Materialroot

Canon
''This article is about the plant genus named Materialroot. For the category of resource, see (Material)root. For other types of Root, see Root (disambiguation).''

Materialroot (/məˈtɪəriəlɹʊt/) is a large genus of flowering plants in an unknown family, which consists of species sharing the later half of the name. The genus is native to Roblox and the Icarus Badlands, but the most common varieties are from divergent lineages and effectively distinct, especially in the Har-Yim region of the Planet of Hats and the hydrosphere of the Large Cake. Some varieties of Materialroot are edible before flowering, and a limited few afterwards. The common name Materialroot (/məˈtɪəriəlɹʊt/ Mah-ty-rie-all r-oo-t, from the English "Material" and "Root") is given to members of the genus. Due to a magically-accelerated process of convergent evolution, Materialroots have become one of the most important plants for Homesteaders, locations without quality timber, and construction. Many Materialroot species produce seeds asexually by apomixis, where the seeds are produced without pollination, resulting in offspring that are largely identical to the parent plant; such species can still change from descendant to descendant due to assorted magical convergences, or influences due to surrounding structure.

Most materialroot plants grow into various structures, such as castles, huts, hospitals, runways, cell towers, and more. The method of obtaining the structures is generally referred to as 'Materialroot', but when describing an immature specimen or seed, the final structure is usually used, such as 'Castleroot', 'Hutroot', 'towerroot' and so on to avoid ambiguity. Some types of Materialroot depend on various unique metaphysics or magics to accelerate their growth; as a rule, it is safest to rely on the M. Mundanium species, but cheaper and swifter to adapt to the location you wish to grow your Materialroot dwelling in.

Many materialroots generate various different components ex nihilo through standard magical energy generative spark, located in a 'central core' formed from the seed body during an initial period of structure formation. However, external magical energy can be stockpiled or used for burst growth, and certain types of waste material may be actively recycled for mass-energy if left in dedicated management areas. Seed cores form either to ease the maintenance of complex constantly-depleted outbuildings or for explicit reproduction of the core and its variants (such as in some command centers generating outpost stolons). Magical energy wiring generally suffuses the wall areas of the structure where damage is actively repaired by the original, but is amenable to being moved for more permanent structural alterations and may expand with some autonomy. Certain 'bunches' of generative-focus wiring can be formed as a natural property of some species and a bred or constructed property of others, styled to create easily-removed reserves of material such as self-refilling warehouses and pantries through tuning practice or the root in question opting to 'fill to design'.

Most root cores are fairly passive sentients akin to trees or noncombative elementals, and generally just reproduce materials removed from their structure, but many species can be trained in various ways through energy or material offers or express vague preferences through targeted growth patterns. Full sapients have been recorded (mostly intelligence-focused breeds of large library-types who derive language from books donated to them, or electronics-types which produce additional processors and storage space for the core's exclusive use in private areas). A materialroot generally stays in place, but it can be moved manually or may migrate by levitation with or without its structure body in response to the environment being changed around it (such as moving to the surface or a cave to be nearer a new entrance if it prefers not being completely buried).

The resulting resource (Material)root refers to generated roots made of materials or material-substitutes, generally formed in bunker-type species as 'reusable mining areas' or 'vaults of plenty' to avoid excessive surface ability besides an entry port should there not be an available containing facility. For example, Ironroot growing roots with many of the properties of iron, high-iron-content extractable bars, or conventional iron ore in natural-appearing stone (depending on subtype).

Materialroot is sometimes called Structureroot to differentiate structure-type varieties intended for active use as opposed to resource-extraction platforms.

Otherworlds
Originally derived to support Icarus Badlands along with other life. They are similar to submachines.