Makeshift Handgun
Weapon · WeaponHandgun1★Pistol built from spare parts. One round per trigger pull, which suits close quarters more than anything else.
Makeshift Handgun is 13th of 24 handguns by attack, at 560 against the 1,500 of Old Revolver.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
At 10 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 17,060 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Makeshift Handgun Crafting Recipe
Ingot×43
High Quality Pal Oil
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Wood×19Crafting it takes 92 materials across 3 types.
Where to Find Makeshift Handgun
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is enemy camp loot in the Forest at 26.7% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Makeshift Handgun
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 320 to 800, a 2.5x 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.
| Rarity | Item | Attack | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Makeshift Handgun | 320 | 300 |
| 1★ | Makeshift Handgun (this one) | 560 | 600 |
| 2★ | Makeshift Handgun | 640 | 900 |
| 3★ | Makeshift Handgun | 720 | 1200 |
| 4★ | Makeshift Handgun | 800 | 1500 |
Ammunition Makeshift Handgun Uses
Makeshift Handgun fires Coarse 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Coarse Ammo | ×20 | Ingot ×1, Gunpowder ×1 |
Schematics That Unlock Makeshift Handgun
The Technology tree hands you the plain Makeshift Handgun at level 24 for 3 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. Two routes to the top-tier Makeshift Handgun schematic, and they are not measured in the same thing: about 33 kills hunting it directly from fenglope (alpha), or roughly 85 containers farming the 3★ copy from sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Grasslands and fusing five. Which is faster depends on how long one of each takes you. 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Makeshift Handgun Schematic 1 | 1★ | Forest camp loot, Mount Obsidian camp loot, Forest chests +4 more — best 26.7% (grade 3/4) · Supply drops in the Grasslands (11.45%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Marksman Revolver sits just above it at 562 attack — only 2 more, close enough that it is a sidegrade rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Old Revolver at 600; below it is Handgun at 500.
Other handguns at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
