Vehicles

Vehicles in Rhizome refer to any seagoing or landgoing object that carries people and other objects within it as it moves about. Functionally, early on, this is restricted to boats, as roads and trails suitable for wagons must be built, and wildlife to be tamed, but eventually true infrastructure must be brought to Hyphae.

Vehicles have several important properties.

1. They have health.
2. They have quality as other crafted items do.
3. They can be attacked by players with break.
4. Hostile NPCs and creatures will attack them, assuming their lethality exceeds the amount of quality of vehicle.
5. Vehicles that are destroyed spill their contents into the room.
6. Things inside a vehicle cannot be attacked directly from the outside without entering them.
7. Players within vehicles behave as if standing on land, even if the vehicle is in the water.
8. Vehicles do not take stamina to move, with the exception of rowboats, or a wagon pulled by human effort.
9. Vehicles can carry much greater weights than lone characters, but even their carrying capacity is limited. They are useful for mass transport but not infinite in this regard. Vehicles over their carrying capacity cannot move on land, and begin to sink if in the water.
10. Passengers count towards weight limit.
11. The owner of a vehicle is the one who built it initially.
12. You can transfer <vehicle> <character> to transfer ownership.
13. Only the owner or their granted agents may drive, steer, or row a vehicle.
14. When commanding a vehicle, your entered movements are instead movements of the vehicle
15. Vehicles may have multiple rooms within them, such as large ships.
16. Boats and vehicles can be added to inheritance the same as property.

Command                         What it does
board <vehicle>                 Enter a vehicle
disembark                       Exit a vehicle (into the water, if afloat)
command                         Take command of a vehicle
relinquish                      No longer command a vehicle
grant <character>               Let someone else command your vehicle
transfer <vehicle> <character>  Give your vehicle to someone else
haul <boat>                     Drag a small boat out of the water onto land
launch <boat>                   Put a boat into the water from the adjacent room