Where To Find Titanium Ore In Raft

Titanium is the final tier of material in Raft, being used for all of the best end-game tools, electronics and crafting stations. It is also one of the hardest materials to gather, and some players will even complete the game without ever finding it. Rather than appearing naturally in the world you need to find hidden caches from other survivors.

Titanium equipment allows you to automate tasks like water purification, smelting and cooking as well as creating the engine controls and advanced anchor. Gathering a good amount of the material will save you a lot of time as you make the final trek to Utopia.

Titanium doesn’t appear in mining nodes the same way as copper and metal. In order to start gathering it, you’ll need a metal detector, using blueprints from deep beneath Caravan Island. You’ll want to make some preparations before beginning:

• You will need Flippers and an Oxygen Tank. If they’re not at full durability, you’ll want to bring a second just in case.
• There will be some pufferfish enemies, so a Bow is useful to defeat them at range. With practise, you can kill them with a spear.
• All unneeded equipment you’ll want to stash on your boat. If you are defeated in the deep water, it’s very difficult to retrieve your lost items or for another player to drag you out.

From the lowlands in the middle of the island, you’ll find a Bicycle hooked up to an improvised Air Pump. Follow the tube of the Air Pump down into the water. You know you’re in the right place as there will be a hint to explore the waters by one of the audio logs by Detto; they attempted to explore the ruins below the island using the air pump and an improvised diving suit.

When your oxygen levels are low, you can
recover in some of the shipping containers that act as diving bells
, containing pockets of air. There will be visible bubbles leaking from the containers with air.

When you reach the deepest part of the ocean, you’ll encounter a shipping container with the blueprints for the Metal Detector. It is cheap to craft, using some plastic, scrap metal and a Tier One Battery.

The Metal Detector is your key to getting Titanium. When using it on a large or small island, the lights will indicate the proximity but not the direction of the nearest metal deposit. Small islands have a single deposit, while larger ones can have as many as three.

Alongside the Metal Detector, you’ll also need a Shovel. The agricultural area of Utopia has spare shovels sitting about, or you can craft your own.

You’ll want to test a few different locations intermittently rather than using the detector continuously.

The battery cannot be recharged,
and you will instead need to replace the entire device when it is exhausted. Once you’ve narrowed the area to the final three green dots you can use the detector more frequently to find the exact spot.

Digging in the indicated spot will give you one of several possible rewards.

On average, about half of all deposits will be suitcases and safes containing titanium, but the Ore does not appear until you’ve used the detector with a full row of lights. Digging in the correct spot will not give you any rewards until you’ve used the metal detector to spawn it. It’ll give a special chime when this happens.

The Titanium Ore you’ve obtained can be cooked in the Smelter the same way as Copper and generic Metal, but takes nearly twice as long.

If you are trying to extract titanium from ore in real life, you will
not be able to do so using Coal or Wood-burning Furnaces
(Titanium is too reactive to be reduced by carbon). Thankfully Raft does not require you to use reduction with magnesium.

Other Ways To Get Titanium Ore

Titanium ore can also be found in other ways, with varying levels of consistency.

The residential areas of Tangaroa

contain loot containers with Titanium as a potential reward. They
look identical to the safes and briefcases
found with the Metal Detector. You’ll want to carry a Machete when exploring the arcology, as most of these loot containers are behind blocked doors that must be cut through.

The fastest way to gather Titanium is through the trading post. Once you’ve reached maximum reputation, you can purchase up to 15 titanium from each post. A stack of three ore is sold for three Trash Cubes and one Trade Coin.

Trade coins and reputation points are collected by
using the special fishing baits sold by the trading post
and selling back the fish.

By the time you’ve reached this point in the game, you likely have an overwhelming surplus of Wood and Palm Leaves that you can convert into Trash Cubes. Alternatively, a decently sized tree farm (five or six palm trees) on your raft is able to continuously produce enough cubes to buy out the Titanium supplies of most trading posts you pass through.

What Is Titanium Used For?

Titanium is used for most of the end-game upgrades to your equipment and raft. Most notably, automated upgrades such as the Electric Water Purifier, Smelter and Grill. The final tier of storage upgrades also use Titanium, letting you store copious amounts of Water, material and fuel.

When your Titanium supplies are limited you’ll want to be careful what you spend it on. Here’s a recommended list of priorities for conserving your supplies:

Titanium can be used for producing wielded and worn equipment, but the recipes for titanium tools are found at the end of Utopia when you’ve completed all the story content of the game.