Float Your Goat

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What is Float Your Goat?

Float Your Goat is a wacky physics puzzler where you engineer rafts—sometimes haphazardly—to float a goat and his friends across treacherous seas. In Float Your Goat, you use various materials to construct seaworthy vessels that keep your passengers dry, sane, and safely floating above the waves.

Float Your Goat combines realistic buoyancy physics with creative problem-solving challenges. The core mechanic in Float Your Goat requires placing raft pieces on a grid system, connecting points to build increasingly elaborate structures. Each level in Float Your Goat can be completed in countless ways, rewarding engineering creativity over rigid solutions.

The material system in Float Your Goat adds strategic depth to raft construction. Different materials in Float Your Goat feature unique properties that help battle environmental elements like waves, rain, and wind. Mastering the two fundamental materials in the demo prepares you for Float Your Goat's full version, which introduces ropes, braces, and locks for advanced engineering.

Environmental challenges define the puzzle complexity in Float Your Goat. Your goat passengers hate water in any form—even a single raindrop in Float Your Goat sends them jumping overboard in panic. Protecting them from the elements in Float Your Goat requires careful material selection and structural planning to ensure complete coverage and stability.

The demo version of Float Your Goat includes 12 unique handmade levels across Rocky Start, the first of four planned areas. Each level in Float Your Goat presents distinct engineering challenges that test your understanding of physics and material properties. Successfully navigating these puzzles in Float Your Goat proves your raft-building mastery.

Grid-based construction in Float Your Goat makes complex engineering accessible. Click on a starting grid point in Float Your Goat, then select a green endpoint to place your raft piece. This system in Float Your Goat allows precise structural control while maintaining intuitive drag-and-drop simplicity for experimenting with different configurations.

The undo and redo system in Float Your Goat encourages fearless experimentation. Made a mistake in Float Your Goat? Press Z to undo your last placement or X to redo. Need a complete restart? R resets Float Your Goat to the starting build, letting you approach the puzzle with fresh eyes and new strategies.

Float Your Goat Controls

Float Your Goat features mouse-driven controls optimized for precise raft engineering and easy navigation.

Action	Control
Move camera view	Click and drag on empty space
Zoom in	Scroll mouse wheel up
Zoom out	Scroll mouse wheel down
Start placing raft piece	Click on any grid point (turns orange)
Finish placing piece	Click on a green-highlighted valid endpoint
Cancel placement	Click on red-highlighted invalid point
Undo last action	Press Z key
Redo undone action	Press X key
Reset to starting build	Press R key
Select different material	Click on material icons in toolbar
Test raft design	Click play/start button to launch simulation
View level objectives	Check objective panel at top of screen

Float Your Goat keeps construction controls straightforward so you focus on engineering solutions. Click and drag to position your view in Float Your Goat, then scroll to zoom for detailed work or overview perspectives. Start raft pieces by clicking grid points in Float Your Goat, then complete placements by selecting green valid endpoints. Use Z/X for undo/redo in Float Your Goat to iterate quickly, or press R to completely reset and try fresh approaches to keeping your goat dry and floating.