Beam Scatter Ammo

Details

It weighs almost nothing and stacks to 9,999, so there is no reason not to carry a full stack.

Beam Scatter Ammo Crafting Recipe

Bio Battery×1

Paloxite Ingot×3

Soralite Ingot×2

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

Wood×10Soralite×7Paloxite×6Pure Quartz×4World Tree Holy Water×3Coal×2Ore×2Electric Organ×1Flame Organ×1

Crafting it takes 6 materials across 3 types. Each craft returns 10, so the real cost per unit is lower than the list suggests.

Where to Find Beam Scatter Ammo

If you would rather just buy it, the seller is Caravan Shop at 7,830 Gold.

It also shows up as world loot — junk hauls while fishing in the World Tree, treasure chests in the World Tree and fishing the treasure spots in the World Tree, usually 5–10 at a time. Higher-grade chests carry the better rolls, so the ones guarded by a camp are usually worth the detour.

Using Beam Scatter Ammo Well

One gun family drinks these rounds: the Beam Scatter (Beam Scatter), and every rarity of it, up to the Legendary build rolled from Beam Scatter Schematic 4 (Beam Scatter Schematic 4). No conventional shotgun touches them — the Pump-Action and Semi-Auto lines stay on ordinary Shotgun Ammo (Shotgun Shell), so upgrading to the Beam Scatter means switching your whole ammunition supply chain over to the Ancient Workbench at the same time.

Budget in magazines, not in rounds. A base Beam Scatter holds 30, the Legendary holds 38, and one craft yields 10 — so a full Legendary magazine is four batches, or 4 Bio Battery, 12 Paloxite Ingot and 8 Soralite Ingot. Buying instead of crafting is not a fallback at 7,830 Gold apiece: a single magazine off the Caravan Shop shelf runs close to 300,000 Gold, which is why the ingot chain is the real gate on how often you can field the weapon. Weight is the one thing that never bites — at 0.025 each, 400 rounds cost 10 carry, well past what a raid will spend.

Weapons That Fire Beam Scatter Ammo

5 weapons take Beam Scatter Ammo, which makes it worth stockpiling — one crafting run supplies the whole class.

Beam Scatter508Beam Scatter533Beam Scatter558Beam Scatter584Beam Scatter609

Alternatives and Upgrades

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

Tactical Grenade Launcher AmmoPlasma Rifle AmmoPrototype Shotgun AmmoMissile AmmoRocket AmmoPlasma CartridgeBeam Launcher AmmoCharge Rifle AmmoMechanical Bow AmmoHeavy Assault Rifle AmmoAdvanced ArrowCombat SMG Ammo