Here are some of my Ideas:

1. The Goal of the Game: - Your first goal is to build up your raft to survive on it.

- The second Goal is to build some type of things to move your raft over the water to specific points

- The third Goal is to get to some island, which you already could see from the raft far far away.

- On this islands are some rare materials for which you have to dig or knock on rocks (items which you can't found in the sea and which can give you more opportunities like reinforcing your foundation, better fire places where you can put more than 1 steak at a time etc.). And on some islands you can find pieces of an map in some kind of treasures. (So you have to get to more than 1 island to get the map.)

- The fourth goal and main goal is to get to the land, which you now can see on the map! To get to this land, you have to pass some dangerous zones with your raft (maybe not pirates but something like for example 5 sharks at a time and you have to throw in some meat in the water, so they won't notice you while drive threw them. So things for which you need a strategie to get threw, not to fight threw) When you reached the land you see a beach with a forest behind that. Maybe the world border could be a mountain in the forest. So you kinda finished now your game on the water.

- The final goal on the land is to build up a colony. For this you can find some natives in the forest. These persons only will follow you, when you build them specific houses. For this you can now craft a new house building hammer. Each house has a different thing to do. So you can have a taverne for drinks, a fishing house for fishing, a wood chopper for wood, a collecter house for collecting some berrys, a bakery for bread, a farming house for planting and collecting potatoes, and a market with a well for water. So to build up your colony, you have to collect the materials for each house you want to build. But you have to be careful with this. Because all natives need a specific amount of water and food everyday. If you cant reach this on 1 day it is okay, but if you cant reach it on the second day aswell, they burn up the house in which they work and run away. So to get them back you have to rebuild the house.

You dont have to go to every person itself to give him food and water, you just have to put it at the market, the natives are going every morning to the market and picking up their amount of food and water from their chests (so you have to put the food and water seperatly for each native in a specific spot in the inventory of the market, so you can get rid of a native by not giving him food). Some natives even need specific type of food, like only fish etc..

So have to slowly increase your colony, otherwise it will fall apart because you cant collect as much food and water as they want. Of course in the long time, you cant build a farm house and a native who picks up water, so you dont have to do this by yourself, but they need specific ressources.

So to end this my idea is, to add more goals to the game. So your first goal is to reach a island, because if look in your history you see, that you had a accident with your boat. On the island you find a piece of a map on which you see half of a name and something which looks like a land. Now you paddle with your raft from one island to another. Finally you have the full map and know where to go to reach the land. When you reach the land you see a native and you think why not build up a colony.

So thats my idea. What do you think about it? :)

pls add

Fish Net : For the automated collection of fish

Fish Bait : Mash potatoes to make bait for the Fish Net

Replaceable Nets : made out of rope and/or thatch

Changes : Item nets and Fish Nets need to be replaced or repaired with new Replaceable Nets when they get used to much

Changes : every time you kill the shark it gets harder to kill and attacks more or the species of shark changes and each has their own stats and abilitys

These are some ideas I thought of and hope you take a look at what I think should be added. =) please and thanks

An option to change the assigned keys (bind) would be appreciable

mb if I just didn't see it

character personalization is good idea pls add

I think that before adding anything else you should add a shiftclick function for items. I think the shark, once it dies, should not come back for 5 minutes or so, to add relief to killing it. Also I think that the raft should never move by the player but it should be constantly drifting adding the ability for SMALL islands to be swum over to. please no more weapons, don't add pvp, if you are going to add multiplayer only coop. and no story please no story.

I think we need day/night cycle and in night visibility should be decreased and in water we would see creatures which can flash cool lights, u know like medusas in sea. In day everything would be normal ;)

And if wind will can break our raft, we would can build some of our raft (for example stairs and pillar) using metal. That will give it resistance for wind! Also foundations could be possible to build with metal what will give it bigger resistance for shark attacks :)

Storms! :D Storm would be very dangerous for us and our raft, if we dont have walls it will throw us out of raft, and shark or pyranhas will kill us.

We need more creatures! Some fishes or birds would be great! And bottles with messages as easter eggs :D

If more creatures, also more of these bad! Multiple shark attacks or something. And if we will kill a shark, new will spawn after few minutes not instantly :)

Of course with more dangers we need more weapons. Bows! Throwable spears!(jawelins)

More crafting recipes, for big bottle from metal scraps and ropes which will be expensive but can store more water like for 3 uses :) Maybe crafting recipe for clothes and cap, rags too! also for arrows to our bows of course :)

Fishing net should catch fishes (rarely!) instead of catching items! They should be separate net for catching items and for catching fishes! Also shark should sometimes try to stole our catched fishes in net.

Mainly, getting food should be harder, harvesting potatoes should be most safe way of getting food, but for example fishing would take more time to get fish (a bit faster if u have lure, for example potato or metal scrap) and killing shark should be good rewarded suicide ;)