Beginning your journey in Raft, you'd be forgiven for thinking that your only real aim was to stave off shark attacks and to gather enough raw ingredients not to starve to death. While that's not totally false, there is more here than meets the eye.
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Dragging barrels to your raft and collecting their goods will eventually reward you with a blueprint for the receiver, and one for an antenna. This is when your adventure takes a welcome, more structured, turn.
When you have both the receiver and antenna blueprints in your inventory, you can get started on adding them to your raft; you'll need both items working correctly to find the first story mission. Once you pick up a blueprint, it is automatically added to your research table, learn it from there, and you're good to go.
To construct a receiver you will need:
To construct an antenna you will need:
For the receiver to work correctly, you need to place it above sea level on your raft. It also only works in conjunction with three antennas, these also need to be placed at a higher elevation on your raft for it to function.
This is the first time you're required to expand your raft if you hadn't already. It might be worth taking some time to gather planks and plastic to spruce up your vessel and increase its surface area. You're required to build some verticality to your raft here so keep that in mind when choosing how to expand your foundation.
When the receiver is on and functioning correctly, you'll notice that it shows nearby points of interest on its display. The green dots are large islands (usually ones with trading posts) and the blue dots are story-critical locations. The display always shows dots in relation to the way
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