Plasma Cannon

Details

At 50 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 2,098,120 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Plasma Cannon Crafting Recipe

Plasteel×262

Hexolite×227

Thermal Core×7

Computer×14

Ancient Civilization Parts×7

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

Ore×1,576Crude Oil×608Wood×560Chromite×241Hexolite Quartz×241Coal×112Flame Organ×84High Quality Pal Oil×56Pure Quartz×56Sulfur×42Electric Organ×28Venom Gland×14Ancient Civilization Parts×7

Crafting it takes 517 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 9.0% 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 3	3★	Crates on the large oil rig — best 9.0% (grade 5)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Rocket Launcher at 13,000 attack; step down and it is Rocket Launcher at 12,000. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.

Rocket Launcher13000Rocket Launcher12000

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

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