How do you connect to a dedicated server?

[NorfolkDave]

As topic title. Mate made a server but when I go to join it says i can only join a steam friends world and i can not see how to browse dedicated servers?

[ULTRA]

Er, you don't, because there are no dedicated servers as far as I know, not even through modding.

[NorfolkDave]

Originally posted by Anarchist Jurisdictor:

Er, you don't, because there are no dedicated servers as far as I know, not even through modding.

Yeah just found that out, refunding the game at the minute. will buy again if it gets proper dedicated servers

[Pisaro]

Refund because no dedicated server? Wtf? You don't need servers in Raft..

[Xas]

Co-Op
To simply join an ' ongoing ' Singleplayer world as long as ' Online ' and opened to Steam Friends.


If so keen to ' dedicated '.
Act now,
invite everyone from https://steamcommunity.com/app/648800/discussions/3/,
accept all Steam Friend requests.
Stay Online 24/7.
You'll be the first dedicated Persistant world for Raft.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by 76561198093892151:

Refund because no dedicated server? Wtf? You don't need servers in Raft..

I'd like dedicated servers too tbh, but from the sounds of it we should probably be thankful there's even multiplayer

[ckwx]

No dedicated server, also no matchmaking, make this game not suitable for some lonely player. Thanks for the answer, i choose to give up this game.

[NorfolkDave]

Just seen some of the replies.
I am not looking for yet another single player survival game.
Multiplayer only when your on means my mates would not have access to Thier rafts when I am at work etc.

Peer to peer multiplayer just doesn't suit this genre, it's better than nothing but just not good enough for me.

Does that make this a bad game? No
Does this mean I say avoid it? No
It is just it doesn't fit with the style of play I like so I have refunded

Also no way would I leave my pc on 24/7 that's what server hosts are for *shrug*

[Razoul]

Originally posted by David "TheDave" Eastwick:

Multiplayer only when your on means my mates would not have access to Thier rafts when I am at work etc.

There is only one raft, each player is on the same raft. This isn't an open world survival game like Minecraft where other players can do their own thing. The game world is centered around the raft and as it moves the world is generated in front of it and destroyed behind it.

The game is story driven and while it may look like an open world there are a finite number of places to visit outside of the story locations.