... (maybe not feasible here) Desert sands became hot and even began burning (somehow) Other ideas not present in the mod could be something like the oceans/water becoming black like tar (might look dumb) Rather than making something like this a mechanic throughout the lifespan of the world, I thought ...
Please Jorb. Make swans float I would really like to hunt the swans I come across while traveling the oceans but there is no way to catch them the other birds are fine because you can just catch them in your inventory.
if they give knars speed boots in oceans, then I think they should give it a speed reduction in river and lake shallows. Thus null the change. I can agree to shallow water regardless of lake, rivers or oceans, but no. No speed reduction in-land ...
Your argument against being able to go across oceans faster is that they are meant to be boring? I'm sure you can do better than that, at least come up with a valid argument. The oceans are meant to be a sort of barrier between continents, not a ...
Oceans meant to be some sort of separation, even if that separation is your unwillingness to to boring travel. There probably can be more ocean-specific content added, but in no way that makes oceans just as good as going on foot on land.
+1 On adding virtually anything to oceans. Travelling in a knarr as you go to a quest giver on another continent is rediculously boring since it's just "click in one direction then read reddit for 15 minutes".