Plasma Rifle
Weapon · WeaponAssaultRifle2★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 10th of 70 assault rifles by attack, at 2,046 against the 15,000 of Charge Rifle.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 6,209,440 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Plasma Rifle Crafting Recipe
Paloxite Ingot×120
Bio Battery×75
AI Core×12
Ancient Civilization Core
Ancient Civilization Parts
Wood×3,150
Ore×1,290
Coal×582
Pure Quartz×480
Flame Organ×411
Crude Oil×360
Soralite×360
High Quality Pal Oil×240
Paloxite×240
Electric Organ×195
Sulfur×168
World Tree Holy Water×120
Chromite×48
Hexolite Quartz×48
Venom Gland×48Crafting it takes 225 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 3.6% 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 | 1953 | 37500 |
| 2★ | Plasma Rifle (this one) | 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 2 | 2★ | fishing in World Tree, World Tree fishing treasure spots, Treasure map digs (tier 5) +5 more — best 3.6% (grade 1/5/6) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Single-Shot Rifle at 2,090 attack; step down and it is Musket at 2,000. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other assault rifles at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
