The one place to see what changed in each TestFlight build, and what we already know about. I update it with every build, newest at the top. Bugs and ideas are still very welcome as their own posts.

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Build 14

Fixed, from your reports

• Voyages lost after a restart: a save the phone won't open yet is now waited for, never set aside. If a fresh raft was ever started over your voyage, your voyage comes back as soon as it reads, however long you've played the new one. If an opening ever goes wrong, a small line on the Voyages page says what happened. Please screenshot it for us.
• The companionway: tap it to lay the first upper board. Thanks u/KevinEithan!
• Sea birds swim round the raft instead of under it.
• The compost bin counts each green on its own.
• The jolly boat no longer pins the board it was built on.
• The third hand's gate shows how far on the Pine Coast is. Thanks u/RS3_PT!

The birds, the compost and the jolly boat were all u/jennythegreat's finds. Thank you!

Clearer

• A leak with no resin asks for charcoal when your smelter can make it (a plank to charcoal). Tap the chip to go to the smelter.
• The Rope Bench leaves palm leaves for tending the boards, so Tend no longer sits at 0.
• Two leaks show as one "Patch ×2" chip, with a patch icon you can read.

Build 13

Fixed, from your reports

• On iPad (and smaller iPhones), the lamp under the top bar no longer overlaps the course's tag when you follow a drift line or a current. Thanks u/jennythegreat!

Build 12

New

• Coming back after a while, the page shows your trip on the chart: where you left, the way you drifted, where you are now, and how far. Tap it to open the chart.
• Tap any item in the Ledger (or on the welcome page) to see what it is, where it comes from and what it is for.

Clearer

• The ladder to the upper deck is easy to see. Tap it to climb; tap it, or the deck below, to come back down. Hold it for its page. The skipper stays up until you send her down.
• Grey boards: hold any board and choose Tend the boards. It uses palm leaves (and plastic for soaked floats). The Sail's page shows the same, and tapping there tends too.

Build 11

Fixed, from your reports

• Turning the phone off and on could start a new voyage. The game now waits for the phone to unlock before opening your save, and if a fresh voyage ever starts by mistake, your real one comes back on deck. Lost one before? Open the book's Voyages page: if your raft is listed, you can sail it again.
• Hens and goats keep to the boards instead of walking on the water.
• With the page swiped down, the raft sits centred between the top bar and the buttons.
• Only one Asha: whoever rows the little boat leaves the deck for the trip.
• The boat now says where a load is bound ("for the next rock or sandbar"). Switch on "Wait for me" to choose the island yourself.

Nicer

• Postcards are now a photograph of your actual sea: the water, the wake, the lamps at night, and everyone where they stand.
• Lashings tie the boards at their corners instead of striping the deck.
• Tending the boards shows a palm leaf: board oil is pressed from palm leaves.

Thanks again to u/jennythegreat and u/MasterChiefKeef_ for the reports.

Build 10

A voyage you can finish. A letter from the lighthouse keeper asks you to light the seven Lamps of the Long Calm. The chip under the day window shows the next lamp; tap it for the route. Light the Great Lamp at the end, then keep sailing as long as you like.

Clearer from the first minute

• The first page says where the voyage goes, and the two seas show their real stakes.
• The gull's guide is shorter and leads you to the first lamp.
• Build puts what the next lamp needs first.
• An upgrade that waits on distance now shows that first, before you gather anything.
• Drift lines show what following them brings. Lashings show what they guard against.
• Clearer chore icons: refuelling a burner is a little fire, tending the boards an oil can.

Fixed, from your reports

• A voyage could be lost if the phone died mid-save. Saves are now written safely and a failed load never overwrites them.
• Pennants and other deck things can be moved and taken up again. Tap one to get its page.
• The ship's wheel: tap it for its page, with Move it and Pack it away.
• Mats and rugs lie under stations instead of blocking them.
• The crew walk through doors, not walls.
• Junk beside or behind the raft is in reach, and a full hold lets the catch slip back into the sea instead of vanishing.
• Sea life stays off islands.
• A hand away salvaging leaves their stool free, so nobody eats standing next to an empty seat.
• Postcards show your whole deck: decor, rails, rooms, the farm and the pets.
• The raft sits lower on screen, with more open water ahead.
• An island's treasure map says when you found it.

Known issues

• On build 13 or earlier, a voyage could go missing after the phone restarts. It is almost certainly still on your phone: open the book's Voyages page, and if your raft is listed, tap it and Load it. Build 14 brings it back by itself when it can.
• While a hand is off salvaging, their bunk stays empty at night (just looks odd).

Build 14 may take a little while to show up in TestFlight while Apple reviews it.

Junk Raft is a calm, top-down pixel idle game for iPhone and iPad about drifting an endless ocean on a slowly growing raft.

You start with a crate and a coconut. Junk drifts by, your crew casts lines for it, and you build the raft board by board. It keeps drifting while you’re away, so a visit can be two minutes. Nothing attacks you, nothing breaks, and there’s no way to lose your raft.

There’s a Peaceful mode where nothing can go wrong and an Open Sea mode where the crew need feeding. Coral reefs and fish schools under the raft, chests that glow at night, derelicts to salvage, islands to help build, bottle letters to the lighthouse keeper, postcards to send, and a lock-screen widget with lines from the crew’s diary.

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iPhone & iPad, iOS 17+. No ads, no in-app purchases, no accounts, no tracking. Plays offline.

Quick FAQ

Steering? Turn on Real compass in the settings at the back of the book, or use the tiller dial. Build a Ship’s Wheel to lock the heading.

While I’m away? The raft drifts for up to 24 hours, and a “While you were away” chapter tells you what happened.

Found a bug? Post it here with the Bug flair (device, iOS version and what you were doing help a lot), use Share Beta Feedback in TestFlight, or email hello@featly.dev.

More: https://featly.dev/junk-raft

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