Musket
Weapon · WeaponAssaultRifle4★Plain old-fashioned firearm. One powerful shot, then a long wait to reload.
Musket is 11th of 70 assault rifles by attack, at 2,000 against the 15,000 of Charge Rifle.
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 20 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 22,270 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Musket Crafting Recipe
Ingot×50
High Quality Pal Oil
Wooden Board
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×104
Wood×75Crafting it takes 68 materials across 4 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 50× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Musket
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is crates on the small oil rig at 2.0% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Crates on the small oil rig carry the whole Musket ladder rather than just the top rung: Schematic 1 at 24%, Schematic 2 at 16%, Schematic 3 at 8% and Schematic 4 at 2%. The drafting table fuses five copies into one of the tier above, so the low rungs are not consolation prizes — count them and a crate is worth 4.43 Legendary copies per hundred, roughly 23 crates a copy instead of the 50 that a bare 2% suggests. Grasslands sea base camp boss stashes run the same ladder more steeply, 0.878% then 4.392% then 21.962%, which works out at 2.63 per hundred or about 38 stashes. Walk past the 1★ and 2★ copies on a rig run and you have left more than half of what the run was worth in the crate.
Exactly one Pal hands over the top schematic, and only its Alpha does: Blazehowl, at 3% a kill, so about 33 kills for an average copy. That Alpha is a single fixed level 30 spawn you travel to rather than something you hunt for, and it absorbs damage at 24% — each of those 33 fights is four times the wall the level implies. What makes it worth starting anyway is the guaranteed half of its table: every kill pays 4 to 5 Ancient Civilization Parts, and the Legendary build asks for 2. By the time the schematic finally rolls you are sitting on well over a hundred of the one material the recipe cannot be farmed or mined for.
The earliest route needs neither a boat nor a level 30 boss. Musket Schematic 4 sits in the tier 1 treasure map dig pool at 0.513%, and tier 1 is the map grade the starting regions already hand out — 40% of Grasslands camp boss stashes and 35% of Forest ones produce one. That dig pool skips Schematic 1 completely and thins by only 2.5x per rung after it, 3.205% for Schematic 2 and 1.282% for Schematic 3, so against a five-to-one fuse rate the lower copies pay better here than anywhere else: 0.90 Legendary copies per hundred digs, near 111 digs a copy. Slower than the rig, but every step of it happens inside the first two regions.
Using Musket Well
This is the one heavy hitter the earliest weapon bench can build. Every rarity of the Musket is assembled at the plain Weapon Workbench, which the Technology tree opens at level 20 for 3 points, and at 2,000 attack the Legendary build is two and a half times the strongest other weapon that bench makes — the Legendary Makeshift Handgun, at 800. Even the 1★ Musket at 1,400 clears it, and the workbench below tops out at 247 with the Legendary Old Bow. A Schematic 4 found early is therefore worth crafting the moment you have it rather than banking for a later loadout. It has to be in your inventory when you walk up to the bench: a copy left in a base chest adds nothing to the crafting menu.
Every Tier of Musket
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 1000 to 2000, a 2x 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 Musket Uses
Musket 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 Musket
The Technology tree hands you the plain Musket at level 21 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 crates on the small oil rig, 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 Musket schematic works out at roughly 23 containers against the 33 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Musket Schematic 4 | 4★ | Crates on the small oil rig, Crates on the oil rigs, Grasslands sea base camp stashes +9 more — best 2.0% (grade 3/4/5) · Supply drops in the Grasslands (0.09%) · Blazehowl (3%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Plasma Rifle at 2,046 attack; step down and it is Plasma Rifle at 1,953. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.
Other assault rifles at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
