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Overheat Rifle

Weapon · WeaponAssaultRifle1

Assault rifle that fires without ever reloading, though long sustained bursts overheat it and leave its user wide open.

Overheat Rifle is 36th of 70 assault rifles by attack, at 1,286 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

Gold Value2192860
Weight15
Max Stack1
attack1286
durability3000

At 15 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 2,192,860 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Where to Find Overheat Rifle

The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is fishing in the Feybreak at 13.8% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Overheat Rifle

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 1225 to 1470, a 1.2x 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.

RarityItemAttackDurability
0Overheat Rifle12253000
1Overheat Rifle (this one)12863000
2Overheat Rifle13474000
3Overheat Rifle14085000
4Overheat Rifle14706000

Ammunition Overheat Rifle Uses

Overheat Rifle fires Overheat Rifle 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.

AmmoYieldCraft cost
Overheat Rifle Ammo×20Thermal Core ×1, Hexolite ×1

Schematics That Unlock Overheat Rifle

The Technology tree hands you the plain Overheat Rifle at level 64 for 5 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 sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Sakurajima, 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 Overheat Rifle 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.

SchematicRarityWhere it comes from
Overheat Rifle Schematic 11★fishing in Feybreak — best 13.8% (grade 1)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Overheat Rifle at 1,347 attack; step down and it is Semi-Auto Rifle at 1,265. 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:

Overheat Rifle (1★) — How to Get & Uses | Palworld Database