Plasma Cannon

Details

At 50 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 1,801,220 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Plasma Cannon Crafting Recipe

Plasteel×225

Hexolite×195

Thermal Core×6

Computer×12

Ancient Civilization Parts×6

What it really costs, once every sub-recipe is expanded

Ore×1,353Crude Oil×522Wood×480Chromite×207Hexolite Quartz×207Coal×96Flame Organ×72High Quality Pal Oil×48Pure Quartz×48Sulfur×36Electric Organ×24Venom Gland×12Ancient Civilization Parts×6

Crafting it takes 444 materials across 5 types.

Where to Find Plasma Cannon

The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is crates on the large oil rig at 14.8% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Plasma Cannon

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 10000 to 13000, a 1.3x 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.

Ammunition Plasma Cannon Uses

Plasma Cannon fires Plasma Cartridge, 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 Cartridge	×10	Thermal Core ×1, Hexolite ×2

Schematics That Unlock Plasma Cannon

The Technology tree hands you the plain Plasma Cannon at level 61 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 crates on the large oil rig, 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 Cannon schematic works out at roughly 27 containers against the 33 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 Cannon Schematic 2	2★	Crates on the large oil rig — best 14.8% (grade 5)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Rocket Launcher at 12,000 attack; step down and it is Plasma Cannon at 11,000. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.

Rocket Launcher12000Plasma Cannon11000

Other rocket launchers at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:

Rocket LauncherMulti Guided Missile LauncherGuided Missile LauncherRocket LauncherPlasma CannonPlasma CannonGrenade LauncherTactical Grenade LauncherHoming Sphere LauncherMulti Guided Missile LauncherRocket LauncherMulti Guided Missile Launcher