Build and Defend Your Raft Guides

Build and Defend Your Raft is a live Roblox PvP game from Raft Pirates: spawn on a tiny wooden boat, harpoon resources, expand the raft, upgrade the Crafting Table, then raid other players and steal loot. Servers hold up to 18 people. Updates land every Saturday. This Guides Hub is the map of every how-to on the wiki. Start at the top if you just spawned; skip to raid or table pages if your Hour 1 boat is already a problem.

None of these pages invent recipes, hidden keybinds, or unpublished code strings. Where the HUD is the source — Shop basket, Crew, harpoon prompt, gather counters, timer — we name the button. Where the UI is silent, we say so and point you at the loop the official description already sold: gather, build, defend, raid.

First hour and HUD

• Getting started — spawn on the tiny raft, shoot the harpoon, finish gather objectives, open Shop, feed the Crafting Table, and raise walls before someone raids you. Welcome and Meet Frank badges sit here as join facts, not as a lore dump.
• Controls — standard Roblox WASD, jump, and camera on PC; sticks on mobile; plus the verified on-screen cluster: Shop basket, purple Crew, top timer, Click to shoot harpoon, gather fractions such as Gathered 0/5, and the Free Reward cannon on the right.

If you only read one child this session, read getting started. Controls is the HUD decoder you keep open on a second monitor while the first hour runs.

Build, table, and the Hour 100 picture

Official thumbs contrast a starter raft with a multi-story fortress of cannons, spikes, chests, and flags, labeled in the spirit of Hour 1 versus Hour 100. That is the build fantasy. How you get there is not a secret item list; it is footprint discipline plus the table.

• How to build — expand the deck without sprawling, keep storage in a compact core, and treat extra floor as a liability until spikes and cannons exist.
• Crafting Table — the upgrade loop that unlocks better gear. Scrap from harpoons, Shop packs, or a future code should hit this bench before cosmetics.

Build pages will not publish plank counts we have not seen. If a cost is missing from the UI, it is missing here too.

Defend and raid (the actual PvP)

The title is the loop. You are not only a builder. Other people on the 18-player server will RAID your raft and STEAL loot, and you will do the same to them.

• How to defend — walls, cannons, spikes, loot in the core, timer awareness, and Crew so the deck is never empty while you are mid-build.
• How to raid — when to leave, how to steal without confirming unpublished board mechanics, and why a naked home raft is how you donate your chest.

Read those two as a pair. A perfect raid that drops your own loot on the water is a net loss.

Scrap and Shop (the spend path)

• How to get Scrap — harpoon junk, gather counters, optional Robux packs, empty codes as of 3 September 2026, and the Free Reward cannon.
• Shop — red basket, 50 / 150 / 500 Scrap tiles, Redeem Codes, Community Server copy, and @valtkins without a fake Discord invite.

Farm before you decorate. The table still eats first.

How to use this hub on a Saturday

Patches ship weekly. After a Saturday update, walk the hub in this order: getting started if the HUD changed, Crafting Table if unlock copy changed, how to build if new pieces appeared, how to defend and how to raid if combat feel changed. Then glance at codes — still empty as of 31 August 2026 — from the Codes Hub so you do not stall in Shop.

This Guides Hub is a map, not a second getting-started article. Pick the child that matches the problem on your deck, then cross-link from the bottom of that page into the sibling that comes next. When your Hour 1 boat starts looking like the Hour 100 fortress in the thumbs, you will have used every link here at least once.