How to rotate your raft?

[Setharim]

I've bumped into an island and while getting myself unstuck I turned by raft 90 degrees. Now my nets are no longer perpendicular to the incoming salvage so they aren't catching anything.
I tried using the sail and the paddle to rotate the raft, but all it seems to do is accelerate it to a certain direction without any rotation.
Is this fixable?

[Tokoshoran]

Yeah, crash into another island or raft.

Nets can actually be relocated, so if you were only rotated 90º, just move them to the new front.

[Howling-MoMo]

ya game dosent really have the physics to do that yet

[Tokoshoran]

Originally posted by Dawg:

Unrelated tip for your nets is put foundation around them so the shark can not attack them. Great help as you get going.

Does that really work? I've had the shark pop up in a net and bite the foundation who's only point of connection to water was the net space itself.

[BryanChung]

Sailing into another direction is not equal to rotating raft sailing direction? I thought that can be achieved by setting the sail according to the wind direction?

[Knowmad]

There needs to be a rudder or something to allow you to rotate your raft. Having it change constantly is just really annoying.

[Setharim]

Originally posted by BryanChung | @teamonegaming:

Sailing into another direction is not equal to rotating raft sailing direction? I thought that can be achieved by setting the sail according to the wind direction?

Apparently the game physics system always treats the sail as if it's at the raft's center of mass, so it doesn't apply any torque.

[Matty101]

Originally posted by Tokoshoran:

Originally posted by Dawg:

Unrelated tip for your nets is put foundation around them so the shark can not attack them. Great help as you get going.

Does that really work? I've had the shark pop up in a net and bite the foundation who's only point of connection to water was the net space itself.

I think theres a chance the shark will attack any part in the water, at the start theres more outside radius than inside, so the chances of an inner attack is lower therefore adding surrounding peices does work at the start.
With bigger rafts though its not the case and the shark will attack more 'inner' parts.

[Ryan]

I build my raft to minic an island soo all 4 side of my raft have rolls of nets X3

[Knowmad]

Originally posted by Ryan:

I build my raft to minic an island soo all 4 side of my raft have rolls of nets X3

Same but it still doesnt make it any less annoying.

[Setharim]

Originally posted by Ryan:

I build my raft to minic an island soo all 4 side of my raft have rolls of nets X3

That's a bit overkill, you would only need to make a V shape on two sides to catch everything that passes through your raft.

[Matty101]

Something also to keep in mind is your starting position is world center...what i mean by this is it is where the debris float to, so you cant just extend one side or you'll always be chasing half the drifting mats.

[SireSteelHell]

game just needs a keel that u can research and build

[Colt]

I made a very simple rectangular Raft and it worked great for most of my game sessions until the wind started blowing sideways, Ive been triying to figure out how to rotate my raft on its own axis, paddling water and sail only seems to move the raft towards a certain position (theres movement but no rotation).

Only workaround so far I found was to crash into an abandoned raft to try and flip myself but this is really a maniac strategy.

[Colt]

I tried unsuccesfully more methods in creative mode using anchor but anchor only fixes the displacement of the raft within a certain range and thats it.
Tried turning the raft while docked with one sail on, two sails, no anchors, two anchors, all kinds of angles and combined with paddling while swimming towards the raft.. nothing really works, this is a really basic and important issue, Its frustrating to keep missing most of the items in the normal mode until I find a raft or an Island to crash into..

This is the only Issue Ive had in the game.. oh well.

[Tokoshoran]

Why aren't you just relocating the nets? That would solve the problem immediately.