Handgun
Weapon · WeaponHandgun1★Sidearm carrying more rounds and a faster trigger than the Makeshift Handgun, so it puts out damage quicker.
Handgun is 16th of 24 handguns by attack, at 437 against the 1,500 of Old Revolver.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 24,340 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Handgun Crafting Recipe
Ingot×62
High Quality Pal Oil
Ore×124Crafting it takes 80 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 62× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Handgun
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 Forest at 26.1% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Handgun
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 250 to 625, a 2.5x 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 Handgun Uses
Handgun fires Handgun 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Handgun Ammo | ×20 | Ingot ×1, Gunpowder ×1 |
Schematics That Unlock Handgun
The Technology tree hands you the plain Handgun at level 28 for 3 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. Two routes to the top-tier Handgun schematic, and they are not measured in the same thing: about 33 kills hunting it directly from vaelet (alpha), or roughly 258 containers farming the 3★ copy from treasure map digs (tier 1) and fusing five. Which is faster depends on how long one of each takes you. 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Handgun Schematic 1 | 1★ | Forest camp loot, Desert camp loot, Mount Obsidian chests +7 more — best 26.1% (grade 3/4/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (6.97%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Marksman Revolver at 500 attack; step down and it is Marksman Revolver at 437. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other handguns at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
