After playing for some time and looking at the different ship designs i dont find the customization options satisfying. The issue im running into is that the ship grows very big and is meant to be some sort of mobile base where we can store our loot and materials and where we can do some limited housing. The problem is that the customization is way to limited to build anything out of it that looks like a bit more as a simple traveling ship. I have different issues with both walls and back walls. The back walls are completely replaceable, but the windows cannot be moved around freely. The issue is that the background behind the back wall has only specific points for windows. This limits the ability to build rooms with windows if we want them bigger or in other positions. The easiest solution i could think of would be to change the background of the rooms to be a room sized window, so we can decide by ourselves where we want transparent back walls or normal ones. The walls are the second issue here. Since we cannot remove/replace the outlining walls we run into 3 issues: 1.) We cannot move Hatches into positions where we want them, wich limits the use of some rooms that have hatch connections between them as we have only 2 options, use the hatch, or seal it. While sealing it looks ugly as the blocks wont fit with the rest of the ship. 2.) We cant move Doors around. While we can place doors where we want, the blocks defining the doorframe will still stay there wich also limits the use of the area and makes it impossible to join 2 rooms together into one for example. 3.) We cant desice how the outline of our rooms should look like. We can place an outline at the inside of the rooms, but this comes with 2 issues, it reduces the roomsize bei 2 blocks height/width and it looks ugly at the doors and makes some doors impossible to use. The solution for this issue would be to simply make the 1 block outlining around the rooms remove and replaceable. Since Walls and Floors between rooms are 2 blocks wide we could get all issues solved with this by enabling the removal and replacement of walls and doors and in the same moment enable custom room walls by allowing players to replace the walls with a block they desire.
Let me explain what you are actually seeing. The ship is built of blocks/tiles(foreground and background), objects, and an image laid behind both. A bigger/moved window would require editing the image that lays behind everything. This is not possible in game no matter what. You need an image editor program and no less. Some mods include edited versions of this image. The walls/floor you think you are seeing are actually just a combination of invisible/indestructible blocks(that aren't real tiles) and the image file I mentioned. That they could do something about. You'd need to make new blocks that look and act mostly the same, and use those in place of the invisible/indestructible blocks. For your windows, there is a mod that I believe removes the image from the interior part of the ship. So you can make your windows as you like. The cost of course is if you liked the interior behind the wall tiles. If you really want higher levels of customization for your ship, mods are the way to go. Make your own, or use one of the many excellent choices available. Some of them have no background image, and are purely tiles/objects with every bit modifiable and expandable. You can't get more customizable than that.
