Crossbow
Weapon · WeaponCrossbow2★Sends an Arrow off with no effort at all. Loading eats time, but the shot lands hard.
Crossbow is 7th of 15 crossbows by attack, at 406 against the 490 of Crossbow.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
At 13 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby.
Crossbow Crafting Recipe
Wood×75
Stone×60
Ingot×15
Nail×3
Ore×32Crafting it takes 153 materials across 4 types.
Where to Find Crossbow
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is enemy camp loot in the Grasslands at 16.0% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Crossbow
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 280 to 490, a 1.8x 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 Crossbow Uses
Crossbow takes 3 kinds of ammunition — Arrow, Fire Arrow, Poison Arrow — so the damage you actually deal depends as much on what you loaded as on the weapon itself.
| Ammo | Yield | Craft cost |
|---|---|---|
 Arrow | ×10 | Wood ×2, Stone ×2 |
 Fire Arrow | ×10 | Wood ×2, Stone ×2, Flame Organ ×1 |
 Poison Arrow | ×10 | Wood ×2, Stone ×2, Venom Gland ×1 |
Schematics That Unlock Crossbow
The Technology tree hands you the plain Crossbow at level 13 for 2 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 crates on the small oil rig, 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 Crossbow schematic works out at roughly 23 containers against the 50 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Crossbow Schematic 2 | 2★ | Grasslands camp loot, Grasslands sea base camp loot, Crates on the small oil rig +5 more — best 16.0% (grade 3/4/5) · Supply drops in the Grasslands (4.01%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Poison Arrow Crossbow at 448 attack; step down and it is Fire Arrow Crossbow at 406. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other crossbows at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
