Structure of the hierarchy:

Keeps track of all the types of wearable and how they fit together. Provides methods for rapid querying. Will build the datastructure described below during its construction.

Datastructure

key

type (equivalent to location)

value

[description, over, under, bodypart ]

description

One or two word description of the type

over

Array of the types of wearable that this covers

under

Array of the types of wearable that this goes under

bodypart

Array of the body parts that the person must have to be able to wear the item

Methods

• status is_valid( type )
• string get_description( type )
• string *get_goes_over( type )
• string *get_goes_under( type )
• string *get_required_bodyparts( type )

n-dimensional map.

- What about things that are not worn that provide protection? is armour not a wearable with ac, but perhaps a wearable with protection, and protection is something that provides an ac?
- Does wearing one thing over the top of another make the one underneath provide less protection?

• What about things that are not worn that provide protection? is armour not a wearable with ac, but perhaps a wearable with protection, and protection is something that provides an ac?
• Does wearing one thing over the top of another make the one underneath provide less protection?
• How do we handle that a human can wear two rings, but a 4 armed being an wear 4, and a snake can wear none.