they start fresh and do not inherit the old character's mail or house.

## Flags

Open **Flags** to toggle character switches (`Brief descriptions`, `Start invisible`, `Can be summoned`, `No hassle`, `Frozen`, `Outlaw`, `Show room flags`, `Site-cleared`, `Hidden from staff list`). Each switch saves immediately, and the badge beside it shows the minimum staff level required to flip it.

> FREEZE, originally invented here at CircleMUD (we think), is used to prevent a player from playing. If frozen, the game will ignore all commands entered by the player, including QUIT, until the player is unfrozen with THAW. Obviously, this command should only be used in extreme disciplinary circumstances.
>
> `help FREEZE`

The **Cryo-saved** switch changes the character's cryo marker only; it does not create or restore saved items.

![The player editor moves from character stats to equipment and flags.](/media/docs/admin-player-editor.gif)

## How it works

Stat and item edits are revision-checked and written in one SQLite transaction. Renaming preserves the character's stable ID (`src/mail.h` and `src/house.h` attach mail and house ownership to that ID), while board headings and aliases are updated with the new name. The admin delete action is separate from the in-game self-delete command (`src/interpreter.c`) and does not alter game commands, wear checks, random draws, or the save format.