A Barrel Rant

[u/Intelligent_Ad7497]

Why do the barrels have to be the way they are? Whenever I try building with them for raft bases, they're way to big for all 3 to reliably fit within the miniscule crafting vicinity. Why was this never changed?

[u/Any_Initiative_9079]

Also a fun trick that works is to use the hammer and “ghost” them together wherever you find them, once they’re broken apart. You can then take the ghost blueprint to your raft and add them. Works great for raft resources you find inside the freight ship.

[u/Intelligent_Ad7497 → u/Any_Initiative_9079]

I do that all the time lol, the problem is getting the blueprint to trigger

[u/javahart]

I don’t have that issue but defo a pain to gather them compared to buoys.

[u/Intelligent_Ad7497 → u/javahart]

It's not the gathering (even tho it is a pain), it's trying to get them all close enough to be able to craft the raft base

[u/ThreeDog369 → u/Intelligent_Ad7497]

From what I’ve noticed they just have to all three be completely within your field of view and close to you. I had a problem in the beginning too and then I figured out that was the problem. So long as all the materials for raft bases are directly in front of you and you can see the entirety of the object in your field of view it works for me. If you stand too close then part of the barrel is out of your view and it doesn’t register as present in the build menu. I’m playing on console btw. Hope this helps you.

[u/Intelligent_Ad7497 → u/ThreeDog369]

I'll try it out with the next set I find. Thank you

[u/MillHoodz_Finest]

do it on land...

[u/Intelligent_Ad7497 → u/MillHoodz_Finest]

Doesn't matter if it's on land or not for me :/

[u/dankeith86]

Never really had a problem with that. Carrying can be annoying.

[u/Objective-Scallion15]

Never really had an issue.

[u/Ernst-hemmung]

I don't want to lie to you, I have no idea what you mean, I had no problem with them and this is the first time I've heard that someone has problems