Pump-Action Shotgun

Details

At 20 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 77,660 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Pump-Action Shotgun Crafting Recipe

Refined Ingot×37

Polymer×25

Carbon Fiber×12

Ancient Civilization Parts×1

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

Wood×120Coal×74Ore×74High Quality Pal Oil×50Sulfur×25Flame Organ×12Ancient Civilization Parts×1

Crafting it takes 75 materials across 4 types.

Where to Find Pump-Action Shotgun

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 boss stashes in the Snowfields at 20.0% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Pump-Action Shotgun

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 220 to 385, 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 Pump-Action Shotgun Uses

Pump-Action Shotgun fires Shotgun Shell, 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
Shotgun Shell	×10	Refined Ingot ×2, Gunpowder ×3

Schematics That Unlock Pump-Action Shotgun

The Technology tree hands you the plain Pump-Action Shotgun at level 43 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. Two routes to the top-tier Pump-Action Shotgun schematic, and they are not measured in the same thing: about 33 kills hunting it directly from suzaku (alpha), or roughly 71 containers farming the 3★ copy from sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Desert 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
Pump-Action Shotgun Schematic 1	1★	Snowfields camp stashes, Sakurajima treasure chests, Sakurajima fishing treasure spots +9 more — best 20.0% (grade 3/5/6) · Supply drops in the Desert (12.65%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Semi-Auto Shotgun at 282 attack; step down and it is Makeshift Shotgun at 258. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.

Semi-Auto Shotgun282Makeshift Shotgun258

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

Semi-Auto ShotgunDouble-Barreled ShotgunMakeshift ShotgunCore Eject ShotgunSemi-Auto ShotgunPump-Action ShotgunPump-Action ShotgunDouble-Barreled ShotgunDouble-Barreled ShotgunMakeshift ShotgunSemi-Auto ShotgunMakeshift Shotgun