Containers and Platforms

In their strictest definition, containers and platforms are just objects that have the container or platform attribute, respectively. This allows the verblib-grammar-token-defined parser to accept commands like >PUT THING ON PLATFORM or >PUT THING IN CONTAINER (even if all you want is a different not-successful message than “You can’t do that.”).

• If it’s a working container/platform (objects can actually be placed in/on it), it should also have holding and capacity properties (these are used by Acquire to verify the container/platform has room for more objects).

• If the object’s contents shouldn’t show up in a room listing (or when you look at it), it should also have the quiet attribute.
• Containers may also have open, openable, locked, transparent, or lockable attributes, depending.
• If you want the object’s contents to only show up when the player looks in it, use list_contents.
• If a container object can also have objects placed on top of it (like a desk), check out the supercontainer class.