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The Build and Defend Your Raft shop — Starter Pack contents, wood and metal bundle prices in Robux, the September 6 Tier III defense entries, and the code box.

Build and Defend Your Raft Wiki Editors Updated September 6, 2026
Build and Defend Your Raft — Shop & Robux Guide gameplay

Build and Defend Your Raft sells no gamepasses — its entire Robux store is resource bundles plus a code redemption box. Prices below were verified in-game shortly after launch; the dev patches weekly, so treat this page as a snapshot (updated September 6, 2026).

The current shop inventory

Item Price Contents Worth it?
Starter Pack ~18 Robux 50 wood + 50 iron The only bundle the community calls cheap — it roughly doubles a new player’s starting materials for pocket change
150 Wood 90 Robux 150 wood Poor value; the same 90 Robux buys five Starter Packs’ worth of wood elsewhere. One streamer’s verdict: “what a value deal” — sarcastically
50 Metal Price not shown at capture 50 metal situational — metal is the real bottleneck for cannons, so this bundle is the only “skip the grind” button that matters

September 6 store additions

The biggest update yet touched the store too:

  • Tier III Mortar and Tesla Coil are now sold alongside the resource bundles — the new defenses from the September 6 patch have their top tier behind Robux from day one, while lower tiers upgrade through the Hammer in game.
  • Pirate Sword and Pirate Gun joined the game’s weapon pool the same day (the leaked runed greatsword shipped as the Pirate Sword). The patch notes don’t spell out their unlock path, so treat the store, Blueprints and shark drops as the places to check first.

Reading the store correctly

  • Wood is the easy resource — nets, islands and patience print it. Never buy wood at premium bundle prices.
  • Metal is the hard resource — barrels are the only passive source and the raft weapons upgrade eats 110 at a time. If you ever buy anything, it’s metal, right before a big cannon push.
  • Gold is not sold — consistent with the dev calling it “for something in the future.” If a gold bundle appears in the shop, that’s your heads-up that a gold update is close.

Video walkthrough — Giga Dash buys the Starter Pack on camera and reacts to the 150-wood bundle price in real time — the exact inventory covered above.

The code redemption box

The Shop is where promo codes land: open the Shop, find the redeem box, and type the code exactly. The first code ever — BIGBITE (50 wood + 50 metal) — arrived with the September 6 content update, posted verbatim in the official Discord #codes channel. Codes are re-checked after every Saturday patch; see the codes page for the live list.

Is the Starter Pack pay-to-win?

No — and the reason is structural. Everything the shop sells can be farmed in minutes once raft upgrades and nets are running. What Robux actually buys is the first hour: skipping the slowest stretch of the early game. After that, a raft with three crew members and three nets out-earns any bundle in the store.