Raft News

• Animals no longer starve to death but they stop producing resources when they are not fed.
  
• Unstuck button now works even if the player is incapacitated and also requires confirmation.
  
• Picking up dead animals now give back the arrows used to kill them.
  
• Changed what colors of the receiver location dots represent. You can read more about this here.
  
• Raft now supports a few Steam launch options. This will help if your game starts in an unplayable resolution. More information about this can be found here.
  

• Animals get stuck at rope fences
  
• Bees are too high in the air to catch
  
• Not possible to place sprinkler on grass plots
  
• Can duplicate milk buckets via cookingpot
  
• Pufferfish goes through walls
  
• UI glitches caused by paintbrush
  
• Glitch caused by using elevator while carrying an incapacitated friend
  
• Not possible to crouch on ladders
  
• Can't place mushrooms in the biofuel refiner
  
• Glitch when using scroll wheel to select stack count
  
• Characters stuck in weird rotations
  
• Possible to sneak into the cockpit area in Tangaroa by walking through the glass
  
• Raft getting stuck to the cockpit area in Tangaroa (If you are still stuck in this spot, please contact us via this form and we will help you out as soon as possible!)
  
• Pufferfish swims above ocean
  
• Cluckers eat while running
  
• Typos and localization errors
  

Early access survival games aren't quite the mini-industry they once were, but Raft from Redbeet Interactive and Axolot Games has been sailing along admirably since its initial launch back in May 2018. In fact, after the major 'Second Chapter' update earlier this month, Raft is more successful than ever, and its Steam player counts have risen astronomically.

Raft hit a new peak player count of 42,288 earlier this week, as SteamDB shows, after averaging daily peaks around 3,000 players throughout the month of September. The game's previous record peak occurred all the way back at that 2018 launch, when 18,929 players were logged in all at once.

The Second Chapter update is a massive one, which brings in two major new areas to explore, mudhog and butler bot enemies, and adds battery chargers and ziplines for a bit of added convenience. You can also now build automated water systems, find new items with metal detectors, and listen to music through a cassette player or play tunes yourself on the piano.

Read the rest of the story...

Early access survival games aren't quite the mini-industry they once were, but Raft from Redbeet Interactive and Axolot Games has been sailing along admirably since its initial launch back in May 2018. In fact, after the major 'Second Chapter' update earlier this month, Raft is more successful than ever, and its Steam player counts have risen astronomically.

Raft hit a new peak player count of 42,288 earlier this week, as SteamDB shows, after averaging daily peaks around 3,000 players throughout the month of September. The game's previous record peak occurred all the way back at that 2018 launch, when 18,929 players were logged in all at once.

The Second Chapter update is a massive one, which brings in two major new areas to explore, mudhog and butler bot enemies, and adds battery chargers and ziplines for a bit of added convenience. You can also now build automated water systems, find new items with metal detectors, and listen to music through a cassette player or play tunes yourself on the piano.

Read the rest of the story...

• 2 new locations: Caravan Town and Tangaroa
  
• 3 new small islands
  
• 27 new achievements
  
• New enemies: Mudhogs and Butler Bots
  
• New item: Battery Charger
  
• New item: Cassette (Classical)
  
• New item: Cassette (EDM)
  
• New item: Cassette (Elevator)
  
• New item: Cassette (Pop)
  
• New item: Cassette (Rock)
  
• New item: Electric Purifier
  
• New item: Firework
  
• New item: Large Storage
  
• New item: Major Tom
  
• New item: Metal Detector
  
• New item: Piano
  
• New item: Seed (Banana)
  
• New item: Seed (Strawberry)
  
• New item: Tangaroa Plants (6 varities)
  
• New item: Tangaroa Paintings (5 varities)
  
• New item: Developer Paintings (8 varities)
  
• New item: Tiki Piece (4 varities)
  
• New item: Titanium ore
  
• New item: Toy Robot
  
• New item: Water Pipe
  
• New item: Water Tank
  
• New item: Zipline
  
• New item: Zipline Tool
  
• New feature: Treasure Hunting
  
• New feature: Automated Water System
  
• New feature: Zipline System
  
• New feature: Unstuck Button
  
• New story notes and puzzles
  
• New colors added to the paintbrush menu: Light grey and dark grey
  
• Updated loading screen
  
• 5 extra slots in the backpack
  
• "Pipe" changed to "Fuel Pipe"
  
• Seagulls now take longer time between eating crops
  
• Integrated the exclusive game mode into the graphics settings
  
• Cooking recipes drop rate is more balanced
  
• Using bow and arrow now requires only one button to load and fire
  
• Steering wheel is now easier to center
  
• Shark despawn time increased
  
• Collecting nets are now paintable
  
• Corrupt worlds will now show in loading menu with a red background
  
• All blueprints now respawn when revisiting locations
  
• Collecting nets now allow foundations to be built in each direction
  
• Main menu raft changed to 3 community built ones
  
• Loading times decreased notably
  
• New graphics setting: Reflection
  
• Increased the despawn time for arrows
  
• Storages now visually show how full they are
  
• Dirt piles can now occasionally give extra loot
  
• Choppable trees now display an axe icon
  
• Due to security reasons, you will now have to be friends with the host to be able to join their world.
  
  

• People being able to join games without permission
  
• Stuck on loading screen
  
• Raft sinking uncontrollably
  
• Joining a big world in multiplayer results in not seeing the raft
  
• Animals not spawning/disappearing on islands
  
• Shark biting the reinforced foundations
  
• Domestic animals glitches back onto land while the raft is close to an island
  
• Issues with picking up captured animals
  
• Incorrect UI scaling on widescreen resolutions
  
• Stuck on character selection menu when starting up the game
  
• Localization Errors and typos
  
• Beehive cannot be stacked in inventory
  
• Chat box issue with last message not showing
  
• Being able to open notebook while in bed or incapacitated
  
• Being able to wear two headpieces at the same time
  
• Seagull nest permanently occupied after killing a seagull sitting on it
  
• Placement issues around engines
  
• Mushroom not usable in biofuel refiner
  
• Permanently poisoned from the poison lake on Balboa Island
  
• Being able to click on menu buttons while loading a world
  
• Mama Bear not visible
  
• Seagulls not being repositioned correctly when sitting in nest
  
• Shear icon missing when aiming at llama
  
• Storage UI stuck on screen if player dies while storage is open
  
• Beginner Screecher Hunter Achievement not obtainable for some players
  
• Shark biting players on land
  
• Character animation speed faster than intended
  
• Several issues with items being transferred between hotbar, inventory and storage (duplication, missing items)
  
• Picking up the cooking pot results in recipes placed on the cooking pot being removed
  
• Several screecher issues
  
• Opening the chat box while sitting on a chair results in camera spinning
  
• Infinite watermelon glitch using cooking pot