Makeshift Shotgun
Weapon · WeaponShotgun4★Scrap-built shotgun with little reach, but it comes into its own once the target is right in front of it.
Makeshift Shotgun is 22nd of 40 shotguns by attack, at 376 against the 1,400 of Prototype Shotgun.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
At 24 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 48,720 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×50Crafting it takes 252 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 0.3% 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 | 322 | 600 |
| 4★ | Makeshift Shotgun (this one) | 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 4 | 4★ | Treasure map digs (tier 1), Forest camp loot, Desert camp loot +4 more — best 0.3% (grade 3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (0.04%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Pump-Action Shotgun at 385 attack; step down and it is Double-Barreled Shotgun at 361. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other shotguns at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
