Overheat Rifle

Details

At 15 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 2,630,440 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Overheat Rifle Crafting Recipe

Coralum Ingot×240

Hexolite×202

Thermal Core×7

Cryogenic Coolant×75

Ancient Civilization Parts×6

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

Coal×1,256Coralum Ore×480Chromite×216Hexolite Quartz×216Aquatic Pal Fluids×75Ice Organ×75Flame Organ×28Sulfur×14Venom Gland×14Ancient Civilization Parts×6

Crafting it takes 530 materials across 5 types.

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 treasure map digs (tier 5) at 3.7% 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.

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.

Ammo	Yield	Craft cost
Overheat Rifle Ammo	×20	Thermal 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.

Schematic	Rarity	Where it comes from
Overheat Rifle Schematic 2	2★	Treasure map digs (tier 5), fishing in Feybreak — best 3.7% (grade 1/5)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Combat SMG sits just above it at 1,360 attack — only 13 more, close enough that it is a sidegrade rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Semi-Auto Rifle at 1,380; below it is Overheat Rifle at 1,286.

Combat SMG1360Overheat Rifle1286

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

Combat SMGCharge RifleHeavy Assault RifleCharge RifleCombat SMGOverheat RifleOverheat RifleHeavy Assault RifleCombat SMGCharge RifleHeavy Assault RifleLaser Rifle