Handgun
Weapon · WeaponHandgun2★Sidearm carrying more rounds and a faster trigger than the Makeshift Handgun, so it puts out damage quicker.
Handgun is 14th of 24 handguns by attack, at 500 against the 1,500 of Old Revolver.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 29,520 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Handgun Crafting Recipe
Ingot×75
High Quality Pal Oil
Ore×150Crafting it takes 97 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 75× 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 chests in the Mount Obsidian at 3.1% 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 2 | 2★ | Mount Obsidian chests, Desert chests, fishing in Desert +8 more — best 3.1% (grade 3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (1.39%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Makeshift Handgun at 560 attack; step down and it is Marksman Revolver at 500. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.
Other handguns at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
