Water depth puts some restrictions on various actions:
* Over water table: (>=1), can plant, can meditate, can drop tent, can plan house
* Water table: moist tile (+/- 0) no drink option available, no plant ("The ground is too moist here, so the bouquet of orange-red flowers would rot.")[1], no meditate ("You can not meditate here. It is too wet.")[2], cant drop tent ("The ground is too wet to pitch your tent there. You'll need to drop it on higher ground.")[3], no plan house ("You can't build on water.")[4]
* [[Water tile]]: below water level (<= -1) drink, refill options available
* Passable by shallow draft boats: Five below water level (<= -5) ([[Crude canoe]]s, [[Rowing boat]]s, [[Small sailing boat]]s, [[Knarr]]s)
* Plant [[Reed tile]]: over Thirty below water level (> -30) if not too much slope
* [[Dredging]]: Up to 180 dirt, depending on your digging skill (-180)
Messages on water table:
*[1] "The ground is too moist here, so the bouquet of orange-red flowers would rot."
*[2] "You can not meditate here. It is too wet."
*[3] "The ground is too wet to pitch your tent there. You'll need to drop it on higher ground."
*[4] "You can't build on water."
== Traveling on the Waterways ==