What's the Best Food in Raft? | Chapter 3 Guides

[@Alidove_]

Well that took longer than expected. What do you think the best food in Raft is?

[@cod3r_]

Can you also please add some table with the info from the video? I think it also would be useful ; )

[@Splappa09Gaming]

My go to is the veggie soup. It's easy to make in massive quantities with very little effort. One thing I wish Raft would add is that you get the empty bowl back after eating the meal. Unless you're eating the bowl too lol

[@roelieboy204]

For thirst just have a bottle or canteen filled with water. For hunger eat any cooked meat or fish you have laying around.

[@Splappa09Gaming]

@@roelieboy204 yes but meat and fish require you to hunt or fish. Growing a garden is almost automated when have the sprinklers. Just pick the potatoes and replant as you harvest them.

[@biips1159]

@@cod3r_ the top 3 are 3. Shark Dinner - 45 Hunger 70 Bonus 2. BBQ - 65 Hunger 75 Bonus 1. Head Broth - 20 Hunger 100 Bonus I prefer BBQ over the Broth because it is easier to make and gives more hunger

[@itsgonnabeokai]

I could believe the clay bowl just isn't fired and gets too soggy and unusable after you carried a hot soup in your backpack for a week. But it's harder to believe in single-use smoothie glasses, and the worst one is the milk bucket that gets blended into the smoothie for an iron-rich diet

[@eleanorcooke7136]

I got so annoyed with it that I downloaded a mod that doubles the price of the containers but makes them reusable.

[@drogeriemarkt8775]

i love the vegetable soup. only needs 4 beets/potatoes and is extremely effective

[@AlexisLeVrai]

yep

[@Splappa09Gaming]

It's what I use. Once my boat gets to the point where my nets are catching more stuff than I can use, when I'm floating towards my next island, all I'm doing is cooking veggie soup and harvesting potatoes

[@AlexisLeVrai]

@@Splappa09Gaming but i need bowl and for bowl i need the mud thing and i dont have any ;-;

[@Splappa09Gaming]

@@AlexisLeVrai easy way to get clay is to stop at the smaller islands. They usually have 4 or 5 clay around them

[@Splappa09Gaming]

@@AlexisLeVrai And you get 2 bowls for every one clay.

[@MattePurple1]

Vegetable soup, is the best imo. It has a short cook time and the ingredients are the easiest to come by. With 3-4 cooking pots I can make enough soups in a single game day to last for a few game weeks, lol.

[@alfrede.newman6626]

👍.. just figured that out, started mass farming potatoes and quit messing with the 'recipes'

[@robertmastenbrook2495]

If you’re buying chilies and turmeric AND you wanna clear reefs faster, salmon salad with the spicy pineberry is a solid combo. This is quite helpful in solo play

[@nikknight]

I love how we all just assume that we eat the bowls and glasses because we don't get them back. Either that, or we're so stoked that we had good food that we smash the dish against the floor in pure excitement.

[@dustyrose192]

"this drink, i like it. ANOTHER!"

[@raphaelhuwyler6640]

In my opinion the best food to use is the dive and swimm speed buffs combined, use them with a diving bottle and fins and you can raid small islands with one to two oxygen refills. It's nuts how efficient you become. We play duo and just split the tasks for islands with the above and underwater parts. I kill the shark and get the trees/tresure and by that time my buddy is done with the metals/scrap

[@OscarLT321]

Yep, just gotta make sure you buy turmeric and spice every trader visit

[@arctic_moon_]

what food is that?

[@JohnClarkW]

Simple fish stew and vegetable stew are great since they easy to get resources. I am experimenting with the juicer, but the simple smoothie seems like a good pick there for the same reasons. The mango nana would be good in the late game, since bananas aren't available until Tangaroa.

[@castillle3675]

Thats so expensive though cuz you eat the bucket.

[@rustyhowe3907]

@@castillle3675 Yeah that's true but the only true expense is 1 piece of scrap, the rest of what it takes to make a bucket is just junk my collection nets never stop scooping up.

[@tecramos]

The vegetable soup is a good hunger recipe because it's simplicity. Good thing you don't need the recipe paper on your raft to make it, i accidentally destroyed my cooking pot with this recipe and realized i can make it without the recipe.

[@Alidove_]

Good point!

[@michaelvial125]

you dont require any of the recipes papers to make them. You can effectively make any of the recipes as long as you know them from memory or have the ingredients.

[@OscarLT321]

In my opinion going for medium to low plates is bad because of the clay requirement. I have over 1k bowls and none of them are veggie soup. It is grindy to farm clay. Outside of silver algae and pufferheads I am always out of clay

[@Sumguyinavan_]

The minimalist in me just wants 3 cooking pots with an advanced small plot over each with a never ending supply of potatoes. I would just rather not need extra storage for variety when the only thing I need to store is the clay bowls and just consume the 3 soups when needed. I wish they would give us crop plots which allowed us to farm mushrooms and red berries- maybe they could make the Advanced Medium Crop Plots do this. And if they made the Advanced Collection Nets able to catch fish along with debris, it would definitely incentivize us to build them because otherwise they are pretty useless.

[@ivechang6720]

It would be more realistic if you had to cross breed your fungi in order to get the fruiting bodies. Even have different strains with different food values. Which you would have to collect from different islands and not necessarily the story line ones either. That would encourage deeper immersion into the game and practice more of the wisdom that would actually be needed in a real life scenario. Just my opinion though. 😂

[@sportzfan212]

Just FYI The BBQ was the Fish Stew swap. Had a big stock of the stew and now it's BBQ

[@Alidove_]

Good to know!

[@Dragonanzar]

For early game, I tend to just cook any meat item and use it - I don't bother farming anything in particular. For middle game, my favourite is the veggie stew. Sure, maybe its stats aren't as good as the head broth or fish stew, but it's so easy to get hold of the ingredients. For late game...not sure. The recipe with extra hitpoints has come in useful a few times while hunting on the big islands. For juice, definitely the coconut beet one for general use - again, it's about the easy access to ingredients. Haven't tried many of the special recipes as I'm only really starting out with the trader.

[@hoveringgoat8061]

for me i ONLY farm. eating raw potatos or radish when youre hungry fills the bar a lot. Two small plots can feed you indefinitely and much easier than fishing.

[@fulopistvan5578]

A great and detailed guide, simple and easy to understand. I agree the Mangonana is the best mid-late game juice. However, in my opinion, vegetable soup is the best food. Considering how early and easy can be made. You can plant vegetables and forget about farming ingredients, also finding them in barrels throughout the entire game. You need a bit more clay for more bowls is the downside and gets a bit boring to eat the same food.

[@kevinj9059]

I used so many salmon salads searching for the Grabber caches: it was my second to last achievement, and killing anglers was last. I'm now 100%.

[@V0r4xiz]

I was looking for pretty much exactly these pieces of information condensed and in video form. Thank you! *chucks a like*

[@excavator_man]

You can set a bird nest at like the abandoned side of your raft and when a seagull comes, kill it

[@Poke-ladd]

Lately I’ve been trying to just use watermelons cause you can stack them and save 2 slots for holding a bottle of water and seperate food

[@ulamss5]

same, I used to prefer mangos because they can't be attacked by seagulls, but they're about equal now (with pineapples too) since the wall glitch has been fixed, making seagull management much easier.

[@hoveringgoat8061]

@@ulamss5 you cant farm either infinitely though. Or did they patch that.

[@darkequation]

You can take a bite on watermelon before blending it.

[@purplejellytotPJT]

Wait for real? I had no idea! Considering dead batteries can be used in crafting recipes, I guess this follows the same logic. That’s super neat to know, thank you! ^^

[@ericbachman8890]

I vote vegetable soup for sustainability. Two medium crop plots, one for potatoes, one for beets. Each harvest nets you four of each veggie. Replant 2 of each into the crop plots, cook 2 of each for the veggie soup. Eternal food without fishing or gathering.

[@fivas]

I just got raft on sale, played for about 5 hours, and decided to watch a few videos, and holy cow there are so many items in this game and I just found out through your videos that it has a storyline. Also, I like your videos very calm keep it up :)

[@jzko3116]

I survive off milk and eggs

[@marilynlucero9363]

I always keep my heads as a trophy so I can see at any time in any of my savegames how many of each animal I have 'roughly' killed. Saying roughly since Bears as example not always drop their heads.

[@ShneekeyTheLost]

While still trying to get yourself established, pineapples are a pretty decent middle of the road 'raw' food, IMO. No cooking required, and can be farmed in a medium crop plot. Not *the* best, certainly, but it can sustain you without spending all that wood you would need cooking fish until you get yourself situated.

[@konnerl5434]

THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME HOW TO GET THE POWERED UP ACHIVEMENT I was about to make every recipe and consume it at once

[@TheJudgeWm]

Shark steaks use too much wood to cook in early game. Appreciate the effort you put into these videos. 👍

[@ultramegaman555]

shark dinner best food overall, if you play the game, you visit big islands while trying to discover the rare ones, basically, you can use wool or other scrap stuff you gather with your nets for cubes, trade those quickly in for shrooms and silver algae and hunt the meat leasurely next to your raft infinitely

[@jason_man]

i get like bajilion steaks after visiting tangoroa lol

[@TheAgileFatman]

I couldn't find a list for the smoothies anywhere so thanks for the video

[@sofiablomquist8394]

I love juices and vegetablestew when I am off the raft. On raft it is usually melons, mangos or coconuts.

[@zabrakxd2399]

Thanks for all your work making these tutorials! you've helped me enjoy this great game :)

[@GoldenOuroboros]

Vegetable soup and simple smoothie, ingredients are easy enough to procure, although we're barely getting seeds and coconuts dropping from our palm trees these days... -_-; Kind of wish the advanced plot upped your drop rate for these rather than just looking pretty.

[@mistapurple]

Great channel! I'm an old rafter getting back to the game after many months. Still so fun! Thanks for all the information you give, that's very useful!! I just subscribed :) Cheers from France ⛵⚓

[@That_Honda_Civic]

what kind of monster made a meal where you have to cook two beloved puffer perrys

[@bigkidBAM]

After a couple hundred hours in Raft, I, personally, prefer the easy-to-obtain-ingredient meals and smoothies. Fish Stew is the ONLY ONE that you can get all the ingredients while on your raft. Every other one, I believe, needs hard-to-come-by resources, either through purchase or exploration. As for smoothies, I'd say the Mangonana is my go-to. Nanners are so very easy to grow and harvest (ALWAYS dropping seeds to re-plant, unlike other fruits), and having a goat or two onboard to milk make it pretty simplistic. The mango can be tricky to drop seeds, but worth the bonus water additive. One of my disagreements with the game resources though is not being able to reuse glasses, like the milk pails. That and the bowls, although I can understand those deteriorating after a few uses. I rarely use any of the special trading post meals, and didn't have the recipes through my entire story playthrough. I'm planning on starting a new game on the hardest difficulty, so I'll have to see if they are really worthwhile with some tough bosses/enemies!

[@FireSorcerer]

Kinda weird, but my main food source is actually eggs from chickens. This is because I use them for making biofuel (as they are renewable and easy to farm) and I ended up with so many of them I just started using them as my main food source.

[@TheMMBOG]

I beat raft season 3 with my friends today for the first time! It felt so good! Now it's time for a big raft :)

[@Alidove_]

Congrats on completing the story!

[@ShadyNefarius]

Actually, have you tested the Hearty Stew on environment damage if it saves you? I tested against drowning and turns out it won't save you at all. Idk other mechanics if you can be saved.

[@Alidove_]

From further testing, what the soup seems to do is basically give you the effect of a lower quality healing salve and prevent at the instant it was supposed to happen. Any damage that happens after that can kill you (i.e. thirst, drowning, boar attack). This isn't final, but seems to be the pattern

[@yoda-1551]

I would say the Catfish Deluxe is better purely because farming the mats is less intensive. Findin Silver Algae for the salad is hella LONG!

[@SoulQueenoD]

Never deleting my worlds with the old recipes. Have to save them for posterity.

[@brunomuscolo7063]

I hope this channel keeps on going. There are many survival games that you could play and upload guides about :D

[@Alidove_]

I have no intention of stopping any time soon!

[@Xenwing]

I finished Chapter 3 already, hope they do any more chapters.

[@maytollsen]

Didnt they say it was the last update? So dont think so =/

[@Alidove_]

Sadly it's the last story update, so we won't be seeing any more chapters

[@maytollsen]

@@Alidove_ But will we see more new items added maybe? Would be cute to have a bowl with fruits,cutting board etc, More stuff to kitchen maybe? ^^

[@Alidove_]

@@maytollsen I certainly hope there's more coming, but we can't be sure right now

[@Grog3000]

hey alidove i first saw you on discord and started watching you and i really like your raft content its helped me alot thank's

[@cornerstone7072]

Right in time. I just posted my fridge pics in your discord.

[@FableLily-de6my]

is all of this still accurate with the latest update? and is the raft still in version 1.0?

[@maricooper1968]

Also, how much research did it take to make this video?

[@zhiaonyosh7669]

Vegetable soup is the best, of course. Simple, EZ to make. Btw whats the best cooking food that requaired Silver Algae?

[@purplejellytotPJT]

Super helpful video, thank you! :D

[@Arminhammer]

My friend and I been living off vegetable soup, honestly the easiest one to make and restores hunger well.

[@alexhall5458]

How long do the buffs last from the trader recipes

[@Manta_Studios]

Oh no, there’s a “how did we get here” achievement in this game too

[@balintfoldhazi7422]

Can you do an endgame raft in chapter 3?

[@Alidove_]

Check back on Wednesday 👀

[@balintfoldhazi7422]

@@Alidove_ It says beginning/starter

[@Alidove_]

Ah, I meant in 2 days from now

[@pokey5509]

I modded my Raft game, and I noticed I didn't need a recipe (I haven't tried the traders recipe yet) to cook a dish. Does that happen in vanilla?

[@purplejellytotPJT]

Yes, that happens in vanilla :) you don’t need the paper recipe to cook it. The exception to this is the trading post recipes, which you must buy first to unlock.

[@jazuzaarmizozaar6573]

I use BBQ my main raft normal difficulty world, and drink fresh water from elecric water purifier.😅

[@land9271]

but don't some food recipes give more than 1 bowl? i think the simple fish stew only gives 1 bowl whilst the mushroom omelette gives 3 bowls of food

[@Facebook_Mum69]

They used to. I don´t know which update chanded it, but you only get 1 every time you cook something now. I remember the shark dinner giving you 3 bowls, and it even still says it in it´s discription. But it only gives you 1 now.

[@denxx56]

@@Facebook_Mum69 must've been the full release update aka 1.0

[@MIKEx2112]

1 fishing pole 1 grill or simple grill 1 storage box dedicated to food . Fish and grill them up…fill up storage box with cooked fish. . That’s all you need You’re welcome

[@itssswolfy1940]

if you are in early game just farm vegetable stew its easy to get and gives you good hunger (in my opinion)

[@yankeefan83]

That's what I usually do. Small farm plots are pretty easy to make and vegetable stew is just 4 of either beets/potatoes. You can have a pretty decent stock of stew in no time

[@santiagomontez]

4:46 good maths ;)

[@Alidove_]

We don't need to talk about my mistakes

[@santiagomontez]

@@Alidove_ i know, no worries, your videos still are amazing

[@maricooper1968]

Day 27 of telling Ali we appreciate them and their content! :)

[@laureeeent]

Nice! Very useful, thanks!

[@selenevalkirya]

So clear and on point!

[@santiagomontez]

You have the besy Raft videos on the platform :D

[@candybetta4061]

A lot of the foods dont feel worth it when veggie stew and fish stew are so easily mass producable and the others have limited ingredients

[@jaakkola1444]

can you make video how "farm bananas and other fruits" because i dont know how farm banana :D

[@Alidove_]

They go in tree plots. Ya got this friend!

[@ChronicallyCarl]

Raw potato the best❤️

[@aaSTRO3032]

Nah raw beet

[@ChronicallyCarl]

@@aaSTRO3032 nah

[@randomannoyance]

interesting video. too bad the only food i eat and drink in raft is honey

[@Alidove_]

Interesting choice, but I like it

[@Bunnybigenderflux]

Aiming to be like you at some point but grinding sand is hard since I aim to use as little fish bait as possible. I don't know why I do this to myself.......

[@randomannoyance]

@@Bunnybigenderflux yeah grinding and smelting sand isnt very fun so after 2 big storages of honey and a chest of biofuel i just stopped knowing i wont eat everything ever anyway xD that was before chapter 3 got released though

[@OscarLT321]

Juicer recipes are just not worth imo, having 1 or two canteens does the trick already and is way way way less time consuming. I have a big build up of cooking pot bowls but I still mostly eat cooked potatoes

[@johnbyrne9849]

Thanks!

[@Keisari2]

Good content

[@Jonrocks7]

Oof me and my dad have been mass making vegetable soup for the road and he threw out all the recipies and one of them was catfish deluxe wich we got before the final chapter update LOL

[@Facebook_Mum69]

Don´t worry. All of the now "special" recipes got replaced , I think. I have a "chapter 2 world" where I had all of the recipes. And new recipes like the BBQ and sushi just poped up. And I also think some even got removed, instead of being replaced. As there were a bunch of gaps, where recipes used to be. So yeah, you would have had to buy them either way.

[@Quick_Motiv]

can you please make an series for chapter 3 not frome live strem it will help your channel to grow best of luck❣️

[@Alidove_]

I probably will eventually, but it's probably a ways off. Working on a lot of projects currently!

[@richard2mitchell]

i am old school 2016 i still just eat cooked potatos cuz that is all there was lol.

[@Mapleaple]

Potato veggies soup

[@excancerpoik]

the juicer is a scam only use is the ones that give buffs but why not just drink water instead just carry a full canteen and np

[@chriscr21]

Some of the recipes do not work, it just gives you left overs which sucks lol

[@The1_Drill]

What? They all work

[@Facebook_Mum69]

They work for me. Which one´s don´t work for you?

[@chriscr21]

@@The1_Drill I had two fail, so your comment is just for you.

[@tbone2447]

you use davince resolve

[@agusgioia1491]

buen video me ayudo

[@mukaonline3]

Best food in raft... gril seagull meat... that thing need to burn

[@victorelfring]

Raw drumstick.. yuck :)

[@thegasmaskguy---]

NOICE

[@theultimatekeko]

predicted

[@julianmiguelteodoro1656]

the kk.)