Prototype Shotgun

Details

At 20 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 3,074,410 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Prototype Shotgun Crafting Recipe

Soralite Ingot×90

Carbon Fiber×60

Thermal Core×7

AI Core×7

Ancient Civilization Parts×7

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

Wood×2,000Ore×665Pure Quartz×460Soralite×320Coal×308Flame Organ×284Crude Oil×210High Quality Pal Oil×140Sulfur×112Electric Organ×70Chromite×42Hexolite Quartz×42Venom Gland×42Ancient Civilization Core×7Ancient Civilization Parts×7

Crafting it takes 171 materials across 5 types.

Where to Find Prototype Shotgun

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 chests in the Sunreach Isle at 2.3% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Prototype Shotgun

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 1167 to 1400, 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 Prototype Shotgun Uses

Prototype Shotgun fires Prototype Shotgun 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
Prototype Shotgun Ammo	×10	Soralite Ingot ×4, Gunpowder ×8

Schematics That Unlock Prototype Shotgun

The Technology tree hands you the plain Prototype Shotgun at level 69 for 4 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 5), 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 Prototype Shotgun schematic works out at roughly 192 containers against the 337 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
Prototype Shotgun Schematic 2	2★	Sunreach Isle treasure chests, fishing in Sunreach Isle, Feybreak sea base camp loot +4 more — best 2.3% (grade 5/6)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Prototype Shotgun at 1,342 attack; step down and it is Prototype Shotgun at 1,225. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.

Prototype Shotgun1342Prototype Shotgun1225

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

Energy ShotgunBeam ScatterPrototype ShotgunPrototype ShotgunBeam ScatterEnergy ShotgunEnergy ShotgunBeam ScatterCore Eject ShotgunBeam ScatterPrototype ShotgunSemi-Auto Shotgun