How to make Patches

[Freya]

So you have your shard built, your towns changed, or new hues added or both, but so far only you can see them, unless you send each player a copy of your files which can take a while and be a pain. So next comes making a patch that will d/l via UOGateway each time a player logs onto your shard for the first time. First you need to find a webhost that allows potentially large files to be hosted, and a large amount of bandwidth to be used. For the most part, you will have to pay for a host, I won't list mine here as the point of this is not to advertise, but you can PM me if interested in it.
So you now have a webhost, next what you need to do is find which files you need to get out to players, if you have changed your map (froze or unfroze areas) then depending on which facet they are on, you'll need all or some of these files:

Tram/Fel Changes:
Statics0.mul
Staidx0.mul

Malas Changes:
Statics2.mul
Staidx2.mul

Ilshenar Changes:
Statics3.mul
Staidx3.mul

Tokuno Changes:
Statics4.mul
Staidx4.mul

Hue file:
Hues.mul

I suggest copying and pasting the files you need to get to other players into one folder temporarily, then once you have them all together, click on the Edit button on the top part of the folder, and click "Select all" then, right click on one of the highlighted files, and select "Add To Archive" to put them into RAR format. Name it something like "patch1.rar" or what not... Then you are ready to upload that rar'ed patch to your webhost. Once that is completed, go to your UOGateway acct. page, and into Edit Serverlisting... there you will find "Patches". Enter the url for your patch in that spot, and then save it. UOGateway will update their files after usually 30 minutes, then you and everyone else who logs onto your shard should recieve a patch w/your shard files in it. *** NOTE: There are other files needed for patches dealing w/artwork and gumps, but this is only meant to inform regarding patches for map and hue files. ***
I hope this helps! =)
~Freya~