Hey mate, it is a good idea at least for a time in the beginning, to go to the Options and turn wildlife to Passive while you gather resources. Before you have a nice raft, anytime you go in the water, you are vulnerable! But honestly you can’t have high aspirations for your first raft. Take your dingy to other islands and fill your inventory with boxes of sticks and fibrous leaves to bring back home. Craft lashings at home as you can carry many more fibrous leaves than crafted lashings. Start off with a basic 4x4 wooden raft, I like the look of plank floors. But all the raft bases have the same buoyancy, so for aesthetic purposes the tire bases or bouy bags you wanna see only have to go around the outside. I personally choose bouy base add ons every time because they are plentiful, several on every cargo ship. It may also be true though that tire bases are thinner and have a little more clearance over rocks in the water! To drag or lift just look at an object and hold left trigger for console controllers, there being able to raise up or down and walk or swim with the object either behind or in front of you. Once you have a sufficiently large enough raft, install container shelves around the edges with an open space in the middle where items can shift around but not leave the raft as it moves. Further removing a section of the floor in the middle will allow objects to sit lower than surrounding floor tiles, further limiting their shifting. Remember though, these objects are heavy, so weight distribution and balance is very important, as is raft symmetry. Sometimes the raft physics do some weird things so save before you go out to sea for a test. Oh and another word of caution, read the Topic Thread about Rafts Disappearing. Don’t become too attached to a single raft, or keep your whole life savings on one, they are known to vanish in a glitch that is particularly frustrating. See thread to read my workaround, good luck.
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