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The gameRaftfeatures a variety of materials that players need to gather so they can craft equipment and expand their floating home.Materials like planks and plasticfloat on the water’s surface, but others are too heavy for that.
Metal scrap and stones are both useful materials that players ofRaftwill need when they want to start building items more durable than wooden spears and plastic hooks. They’ll also need plenty of them, much more than what the occasional floating barrel or crate can provide. And while there’s a consistent way to get large amounts of scrap and stone, this method comes with a few risks.
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Reef Hunting
While players can explore the depths of the ocean, they don’t have to go too deep to find stones or scrap. Instead, most islands that players can visit have coral reefs in some or all of the surrounding waters. These reefs feature beautiful coral formations, and they also contain tons of valuable materials. Aside from scrap and stone, players can explore reefsto gather clay, sand, metal ore, copper ore, and seaweed. There are even a few buried chests in the water.
To get most of these materials, players will need to use their hooks. While the hook allows players to grab debris when above the water, while underwater the hook becomes a wedge that can pry materials off the seafloor. Players can tell when they need a hook because a hook-shaped symbol will appear on the screen when they get close to a material that needs it, and they’ll need to hold the action button down until it comes free.
It also helps to know exactly which materials players are looking at. Most reef materials look like grayish round lumps, and so it’s easy to mistake them for each other.
Underwater Hazards
There are a few problems that come with underwater exploration. The first is the shark that always follows the players' raft, and the second isthe occasional poison-pufferthat shows up in the reefs near large islands. Oxygen can also be an issue, but there are ways of dealing with that, too.
Raftis available now on PC.
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