• The problem I have is that it is way too easy and pretty much dies off after an hour of gameplay. It would be challenging if the stuff actually deteriorated over time. Once you build something, it will last forever, which takes away from the survival point of the game. Maybe stuff should have a certain number of uses.
• Is there a way to add a day/night cycle? Maybe everything goes pitch black at night, or some nights, and you need a lantern. Or maybe a thick fog, so that it can be random.
• Maybe have the sun begin to give sunburn over time, and the player needs to go under a second floor or stairs to avoid a heatstroke. The sun could also cause fires on upper floors (Because the bottom floor is touching water) and needs to be put out with water. (Salt or Drinkable)
• Are ladders possible?
• As the player adds more stuff onto their raft, it starts to sink? It forces them to build more levels. And it keeps them from making the raft out further. I was able to make a bridge on the water, but stopped after a while since it was a little odd to be able to make it out so far. The limit of stuff would also keep people from making the raft out so far.
• Spoilage.
• How crazy did you want to go with the game? Like... 'lore'-wise? Maybe add things in the distace. Weird things. Loud Kraken sounds from below. A ship in the far distance. Red eyes. No explanations.
• Random bottles with messages. Add all kinds of silly stories or messages. Maybe some chilling stuff. You slowly get bottle messages from someone you can't see, and they talk about their experience. Maybe use bottles and wood with scrap to make a telescope.
• Stockpiling food attracts... something? More sharks, pirahnas, a mysterious creature?
• Maybe more to come, who knows.

More variation on the coconuts when they drop. Currently they always drop in the same pattern (1 north, 1 west, 1 south or sometimes they both drop in the middle depending on how fast you chop). Would be nice to a) have a variation on how many coconuts you get (min: 1, max: 4) and a random placement where they drop.

Half walls and more variation on cost for walls. A window wall costs the same as a full one. I think they should be different in cost and resources.

I want a little more difficulty, maybe as you expand your raft more and more sharks become interested? Perhaps some other sea creatures as well. And a nice graphical touch would be to make it look like your raft is moving, instead of just sitting in the ocean.

Capture a sea turtle and skin it (requires a new item, a knife) and use the shell to capture clean water during rain. Yes, totally stolen from The Forest but seems to be applicable to this game. This would introduce a new tool (the knife), a new animal (turtle), a new way to get drinkable water (shell), and environmental effects (rain). The weather could be extended to more complicated things like storms, giant waves, etc. where the raft can be damaged.

Hey, my ideas for this game are as follows:

• Add weather - such as wind, rain, harsh sun, cold, cloud
  
  • This could also impact how much resources drift in
  • Will alter how the players health, food and water change
  • Will likely need clothes, or shelters to combat this
• Day night cycle (others have mentioned this one already)
  • Also beds to recover health, at cost of time and food/water
  • Time progresses - potential for bonuses
• A story line, or back story about why your on the raft, and where the debris is coming from
• Challenges/achievements
• Different AI type sharks, multiple sharks
• Other enemies/dangers
• Bad things drifting by - bombs, flaming oils, large logs
• Reinforcements for foundations, defense based tiles
• Visuals for damaged foundations when not holding the hammer in repair mode
• Craftable powerups which increase good debris, or decrease bad. or impact status change from weather or other, increase or decrease enemies
• Throwing shark meat into the water scares away the sharks for a short duration, or a craftable repelent
• Islands which you drift past, but if you hook them you can explore them for a possible bonus, but traps and wild animals are prevalent.
• Tech tree of resources, farms, weapons, character traits etc

First off, I'm loving the game, the latest storage update has been really beneficial.

I think some cool additions could be linked to a physics engine, perhaps your raft needs to be realistically structured else it'll fall apart.

To combat that, buoyancy aids would be needed to keep the raft afloat. The pillars already implemented seem to suggest that structure is important.

Cosmetic items are interesting, perhaps doors and different types of windows.

More creatures to ruin your day, maybe it spawns 2 sharks from time to time?

There's a lot of suggestions that people have already said that I'd love too.

I think, it could be nice to add trap for crab. You could build trap from metal and ropes. Throw trap to water with bait (like fish, potato) and some time later pick trap with crab. Second suggestion is add night .

Hey, loving what you're doing with this and will definitely be following development. That said I have one major gripe with the current version.

You need some form of art direction! Realism can be good in a lot of cases, but it's extremely overdone in the world of first person survival games. I would love to see a style that is more carefully and delicately thought out to match the themes and . Think about the dull ambience of Inside, the vibrant hues of ABZÛ, maybe the gritty comic book style of the tell tale walking dead games, or even a pixel art style like diaries of a spaceport janitor. Whatever you do, come up with something that really pushes the atmosphere of the game to the next level and makes the game stand out from other survival games in the same way the unique gameplay does. You're obviously going to do well with this game but I don't want to see another interesting survival game with a boring art style. Give everyone a breath of fresh air and do something new and unique. Well that's all I have to say. Good luck with this.

Ps. Watch the movie 'the Life of Pi" and steal all the things from it ;P

First: Great game!

-Barrels? The ability to craft barrels to store:

- meat: with the option to salt, so as to prevent spoilage

- potatoes

- coconuts

- water

- and just food(and other goods) in general!

Ideas:

-Different kinds of fish, and maybe different fish replenish different amounts of hunger. (etc, Raw Tuna replenishes more hunger than Raw Mackerel)

-The fishing is way too easy, it's an unlimited food source. Combined with what I said in the first idea, I think there should be a boot you can catch. Catching a boot while fishing is Comedy Gold, my friends. Say like, 75% chance of catching fish, and 25% chance of catching the boot.

-Add the ability to destroy/remove cooking stations, water purifiers, etc. I know you can remove them by hitting the foundation that they're on, but that's wasting a nice piece of foundation.

-Adding weather would be neat, too.

These are a few ideas I have that you could think about implementing into Raft. So far I'm enjoying the game, but it has a long ways to go. Happy New Year. :)

Heres some suggestions that you can add to raft:
day & night cycle

Bed - to sleep at night

chest - to store stuff in

more then one type of fish (When you fishing)

a way to trap the shark

new weapons to defend yourself

multyplayer (it will give the game a bigger fan base)

settings - add an option to change the graphigs for low budget computers

add end scene to the game (you found an island/some one came to rescue)

Thank you for reading this and i hope you will add some of thos ideas :) .