The Last Caretaker Sharks: The Best Way to Kill Them and Where They Are

Use an Electric Rifle on a cable. It unlocks at skill tier 14; plug its cable into your boat or a battery backpack and it never needs ammo, so you can kill several sharks in a row without reloading.

Hold the trigger until the shot is fully charged, then let go. A charged shot does more damage than a quick one.

Shoot the front of the head: the eyes, the snout and the gills. That part is flesh; the back is armor plate and shrugs shots off.

Three to four fully charged shots to the head kill a shark, and one into its open mouth as it charges can end it at once. Smoke pouring off the shark means it is nearly dead.

Fight from a dock or a wall, never from the water. Talon and Ram Sharks only hurt you while you swim, and they cannot damage a dock. The deck of your boat is second best: sharks ram the hull and now and then land on a low deck.

In the water you are also unarmed with the rifle: electric and flame weapons do not fire while you swim, only bolt weapons do.

A shark that notices you swims straight at you, so one shot from the edge brings it in close, where the head is an easy target.

Without the Electric Rifle, bolt weapons kill sharks too: the Bolt Rifle, best with Rifle Slam rounds, the Bolt Sniper and the Bolt Pistol.

Bullets cost far more per shark: about five Bolt Rifle magazines or seven Bolt Pistol magazines each.

There are three kinds. The Talon Shark is the standard one. The Ram Shark is smaller and much faster. The Talon Shark – Dorsal Model, which players call the Laser Shark, is the biggest and carries a laser turret on its back.

Ram Sharks and Laser Sharks joined the Talon Shark in Update 3, on March 18, 2026.

Tell them apart by the fins: a Talon Shark’s four back fins glow yellow, a Laser Shark’s glow orange. A Talon Shark bites for 75 damage and a Ram Shark for 25, and Ram Sharks hunt in packs of two to four.

The Laser Shark is the only one that can hurt you on land. It keeps its distance and burns you with a heat beam; step behind a wall and it loses you.

The beam does about 15 damage a second and follows you, scorching whatever you hide behind. Fight a Laser Shark from a dock or a wall with cover, not from a deck full of equipment: step out, land a charged shot, step back.

Sharks go for your boat as well as for you, and since Update 5.5 one can lunge at the boat at night and damage it.

Sharks guard the Courier Sieve Node Facility (169, -2), the Lazarus Complex (69, -2), Platform Omega (90, 6), Black Vein Station (49, -70) and York Grave (85, -75).

The game data puts 27 sharks at 19 places: 15 Ram Sharks, 7 Laser Sharks and 5 Talon Sharks. The Courier Sieve Node Facility (169, -2), the Lazarus Complex (69, -2) and Habitat Node 09-4 (82, 17) have three each. The table lists every place with its map coordinates.

More sharks roam open water, and several can close in on your boat at once.

A shark that guards a place circles it loosely, so sail in while it is on the far side of its circle and stay off the water once you land.

Platform Omega is a good hunting ground: its walls let you shoot down at the Ram Sharks without touching the water.

Yes. Sharks come back after you kill them, which makes them one of the few things you can farm again and again.

Update 5 in June 2026 raised the number of sharks, the old kind as well as the new ones. The Lazarus Complex dock and Black Vein Station can hold several at a time; killing a few thins them out for a while.

Stand on the carcass with the Dismantle Tool and shift your feet as it rolls. If the waves keep throwing you off, dive 3 to 5 m under it and work from below, where the water is still.

Most of the loot does not go into your inventory: it flies off and sinks, so swim around and under the carcass and pick it up before you leave.

One Talon Shark gave 4 High-Tech Scraps, 6 Tech Scraps, 6 Aluminium Scraps, 5 Metal Scraps, 4 Copper Scraps, 4 Wire Scraps, 4 Broken Glass, 8 Bio Flesh and 1 Ultra-Tech Scrap.

Every Talon Shark gives Bio Flesh and Ultra-Tech Scraps; the other scraps come only some of the time.

Three things. The High-Tech Scraps recycle into Titanium and Carbon Fiber. The Bio Flesh goes into Mitochondrial Amplifier for the best human meals. And the Omega Nursery quest wants shark carcasses towed into its bays.

Dead sharks lie at a few places and come apart like a fresh kill: Dover Grave (136, 35), in the base of the toppled skyscraper; Norfolk Grave (59, -41), inside the building; Salem Grave (108, 54), among the structures around it; Helios Reserve Lyra (120, 28), on the south balcony.