
When attacking, sharks will swim towards targets in an attempt to make contact with them mako sharks can swim twice as fast as most other sharks, which swim slightly slower than a fast-swimming player. Bull sharks, great white sharks, and mako sharks will attack the player when they are at 6.5 hearts (13 HP).Blue sharks, Greenland sharks, great hammerhead sharks, and goblin sharks will attack the player when they are at 4 hearts (8 HP).

Oceanic whitetip sharks will attack the player when they are at 8 hearts (16 HP).Tiger sharks will attack the player when they are at 5 hearts (10 HP).The amount of health at which sharks will attack without provocation varies within variants: Sharks will usually not attack players at first, and, when undisturbed, will swim around aimlessly in a similar manner to fish however, if a player provokes them or is at a certain amount of health, they will attack. Sharks come in 9 different variants: a light grey, brown-striped variant (based on the tiger shark), an olive-grey variant with white fin tips (based on the oceanic whitetip shark), a blue variant (based on the blue shark), a grey variant (based on the bull shark), a brown-grey, purple-eyed, short-finned variant (based on the Greenland shark), a reddish-brown, flat-headed variant (based on the great hammerhead shark), a pale grey variant with a long nose and tail fin (based on the goblin shark), a dark grey variant (based on the great white shark), and a dark blue variant with white fins (based on the mako shark).
