Makeshift Handgun
Weapon · WeaponHandgun2★Pistol built from spare parts. One round per trigger pull, which suits close quarters more than anything else.
Makeshift Handgun is 7th of 24 handguns by attack, at 640 against the 1,500 of Old Revolver.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
At 10 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 20,810 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Makeshift Handgun Crafting Recipe
Ingot×52
High Quality Pal Oil
Fiber×45
Ore×104
Wood×23Crafting it takes 112 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 sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Grasslands at 14.6% 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 | 560 | 600 |
| 2★ | Makeshift Handgun (this one) | 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 2 | 2★ | Grasslands sea base camp stashes, Forest camp loot, Mount Obsidian camp loot +6 more — best 14.6% (grade 3/4/5) · Supply drops in the Grasslands (2.29%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Makeshift Handgun at 720 attack; step down and it is Handgun at 625. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.
Other handguns at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
