You're going to be scavenging for nearly everything you need in Raft, pulling various bits of flotsam and jetsam from the waters and turning them into anything useable for your journey.
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Usually, these crafted materials merely help you survive in the violent waters of the post-apocalypse; anything from pointy sticks to help fend off shark attacks to make-shift breathing apparatus, so you can explore the murky depths. With the full release of Raft, however, comes a new creatable, and tradable resource called trash cubes.
Well, they're cubes made from trash, obviously. In a slightly less literal sense, they are a craftable resource used to barter at any Trading Post you might find on an island. They can be exchanged for all manner of things, from fishing bait to rare resources like titanium ore. They can be a very useful way to gain vending machine tokens, as the bait you can buy from the Trading Posts can be used to catch fish to sell back to the same post. The rare resources you can purchase from the Trading Posts can only be bought once you hit a certain reputation with them, something that can be earned by selling items back to them, so having a lot of trash cubes at your disposal will give you an excellent starting point for purchasing the end game products on sale.
You can craft trash cubes on your Raft using a piece of machinery called a recycler. You'll find the blueprint for the recycler from the first story location, at the Radio Tower (the same place you meet Tala). Once the blueprint is in your possession you can go about finding the resources to build it.
You'll need:
You'll also need a battery in order to power the device, this can be made with:
The recycler wor
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