Yakuza: Dead Souls: weapon upgrades and the designs worth finding

Yakuza: Dead Souls: weapon upgrades and the designs worth finding Kamiyama's truck handles the equipment work in Dead Souls. It moves as the quarantine changes, but you aren't losing access to the upgrade system every time the old street closes. You need four things for a modification: the base item, the required materials, enough money, and the necessary crafting ability. Some recipes also require a design source. Owning the final design does not skip the intermediate weapons in the upgrade chain. FUND THE TRUCK The donation thresholds are ¥100,000, ¥300,000, and ¥1 million total. They are cumulative. You're not paying all three amounts on top of one another. The middle stage gives a 20% discount on modifications, and the final stage earns Official Sponsor. I'd improve Weapon Skill and Armor Skill alongside the truck rather than donating all the money and then discovering I still can't make the equipment. Keep rare materials such as Eye of the Dragon, Seal of the Dragon, and Blood of the Dragon until you've checked the recipes you need. THE FOUR SIGNATURE WEAPONS Akiyama: Macedonian Twins → High & Low → Elise. High & Low needs six High-Density Polymer and one Silver Plate. Elise then needs three Platinum Plates and one Seal of the Dragon. The final design is From Yakuza to Avenger, earned by finishing all 15 Akiyama substories. Elise retains the handguns' unlimited ammunition supply and gives him a much larger magazine. Majima: Mark IV EXP → Meat Grinder → MJM56 Crazy Dog → MJM56-55 Exorcist. Meat Grinder needs four Elastic Alloy and three Scrap Iron. Crazy Dog needs three Sturdy Spring and one Demon Stone. Exorcist needs four Aggro Medals and one Eye of the Dragon. Finish Majima's 15 substories for Happiness Is a Smoking Gun, the final design source. Ryuji: Kuroganemaru → Modified Kuroganemaru → Demon Slayer → Dragon Arm. The first modification needs two Blocks of Steel and one Scrap Iron. Demon Slayer needs five Demon Stones and one Plasma Battery. Dragon Arm needs five Meathead Belts and one Blood of the Dragon. Its design, Wrestling a Rampaging River, comes from Ryuji's 15 substories. Kiryu: XK. 50 Anti-Materiel Rifle → Zombie Masher → Tank Killer → Dragon Rifle. The base weapon arrives in the finale. Zombie Masher needs four Blocks of Steel and one Hero's Cartridge. Tank Killer needs two Super Hard Aluminum Alloy and one Super Coolant. Dragon Rifle needs four Diamonds and one Blood of the Dragon. Finish Kiryu's 15 substories to get Airstrike: A Pilot's Tale. These lists give the materials for each step, in addition to the base weapon and modification fee. Make sure you're looking at the right stage rather than buying the final materials and expecting Kamiyama to start from nothing. Helpful Links: Weapon and armor modification reference: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/998171-yakuza-dead-souls/faqs/79387/modding-weapons-and-gear Design sources: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/998171-yakuza-dead-souls/faqs/79387/design-sources USEFUL NON-SIGNATURE OPTIONS The ordinary shotgun can become Path Maker with four Blocks of Steel, then Flesh Shredder with two Aggro Medals and two Sacred Wood. That's a useful crowd-control weapon for characters who don't have Majima's shotgun. Getting the late materials early through a bonus pack depends on your edition and installed content, so don't assume every fresh copy has them. The Golden Pistol follows 9mm Automatic → Wk-CP11 Gang → Wk-CP21 Yakuza → Golden Pistol. The first step uses six Scrap Iron; the next uses four High-Density Polymer and three Blocks of Steel; the final step uses four Gold Plates and four Diptera Necklaces. The design source is The Secret Tojo Clan Fortune. For that design, bring the six regular substory partners to level 20: Kendo, Marina, Kurotaka, Junya, Date, and Arase. The seven hostesses and Premium Adventure Bob are not part of that particular completion reward. The Golden Pistol has unlimited ammunition without the usual reload, which makes it useful for long trips. Recruiting all 14 partners for Social Butterfly is a separate requirement. For defense, the Light Breastplate line develops through the Swat armor and Flak Vest stages. Completing Majima's Subterranea gives Battlefield Adventures, the Dragon Flak Vest design. Its final step uses five Super Hard Aluminum Alloy and one Seal of the Dragon on an Ultimate Flak Vest. The protection against being blown away is valuable when explosive attacks keep interrupting you. The Optical Camouflage Suit is a travel tool with very poor defensive stats. Don't leave it equipped and treat it as your strongest combat armor. It is also restricted in Endless Subterranea, along with certain powerful bonus weapons. WHERE THE OTHER DESIGNS COME FROM Ebisu Pawn sells The Footwear Files, Eye Contact: The First Punch, and Kamurocho: Fact and Fiction. These cover items including Mew Shoes, the aiming/combat accessories, and the object-weapon accessories. Hasegawa sells Limbo 3: A Hardcore Core!, Fight Like a Pyrotechnician, and Sarge's Unexpected Gift for 40 points each. Those unlock Rapid-Fire Training Gear, the unusual shotgun branch, and Sprinter's Shirt. Foiling a Fraud gives An Assassin's Anguish for Bloody Binding. Majima's Zombie Cop Part 4 supplies Assault: Love Shine, the Movie for the special gatling branch. Akiyama's underground completion gives Yakuza Heroes Past & Present for Heroic Binding. Ryuji's gives Zombie Armageddon for Survivor Training Gear. Kiryu's underground/Amon chain supplies the Optical Camouflage design, Yakuza vs. Aliens. CLAIM THE REWARDS Many completion designs arrive through a notification telling you to collect something at Naomi's Palace. Finishing the requirement isn't the same thing as having the design in your inventory. Check there before concluding that Kamiyama is missing a recipe. For A Weapon Freak is Born, modify across the weapon categories: handguns, shotguns, submachine guns, gatling guns, rifles, anti-materiel rifles, and launchers. You don't need every branch or every partner gun for that trophy. Full Equipment Modding completion does require the entire catalog, so keep extra base items for branches that split and use the in-game completion list as you go.