Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-26007341-20150408020240/@comment-24108228-20150416193102

No, here it's a replacement. Over there, it was an alternative.

Rafts are useless with this, as rafts are temporary, nobody sits there thinking "I want to be a godlike mithrilite ruling the server, sailing around at swimming pace on my raft o' doom.", and anyone with serious intentions of crossing the seas more than once will make a sailboat. If you only want to do it once, you would build a raft, or in this case, a wheat raft, because they're better. Wheat comes in patches of about 20, so you get enough for 7 trips, more than what you would ever need or want for early game travel. It's not an alternative, there's no reason to want the regular raft over this one, this one is cheaper, and this one requires identical skill levels (none).