Beach Craft – Raft Survival

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Beach Craft brings the open-sea survival of the game Raft into Minecraft.
Step through a driftwood portal, build your raft and sail an ocean of islands, reefs and drowned ruins, all the way down to the bottom of the sea.

Tides of the Deep: a calm 21-minute tour of everything in Beach Craft 3.1, filmed with shaders.

On the other side, open the castaway's chest on your platform: the Seafarer's Almanac explains everything, and the Expedition Journal always knows where to go next.

Out at sea you live on what the current brings: hook the debris, purify water, grill your catch and farm on deck. Bruce the shark bites the edges of your raft, so reinforce them.

Build a raft block by block and sail the whole thing like a ship. Chests, furnaces, farms and redstone keep working at sea, and the ready-made Expedition Raft is still there too.

New in 3.2: stack a mast and join sails into one big sheet, drop the anchor with a winch, fuel the motor through its own screen and watch the wheel turn as you steer. Sneak and use the wheel to moor.

Palm, jungle, mangrove and volcanic isles, reefs, kelp forests, frost floes and dark trenches: twelve biomes, with day and night out at sea.

New in 3.2: more open sea between the islands, palm beaches with lagoons, turtles, parrots, rabbits and foxes on the islands, and flocks of seagulls in the sky.

Seven story places and twelve kinds of side places, from a lighthouse and a stilt village to a drowned city, rusted rigs and sunken wrecks.

New in 3.2: most places are guarded now, and the guards get tougher the further the story leads you. Their chests hold more, too.

New in 3.4: the big places are rarer and lie further apart, they stand on the ground, and many of their barrels and crates hold loot now. With Lootr installed every player gets their own loot.

New in 3.1: eight people still live out here. Talk to them for hints and rumours; most of them have a welcome gift and trade for pirate gold and pearls.

Most creatures are friendly. Jellyfish sting, anglerfish lurk in the dark, and Bruce the shark goes after your raft.

New in 3.2: scavengers, reef guardians and corsair crews guard the places, led by the Scavenger Chief, the Corsair Captain and the Reef Warden.

Helmet, oxygen tank, wetsuit and flippers take you deep. A harpoon gun, a sea scooter and a helmet lamp come along.

84 building blocks and 59 decorations, from weathered docks and pirate ships to research domes and drowned skyscrapers.

New in 3.3: benches, loungers, armchairs, tables and serving plates, shelves and baskets, lanterns you can switch on and off, a steel drum, parasols and lots of beach decor. Sit down somewhere cozy and you get Rested: the more kinds of cozy things around you, the longer it lasts.

New in 3.3: sweet potatoes, chili peppers, bananas, rice and sea grapes that grow under water. Cook curry and chowder in the cooking pot, roll sushi, blend a smoothie, and let a fish trap do the fishing.

New in 3.4: watch the cooking pot cook: the ingredients stir in the pot, the water takes the colour of the dish and a chime rings when it is ready. It only takes what fits a dish and tells you what is still missing.

New in 3.3: a boomerang that brings back floating loot, a machete, a shark tooth spear, shell armour and an explorer's outfit with set bonuses, a compass that finds wrecks, a captain's spyglass and fishing bait.

New in 3.4: the Driftwood Fishing Rod with its own tackle box: load Fish Bait and Golden Lures, and every cast uses one of each.

Logs, letters and research terminals lead you from place to place. Gather four sigils, forge the Tidewarden Key and open the sanctum where the Leviathan waits. Since 3.2 it keeps to the deep of its pool and fights harder.

Beach Craft is part of the Dreamcraft modpack, where a whole quest chapter guides you across the Endless Sea.

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