I have a suggestion that will enrich the world a lot! It adds a new collectible to be found, an extra weapon, more ways to pass the time and cosmetic changes based on them that are very typical for pirates.
What I want to introduce are:
Knives
Location
They can be found on all kinds of islands, but unlike all other collectibles they are not in barrels. Instead you will find them stuck in wooden walls, trees, dartboards and other logical places like that. you have to look at them to pick them up.
You can only carry 5 knives with you.
Attacks:
-Leftclick is a stab. It does less damage then a cutlass and has a small reach. But allows you to attack even when you don't have your cutlass with you.
-Holding rightclick allows you to charge up a trow. Releasing it early will make you trow a little bit less far and makes the screen shake a little after 2 seconds there is not much shacking and allows for the full reach. It is not fully accurate, so it never goes perfectly straight to the middle of the screen.
When it hits a person or skeleton they do damage, then fall on the ground. When they hit stone based objects they bounce off. When they hit anything else they will be stuck on it. All thrown knives can be retrieved again as long as you can find them and reach the location.
Everything underneath here would be awesome to have, but could also be added as a future upgrade after implementing knives already.
Knife upgrade, poisoned knives
Can be obtained by using snake potion on them. After one throw (no matter if it hit or not) or 1 stab against a person or object the snake poison effect will happen and lose it's poison. It does less damage and cures way faster then a normal snake bite.
Knife darts
On your ship and in taverns there will be a dart board. Here you can play darts with your knives. There will be no automatic point system, you have to check the board yourself and decide the winners among yourselves (making funny discussions possible). It's even harder on a ship because of the waves moving around your ship.
You can gamble a little bit of money on a game. You can place 100 gold on a table which becomes a visible coin stack. You can do that 5x per ingame day per player, unless you pick up your own money (a limit to prevent massive transfer of ingame money). Anyone can simply pick up the coins whenever they want. So gambling is trust based which can make for funny interactions between players.
You can use the money transfer system for more then just darts. When other gambling games like simple card/dice games will be added you can use them on those as well. It also allows for a way to pay other crews for trading, or anything else people imagine doing with this new interaction option.
Emotes and other actions+knife
When you do an emote while still holding your knife in your hand there will be an animation where you put the knife between your teeth first. This also happens when you climb a ladder, holding treasure/gunpowderbarrel or doing any action on the ship. This will take 1 second extra for the animation. Its nothing more then a way to look more intimidating. Holding knives between teeth is something shown a lot with pirate movies/animations and still missing in the game.
Designs
Different locations have different knife designs to be found. When holding a knife it will randomly choose 1 of the 5 knives you are able to hold.
