Raft: Balboa Island Walkthrough - Every Task, Notice & Treasure (2024)

FAQs

Where do you use a Brunos wrench? ›

Bruno's Wrench is one of three items needed to overencumber and break the tool rack found on Balboa Island inside the Ranger Station revealing a hidden note behind it. It is found inside Relay Station 6.

You go to radio tower. You get code (e.g., 1234). Put the number in the radio thing using the part on the right and sail towards the new BLUE MARKER. You will get to a yacht.

The Lightbulb is found on Balboa Island, near Mama Bear's Cave, in one of the home-made dolls on a hill directly in front of Mama Bear's Cave. Returning it to the doll in front of the Ranger Station completes the Fix Errol!

There is a specified number of treasures available per island type. Small Tropical Islands and generic Desert Biome islands contain one treasure. Large Tropical Islands and generic Evergreen Biome islands contain two or three treasures. Balboa Island contains three to six treasures.

Tangaroa City from above. Tangaroa is an Environment location in Raft. It is the second and final location introduced in the Second Chapter.

Similar to the new Electric Smelter in Raft, the blueprint for the Titanium Sword can't be found until the Final Chapter. After completing Temperance, players will go to the final island, Utopia, and the Titanium Tools blueprint can be found on the tower near where Olaf falls.

Mama Bear is one of the enemies in Raft that may attack and kill the player. Mama Bear is a large, brown bear that can be found on Balboa Island. In order to progress in the story, the player must loot a crate containing a Machete and the Blueprint: Machete found in the cave guarded by Mama Bear.

Summary. The Blueprint: Machete is found on Balboa Island, inside the Mama Bear's Cave. Once acquired, the Machete can be used as a powerful weapon and can also cut down vegetation and tape that may block the player's path. Its item index number is 275.

Summary. The Blueprint: Machete is found on Balboa Island in Mama Bear's Cave. It is located in a special crate inside together with an actual Machete.

Players will need to locate a radio tower, and to do so must construct a receiver and three antennae on their raft. After doing that, they will pick up a signal from a secret island with a radio tower, also known as the Abandoned Sea Facility.

Are Raft codes random? ›

Four-digit codes found around the world of Raft can be entered into the Receiver, and the story line can be started. All such codes are randomized from player to player.

The Lucky Cat is a rare item acquired through fishing with a 0.68% drop chance. In Creative mode, it can be spawned through the miscellaneous menu.

They can be captured on land with a Net Launcher, just like Goats and Llamas. After capturing them, the player may rename and carry them to a new location. Once fed from a Grass Plot, the Clucker will start laying Eggs. If the Clucker starves, it will stop laying Eggs until fed again.

In 1902, Collins and his business partner bought approximately 900 acres of land centered around Newport Bay, including half of Balboa Peninsula and the swamplands that would become Balboa Island (named after Vasco Nunez de Balboa, who discovered the Pacific Ocean for Europe in 1513).

In 1908 and 1909, with permission of the Orange County Board of Supervisors, Collins moved his small dredge to the eastern part of the Newport bay, a mud flat called “Snipe Island,” and begin cutting a channel along the north side of the bay across from the Pavilion, pilling the sand and silt up on the mud flat and ...

Bruno's Saw is one of three items needed to overencumbered and break the tool rack found inside the Ranger Station revealing a hidden note behind it. It can be found on Balboa Island inside a locker slightly north of Mama Bear's Cave, near a different, smaller cave. It's on the way to Relay Station 4 and 6.

The Four Digit Code can be found in the room adjacent to the helipad. It opens the safe containing the Electrical Wires needed for the Bomb.

Utopia is the final story location in Raft, and can be found after getting the Raft Temperance code, which gives you the coordinates. There are a fair few puzzles to solve in this area, and a big final boss fight, so carefully follow the steps to make it all the way.

Can you get a gun in Raft? ›

There's only one ranged weapon (that deals damage) available to players in Raft and it's the Basic Bow.

Inside the locker, you'll find the selene key and the blueprint for an advanced anchor. If you can't figure out the code yourself, it is as follows: 5-9-6-4.

In version 1.0, we get Varuna Point, Temperance, and Utopia. The latter actually introduces an endgame to an otherwise infinite pursuit of survival. Each place has a lot of cool secrets and lore to be found.

If the player is within the spawn zone when the game attempts to respawn a Bear, a new 3 minute timer will start after which the game will attempt to respawn the Bear again. This process can be repeated indefinitely as long as the player is within the spawn zone when the 3-minute timer runs out.

What Do You Get When You Kill the Mama Bear in Raft? Killing Mama Bear will grant you the Mother Lode Achievement as well as some Leather, some Raw Meat, and the Mama Bear Head, a helmet that you can also put on a Large Trophy Board. That's it for our guide on how to kill the Mama Bear in Raft.

Summary. The Blue Key is found inside a big storage room right after the engine room. It's obtained after using the Bolt Cutter to open the locker in which the key hangs.

The Green Key is the last of the three keys used on Vasagatan. It is found in the office on the same floor as the helipad. The key is used to unlock the door leading to the bedroom with the Lighter.

The trophy can be obtained by killing the Rhino Shark in Varuna Point and looting its corpse. It is able to be placed on your raft, it can be placed on the floor, wall or ceiling.

If the player misses a Story-related Island before obtaining an Engine, they can simply continue past the destination until it moves in front of the Raft again.

Yes, the raft always travels in the same direction, islands spawn ahead of you and despawn behind you.

How many rare islands are in the Raft? ›

There are two small, Rare Islands on which the player can find special items. Whenever the game spawns an island from the Tropical Biome, there's a 2% chance that it can be either of the following rare islands. Both Rare Islands unlock a Steam Achievement.

the rarest animals. which spawn just 4 of the time are the pink chicken, the white goat and the striped llama. there are no gameplay differences. based on animal rarity, but capturing one of these second or 3rd groups will.

Items are not spawning

This happens when the game needs to be re-calibrated. This applies to both in-water materials, and on-land resources (palm trees, scrap, metal ore, etc.)

Everything in Raft's story has been leading up to Utopia, the final location in the game.

To kill Screechers, it is recommended to use a Bow. Wait until it flies towards you with a boulder and shoot it once while approaching, and another when it's immediately above you.

Hold Shift to sprint as the White Screecher is about to drop its boulder to avoid them more easily. Killing a White Screecher takes six (6) shots to kill with Stone Arrows and four (4) shots to kill with Metal Arrows.

Golden Toy Robot is a decoration object that can be found through Treasure Hunting. It is found in the Safes that can be dug up. The Golden Toy Robot is the rare variant of the regular Toy Robot and is much rarer. When looting a Safe, there's a 2.3% chance of it being any robot in the first place.

Rhino Shark is a boss that you encounter in the underwater section of Varuna Point in Raft.

Silver Algae is a raw sustenance item in Raft.

The game officially supports 8 players but the true limit is the server hardware the host uses.

What does shark bait do in Raft? ›

Dropping the bait at the side of the raft and within the player's reach is an easy way to kill the Shark or farm for shark meat when there are multiple sharks in the water.

You don't need bait to use the fishing rod, though you'll only catch basic fish without it. So if you're hoping to hook some rare marine life, you will need to splash out on some bait.

Rare Fish can be caught anywhere in the ocean using a Fishing Rod equipped with either a Simple Fishing Bait, Advanced Fishing Bait, or a Expert Fishing Bait. Unlike other fish, Rare Fish are inedible, uncookable and not included in any Cooking recipes.

Make your way to the new landmark in the water and climb inside. In there you'll be able to unlock a new playable character by speaking to Elaine. Ensure you pick up the blueprint for the water tank and the coordinates for Varuna island. At this point, you have everything you need to continue the story.

Birch Trees can be found on Balboa Island and Evergreen Islands. When chopped down with an Axe, it will drop seven Planks. There's a small chance of receiving Birch Seeds when chopping down a Birch Tree. Birch Seeds can be planted in Large Crop Plots to grow Birch Trees on the raft.

The only way to really progress the story of the game is by following the trash pile in the water. The trash will lead players to islands, and eventually, help them find the radio. The radio is a tool that needs to be used to start finding bigger islands and other humans in the game.

The Secret Basem*nt is a hidden location on Tangaroa, which is accessed through the Plantation Area under the city. Entering the Plantation Area elevator, the player normally only sees the option of using the floor panel on the right to move to one of the last Skyscrapers available on Tangaroa.

Nope, you can only turn off the electricity there.

If the player is within the spawn zone when the game attempts to respawn a Bear, a new 3 minute timer will start after which the game will attempt to respawn the Bear again. This process can be repeated indefinitely as long as the player is within the spawn zone when the 3-minute timer runs out.

Every time a player catches a swarm, four Bee Jars are added to their inventory, with a 60% chance of getting a fifth Bee Jar. The swarm does not respawn.

How do you get unlimited wood in the raft? ›

Collection Nets are the best way to gather wood in Raft.

They automatically catch floating materials that come through them. They're not hard to craft, so players can spam them all over their structure.

The messages spelled out are "All your rafts are belong to us" and "The goat is a lie", both pop culture references the first being from the old Japanese game 'Zero Wing' (original quote: All your base are belong to us ) and the second from the first Portal game (original quote: The cake is a lie).

The sail is a limited steering device, it won't add speed and can't push the raft against the wind. As such, multiple sails won't have any effect.

The game was released as an early access title on 23 May 2018 on Steam, after initial release as a free download on indie platform Itch.io in 2016. On 20 June, 2022 Raft was taken out of early access with the release of its final chapter.

If they do not manage to eat before the Hunger bar is completely empty, the player loses 0.75 health per second on Normal Mode, which means it takes 2 minutes and 13 seconds to die from full health ^{[Needs verification]}.

Hidden achievement: Reach a depth of 100 meters below the surface. Not A Great Landing!

Shogo will be the final character you unlock in Raft, rounding out your roster of six playable characters.