SharkBite 2 Boat Builder

Boat Builder is SharkBite 2’s long-term sandbox. You pick a hull, snap on turrets, hang signs, and paint the thing until it looks like a theme-park ride or a war crime. It is not automatically stronger than a shop Wildfire. It is stronger when you respect slots and the turret equation.

If you still need a first shop boat, read getting started and the boat catalog. Come here when you own a hull and want it to shoot back.

Hulls and what they actually give you

Builder hulls are a short list compared with the shop:

• Ocean Roamer — free, 95 SPS, one small turret, one defense. Tutorial hull.
• Pirate Ship — 2,000, room for three small and one medium, two defenses. Slow-ish but a real gun deck.
• Hovercraft — 3,500, 130 SPS, tiny, amazing agility, one small turret. A jet ski with a pep gun.
• Sport Yacht — 9,000, mixed turret sizes including a large, no defenses.
• Deluxe Yacht — 14,000, four-deck party that recent updates stuffed with new assets.
• Speed Boat — 14,000, 145 SPS, small/medium mix, one defense.
• Odyssey Submarine — 19,000, 120 SPS, stealth vibes, poor agility.
• Frigate Warship — 32,000, 130 SPS, four defenses, the most turret hardpoints, terrible turning.

Speed numbers sit next to shop boats on boat compare. A Hovercraft that lives will farm more Teeth than a Frigate that beaches on the first island.

Codes such as 200K and 300K drop hull skins and fins. They do not drop a Frigate. Redeem them from the Codes Hub and equip the cosmetic on whatever hull you already drive.

Turret slots versus ego

Small, medium, and large slots are not interchangeable. A Large Laser Turret (12,000) in a large slot is a different weapon from a Single Turret (1,500) in a small slot. Check the weapons catalog for DPS, then remember the turret equation: most turrets lose per-gun damage as you add more guns. Two good cannons often out-DPS six peashooters after scaling.

Turrets that ignore the equation (Pirate Cannon, some event launchers, Snowman) are the ones you stack if you own them. Everything else wants restraint. Frigate players who fill every hardpoint with Single Turrets create a firework show and a dead shark-health bar that barely moves.

Defenses and the rest of the kit

Defense slots hold armor-like pieces and utility. Empty defense slots on a yacht mean the first ram folds you. Hovercraft players accept that trade for agility. Frigate players should not.

Assets — swings, trampolines, neon, duck fins — are weightless for fun and deadly for camera. Do not build a playground that blocks your gunner’s first-person view. Invite rules from how to survive still apply: one driver, one gunner, no circus.

When to stay in the shop instead

Shop boats such as Wildfire, Marlin, SAS Boat, and Military Submarine have baked-in handling and sometimes unique turrets (torpedoes, grapple, rockets). A mid builder who has not paid the turret tax will lose to those hulls. Use the boat tier list as a reality check. Builder is for identity and for the Frigate-scale projects. Shop is for winning this evening.

If your goal is Teeth, a cheap shop jet ski plus Thompson still beats a half-finished Deluxe Yacht. The Teeth guide is blunt about that.

A simple build path

1. Ocean Roamer + Single Turret. Learn placement and recoil.
2. Hovercraft + one accurate small gun. Learn to stay alive while the turret ticks.
3. Pirate Ship or Speed Boat + one equation-immune cannon if you own it.
4. Frigate only after you can turn without kissing every island on the maps page.

Save often. Test in Standard, not in the editor’s imagination. If the shark treats you like a dock, strip decorations and restore agility.

Patch notes that add hulls or assets land on the changelog. Deluxe Yacht’s extra decks and new party assets were that kind of drop — fun first, meta second.