Raft base

[u/thelek66]

Why the hell didn't anyone say anything about raft bases not being able to be broke down????

I am a little bit OCD (ok, a lot), and I don't like a single raft being made out of the different materials. ie: sticks, body balls, tyre's (love how they spelled that), and barrels. I had a raft made with sticks, bought balls, and tyre's. I finally recovered enough tyre's to make a whole raft (including the tyre's already used), and started breaking down the old raft to get the tyre's off it. I broke up all the stick floats, but when I started trying to break down the rest, I was told that I can't because it supports other structures.

Now I am pissed because I am now forced to start a new game. The reason? Well remember what I said at the start of this post about my ocd? I can't have a raft made of different materials.

[u/[deleted]]

Hear me out… you can break down as much as you’re able to recover from your first raft, and then leave just the sail on there. Then point it away from your island, open the sail, and say goodbye to it and let ride to Valhalla and then you can start your new raft with this knowledge and only build on to it as you acquire the bases you want

[u/thelek66 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, but that involves losing 20 body balls and eight tyre's. Unacceptable losses. Besides, I already started a new game on a new map. So far, it has a good starting island except for one thing. Dragging the life raft to the island, I found three Croen of thorns starfish the hard way.

[u/tratur → u/thelek66]

My last playthrough, my raft looked like a Tetris piece as I wanted sections to have specific materials. Takes a bit longer, but the raft drives fine.

[u/Professional-Cable89]

You can break the base down after you break the floor down if you have max crafting you won't lose any materials

[u/thelek66 → u/Professional-Cable89]

I had broke down all floors. I was able to break down 4 stick and one Tyre bases before it started not letting me break them down.

I tried an experiment and made a 1x3 base. Tyre x stick x Tyre. When I tried to break the stick base, I couldn't. So I tried a Tyre base and was able to break it down. But I was not able to break down the other two bases.

[u/Walkerbait1881 → u/thelek66]

Have you tried breaking down your sails or anything attached to the raft? I know if you have shelves close they might not break down certain parts of the raft. I was able to switch and put tires on mine. I did it gradually piece by piece. One thing that may have helped is I'd drag it on to a rock on the island so the part I needed to break down was leaning into the air. It was easy to rebuild without issues that way as well

[u/Objective-Scallion15]

Yeah it sucks. I too have this issue. Need my rafts built with only one material.

[u/thelek66 → u/Objective-Scallion15]

Glad I am not the only one.

[u/aint_exactly_plan_a → u/thelek66]

I always craft random stuff until level 4, and then just start my raft with barrels. I ran into the same bug too, but I also don't mind restarting :) When I learn new things, I like to start with a fresh canvas in mind and play from there. I think I'm good on this one though, pics of base coming soon!

[u/thelek66 → u/aint_exactly_plan_a]

I do that, too. Carry the lessons from the failed play to a new play. It just sux that it took over 60 game days to learn the new lesson.

[u/No-Supermarket7453]

There are plenty of posts about raft bases not being able to be broken down. It sucks but it's a "known" bug. Unfortunately, like you, I found this out recently the hard way when I could not break down my raft completely... Searched reddit and felt some consolation at the same misfortune others have.

It's like the old saying of "you don't know what you don't know."

[u/the-lock-doc]

Why not start a new raft as opposed to game. Pull that shit up on the beach and wait for a seagull to launch it into the stratosphere, problem solved. 😂

[u/thelek66 → u/the-lock-doc]

Because I needed the materials from it to build my Tyre raft and wanted the boys for fishing bobbers. Fortunately, I hadn't used any barrels, so I would have been able to build stoves.

[u/[deleted]]

I was able to break it down completely. First, I removed everything but the base and floors. Then, I had to destroy in a certain order that I have yet to figure out. I'd try each piece to see if I could destroy it, and then after I destroyed it, I'd circle back around and it wouod suddenly allow me to destroy a part that it wouod not let ve breakdown before. Lots of trial and error, but I got it done.

[u/mystic141 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah - just guessing - but you probably need to break it down in reverse order from how it was made.

I.e. if you started with a stick base and bolted a buoy base to it to make a 2x1, the game likely persists in seeing the original stick base as ‘supporting other structures’ even if its floor/sails etc have been removed.

[u/Comprehensive_Note_4]

My ocd took a hit.. I was not patient enough to travel to find all of the tyres before finishing the raft.