Makeshift SMG

Details

At 15 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 23,110 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Makeshift SMG Crafting Recipe

Ingot×60

High Quality Pal Oil×15

Fiber×45

What it really costs, once every sub-recipe is expanded

Ore×120Wood×23High Quality Pal Oil×15

Crafting it takes 120 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 3.2% 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.

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 2	2★	Forest camp loot, Mount Obsidian camp loot, Treasure map digs (tier 1) +4 more — best 3.2% (grade 3/4/5) · Supply drops in the Forest (1.74%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Makeshift SMG at 150 attack; step down and it is SMG at 130. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.

Makeshift SMG150SMG130

Other assault rifles at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:

MusketSingle-Shot RifleMakeshift Assault RifleSMGSemi-Auto Rifle

Assault RifleVortex BeaterLaser RifleMakeshift SMGMakeshift SMGMusketSingle-Shot Rifle