Makeshift Shotgun
Weapon · WeaponShotgun1★Scrap-built shotgun with little reach, but it comes into its own once the target is right in front of it.
Makeshift Shotgun is an early shotgun: 32nd of 40 by attack, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 258 against the 1,400 of Prototype Shotgun.
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 24 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 28,680 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Makeshift Shotgun Crafting Recipe
Ingot×75
High Quality Pal Oil
Fiber×62
Ore×150
Wood×31Crafting it takes 155 materials across 3 types.
Where to Find Makeshift Shotgun
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 11.2% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Makeshift Shotgun
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 215 to 376, a 1.7x 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 Shotgun | 215 | 200 |
| 1★ | Makeshift Shotgun (this one) | 258 | 300 |
| 2★ | Makeshift Shotgun | 290 | 400 |
| 3★ | Makeshift Shotgun | 322 | 600 |
| 4★ | Makeshift Shotgun | 376 | 800 |
Ammunition Makeshift Shotgun Uses
Makeshift Shotgun 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 Shotgun
The Technology tree hands you the plain Makeshift Shotgun at level 30 for 2 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 1), 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 Makeshift Shotgun schematic works out at roughly 223 containers against the 391 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Makeshift Shotgun Schematic 1 | 1★ | Forest camp loot, Desert camp loot, Forest chests +3 more — best 11.2% (grade 3/4/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (5.23%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Pump-Action Shotgun at 275 attack; step down and it is Semi-Auto Shotgun at 253. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.
Other shotguns at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
