Raft: Bricks and the Smelter
Back at the raft: bricks, then a Smelter Once your foundations are built out enough to have some spare deck space, you can start setting up the stations that produce your gear. First is the Smelter, which is what the…
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Raft: Island Harvesting for Scrap and Ore
Running low on scrap? Anchor at an island Scrap comes in from crates, and once you’ve built a wall of nets they pull in a little more on their own, though slowly. So when your rope is piling up faster…
Raft: The Research Table and Collection Nets
The Research Table The build you should not skip in this stretch is the Research Table (fourteen planks and two scrap, under the Other tab), which unlocks most of the crafting tree. In the game it’s “used to research new…
Raft: Food, Water, and Storage
Cooking food: the Simple Grill Eventually your food meter starts flashing, and you need to start cooking. The Simple Grill handles it: six planks, one scrap, and three rope, tucked under the Food/Water tab. It “can cook a piece of…
Raft: How to Steer with the Sail
Steer around small islands (for now) In the very early game you want to avoid the small islands you drift toward, not aim for them. You’ve no real way to steer or reorient the raft yet, and if you run…
Raft: How to Survive Your First Hour
We started a fresh world for this series. Two of the setup choices are worth getting right. Choose Easy mode. Raft has five modes: Creative, Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard. On Normal, hunger and thirst drain aggressively, which makes the…
Getting Started With Raft
Raft starts you in the middle of the ocean on a 2×2 raft: four wood-and-plastic tiles and a plastic hook, with open water in every direction. There’s no land to gather from, so nearly everything you build starts as debris…