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?

[Trolls 'R' Us]

引用自 Tokoshoran：

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

Rotating the nets wont work because the debris flows in a direction where your raft is no longer heading towards... very annoying.

[wiz12268]

I know its a necro but contrary to popular belief, direction of nets doesnt mean anything. They will grab anything coming into thier field of influence. As for the original topic 'rotaiing' the raft doesnt matter either unless you have ladders or ramps set up to go onto islands. But eventually you will have more than enough materials to build and destroy dozens of ramps.(which are the most frugal way to gain elevation)

[Setharim]

引用自 wiz12268：

I know its a necro but contrary to popular belief, direction of nets doesnt mean anything. They will grab anything coming into thier field of influence. As for the original topic 'rotaiing' the raft doesnt matter either unless you have ladders or ramps set up to go onto islands. But eventually you will have more than enough materials to build and destroy dozens of ramps.(which are the most frugal way to gain elevation)

Of course rotating matters. If you have nets on one side of your raft you'd want that side to be perpendicular to the direction of savlage. If it's tangent then only the front one will catch anything.

[kylebowers20]

NEED RUDDER.

[Xas]

Nothing an anchor, sail and paddles couldn't handle.
Unless
lacking the insights on when to drop the anchor, skill in steering of the sail based on winds,
and when to use the paddle to move in and away from shallows.

No reason for large angle change, except for the beginning few minutes from a fresh game.
Cant handle or displace the angle change?
Dont build large base foundation,
pay attention of incoming isles,
and get better at steering, judging the wind and taking a little bump.

[Frogie]

i cant remember but if you sleep does it reset the raft direction?

[stretch]

引用自 King-white1：

i cant remember but if you sleep does it reset the raft direction?

I don't think so because there is no disignated front, sides or rear so it has no bearing to reorientate you to.

[stretch]

引用自 Xas：

Nothing an anchor, sail and paddles couldn't handle.
Unless
lacking the insights on when to drop the anchor, skill in steering of the sail based on winds,
and when to use the paddle to move in and away from shallows.

No reason for large angle change, except for the beginning few minutes from a fresh game.
Cant handle or displace the angle change?
Dont build large base foundation,
pay attention of incoming isles,
and get better at steering, judging the wind and taking a little bump.

Gotta love these useless 'get gud' posts.

Thanks for sharing how brilliant you are with us all. I know it has made my life better.

[Seekyr]

I just started playing and already have this problem. I was SO hoping someone was going to say that when you hit a certain point you'd be able to build a rudder, or that by placing your sail in a certain spot you could fix it. I had no luck at all with the paddle or sail. At present, stuff goes diagonally across my raft. It's annoying.

[stretch]

I have not played really since the last content update but as best I recall you need to hit a solid object to alter your course. Nudge an island or deep sea platform. There was talk of rudders but I have not seen them.

Paddles push your raft straight no matter what.

Rafts have no 'centre of gravity' to spin you around on other than something which may or may not exist when you nudge an island.

What you can do is orientate your sail at an angle to the 'front' of your raft which may sail you in an angle more relevant but when you try this you will see it's still very odd looking.

Everytime you hit land you can rotate your raft so get used to going for long periods at an angle. It's an odd mechanic.

If you find an island you can try just building a number of raft sections out the side to hit the island and with judicious use of your anchor and thoughtful altering of your sails angle in relation to your raft you can straighten up.

You will be doing this a bit so there is plenty of chances for you to practice.

[V]

引用自 stretch：

引用自 Xas：

Nothing an anchor, sail and paddles couldn't handle.
Unless
lacking the insights on when to drop the anchor, skill in steering of the sail based on winds,
and when to use the paddle to move in and away from shallows.

No reason for large angle change, except for the beginning few minutes from a fresh game.
Cant handle or displace the angle change?
Dont build large base foundation,
pay attention of incoming isles,
and get better at steering, judging the wind and taking a little bump.

Gotta love these useless 'get gud' posts.

Thanks for sharing how brilliant you are with us all. I know it has made my life better.

these are still valid points, the lack of effort and common sense with some of the problems people have in raft are just shocking. ..so yeah sure..that rudders going to fix allll your problems.

[stretch]

引用自 Terran：

引用自 stretch：

Gotta love these useless 'get gud' posts.

Thanks for sharing how brilliant you are with us all. I know it has made my life better.

these are still valid points, the lack of effort and common sense with some of the problems people have in raft are just shocking. ..so yeah sure..that rudders going to fix allll your problems.

And people like you who insist on validating developers laziness in putting reasonable systems in place to achieve basic functionality are what is ruining gaming.

There are some absolute rubbish systems and totally awful game mechanics in what is fundamentally a good game. It brings the whole thing down a notch. Disappointing.

The lack of effort and common sense I see here is from you and the developers.

Lets take rudders off every boat and ship at sea and see how the world goes. Then lets tell them they aren't good enough to do without and it's all their own fault.

[nasojjr]

Let's be clear here, this is a GAME. Why people insist on comparing games to real life confuse the crap out of me. This is a SURVIVAL game....designed intentionally with a handful of challenges (at least at the start) that need to be overcome. Perhaps the rotation of your raft to make your life easier is intended to be a challenge?? The only reason the raft isn't facing the direction you want is because you ran into something.

[stretch]

引用自 nasojjr：

Let's be clear here, this is a GAME. Why people insist on comparing games to real life confuse the crap out of me. This is a SURVIVAL game....designed intentionally with a handful of challenges (at least at the start) that need to be overcome. Perhaps the rotation of your raft to make your life easier is intended to be a challenge?? The only reason the raft isn't facing the direction you want is because you ran into something.

Is it so hard to make a rudder ?

Is it so unbelievable that when people want to steer their raft they would think of using the one thing in RL that everyone is familiar with and solely developed to help do this ?

Do you see racing games come out with cars that have no steering wheel ? Lets add to the challenge by making you steer by bouncing off stuff ? Or maybe have all the wheels face different directions because there is no steering rack fitted. "You want to steer ? Then get out and manually move each wheel into line everytime you want to change course" No you don't because that's stupid. So is this no rudder thing.

There is no doubt in my mind that it is pure laziness on the behalf of some developers and NOT some 'lets add some challenge' mentality that is at the fore here with this and similar issues in games. The more people simply accept this rubbish and the more developers get away with releasing half functional garbage, the more you will see of it.

[Jetrax]

Can we Email someone with this Problem ?????? Its really stressfull ... i build a Ship ... a really good one ... and i can not turn .... that sucks.