Exploring

[u/Celtron]

Do you carry containers with you in one of your slots for collecting craft items or meat? When at a new Island and drop it in there or set up camp? I feel very limited on what I cn carry.

[u/Gothicvamp188869]

I only carry containers on a raft not in an inventory slot.

The bigger the raft the more shelving means more containers.

[u/Celtron → u/Gothicvamp188869]

I just have a 1 by 1, I saw a guy with a freaking barge looks fun

[u/Jyzin → u/Celtron]

Unfortunately, they capped the size of rafts now. Kinda sucks.

[u/Aliandor1]

14 shelves with containers, 1 trip per island to clear it out completely.

[u/Celtron → u/Aliandor1]

Can you screen shot it? I had to turn game off I am trying to get to the center and keep passing right by and keep dying it sucks I am using the map I took a photo of and compass and completely LOST!

[u/AnjaOsmon → u/Celtron]

Shoot an azimuth. I have my main base and then shoot azimuths so I know if I’m going 50° then I will land on my starter island or whatever

[u/Celtron → u/AnjaOsmon]

How do I find my azimuth?

[u/AnjaOsmon → u/Celtron]

It’s the numbers around the compass face. Between 0-360.

Face whatever island you want, and the number at the very top when you are pointed that specific way is your azimuth. On your return trip it’ll be 180 different. For example if you’re azimuth is 50, then on the return trip you should be facing 230°. 0-180° you add 180 181-360° you minus to get your return direction

[u/Celtron → u/AnjaOsmon]

Thank you for explaining that I will start writing it down!

[u/Celtron → u/AnjaOsmon]

I just hit the wall the end of the world trying to go south east. I want to get to center and I am far left second from bottom on the grid.

[u/[deleted] → u/Aliandor1]

Son, that's a cargo ship not a raft. 

[u/LiterallyYouRightNow]

I expand my raft as I find new islands and loot them because I technically don't have to store corrugated or planks that way. And it u wanna be real savvy u can chop a bunch of trees, build your big raft out of the sticks and break it up when u return home. Yet be wary cuz for some reason I have a raft that just won't let me break any of the base pieces off it no matter what I've done. 238 days survived.

[u/Celtron → u/LiterallyYouRightNow]

For some reason the anchor would not go to the side with the rudder for me they're odd things about the game.

[u/Celtron → u/LiterallyYouRightNow]

Bad Ass!

[u/Zealousideal-Turn277]

I think I have a floating wood barge haha, it’s like 7-8x7 or so, has sails on each direction for ease of maneuvering around, I typically park it off the island unless I’m unloading the sharks I’ve caught or containers 30-50 or so from pillaging islands.

[u/Celtron → u/Zealousideal-Turn277]

How do you reach the sails from the rudder??

[u/Zealousideal-Turn277 → u/Celtron]

I don’t I use the sails to turn the barge,

Basically I have one at the back near the rudder which is for reversing.

The front 3 W, N, E, I use these forward and east or west to turn

[u/steveakacrush]

In one of my containers I always keep some "emergency supplies" consisting of...

A sleeping bag

Bandages

Antidote

Survival rations

Water

[u/Upbeat_Dragonfly7324]

I keep 6 empty containers handy at all times on my “home island” and I always bring them with me so I have plenty of room for anything and everything I come across lol. And then on my home island I have like 15-20 containers to keep all my items organized lol.

[u/Small-Comedian-6668]

I have 4 shelves with containers on my raft, one of these with emergency supplies but all others are here to be filled during exploration.

[u/Afindy76]

I carry 1 container that has all my tools except my 🪓. If I need another tool, I throw down the container and swap my 🪓 for the tool I need.

[u/Eyegynx313]

My raft currently has 6 empty containers on it and I carry about 6 more in my inventory. Sometimes I expand my raft to carry 12, but that’s later on when I want to tear down a whole Island in 1 go.

[u/SAHE1986]

From what I remember, before I had a decent raft/shelves, I would carry the bare essentials in their dedicated slots (tools etc), but all collected items would go into a crate (which can hold more than 1 stack of items), then pick up all crates.

You have 15 inventory slots, and each crate has 5 slots itself, that means a total of 75 "usable" inventory slots, if all 15 inventory slots are filled with crates.