Plasma Rifle
Weapon · WeaponAssaultRifle3★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 8th of 70 assault rifles by attack, at 2,139 against the 15,000 of Charge Rifle.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 7,243,400 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Plasma Rifle Crafting Recipe
Paloxite Ingot×140
Bio Battery×87
AI Core×14
Ancient Civilization Core
Ancient Civilization Parts
Wood×3,670
Ore×1,504
Coal×678
Pure Quartz×560
Flame Organ×479
Crude Oil×420
Soralite×420
High Quality Pal Oil×280
Paloxite×280
Electric Organ×227
Sulfur×196
World Tree Holy Water×140
Chromite×56
Hexolite Quartz×56
Venom Gland×56Crafting it takes 262 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 1.1% 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 | 2046 | 50000 |
| 3★ | Plasma Rifle (this one) | 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 3 | 3★ | fishing in World Tree, World Tree fishing treasure spots, Treasure map digs (tier 5) +5 more — best 1.1% (grade 1/5/6) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Plasma Rifle at 2,232 attack; step down and it is Single-Shot Rifle at 2,090. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.
Other assault rifles at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
