Beginners Tutorial

To figure out how to survive on a raft in the middle of the ocean, you will need to understand how to play the game. After clicking the play button from the main menu, you will spawn in on a raft with 1 oar (or paddle), 1 extra raft, 1 Fishing Rod, and one glass filled with water. To begin your adventure, you will need to consider how to keep your nutrition and hydration bars up. When these bars are empty, you will start to take damage from starvation/lack of thirst. In order to stop this, you will need to find food and water.

Eating and Drinking
To keep yourself from starving to death, you can use a Fishing Rod to catch fish. Cast your rod into the water, and wait for the hook to disappear, and for a ripple to form. Then, click to catch a fish! After catching some fish, you can either eat the fish raw (less nutrition, or you can cook it up using a grill (more nutrition). A grill is an important building structure that will allow you to cook your fish for more nutrients. In order to craft a grill, you will need to fish for 8 scrap metal. (Note: Stone is no longer in the game. Scrap metal has replaced it).

Now, you need to keep yourself from dehydrating. Don't go in the water: You will dehydrate faster! Instead, use the fishing rod you used to catch fish to get items. Cast your fishing rod, then reel it in by clicking, bringing items to you. There is another reason to stay out of the water: Sharks! Sharks deal 200-something damage. They can be killed, but you are still a noob at this point. Look to catch scrap metal, which is a grey rectangle. Once you have 6 scrap metal, make a water maker. Look at the article for water maker for more information! Click on the water maker, then put your glass in the water maker to make water. Click on it again to take the water glass from the water maker. To free up inventory space, once you collect enough metal for a watermaker and an axe, stop collecting metal. Also, for your raft I suggest keeping it. Not to add on to your current one, don't do that but in case somehow you lose your other one. I once lost my raft trying to escape someone trying to kill me and a shark was coming, I quickly of course set down my raft on top of me and managed to survive. If you don't think that's useful enough feel free to drop it.

Beginning to get better
Ok, now you are starting to get better (Or at least you aren't terrified of dying!) Now, it's time for you to get to an island. Row until an island pops up on your minimap (Bottom corner). Fish for leaves and cloth(white rectangle) and prioritise them over others. You should also fish for metal, and some wood. Once you are at the island, make an Axe (3 metal, 1 string, one wood). Now, you can also pick up coconuts, which restore hydration and hunger (Find them underneath trees. Click on the brown circle with black holes to get a coconut!). If you need wood, hit a tree with your axe to gain one wood. While hitting a tree, leaves and coconuts may drop. Also, this is important. If you are on an island, with a circle of green in the middle, and a pig on it, DO NOT GO INSIDE THE GREEN. This will make the pig attack, and as the pig has better health, attack, and agility than a level one noob, you will get killed if you do not run. And also, do not go to the middle of the map. The biggest island of all is in the middle of the map, and it has lots of pigs, and elephants as well. This is not a place to be if you still are working on getting weapons, or simply still learning the game.

Hunting
If you've gotten to this stage, you likely won't die if you turn around and sip a drink for more than one second. Now, focus on hunting. Get to a medium-sized island with a green circle in the center. Try to use the Bush Exploit to hunt pigs. It will take a while to master, and many bandages (Hope you've been collecting cloth!) but it will make you into a pro. If you can't master it at first, kill crabs with your axe. Once you level up, spend points on agility. This should make mastering the exploit easier, as your agility will help you dodge attacks. Also... I hope you didn't go straight towards the main island, which is always in the center of the map! While hunting pigs, it is important to pick up coconuts as often as you can by clicking on them. They will spawn more frequently in the green part of the medium-sized islands. Keep on grinding pigs until you are level 23. Make sure to collect leaves and cloth.

Also, one more note: Don't bother making armor until after you've killed an elephant. It will break when you hunt when you forget to eat (Armor reduces the damage you take from starvation and hydration, somehow, but it will break eventually), and it's a general waste of string, which is so useful but so limited.

MAKE SURE TO MAKE A PIG SPEAR (10 wood, two sets of pig tusks). It is arguably one of the most useful and best weapons in-game because it's easily replaceable for pros, and it has the best reach and great damage (130-160).

Becoming a pro
If you are now reading this part of the tutorial, I'm assuming you have done the pig exploit and mastered it. I also assume that you have spent the majority of your points(about 55 by now) on agility. Now, you can work on making your raft better. Add a chest or a plant pot. And then, when you are about level 23... You can go to the center! TRY TO HUNT ELEPHANTS WITHOUT DYING. I HOPE you have collected LEAVES AND CLOTH! Use those leaves and cloth to create bandages and miscellaneous items. You can make armor if you want, but it will break when you hunt elephants. It's really tricky to use the bush exploit on elephants, but you can try (They might charge though, and break the bush). Elephants have two attacks: The regular damage dealing one, and one where they charge forward, sprinting towards you, and deal extra damage. The charge attack is used to catch up to you. You will likely take some damage. If possible, try to trap the elephant between two wooden walls placed just enough apart so the elephant gets stuck, but you can hit the elephant with a pig spear. Now, put 15 points into strength, and the rest into agility.

Becoming a Raft God
Raft Gods are generally considered those who have become so powerful opposing them is suicide. Only other Raft Gods can fight them. You can make pig armor or elephant armor. Pig is easier to replace, but elephant armor is stronger. Now, make sure you have lots of bandaids. Collect food, join a tribe, and upgrade your raft. You should have 60 agility now, and 15 strength, or all points in agility.

PvP
Player versus Player should be decided upon as equal. Please DO NOT kill just for fun. This is heavily frowned upon and is known as Savaging. There are several types of PvP.
 * 1) Team PvP. One team of players made another team mad. Fight happens.
 * 2) 1v1 PvP. One person attacks another person. Fight ensues.
 * 3) 1vTeam. Either the person who attacked the team is stupid, or extremely powerful (Raft God).
 * 4) Fair fight. This type of pvp is when two players want to test their skills against each other, and agree to a set of rules, such as no armor, only ten bandages, etc. This is usually nonlethal, although if agreed to, it can be to the death.
 * 5) #BonkDuel. This mode was created recently by none other than myself (TBB). Having realized how fun the knockback affect of the Repair Hammer was, I created a mode where 2-4 people stand on a raft and try to knock each other off with the hammer. This can be done without taking damage if they are all on the same team, as the Repair Hammer has a knockback affect that isn't affected by anything. However, if you are on a team together you won't take alot of damage!

Tips for PvP

 * 1) Have more bandaids than your opponent. If going against an experienced person, have at least 50.
 * 2) Have armor replacements. Your armor WILL break.
 * 3) Try to kite, or circle around your opponent while hitting them. This might cause some of their attacks to miss you.
 * 4) If you are being kited, run in one direction. This will stop the opponent from kiting you.
 * 5) Sprint! Move back, then sprint forward towards your enemy to intimidate and screw up some of their attacks. (If you don't know how to sprint its shift! Keep in mind you have energy and if the bar is empty, you cannot run. Use your energy wisely!)