Makeshift SMG
Weapon · WeaponAssaultRifle1★Submachine gun thrown together from scrap — quick on the trigger, weak per bullet.
Makeshift SMG is an early assault rifle: 69th of 70 by attack, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 120 against the 15,000 of Charge Rifle.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
At 15 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 19,080 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Makeshift SMG Crafting Recipe
Ingot×50
High Quality Pal Oil
Fiber×37
Ore×100
Wood×19Crafting it takes 99 materials across 3 types.
Where to Find Makeshift SMG
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 16.0% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Makeshift SMG
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 100 to 175, a 1.8x 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 SMG | 100 | 1000 |
| 1★ | Makeshift SMG (this one) | 120 | 1500 |
| 2★ | Makeshift SMG | 135 | 2000 |
| 3★ | Makeshift SMG | 150 | 3000 |
| 4★ | Makeshift SMG | 175 | 4000 |
Ammunition Makeshift SMG Uses
Makeshift SMG 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 SMG
The Technology tree hands you the plain Makeshift SMG at level 26 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. 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 SMG schematic works out at roughly 111 containers against the 195 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 SMG Schematic 1 | 1★ | Forest camp loot, Mount Obsidian camp loot, Forest chests +3 more — best 16.0% (grade 3/4) · Supply drops in the Forest (8.71%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get SMG at 130 attack; step down and it is Makeshift SMG at 100. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other assault rifles at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
