Prototype Shotgun
Weapon · WeaponShotgun3★Forged from Soralite Ingots, it puts out crushing damage at point-blank, and its special magazine keeps it firing through drawn-out fights.
Prototype Shotgun is among the best shotguns by attack — 2nd of 40, at 1,342 against the 1,400 of Prototype Shotgun.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
At 20 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 3,533,570 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Prototype Shotgun Crafting Recipe
Soralite Ingot×105
Carbon Fiber×70
Thermal Core
AI Core×8
Ancient Civilization Parts
Wood×2,300
Ore×760
Pure Quartz×530
Soralite×370
Coal×352
Flame Organ×326
Crude Oil×240
High Quality Pal Oil×160
Sulfur×128
Electric Organ×80
Chromite×48
Hexolite Quartz×48
Venom Gland×48
Ancient Civilization Core×8Crafting it takes 199 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 map digs (tier 5) at 0.7% 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.
| Rarity | Item | Attack | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Prototype Shotgun | 1167 | 6000 |
| 1★ | Prototype Shotgun | 1225 | 9000 |
| 2★ | Prototype Shotgun | 1283 | 12000 |
| 3★ | Prototype Shotgun (this one) | 1342 | 18000 |
| 4★ | Prototype Shotgun | 1400 | 24000 |
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 3 | 3★ | Treasure map digs (tier 5), Sunreach Isle treasure chests, fishing in Sunreach Isle +4 more — best 0.7% (grade 5/6) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Prototype Shotgun at 1,400 attack; step down and it is Prototype Shotgun at 1,283. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other shotguns at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
