I really enjoyed playing this game after I bought it a few days ago. As I was playing with my friends, I start to realize it would add more purpose to building a house on your raft if you can have a open sea type of online game.

What I mean by that is that it would be so cool if they can expand the game to making it so that there are more people than you and your friends. You can either choose to go online or play a lobby like you do now with your friends. But if you go online. there's a chance while sailing in the seas you will meet with other players and their friends. When you do, you will have the freedom to do whatever you want with them (ie. socialize, trade, raid and start a raft war, etc). It would add a lot more dynamic to the gameplay and it would also make people build forts and defenses to safeguard their crates and other goods the enemy players can steal. 

Furthermore, if this would be possible, joining an online server would allow you to start a new raft game and you can invite party members for them to co-create your fortress. 

I'm making this suggestion to make the game more interesting and competitive, feedback or adding onto the idea would be much appreciated.

-DJpicklerick

Trees, flowers, watermelon, pineapple, etc should give all give a minimum of one seed for the purpose of replanting. 1  seed in 5 mango trees is ridiculous imo. A rudder would be great so reorienting your boat could be done without running into islands. It would be nice if the candle in a bottle could be lit.

I would love to see a motor to the game, and a way to rotate your boat so if u place catchers on one side you can rotate, Thank you ;)

I have played this game for about 8 hours straight now, each hosting a different session with a few friends. I would suggest :-

- Definitely an engine instead of a sail, and different speeds available.  as once you go against the wind its very hard to paddle back!

- The ability to turn the boat 360 degrees.

- Game chat/text chat

- Definitely like abandoned villages or something, like a larger island for loot?

- My MAIN bug bear is..... food and water go down FAR too quickly. I'm eating/drinking every like 3 mins which is ridiculous! Atleast 6-7 mins would be great!

My husband gave me the game this morning and I love it so far. 

Things I'd like to see tweaked:

-You grow a pineapple plant by chopping the spiky top off and sticking it in the ground.  There are no seeds.  I'd love to see little spiky tufts instead of seeds.

-The bird seems to be broken.  She flies through my walls (or maybe my closed door) to eat my plants. She seems to ignore the 4 scarecrows I have surrounding my crops, but maybe I'm doing something wrong with the placement.

-Ranged weapons. Maybe an addition to the spear to anchor it to the boat with rope like a harpoon? I think I'd like something like that more than a bow and arrow, but only for theme purposes. Arrows would probably be easier on resources, but perhaps some kind of feathered dart would be okay.

-Shark weapons. Look up Hawaiian Weapons.  A lot of them are carved wood with shark teeth embedded into the edges.  I think that would be a cool way to make killing the shark more rewarding.  It's hard to fully engage my inner homicidal maniac when all I have to look forward to is a more-pointy pointy stick.

edit: How do you pause the game?

Podem Postar o Codigo do Produto (RAFT) da Steam ? Acho Mais Facil Baixar o Jogo pela Steam, plss

faz esse raft gratis multplayer plss

Just completed the game. I like the idea of the ending with global warming and water pollution but once you have completed the game, there are no other goals for you to aim for. I think it would make more sense if there was a world map (scaled down so you can go around the world) and have hints to the story line (global warming caused sea levels to rise and submerged continents etc). For example "Australia is submerged" so if you were to travel to the location of Australia on the map, it will be an open ocean which will confuse new players at first as to why this is as it is and then they will find out when they find the radio tower at the end of the game. I also think that the islands should be more like the tips of islands. For example if you where to travel to Nepal/Mt Everest on the map, you might find the tip of Mt Everest, also hinting at the story line. 

The shark, thirst and hunger currently doesn't add enough difficulty to the game, as the game progresses the shark should become stronger and possibly include several sharks at once into the game. Currently The shark does about a quarter damage of your health and you can cancel its attack by hitting it with the spear before it hits you. It also destroys your raft at only one block which is easily repaired. There simply isn't enough risk and loss in the game making it very easy. You could also make the game harder by having to maintain you raft and add some sort of float mechanics so that the construction and placement of objects actually matters. During storms you could have to constantly be repairing and fixing your raft from holes and other issues with the sails for example. 

The game can be beaten very quickly as well, and there should definitely be more emphasis on exploration and dangers such as the shark. More items and materials to be found would also be a good improvement to make the game last longer. I also think an introduction of a pickaxe would be appropriate, for acquiring materials underwater rather than the hook. The hooks is for scrap, axe for trees and pickaxe for mining minerals and scrap underwater. 

 It is possible to get an update so we can catch the electrical fish from the ocean and trap it on our ship and produce electricity 

Here are some ideas my friends and me made up:

-A map and/or compass

-Houses on island(maybe the compass can show you the way back home)

-Villages

-NPC Quests & trading/shopping

-Being able to build multiple Rafts

-Bigger sails, that make you go faster

-Animals that can be found on islands like pigs, cows etc.

-An animal farm on your raft

Let me know what you think of these! :)

Maybe I would add autosave, it happened that for some reason the game crashed or it closed and I had to do everything all over again. 

(Suggestions for the early access)

- Boat Motor: This Boat Motor can be placed on the edge of a raft and would work with the sail mechanic. Instead of using a paddle, you can use the boat motor. To use it turn it on (when a battery is in it) and your raft will start to go faster in the direction your raft or sail is pointed. To craft this, you would need: 1x Battery, 4x Bolt, 6x Scrap, 2x Rope, and 4x Iron Ingot. It would take a lot due to it being so OP and it would need a constant change of batteries.

- Island Shipwrecks: Island Shipwrecks can be randomly generated near or on giant to medium sized islands. In it it would contain a loot box like a raft or island would, but would contain better and rare loot. Maybe like vine Goo, Smelted Ingots, etc. The ship would be guarded by an additional shark, due to the insode loot of the ship being so good, making it where you would have 2 sharks on your tail so you would have to work towards getting the rare loot.

- Scuba Mask: A scuba mask would lighten up the underwater view better making it easier to see. It could be used to go deep sea diving so you can see what your doing and whats around you. To craft it you would need: 2x rope, 4x Vine Goo, 6x Plastic, 2x glass.

- Chef Hat: Now this item may seem a bit silly, but hear me out. While me and my friend were goofing off, playing the game, we made a kitchen area. We were talking and came up with this cool fun idea. There should be a Chef hat you can wear, like the shark head, but in order to get it you have to go fishing. When you go fishing, sometimes you pull up a rare item like a lucky cat, candle bottle, etc. When you go fishing, there should be a super rare chance that when you pull up your rod, you get the chef hat, and you can wear it around.

I really hope this game can extend its features so when you have the basics down and have everything researched you’re not just building to keep the game fun for yourself. I think it’s be awesome to add something like villages you could go to by using something like a compass and the game would only spawn the village if you have the compass obtained so you can’t find it randomly in the beginning stages of the game (just an idea.) things like this would make the game so much more fun because it gives me something to look forward to once I am getting toward the ending stages of the game! I am hoping for not just bug fixes, but NEW CONSISTANT GAMEPLAY CONTENT!!! 

The point of these survival games are to (survive obviously) but also make life more convenient for yourself. This game needs a higher level feature of using materials that you can create on your boat without having to wait to find islands and manually mine for scraps for your main tools and such. 

Hope this isn’t a game that never comes out with new content because I really like this game and I don’t want to get bored

You should add motor parts. Sort of like in stranded deep.

Hi, i linke the game and i hope that i can give some good ideas.
the game is to easy at the moment on hard

1. There are too little stuff.
if you find nails you can craft all stuff

2. more sharks at islands will make it harder. one shark is too easy if you know how to attac him.
if there are more sharks -> bigger bait for 2 sharks or more crafted with the otther big fishes?

3. use the clock to see different seasons. At winter you cant plant crops or fishing. so you must stock your food.

4. you can find the blueprints in a box on a raft with pirats or so
pirats try to board your raft

5. a steering wheel that you can turn your raft to sail straight and dont at teh side

6. a storm damage the raft

7. a tool to climb on islands

8. you need the feather for arrows

9. elixir / bandage to heal or you heal very slowly

i hope my english isnt to bad that you know what i mean ;)

Rudder for fixing the rotation of your raft, slight bonus to fighting the wind with sail and paddle.

My husband and I have been playing this in co-op and love it. We'd love to see a way to repair hooks, axes, etc. Also it would be amazing if we could land on other rafts and maybe do quick repair or have a way to attach them to our rafts.

Please note that we are most active over at the steam forums and the official Raft Discord at: https://discord.gg/raft

                Not sure as to how or what direction you are taking this game, but I have idea that I believe would bring a nice twist to the game. when players finally find utopia. flip the script and turn it in to a mission base survival game, more tech to be learned, giving better gear and such. maybe missions to help keep utopia running and functioning. missions that take players out in to the depths of the area around utopia to add to the game play, with co op in game this would bring even more game play to this already great game, but like most survival games you get to a point of board and what is the point of playing. So turn market on its ear and give this game a twist when they get to utopia. Just idea

 I think the player should be able to make floors walls and ramps out of metal and  bigger islands  And mines for the  Islands   To mine up stone ,metal, other ore, and oil, 

make this game free but make a spot wear they can donate so then they have a option to pay or not pay for it

Making Bruce(shark) more fun

Fighting with Bruce could be more fun.

• Make it possible to actually avoid being bitten when you react very
  fast or make him cancel his attack when you hit him just in the right moment/spot
• Make Bruce far more dangerous. Make him take like 70% of your health and cause bleeding so you bleed out when you don't react good swiftly
• Make it hard with good gear and next to impossible naked with bad one

I would like to see enemies like a giant octopus or squid, and maybe even the Kraken during a storm.  If you ever come up with PVP that would be cool too.

1. A Smithy to craft better tool like the metall spear.

and so use the smithy you need coal and you can craft coal witch 2 different wood types. soft wood from the palm and hard wood from rare woods on islands

2. a rudder for self-rotation

3. a harpoon

4. a mortar to craft chemical like a underwater torch

Dear devs,

So i really like your game, playing this with friends has been a very relaxing and alround fun experience, i think you have a golden formula of gameplay on your hands right here but right now the main thing that seems to be lacking is the end game. Exploring the world and making your raft better is nice and all but it won't stay fun forever. 

I think i have thought of  a pretty good solution for this problem though. Now disclaimer: i know nothing of gamedesign or the technical capabilities of your engine so if the things i'm saying are actually borderline impossible ignore them i guess.

When i played this game for the first time i couldnt shake the feeling that it was kind of like sea of thieves but way WAY better. So i started thinking about how good a game could be that combines the best elements from both.

I will now try to describe the gameplay experience for a new player the moment he and his friends download and boot up this game.

1. Building a raft. This stage would be really similar to the gameplay as it is right now. You load into a singleplayer game with your friends and you just start collecting stuff to build up your raft. on Islands you can find weapons and you have a map that fills the places where you have been(would be nice if you could name places you discover yourself on that map). after a bit of exploring you find a corner of the map where there are a lot of enemies, obviously you only want to go there once your raft is trong enought to take them, so for now you keep exploring.

2. going PvP after some time you and your friends have built a pretty strong raft and you feel confident you can take on that area, a boss fight ensues. if you manage to beat that boss your ship is repaired and you are teleported to the next world, this world has better loot to make your raft even stronger, it has some ai that bother you every now and again, but most importantly you are playing a PvP game now!!. Just like in sea of thieves you will have to watch out for enemy ships who will try to fuck you up all the time to steal your cargo. Now i'm thinking the destruction of your ship will make your ship reset completely to what it was when u entered that area. The endgoal in this area should be the same as in the first one. you beat a boss to progress to an area with even stronger ai, even better loot and even stronger player controlled enemy rafts. this system of progression could also be used as some kind of ranking system where that first world is unranked, the second bronze, the third silver etc. this will make sure this game doesnt die like sea of thieves because there's no progression.

I think this system could work really well especially since the downfall of sea of thieves was that nothing was customizable except clothing which made it hard for me to really care about my ship. whereas in this system, you and your friends will have build your ship with blood sweat and tears and you will want to show the world shes the best and reach high elo with her.

of course this is a very rough draft of my ideas for this game and i would like to hear from you about why you think it can or can't work.

regards and kisses

Abe Wichers (abewichers@hotmail.com)

Make Raft 1.05 On Mac And Linux

Because I Am So Tired Because Raft 1.04

THAKNS

i was thinking about how to improve/add more content to the research table aswell as possibilities within the game. i've been noticing that when a bit further in the game the general need for plastic goes down whilest they do always end up in my collection net, i feel like a good way to expand the research table aswell as dealing with the plastic. is to create a new researchable the ''chemistry set'' in wich you can turn a glass into chemistry cups (and perhaps use other materials for other chemistry components) and in real life you can turn plastic back into oil, or a different liquid fuel. so with a chemistry set in game, and therefor unlocking the ability to make oil and other potential substances we can expand the list of things to research/build like for example having oil and fuel as a requirement for a motor that can drive your boat.

also perhaps other materials that can be converted by the use of a chemistry set, maybe materials that arent yet in the game but can be found on or around islands in the future.

im looking forward to seeing new suggestions regarding the idea of a chemistry set.

Hi, its been a while since comment but, I just downloaded and played the game. I havent read all the comments but yet there is something I would have like to have in game and its perhaps a slow calm and relaxing music. I tought it might have been by design but, if in the debris we can gather there was more useless stuff like old bottles or balls or stuff just to hang somewhere, but also a music box. A music box that the player would have to crink to get like 15-30 sec of music. I think it would be great. thanks.

hello i want rejoin your server for playing raft multiplayer

que hayan muchos mas peces como ballenas,mas tiburones,que se puedan investigar mas como investigar  todo lo del buso para que respiras mas bajo el agua y nadar mas rapido,que de dia haya mas holas sin que haya tormentas y mucho mas

I think there should be an oxygen tank that you can craft out of metal ingots, and also maybe reinforced flippers. These would allow you to stay underwater for much longer, the goal of which would be to go to a new area: the Deep Sea.

The Deep Sea could have new precious metals and resources used for crafting new, more powerful items that might be used for other things within the same update. I'm imagining an obviously dark underwater place (you'd need to be able to craft a headlamp as well) full of:

- Deep sea vents that damage you if you swim into them, but also have small white crabs (like the Hoff crab) near them that you can catch to cook up

- Anglerfish that bite you but drop glowing bio-luminescent 'pearls' if you kill them, these could be used to craft an upgraded headlamp

- Other creatures such as viperfish, isopods, giant tube worms, pelican eels, etc.

- Shipwrecks and/or sunken submarines, in which you could find lots of good resources

I'm just riffing with the thought that there should be something deep underwater, and I feel this could be a fun addition. Thoughts?

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Love the game :D I'm playin on macos and everything fine (no errors at all).

- I love that there is possibility to automate catching garbage and would love to have posibility to automate catching fish and cook, and grabing a salt water as making it fresh. so I don't need to do this manually.

- Yet another one: is to making something like Spike around the "boat" to protect it from the sharks. 

my twitch account is: https://www.twitch.tv/entond and I'm helping with localization to ukrainian/russian for free (let me know if you interested).

Please make the player respawn after death.

Curious... do you ever work with 3rd parties on new games? I'm following Chronicles of Elyria at the moment, but as far as I can gather their water content is negligable. Raft's water content is pretty cool - is there potential to negotiate a share cut and add some of this sort of content there?

Suggestion: On joining a multiplayer session, trigger the mousewheel event / scroll. This appears to fix the bug where the hook doesn't work for joining players.

Suggestion: Add whales and turtles as occasional encounters.

Mac compatible from steam pleeeassee.

Is there a decrease of jumping distance in the latest update? It probably makes trouble in  moving  in our  built boats.  We need to do some  changes on our boats unwillingly in order to move from different parts. SO I suggest   do not change the  distance of jumping.

Devs can you please make the signal receiver stay on the number it is set to when the game is exited? Every time I reload the game the number is set to the first signal so when I go exploring I always end up going in circles and it is very frustrating. I know this thread is old but I figured that you might like to have more recent feedback.

hey, i LOVE this game, bbbuuuuttttttttttt, there could be an optain to befriend the robots in the dome thingy. just my idea

A couple of suggestions.  A simple rudder would be nice for early game steering.  i.e. made of planks and has to be steered by hand.  Also make the candle bottles able to be lit.

playing on linux. The mouse control is very hard.  the view turns in the direction of the mouse when it's moving. It looks like a bad emulation of an analogic stick. It would be easyer if the view would only turn when the mouse goes off a big threshold around the center.