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InRaft, survival hinges on monitoring both your Hunger and Thirst bars. While fishing or exploring islands can put food on your plate, quenching your thirst is a cruel irony as you’re surrounded by water yet unable to drink it. Saltwater is a one-way ticket to dehydration and your eventual death, so you’ll need to turn it into fresh, drinkable water.
Fortunately, your raft isn’t doomed to be a floating desert. Crafting purifiers offers a lifeline, starting with the Simple Purifier and progressing to more advanced options as your survival journey unfolds. Each purifier ensures you’ll stay hydrated and ready to weather the waves.
How To Get And Drink Water
It won’t take long before your thirst bar starts dwindling as you embark on your Raft journey. Once it’s completely drained, yourhealth will gradually tick away, so staying hydrated is a top priority. To get your first batch of drinkable water, you’llneed a container to store saltwater, which you can then purify into fresh water.
There arethree tiers of containersunder the food/water tab in the crafting menu, each with agreater capacity for storing water. You’llstart with the simple Empty Cup, and as you progress, you’llunlock better alternatives. Here’s a breakdown of these containers, how to unlock them, and what resources you’ll need to craft them:
4 x Plastic
6x Plastic,4x Vine Goo(acquired bysmelting Seaweedfrom underwater kelp plants)
Empty Canteen
Holds up toten cupsof water.
Purchase its blueprint from a Trading Post, costing 8 Trash Cubes, 12 Trade Coins, and a tier 3 reputation. After that,submit a Leather and Metal Ingotto research its recipe.
8x Plastic,4x Leather(acquired bykilling Warthogson islands),4x Metal Ingot(refineMetal Ore inaSmelter)
Once you’ve crafted your first container, typically the Empty Cup,fill it with saltwater and get yourself a purifier.Pour the saltwater into the purifier,wait a short while, and it’llconvert it into fresh water, which you cancollect using an empty container and later drink fromto stave off dehydration orwater your plants.
How To Craft The Simple Purifier
The Simple Purifier, like the Empty Cup, is available from the start. All you’ll need to craft a Simple Purifier is6x Plank,6x Palm Leaf,and4x Plastic, and these materials areeasily collected by fishing themas they float past your raft.
The Simple Purifier uses abasic distillation process to convert saltwaterinto fresh water, so you’ll have tofuel it with Planks, which burn to produce the necessary heat. It canhandle one cup of saltwaterat a time, giving youone cup of drinkable water in return.
How To Craft The Advanced Purifier
The Advanced Purifier is aserious upgrade over the Simple Purifier, sparing you the hassle of constantly burning Planks. Ituses direct sunlight to distill water, producing up tofive cups of fresh water, perfect for staying hydrated without all the micromanagement.
Before crafting it, you mustunlock its recipe at the Research Table. Submit aPlank,Plastic, andGlassto do so. Once unlocked, gather8x Planks, 6x Plastic, and 4x Glass(smelted from Sand in a Smelter) to build this handy purifier.
How To Craft The Electric Purifier
The Electric Purifier is the pinnacle of water purification,offering an automated processto keep you hydrated effortlessly. However, it’s not something you can rush into, as itrequires a hefty number of advanced materialsthat you’ll start coming across after afair amount of progress in the story.
First, you’ll need theElectric Purifier Blueprint, which you canfind inTangaroa. Once you have it, you’ll beable to unlock its recipeat the Research Table by submitting the following:
After that, you’ll need togather these materialsto craft the Electric Purifier:
Once you’ve built it, you’ll need to place it in a way on your raft so that the Electric Purifier’shose can face the ocean water so it can pump saltwater. After that, you’ll need a Battery to power it, which you can craft using1x Copper Ingot,6x Plastic, and3x Scrapafter researching its recipe.
When operational, the purifier willcontinuously pump saltwaterand convert it into fresh water, collecting up to 15 cups in its large tank for your convenience.
you’re able to alsoconnect Water Pipes between the Electric Purifier and a Sprinkler, enabling anautomated sprinkler systemfor watering plants. However, setting this up will require additional resources and careful planning.
