Makeshift Shotgun
Weapon · WeaponShotgun3★Scrap-built shotgun with little reach, but it comes into its own once the target is right in front of it.
Makeshift Shotgun is 26th of 40 shotguns by attack, at 322 against the 1,400 of Prototype Shotgun.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
At 24 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 41,640 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Makeshift Shotgun Crafting Recipe
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High Quality Pal Oil
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Ancient Civilization Parts
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Wood×44Crafting it takes 219 materials across 4 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 treasure map digs (tier 1) at 0.6% 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 | 258 | 300 |
| 2★ | Makeshift Shotgun | 290 | 400 |
| 3★ | Makeshift Shotgun (this one) | 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 3 | 3★ | Treasure map digs (tier 1), Forest camp loot, Desert camp loot +4 more — best 0.6% (grade 3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (0.21%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Double-Barreled Shotgun sits just above it at 323 attack — only 1 more, close enough that it is a sidegrade rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Pump-Action Shotgun at 352; below it is Pump-Action Shotgun at 308.
Other shotguns at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
