I've been a pirate in Windrose for four hours now, and I've been up to all sorts of classic pirate activities in that time: Chopping down trees, picking up sea shells, making huts out of grass, and getting killed by boars, elite-tier dodos, and giant crabs.
There's not much in the world of Windrose that can't kill me in a couple hits, but I'm marooned on a small archipelago and need to rescue my crew from around the islands before I can actually get to the life of sailing that stepping into the boots of a pirate should offer. So I get in a tiny boat and put up its sail—which actually just means pressing the W key like it's a throttle, since there's seemingly no wind system in Windrose—and putter over to one of the pirate camps where my crewmates are held hostage.
