Ship Builds

 This is a list of ship builds with their costs. These builds are not meant to be optimized builds, but ones that should be easily attainable from the previous one in progressing through the game. Feel free to skip buying ships, as this will likely save time. These builds are also ignoring alliance buffs.

Rider-Used

Build cost: 30, but given through tutorial

Rider

Build cost: 50 for ship, 60 for mods, 140 total

Transporter

Build cost: 150 for ship, 220 for mods, 460 total

Rocket

Build cost: 600 for ship, 320 for mods, 1230 total

Alien Seeker

Build cost: 1500 for ship, 0 for mods, 2130 total

Bus

Build cost: 3500 for ship, 2540 for mods, 6670 total

Capable of 480 damage in a single bullet. This ship will get you to 3 base damage with achievements.

Fighter

Build cost: 7000 for ship, 2100 for mods, 12270 total

With 3 base damage, you should start moving away from +1 damage mods now.

Family Cruiser

I don't recommend buying this ship. Two ejectors with 4.5 firerate is good at this point, but to make this ship worth it you'll have to farm enough mods to fill out both sides. The path splits right after the projectile generator, which means you'll either need duplicate mods or buy mods that you will likely not use later. It's also important to know that this ship is especially wide.

Build cost: 8000 for ship

Pirate Blade

Build cost: 11k for ship, 17000 for mods, 33270 total

With the 8000 you saved from not buying Family cruiser, you can instead buy your first AOE mod, which will help a LOT with farming. When firing at a wall of blocks, one circle AOE will hit 6 blocks.

Window

Same problem as with Family Cruiser. The path splits at the very beginning, which is not ideal.

Backsword

Build cost: 31k for ship, 73k for mods, 126k total

Great ship for farming. Two good options are available with this ship. The position of the ejectors makes bullets fire out of the sides of Backsword. You can either use the mod that redirects bullets forwards, or left and right curve mods. The curve mods are cheaper, but neither option costs very much. You should also buy a captain around this point.

Container Ship

Build cost: 79k for ship, 68k for mods, 163k total

Slow firerate, but incredibly powerful per shot compared to previous ships.

Prototype

Build cost: 500k for ship, 80k for mods, 664k total

High firerate with a decent number of mods make this ship have great DPS. It may take a few runs to afford this build. The ship itself is a big step up in price. I used Backsword on mission 28 and got over 100k per run.

Practice Launcher

Build cost: 1200k for ship, 0 for mods, 1364k total

Pretty similar to Prototype, but a little bigger and a little better.

Radio Seeker

Build cost: 2000k for ship, 0 for mods, 2164k total

Absolute beast of a ship for this point in the game. At 12.7, this ship has the fastest firerate in the game.

Scout

Build cost: 4000k for ship, 216k for mods, 4380k total

Relatively large ship for the price. This is a slow firing build, but it hits hard. Because of the space, it will cost a lot to optimize this ship past this build.

Eco Seeker

Build cost: 6000k for ship, 1245k for mods, 7625k total

Good balance of size, firerate, and number of ejectors.

Spaceshuttle

Build cost: 9m for ship, 4m for mods, 15m total

Lots of room for mods. If you haven't already, now is a good time to start buying a lot of 2X mods. Edit: found a better path that uses ejectors basically at full strength.

Army Launcher

Build cost: 18m for ship, 13m for mods, 37m total

Explorer

Build cost: 40m for ship, 11m for mods, 70m total

Great ship for farming, with a lot of space for mods. Not very useful for squeezing through maps, as ship is wide and ejectors are on sides. I put a mod on the strongest ejector to help with blocks directly ahead of ship.

Luxus-Class

Build cost: 90m for ship, 0 for mods, 120m total

Extractor

Build cost: 140m for ship, 5m for mods, 175m total

One of my personal favorites. Crazy high firerate with a decent amount of space and a load of ejectors. Probably one of the best ships for farming money.

Endprice

Build cost: 270m for ship, 240m for mods, 545m total

Really big. Long path gives crazy damage potential, but you'll have to buy a lot of mods to make this ship really good.

Eco Destroyer

Build cost: 480m for ship ??? total

Incredibly strong ship. You should farm for enough money to buy Captain Uranus somewhere around this point. Make sure to upgrade his ability as soon as you get him. Select him and complete mission 29 over and over to get absurd amounts of money. Using two projectile speed increase mods will make this go by much faster. Once mod costs hit 9223P, switch to Mars to buy more of that mod. You can also push pretty far in tiers with this ship, but it will likely be better to wait for the best ships. Unlocking the skills for the X2 mod will make a huge difference in your damage output.

Alien Destroyer

Build cost: 780m for ship, 210m for mods, 1265m total

Inferior to Eco Destroyer since the update to Eco Destroyer. I do not recommend using this build anymore.

Rocket Carrier

Build cost: 1600m for ship, 1000m for mods, 3085 total

Mothership

If you don't have legendary mods, you can substitute those for X2 mods. If you don't have enough X2 mods, just use some X10 mods to make up the difference.

Cargo Ship

This ship is honestly more fun that useful. With its size, it is pretty strong, but using all the ejectors is really fun to watch. If you don't have legendary mods, you can substitute those for X2 mods. If you don't have enough X2 mods, just use some X10 mods to make up the difference.

Dead Star

This is a really weird ship, because in my experience it's not as strong as Cargo Ship. This is more of a fun AOE build than one useful for pushing tiers. If you don't have legendary mods, you can substitute those for X2 mods. If you don't have enough X2 mods, just use some X10 mods to make up the difference.

Archmage

Archimage is no longer the best of the three ships that cost 500g. This build will still get you over tier 1000 with ease, but both of the other ships will be faster, Transmitter being the best. The combination of mods in this build destroys about 5-7 lanes of blocks, so you can either drill through stages or strafe to the side to clear everything. If you haven't unlocked legendary mods yet, just replace those with the 2X mods.

Eco Death

Ship updated--pending build.

Transmitter

Ship updated--pending build.