Towels

[Deaderpan]

a simple way to quickly remove soaked effects after swimming in water or panning for too long.
you equip a towel in your hand, hold right click and then after a very basic rubbing animation where the player hand moves upper and down or wipes their face with the towel, the soaked status effect is removed. then maybe you need to place the towel down in a place that is above 0 degrees for it the dry out after 2 in game hours before it can be used again.

could be crafted from 4 squares of linen and fancy looking ones with patterns could be bought from a trader.

is it the most useful item? no, is it urgently needed to be implemented? no

but ive noticed recently (definitely because its winter irl lmao) that some people have suggested more ways to warm up the player but suggestions like japanese style hot springs and saunas all involve water in some form, so maybe even tho a towel might be limited in uses now (falling over board when sailing a boat in winter IG) in the future it might be useful when more mechanics get added.