Boat

Boats are used to make it easier to cross water terrain. There are two distinct types: a portable boat item that a character can carry with them and a ship which can be purchased at a shipyard and sailed.

Types

Portable boat

This is any object with the boat flag, it can be carried in the inventory or worn to allow crossing of water terrain, if a character lacks the fly spell or swimming skill. An example would be a plank of wood found in The Viking village raid.

Item: 'plank wood wooden driftwood '  
Weight: 3  Size: 3'0"
Type: BOAT   Composition: WOOD
Weapon damage: 4 to 16 fast pound, 12 strength to use.
Object is: 
Estimated cost: 10  

Sail boat

These are purchasable at shipyards It can be used to reached some areas that are only accessible by teleport, bone dragon

How to make a sail boat

1. Find a shipyard.
2. Type boat buy -f this will cost 10000 gold.
3. The newly created sailing boat will be placed in the water room adjutant to the shipyard. It should be the first ship in the room and ground string will read something like The Good Ship Snarly Tove floats on the water here.
4. Enter the boat by typing enter boat
5. Give it a name by typing boat christen <name>
6. Set the permissions on who can use the boat.
7. The boat is now ready to set sail.

Permissions

Type while in the boat:-

• boat set flag allowgroup
• boat set flag allowall
• boat set clan <name>
• boat set captain <names>
• boat set helmsman <names>

Those set as captain have full permissions and can recall the ship while those set as helmsman can steer the ship

List of Shipyards

Shipyards can be found in:-

• Dragon Tooth
• Elborat
• Umi Minami quarter of Daigaku Tatami
• West Naginag
• Finspang.