Boat Overhaul

This might be a long post, but I guess we will find out.

First off, one feature that I'm honestly surprised isn't in the game yet is the ability to chain boats together. With the large ocean biome being increasingly more common, transporting mobs from place to place is quite a hassle. I recently had to go kidnap some villagers and I had to constantly check back because if you have 5 boats on lead, one will break and leave that boat behind. What this new feature would do is it would allow you to attach boats together, kind of like how a train is but for boats. Also you should be able to use 2 leads on it to ensure you can travel at the boats maximum speed without risking your boat chain breaking.

That leads me to the second part of this. In the ocean biome there are usually quite a few underwater structures, and looting them is often fun and rewarding. If you had a boat with a chest in the back, or a barrel, whichever makes more sense, you would be able to stay on the water exploring for much longer. Tie this in with the chain idea and you could theoretically live mostly on water. Personally I think this would make exploration much more fun. This would also provide a use for boats if people have depth strider, as they would have the extra storage and you would only sacrifice speed for extra inventory.

The last part to this I'm a little iffy on, but maybe you could put a furnace or something like that in a boat to make it go faster and also be able to pull things faster.