Plasma Rifle
Weapon · WeaponAssaultRifle1★Each hit from this rifle sets off an electrical discharge at the impact point, and the current jumps on to several more enemies.
Plasma Rifle is 12th of 70 assault rifles by attack, at 1,953 against the 15,000 of Charge Rifle.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 5,172,790 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Plasma Rifle Crafting Recipe
Paloxite Ingot×100
Bio Battery×62
AI Core×10
Ancient Civilization Core
Ancient Civilization Parts
Wood×2,620
Ore×1,074
Coal×484
Pure Quartz×400
Flame Organ×342
Crude Oil×300
Soralite×300
High Quality Pal Oil×200
Paloxite×200
Electric Organ×162
Sulfur×140
World Tree Holy Water×100
Chromite×40
Hexolite Quartz×40
Venom Gland×40Crafting it takes 187 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Plasma Rifle
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is fishing in the World Tree at 7.9% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Plasma Rifle
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 1860 to 2232, a 1.2x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
| Rarity | Item | Attack | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Plasma Rifle | 1860 | 25000 |
| 1★ | Plasma Rifle (this one) | 1953 | 37500 |
| 2★ | Plasma Rifle | 2046 | 50000 |
| 3★ | Plasma Rifle | 2139 | 75000 |
| 4★ | Plasma Rifle | 2232 | 100000 |
Ammunition Plasma Rifle Uses
Plasma Rifle fires Plasma Rifle Ammo, and nothing else — running dry mid-fight is the usual way this weapon lets you down, so keep the recipe unlocked before you rely on it.
| Ammo | Yield | Craft cost |
|---|---|---|
 Plasma Rifle Ammo | ×20 | Bio Battery ×1, Paloxite Ingot ×3, Soralite Ingot ×2 |
Schematics That Unlock Plasma Rifle
The Technology tree hands you the plain Plasma Rifle at level 78 for 5 Technology points, but nothing above that base version — the rarer builds are schematic-only. One schematic grants the recipe, and they are world loot — chests, boss Pals and the late-game pools — rather than anything you research. Higher-rarity copies of the same schematic raise the quality of what you end up crafting.
Fastest route. The fastest route is fishing in the World Tree, and the reason is the ladder rather than the top rung: that pool stocks every tier, so the common copies it hands you fuse upward into the one you want. Counting them, a top-tier Plasma Rifle schematic works out at roughly 125 containers against the 275 the 4★ drop rate alone suggests. Spare low tiers are progress, not clutter. Schematics fuse five-to-one, so a lower tier with better odds can beat the top tier outright. Counts are containers of that source, not time.
| Schematic | Rarity | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
 Plasma Rifle Schematic 1 | 1★ | fishing in World Tree, World Tree fishing treasure spots, Recycling Glistening Ancient Relics +4 more — best 7.9% (grade 1/5/6) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Musket at 2,000 attack; step down and it is Heavy Assault Rifle at 1,938. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.
Other assault rifles at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
