Suddenly, no more supplies floating in the water?

[Pickled Red Beet Egg]

I'm several days into my first world, and have built a sustainable little ecosystem. I started traveling to islands and gathering supplies. However, after setting sail from the last island, I have not seen a single supply floating in the water. I'm nearly dehydrated because I have no more wood to fuel the fire to purify water.

Is this a common occurence in the game, or is this a bug? I'm not sure how I can prevent this. It's been several days in-game without a single supply, and I'm not about dead.

[Jynn]

Do you have a sail up, or an anchor down?

If you have a sail and it is directing your raft against the current, you will become stationary. Try closing the sail or turning it if you have one

If you have an anchor down, raising it will let your raft move

If you have neither, then I would guess it is a bug

[Nightrdr69]

In addition to what was said above, if you went into creative and then back to easy/normal/hard, you need to exit and then just reload your world. There is a bug(?) that freezes a raft when you switch from creative to another mode.

If you have an anchor down or the sail is directly into the wind, the current also stops. Make sure anchor(s) up and put sail down (well physically up in the game). When you do that, the raft will move (maybe slowly at first). You can tell if you are moving by looking for your raft wake. No wake, no water movement.

[Pickled Red Beet Egg]

Thanks for the tips. I checked, and there's zero wake, so it looks like I'm not moving. I lowered and then raised the sail again, and still nothing. Then I rotated it 180 degrees and I started to move. It's interesting because for 15 in-game days or so, I've been sailing the same direction without issue. I even built catching nets on the appropriate side of the ship. Now that I came back from the island, the current is flowing the opposite direction?

[Mysticalmaid]

When you get near islands, it rotates your raft and sometimes seems to change current direction.

[Nightrdr69]

The wind direction changes during the game. That is the reason for the streamer. To me it seems like you are actually taken in a huge circle/square with islands and abandoned rafts restocked. The floating items just seems to be a never ending stream that (in time) your raft will center on.

As for catch nets, I place one every other platform along the "front" and also down one side. That way I collect no matter what direction I am sailing/floating.

[vincewa]

I beleive this is due to the awareness of garbage in our oceans and the world is finally waking up. Its great for those on land but not for the rest of us trying to survive on a raft. Sorry i know this does not help your situation i would try reloading world.

[CokedBadger]

It always spawns in the direction your raft is going but you need to go in the same direction for a certain distance , but it's because your raft's sails are facing towards the wind instead of going along with it as you're not moving at all or moving to little as the supplies isn't moving it's your raft moving , so none spawn that way it won't create a huge cluster of 200 pieces in the same area all at once

[City Builder]

Originally posted by Tobias Fünke:

Thanks for the tips. I checked, and there's zero wake, so it looks like I'm not moving. I lowered and then raised the sail again, and still nothing. Then I rotated it 180 degrees and I started to move. It's interesting because for 15 in-game days or so, I've been sailing the same direction without issue. I even built catching nets on the appropriate side of the ship. Now that I came back from the island, the current is flowing the opposite direction?

I asked if wind changed direction and was told probably the sail mod that I use. If you don't use mods then wind must change direction seemingly randomly