Wooden Raft

Wooden Raft
Category	Fishing tool
Effect	Lets you walk onto open water at The Shores and The Sunken Isles, and fish The Deep
Cost / Recipe
How to get	Dockhand Maren (The Shores) — 200 Gold

Wooden Raft is a 1×1 raft with a little sail, sold by Dockhand Maren at The Shores for 200 Gold. Carrying one lets you walk onto the ocean — click the water and you step aboard, opening up The Deep, the pocket of water that no cast from the sand or the dock can reach. It is also the only way to reach The Sunken Isles, the open sea past the far east edge of The Shores' ocean.

It's an item, not a mount: Wooden Raft lives in your backpack. It can be traded, banked, and taken off your corpse — that's what makes 200 Gold a real price instead of a formality. It must be in your inventory (not your bank) to use it.

How to get

Source	Price	Notes
Dockhand Maren	200 Gold	Sold at her dock, The Shores.

How it works

• Click open water at The Shores or The Sunken Isles while carrying a raft to board it.
• Holding a rod and clicking a live fishing spot that is too far to cast to paddles you over instead of refusing the click — you are told "Too far to cast — paddling over."
• Boarding dismounts you, and you cannot mount while afloat.
• It's the only way to fish The Deep — the Swordfish water, and the only casts that can bring up an Orca Mount, a Lanternfish, a Waterlogged Crate, a Sunken Treasure Map or Silver Ore.
• It's also the only way to reach The Sunken Isles: sail onto the two water tiles marked with arrows between a pair of lantern posts on the far east edge of The Shores' ocean, just north of The Deep. The same two rows on the sea's west edge bring you back.
• At The Sunken Isles the raft has to stay in your backpack or hotbar: without one you're ferried straight back to the end of The Shores' dock ("No raft: you are ferried back to The Shores."). A shark death there destroys it along with everything else you carry.
• If you lose the raft while afloat at The Shores, you wash up on the sand rather than being stranded.

Where it works

Water	Works?	Why
The Shores	Yes	The ocean it's sold for, The Deep included.
The Sunken Isles	Yes	The open sea past The Shores — the raft is the only way there, and it has to stay in your bag.
The Pond	No	Fishable end-to-end from the bank already — no need.
Whisperwood	No	Fishable end-to-end from the bank already — no need.
Emberstone lava	No	Nothing wooden floats on lava.

Related pages

Page	Why it matters
Dockhand Maren	Only source of the Wooden Raft.
The Shores	One of the two waters the raft works on.
The Sunken Isles	The other one — reachable only by raft.
The Deep	Raft-only water — the Swordfish ground.
Fishing	Skill the raft supports.
Marketplace	Raft is fully tradeable.