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Titanium is the final tier of material inRaft, being used for all of the best end-game tools, electronics and crafting stations. It is also one of the hardest materials to gather, and some players will even complete the game without ever finding it. Rather than appearing naturally in the world you need to find hidden caches from other survivors.
Titanium equipment allows you to automate tasks like water purification, smelting and cooking as well as creating the engine controls and advanced anchor. Gathering a good amount of the material will save you a lot of time as you make the final trek to Utopia.
How To Find The Metal Detector
Titanium doesn’t appear in mining nodes the same way as copper and metal. In order to start gathering it,you’ll need a metal detector, usingblueprints from deep beneathCaravan Island. You’ll want to make some preparations before beginning:
From the lowlands in the middle of the island, you’ll find a Bicycle hooked up to an improvised Air Pump. Follow the tube of the Air Pump down into the water. You know you’re in the right place as there will be ahint to explore the watersby one of the audio logs by Detto; they attempted to explore the ruins below the island using the air pump and an improvised diving suit.
When your oxygen levels are low, you canrecover in some of the shipping containers that act as diving bells, containing pockets of air. There will be visible bubbles leaking from the containers with air.
When you reach the deepest part of the ocean, you’ll encounter ashipping container with the blueprints for the Metal Detector.It is cheap to craft, using some plastic, scrap metal and a Tier One Battery.
How To Use The Metal Detector
The Metal Detector is your key to getting Titanium. When using it on a large or small island, the lights will indicate the proximity but not the direction of the nearest metal deposit.Small islands have a single deposit,while larger ones can have as many as three.
Alongside the Metal Detector,you’ll also need a Shovel. The agricultural area of Utopia has spare shovels sitting about, or you can craft your own.
You’ll want to test a few different locations intermittently rather than using the detector continuously.
The battery cannot be recharged,and you will instead need to replace the entire device when it is exhausted. Once you’ve narrowed the area to the final three green dots you can use the detector more frequently to find the exact spot.
Digging in the indicated spot will give you one of several possible rewards.
Common
None.
Contains Copper, Metal and Scrap to refill your other supplies without mining.
Contains rare decorations, Copper and metal goods.
Very Rare
Collecting a full set of tiki pieces awards the ‘Former Glory’ achievement.
On average, about half of all deposits will be suitcases and safes containing titanium, but theOre does not appear until you’ve used the detectorwith a full row of lights. Digging in the correct spot will not give you any rewards until you’ve used the metal detector to spawn it. It’ll givea special chimewhen this happens.
The Titanium Ore you’ve obtained can becooked in the Smelterthe same way as Copper and generic Metal, but takes nearly twice as long.
If you are trying to extract titanium from ore in real life, you willnot be able to do so using Coal or Wood-burning Furnaces(Titanium is too reactive to be reduced by carbon). Thankfully Raft does not require you to use reduction with magnesium.
Other Ways To Get Titanium Ore
Titanium ore can also be found in other ways, with varying levels of consistency.
The residential areas of Tangaroacontain loot containers with Titanium as a potential reward. Theylook identical to the safes and briefcasesfound with the Metal Detector. You’ll want to carry a Machete when exploring the arcology, as most of these loot containers are behind blocked doors that must be cut through.
The fastest way to gather Titanium is through the trading post. Once you’ve reached maximum reputation, you canpurchase up to 15 titanium from each post. A stack of three ore is sold forthreeTrash Cubesand one Trade Coin.
Trade coins and reputation points are collected byusing the special fishing baits sold by the trading postand selling back the fish.
By the time you’ve reached this point in the game, you likely have an overwhelming surplus of Wood and Palm Leaves that you can convert into Trash Cubes. Alternatively, a decently sized tree farm (five or six palm trees) on your raft is able to continuously produce enough cubes to buy out the Titanium supplies of most trading posts you pass through.
What Is Titanium Used For?
Titanium isused for most of the end-game upgradesto your equipment and raft. Most notably,automated upgrades such as the Electric Water Purifier, Smelter and Grill.The final tier of storage upgrades also use Titanium, letting you store copious amounts of Water, material and fuel.
When your Titanium supplies are limited you’ll want to be careful what you spend it on. Here’s a recommended list of priorities for conserving your supplies:
Caravan Island
4x Ingots
This gives you ause for the depleted Batteries you’ve accumulatedover the game, saving having to craft new ones and regather materials like copper.
6x Ingots
By this point in the game you’ve likely got more than one engine, making it difficult to manage when starting and stopping your raft. The Engine Controls lets youstart, stop and reverse all your engines at once.
Temperance Village
6xIngots
By this point you need a better fuel solution than hand-feeding the basic biofuel generator and pouring it into your engines one at a time. The advanced refiner has a much larger capacity and canconnect to fuel pipes and feed your engines directly.
Tangaroa
This saves you from having to manually purify your water in small batches. Hooked up to a water storage tank, you’ll never run out again and it can bepaired with sprinklers to partially automate a farm.
Temperance Observatory
8x Ingots
This anchor upgrade fuses with the engine controls, letting you do all the steering from a single location. It cannot be used manually so must be built after the engine controls.
Titanium can be used for producing wielded and worn equipment, but therecipes for titanium tools are found at theend of Utopiawhen you’ve completed all the story content of the game.
