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 [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)
* [[Digging]]: Up to seven dirts below water level (>= -7)
* Passable by [[Large cart]]s: over Seven seven below water level (>= -7)* [[Mining#Opening a mine|Tunneling]]: Northnorth-western corner at most 12 dirts below water level (>=-12)* Passable by deep draft boats: Twenty twenty below water level (<= -20) ([[Corbita]]s, [[Cog]]s, [[Caravel]]s)* [[Mining#Surface mining|Surface mining]]: Up up to 25 twenty five dirts below water level (>=-25)* [[Mining#Floor and ceiling mining|Floor mining]]: Up up to twenty five dirts below water level (>=-25)* [[Mining#Leveling|Mine floor raising]]: with concrete up to twenty five dirts below water level (>=-25)* Plant [[Reed tile]]: over Thirty thirty below water level (> -30) if not too much slope* [[Dredging]]: Up 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 ==