Combat SMG

Details

At 15 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 2,548,850 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Combat SMG Crafting Recipe

Soralite Ingot×75

Carbon Fiber×45

Cryogenic Coolant×30

AI Core×6

Ancient Civilization Parts×7

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

Wood×1,650Ore×570Pure Quartz×390Soralite×270Coal×216Flame Organ×213Crude Oil×180High Quality Pal Oil×120Sulfur×84Electric Organ×60Aquatic Pal Fluids×30Ice Organ×30Chromite×24Hexolite Quartz×24Venom Gland×24Ancient Civilization Parts×7Ancient Civilization Core×6

Crafting it takes 163 materials across 5 types.

Where to Find Combat SMG

The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is sea base enemy camp loot in the Feybreak at 3.5% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Combat SMG

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 907 to 1587, a 1.7x 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 Combat SMG Uses

Combat SMG fires Combat SMG 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
Combat SMG Ammo	×20	Soralite Ingot ×2, Gunpowder ×6

Schematics That Unlock Combat SMG

The Technology tree hands you the plain Combat SMG at level 68 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 sea base enemy camp loot in the Feybreak, 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 Combat SMG schematic works out at roughly 177 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
Combat SMG Schematic 2	2★	Feybreak sea base camp loot, Sunreach Isle camp loot, Sunreach Isle treasure chests +4 more — best 3.5% (grade 5/6)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Overheat Rifle sits just above it at 1,225 attack — only 1 more, close enough that it is a sidegrade rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Laser Rifle at 1,250; below it is Semi-Auto Rifle at 1,150.

Overheat Rifle1225Semi-Auto Rifle1150

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

Overheat RifleCharge RifleHeavy Assault RifleCharge RifleOverheat RifleCombat SMGCombat SMGOverheat RifleHeavy Assault RifleCharge RifleHeavy Assault RifleLaser Rifle