How to deal with sharks – raft guide wiki

• If you’re full of HP, you’ll only be able to take four bites from a shark before it kills you.
• Inflicting three points of damage to the shark will cause it to drop any structures it could destroy or potentially stop incoming attacks.

• The shark is set to attack the raft every 5 minutes, but if you enter the water, the five-minute timer will be interrupted until you exit.
• After successfully killing the shark, it will reappear in the area after 3 minutes.

Distract Bruce with shark bait

Need to get in the water but scared to run into Bruce the shark? Well look no further than Shark Bait as the meaty distraction will allow you to explore underwater without any distractions for a short time.

With the ability to detect the bait up to 80 meters away, the shark can also detect when players are in water up to 30 meters away. With up to 1000 health points, you can expect the shark bait to last for the following duration.

• Game mode: easy and normal
  • Health: 800
  • Time: 1 minute and 5 seconds

• Game mode: difficult
  • Health: 1000
  • Time: 1 minute and 20 seconds

So if you are looking to create a Shark Bait distraction, you will need 2 strings, 2 raw herrings, and 1 raw pomfret.

It’s important to remember to time your dives, as the baits are only a temporary distraction and you don’t want to be caught off guard.

Alternatively, if you are playing with friends, you can always ask them to put their items away and distract the shark for you while you try to gather the resources from the undergrowth.

When it comes to diving it is important to remember that the shallow waters near the shore of the islands are always the most prepared Diving in the shallow waters near the shore as opposed to the deep, dark depths of the ocean .

How to successfully defeat raft sharks

If you are looking to kill the shark, especially underwater, there are a few techniques you will need to learn to attack the shark without taking damage.

To attack the shark without taking damage, you’ll want to swim towards it and attack it on the nose by opening its mouth. As you can imagine, this method is quite hit and miss until you have successfully mastered the timing.

Alternatively, you can kill sharks in a much slower but easier process than some might find rather tedious. As we explained in our Tips and tricks section above, sharks can smell players up to 30 yards away, so you’ll want to work to get the shark to the raft by jumping in and out of the water.

Once it’s close enough to the raft, you’ll want to keep jumping in and out of the water. Just when the shark is about to attack you, get back on the raft and quickly try to attack the shark with your spear or machete.

Here’s a full breakdown of how many hits each major weapon will need to do to kill the shark.