Raft: Food, Water, and Storage

A beet cooking on the Simple Grill over a fire in Raft, with a prompt to place a plank as fuel

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

A sail raised on the raft catching the wind with an island on the horizon in Raft

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

A great white shark chewing a corner foundation tile off the edge of the raft in Raft

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…