Update 12/Annoucement

"The Second Chapter" is now out and ready to be explored by you Rafters! If you are done with The First Chapter and ready for more, you can now continue your Raft journey with new adventures! We are bringing you a bunch of new stuff and a lot of bug fixes. Are you curious what they might be?

Here is what The Second Chapter has in store:

NEW DESTINATIONS
Once again, we are adding 2 new destinations to Raft; Caravan Town with a desert biome and the abandoned city of Tangaroa. Beside these, there are also new smaller islands coming in the style of Caravan Town.

NEW ENEMIES
Habitating Caravan Town, these piggies are quite fast and dangerous!
 * Mudhogs

Watch out! These butler bots who are wandering Tangaroa aimlessly might look friendly at first but they will shock you... Literally...
 * Butler Bots

Battery Charger
It is finally here! Maybe the most asked for features, battery charger is now available to find and craft. No more throwing away dead batteries!

Zipline
Weeee! We wanted to make getting to places on the new destinations and on your raft a bit more fun and added ziplines! Careful before you jump, as you will need the zipline tool to use them!

Automated Water System
With the new water tank, electric purifier and water pipes you will be able to build your own automated water system and connect it to sprinklers. This way, your animals will no longer be sad and your plants will thank you for not forgetting to water them!

Metal Detector
It is time for some treasure hunting! Beside a new resource, there are a bunch of new items waiting to be dg up by Maya and Rouhi!

Bigger Storage
With all the new items coming to the game, we thought you might need a bigger storage! Try the new storage item to keep things nice and tidy!

Cassettes and Piano
Raft gets musical! We are now adding cassettes with different genres which you can use in the radio! And if you get inspired from the new soundtracks and want to make your own music, a piano will also be waiting for you!

AND MORE!

 * New Plants, Decoration Items and 2 New Colors

It is important to eat fresh fruits often even if you are stranded on the ocean! Now you will be able to munch on some bananas and strawberries as well as grow them on your raft. You will need to find them first though! Talking about plants, we are adding even more of them! If you are a plant-lover like us, you might want to re-decorate your raft and open up some space for them! Furthermore, we are adding paintings, new decorative items and 2 new colors(light grey and dark grey)! You can now make your raft even cosier!


 * Community Built Main Menu Rafts

As we mentioned in DevBlog#40, we had an event on our discord server back in february to replace the main menu raft! The winner rafts will now welcome you to the game, a different one each time you start the game! Here are the winners and their rafts which you will be seeing from now on!

We hope you are as excited as we are about all the new content! You can also read the full list of all the changes and bug fixes coming out with this update in the "Changelog" and "Bug Fixes" below. We can't wait for you to play The Second Chapter and hope that you will enjoy it!

Good luck and have fun Rafters!

//Raft HQ

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CHANGELOG

 * 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.

BUG FIXES

 * 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