Custom Ships/Waves

In order to unlock custom ships and play waves mode, you'll have to reach tier 400 first. If you haven't done that yet, I recommend looking at my ship builds guide first. If you are a visual learner and need help starting to build a custom ship, scroll to the bottom.


Once you reach tier 400, you'll be able to start playing waves mode, which is just right of tiers mode. You also unlock custom ships at tier 400. If you go back to where you normally mod ships, there is another red button towards the bottom right of the screen. After pressing that, you are taken to a screen where you can place custom ship chunks, which are purchased in the fourth tab of the shop. Press the red button in the top left of your custom ship to switch between modding your custom ship and classic ships. This button also changes which ship you'll use in missions and tiers, but not waves. Only custom ships can be used in waves.


You start waves mode with one ejector chunk, but guess what?! We aren't even gonna use it right now. Go straight into waves mode, hit fly, and wait till time runs out. Congratulations! You just got your first RC, which is the currency used to purchase new ship chunks. Starting out, this is the best method to farm RC. Your first chunk only costs 1 RC, but with that small of a ship you most likely won't be able to push far enough to make the trip worth it. Keep spamming wave 1 until you get a couple chunks.


When buying your first chunks, pay special attention to the shape of the chunk. An ability that increases your time limit by 30% might sound really good, but you can't even use it if it's your first chunk.


After buying a few chunks, you'll reach a point where you can get several RC if you actually play tiers mode. At this point, it'll still be faster to farm RC by failing wave 1 over and over, but I prefer to let the game play itself so I can do other things. Regardless of your ship build, putting your ship at the bottom right or bottom left of the screen is a good way to ensure your ship will hit all blocks by itself.


Starting a custom ship:























































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