Guided Missile Launcher

Details

At 30 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 791,560 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Guided Missile Launcher Crafting Recipe

Pal Metal Ingot×175

Plasteel×87

Carbon Fiber×43

Computer×8

Ancient Civilization Parts×6

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

Ore×1,287Wood×750Paldium Fragment×350Crude Oil×222Pure Quartz×207Flame Organ×75Coal×32High Quality Pal Oil×32Electric Organ×16Sulfur×16Ancient Civilization Parts×6

Crafting it takes 319 materials across 5 types.

Where to Find Guided Missile Launcher

The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is treasure map digs (tier 4) at 2.6% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Guided Missile Launcher

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 5900 to 8850, a 1.5x 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 Guided Missile Launcher Uses

Guided Missile Launcher fires Missile 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
Missile Ammo	×10	Pal Metal Ingot ×3, Crude Oil ×1, Computer ×1

Schematics That Unlock Guided Missile Launcher

The Technology tree hands you the plain Guided Missile Launcher at level 56 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 treasure map digs (tier 4), 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 Guided Missile Launcher schematic works out at roughly 56 containers against the 68 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
Guided Missile Launcher Schematic 3	3★	Treasure map digs (tier 4), Crates on the oil rigs, Sakurajima camp stashes — best 2.6% (grade 5)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Tactical Grenade Launcher sits just above it at 8,066 attack — only 101 more, close enough that it is a sidegrade rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Multi Guided Missile Launcher at 8,850; below it is Multi Guided Missile Launcher at 7,965.

Tactical Grenade Launcher8066Multi Guided Missile Launcher7965

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

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