Make as much working as possible...

e. g. this Galleon that anchors next to a tropical island in Fishing Expedition:

Area: Fishing Expedition (Fishing_Expedition) Loc: (-9.207, 6.955, -1.879) DBG: RmlzaGluZ19FeHBlZGl0aW9ufHwoLTkuMjA3LCA2Ljk1NSwgLTEuODc5KXwoMCwgMC4xNzMsIDAsIC0wLjk4NSl8LTc3MS4wMTkxfDE2LjM3MjQzfDEuNDg5OTk5

I know that it´s a lot to program and and at least as much work to actually make ships travel around under player control.
However could we get a bit closer to that in tiny steps of workability?

That galleon has a steering wheel - sure, it would not actually do something, but could it be turned right or left just like a toy wheel on the playing ground? (as it has to be the players choice if right or left, perhaps using E on the right half turns right, using E on the left half turns left?).

The galleon has several masts and on top crownests - there are player homes (Giant Galleons?) that have some rigging that can be used with E to climb up to the crownest to be watchout. Could that be made possible for the galleon here (or better for any ship that has a crowsnest), too?

The galleon has 4 doors that are not even locked doors (for locked doors trying to open them with E a message would tell that they are locked) but merely deco. Could as a first step those doors mutate to "locked doors" to insinuate that they could be opened, and later as another step the loading space, crews quarters and captains cabin be enterable (we already have ships, even shipwrecks where it is possible to go inside those rooms, e. g. the shipwreck covered by green moss in the swamps near Aerie).

 

The developers seem to refuse any discussion of ships moving,
As far as im aware there are zero plans to implement boating in harbors.

Let alone much of anything else known past 2023 as much as this would be awesome.

Where's an ambitious millionaire when you need them?