Last verified against the Roblox API: August 17, 2026
Raft 101 Survival Beginner's Guide – All 13 Classes, Coin Costs & How to Reach Day 101
Exact coin prices and level 1–3 perks for all 13 Raft 101 Survival classes, the day-one opening that keeps your fireplace alive, how the four totems and story chapters really work, and the game's three real game passes with prices. Every number was checked on August 17, 2026.
Table of Contents
- Survive your first night: the day-one opening
- Pick a class you can actually afford (all 13 costs)
- Farm Coins and shells fast
- Build a raft that lasts past day 50
- Beat every named threat, from sharks to the Trident King
- Hold your 4 totems and clear story chapters 1–4
- Decide whether the 3 game passes are worth it
- More Raft 101 Survival
- Frequently asked questions
Raft 101 Survival (placeId 74256669508761) is a survival experience by The Experimental Games, the verified Roblox group run by DevHouseUK, with 142,889 members on August 17, 2026. It launched on September 7, 2025 and has taken 251,753,376 visits and 259,393 favourites, at an 89.1% approval rating (54,339 likes to 6,673 dislikes). There were 4,694 people playing at the time of writing on August 17, 2026; Roblox concurrents swing roughly two-fold between daily trough and peak, so treat that as a snapshot, not a ceiling.
One correction up front, because the web repeats it constantly: servers hold 25 players, not four. The games API reports maxPlayers 25 for this universe, and a sample of 19 live public servers on August 17, 2026 found five completely full at 25/25. There is also a badge called "101 Days With 5 People", impossible in a four-slot lobby. Private servers are disabled, so every run is public.
Survive your first night: the day-one opening
Your run opens with a cutscene of a plane crash that dumps you on a bare wooden platform in open ocean. From the moment you get control, the only clock that matters is the fireplace fuel bar.
- Drag every floating wooden piece to the fireplace until the fuel bar reads 100%. Nothing else in the first minute matters as much.
- Check what your class starter item gave you — Survivor gets soup, Scavenger 10 seashells, Medic a medkit.
- Build a Lookout Mast first; it extends your view so you spot threats and islands early.
- Expand the raft before adding furniture. The "Crafter" badge asks a team for 50 raft pieces in one game and only 436,257 players have managed it.
- Kill the first shark that circles you. 12,885,287 players hold "Eliminate A Shark", but only 381,314 have killed 10 in one game — sharks are attrition, not an event.
What day count is actually good?
Badge award counts are the honest yardstick, all read August 17, 2026:
| Milestone | Players who have done it | Share of all players |
|---|---|---|
| Survived 5 Days | 35,359,177 | 42.4% |
| Survived 25 Days | 7,166,282 | 8.6% |
| Survived 50 Days | 3,796,848 | 4.6% |
| Survived 101 Days | 1,829,477 | 2.2% |
| Survived 200 Days | 493,726 | 0.6% |
| Survived 500 Days | 70,185 | 0.08% |
| Survived 1000 Days | 12,582 | 0.02% |
Hard variants are rarer still: "101 Days No Revives" 1,187,869, "101 Days No Touching Water" 9,059, and the Hardcore Mode 101-day clear just 2,343.
Pick a class you can actually afford (all 13 costs)
Classes are bought with Coins in the lobby and give a starter item plus three perk levels. Pro Game Guides' class tier list (January 24, 2026) lists thirteen. Classes level up by completing story chapters with that class equipped, so levels 2 and 3 are not automatic.
| Class | Cost | Starter item | Level 1 / 2 / 3 perks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Survivor | 15 Coins | Soup | −10% hunger / speed boost when damaged (10s CD) / CD halved to 5s |
| Decorator | 30 Coins | Raft Hammer | Buy furniture anywhere / furniture half price / 25 starting shells |
| Lumberjack | 60 Coins | Good Axe | +20% log drops / raft trees grow 2x faster / tactical axe |
| Defender | 65 Coins | Wooden Chest Plate | Wooden spikes, raft items +25% HP / 2x barbed wire / totem takes 2s longer to steal |
| Carpenter | 100 Coins | Raft Hammer | Start at crafting bench 2 / extra resource chance / crafting −20% cost |
| Scavenger | 140 Coins | 10x Seashells | +2 sack space / 50% double-shell chance / 20% chance of two chest items |
| Sailor | 150 Coins | Anchor | +10 raft speed / flintlock / sail |
| Medic | 225 Coins | Medkit | Medkit heals 100% HP / 5 HP regen per 10s / revive teammates with no medkit |
| Electrician | 275 Coins | Solar Panel | Charge 2 batteries at once / 125% battery capacity / 2x charge speed |
| Pirate | 400 Coins | Flintlock | +20% coin chance in chests / Cannon / Cutlass |
| Arctic Warrior | 500 Coins | Ice Spear | −20% hunger / Corroded Chest Plate / Snowball Launcher |
| Ghost Pirate | 675 Coins | Flintlock | Flintlock adds toxic damage / +50% fire rate / Ghost Scythe |
| Scientist | 1,500 Coins | Scientist Blaster | +20% blaster damage / −30% cooldown / Scientist Chest Plate |
Which class to buy in what order
Buy Scavenger (140) first — the +2 sack space and 20% double-item chest roll compound into every later purchase. Take Pirate (400) second: its +20% coin chance in chests is the only perk that directly speeds up your next class purchase, and it hands you a Cannon at level 2. Save Scientist (1,500) for last; it is the strongest combat class but buys you nothing on the way there. In a group, one Medic (225) is worth more than a second damage class.
Farm Coins and shells fast
Two currencies matter. Coins unlock classes in the lobby. Shells are the in-run currency spent at furniture shops — Decorator starts with 25 and halves furniture prices, and Scavenger's level 2 perk gives a 50% chance for a shell pickup to pay double.
The fastest Coin routes are chest-driven, not day-count-driven. That is why Pirate's level 1 perk exists, and the "Treasure Hunter" badge — open 25 chests in a single game — has only 278,502 holders, so most players leave chest loot behind. Run Scavenger or Pirate, prioritise island landings over drifting, and clear every chest before sailing on.
Longer runs also pay. "Night Owl" (one hour in a single game) has 2,622,165 holders; "Dedicated" (100 hours total) has only 2,688. One clean 60-minute session beats four aborted ten-minute ones.
Build a raft that lasts past day 50
The raft is a platform, a workshop and a vehicle at once, and each of those needs different structures.
Speed. Sailor gives +10 raft speed at level 1 and a sail at level 3. The badge for reaching 100 raft speed is held by just 3,668 players — the rarest non-hardcore badge in the game. Speed is what gets you to islands before your food runs out.
Crafting. Carpenter starts you at crafting bench 2 instead of bench 1 and cuts crafting costs 20% at level 3. Over a long run that discount compounds harder than any single weapon.
Defence. Wooden spikes and barbed wire come from Defender, which also raises raft item health 25%; Metal Spiked Fences are bought at furniture shops, which is why Decorator's "buy furniture anywhere" perk is more than cosmetic.
Power. Late-run structures need electricity. Electrician's solar panels charge two batteries at once and, at level 3, charge twice as fast — in a 25-player server one player can specialise into this alone.
Beat every named threat, from sharks to the Trident King
The hostile roster is confirmed by the game's own badge list, and the award counts tell you roughly how common each encounter is:
- Sharks — the constant. 12,885,287 first kills; 381,314 have killed 10 in one game.
- Bears — 1,962,059 kills, an island threat rather than an ocean one.
- Mammoths — 689,391 kills, well behind bears in how often players meet them.
- The Ghost Ship — 1,801,448 players have sunk it; badge added January 7, 2026.
- The Trident King — the named boss, added February 14, 2026, with 581,043 defeats. Bring a Scientist Blaster or a Ghost Pirate flintlock.
- The UFO — an alien attack update landed March 21, 2026; 71,265 players have captured it.
Cannons are a real weapon system: 1,285,156 players hold "Get A Cannon Elimination", and Pirate hands you one at level 2. Gameplay footage from Andy Plays and The MistCrew also shows a giant kraken encounter, matching the game's octopus icon — it has no badge, so we cannot put a completion rate on it.
Hold your 4 totems and clear story chapters 1–4
There are four totems in a run, and they can be taken from you as well as collected — Defender's level 3 perk is literally "totem takes 2 seconds longer to steal", which only makes sense in a contested 25-player lobby. 1,930,707 players hold "Steal All 4 Totems", added December 10, 2025.
Story Mode is the progression track that levels your class. It has four chapters, released over three months:
| Chapter | Badge added | Players who finished it |
|---|---|---|
| Chapter 1 | December 31, 2025 | 646,629 |
| Chapter 2 | January 17, 2026 | 27,287 |
| Chapter 3 | February 7, 2026 | 18,849 |
| Chapter 4 | March 13, 2026 | 7,420 |
Decide whether the 3 game passes are worth it
Raft 101 Survival has exactly three game passes, all created December 13, 2025 and all still on sale as of August 17, 2026, pulled from the Roblox game-pass API (control-tested first against a game with a known pass list, so an empty response could not be misread as "no passes").
| Game pass | Price | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| +5 Sack Space | 89 Robux | Five extra inventory slots, on top of Scavenger's +2 |
| Sprint 20% faster! | 99 Robux | Permanent 20% sprint speed |
| Reduced Hunger (100% slower) | 149 Robux | Hunger drains at half rate |
If you buy one, make it Reduced Hunger at 149 Robux — hunger is the timer that ends most mid-game runs, and it layers on top of Arctic Warrior's 20% hunger reduction. There are no other passes; anything else you have seen listed for this game does not exist on the store.
What about codes?
Raft 101 Survival had no working codes when we last checked. We track code status on the Raft 101 Survival codes page, re-verified on every sweep — check there rather than trusting a cached list.
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More Raft 101 Survival
- Raft 101 Survival hub — live player counts, the current update and every guide we have.
- Raft 101 Survival codes — code status, re-checked on every sweep.
- Raft 101 Survival vs Fisch — which ocean game suits you.
If you like this genre
The store description names its inspirations: 99 Nights in the Forest and Dead Rails, the same loop on land. Fisch suits you if you would rather fish than fight, Build a Boat for Treasure is the pure building sandbox, and Survive on a Raft and Raft Tycoon are separate same-theme games with their own codes and classes — do not carry advice between them.
Frequently asked questions
Servers hold up to 25 players. The Roblox games API reports maxPlayers 25 for this universe, and a sample of 19 live public servers on August 17, 2026 found five completely full at 25/25. Private servers are disabled, so you cannot lock a lobby to just your friends.
Scientist at 1,500 Coins — it starts you with the Scientist Blaster, adds 20% blaster damage, cuts the cooldown 30% at level 2 and grants the Scientist Chest Plate at level 3. The best cheap pick is Scavenger at 140 Coins: +2 sack space, a 50% double-shell chance and a 20% chance of two items per chest.
No working codes were live as of August 17, 2026. We keep the status on the Raft 101 Survival codes page and re-verify it on every sweep, so check there before trusting any list elsewhere.
Sources
Live figures from the Roblox games, votes, badges, servers and game-pass APIs for universe 8662243497 / placeId 74256669508761, read August 17, 2026. Class costs and perks from Pro Game Guides' Raft 101 Survival class tier list (January 24, 2026); day-one sequence corroborated by Deltia's Gaming; developer details from the Roblox Wiki. The invite discord.gg/Dq4UvNHbCR resolved live to a server named "The Experimental Games", 2,283 members, on August 17, 2026.