Drone Launcher
Weapon · WeaponMelee0★Fires off drones that go hunting and attack on their own. As many as 9 can be in the air at once, which keeps the suppression going.
Drone Launcher is 48th of 79 melee weapons by attack, at 200 against the 2,400 of Laser Sword.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 4,041,020 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Drone Launcher Crafting Recipe
Paloxite Ingot
World Tree Holy Water
AI Core×8
Ancient Civilization Core
Wood×1,600
Ore×760
Pure Quartz×320
Coal×288
Crude Oil×240
Soralite×230
Flame Organ×224
High Quality Pal Oil×160
Paloxite×140
Sulfur×112
Electric Organ×80
Chromite×32
Hexolite Quartz×32
Venom Gland×32Crafting it takes 123 materials across 4 types.
Where to Find Drone Launcher
Drone Launcher is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Every Tier of Drone Launcher
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 200 to 240, 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★ | Drone Launcher (this one) | 200 | 6500 |
| 1★ | Drone Launcher | 210 | 9750 |
| 2★ | Drone Launcher | 220 | 13000 |
| 3★ | Drone Launcher | 230 | 19500 |
| 4★ | Drone Launcher | 240 | 26000 |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Meowmere matches it exactly at 200 attack — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw attack, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Drone Launcher at 210; below it is Primitive Sword at 180.
Other melee weapons at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
