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Boarding and Initial Exploration — Raft Guide
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Boarding and Initial Exploration — Raft Guide

Learn how to board and begin exploring in Raft. This guide covers the initial steps, including crafting a Receiver and Antennas, and finding your first story location.

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Learn how to board and begin exploring in Raft. This guide covers the initial steps, including crafting a Receiver and Antennas, and finding your first story location.

This guide covers the initial steps of your Raft journey, focusing on boarding and exploration. You'll learn how to craft the necessary items to begin uncovering the game's story and progress through the early chapters.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Craft a Receiver and three Antennas.
  2. 2
    Install these on your raft to begin receiving story codes.
  3. 3
    Enter the randomized four-digit codes into the Receiver to discover your first story location.
  4. 4
    The first code will lead you to the Radio Tower.
  5. 5
    Explore the Radio Tower for notes, lore, and useful materials.
  6. 6
    Find the Blueprint: Head Light and Blueprint: Recycler.
  7. 7
    Discover hints about the game's final location, Utopia, and the code for the abandoned super yacht, Vasagatan.
  8. 8
    The Radio Tower also contains loot boxes and hints about the engineers Cuckoo, Owl, and Sparrow.
  9. 9
    Notes from Owl reveal distress calls from Balboa Island and mention Tangaroa City, as well as a message from Sparrow indicating he reached Selene.
Tips
  • Pay close attention to the notes and transcripts found to piece together the story.
  • The codes for story locations are randomized for each player.
  • The Radio Tower is the first major story location and provides essential blueprints.

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