missing "start" statement puts player in "nowhere room"

[pdxiv]

If the start statement isn't present, the game will start in the "nowhere room", where the player should never be. The expected behavior is that if you don't explicitly declare a starting room, you should end up in the first room you declare
For example, right now if you want to start the game in a room labeled "cave", you need to explicitly add:

start cave

... to the file to avoid starting the game in the "nowhere room".

[pdxiv]

Most likely, there is a similar bug relating to the "treasury" default values that needs to be fixed.
It's probably possible to work around by manually specifying “treasury cave” (assuming that there is a room with ID “cave” that you want to use as a treasury room).