Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor

Details

At 40 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 2,601,220 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor Crafting Recipe

Paloxite Ingot×37

AI Core×6

Cryogenic Coolant×62

Ancient Civilization Parts×6

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

Wood×1,200Ore×570Pure Quartz×240Coal×216Crude Oil×180Flame Organ×168Soralite×157High Quality Pal Oil×120Sulfur×84Paloxite×74Aquatic Pal Fluids×62Ice Organ×62Electric Organ×60World Tree Holy Water×37Chromite×24Hexolite Quartz×24Venom Gland×24Ancient Civilization Core×6Ancient Civilization Parts×6

Crafting it takes 111 materials across 4 types.

Where to Find Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor

The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is fishing in the World Tree at 18.4% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 840 to 1092, a 1.3x 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.

Schematics That Unlock Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor

The Technology tree hands you the plain Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor at level 77 for 5 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. The fastest route is fishing in the World Tree, and the reason is the ladder rather than the top rung: that pool stocks every tier, so the common copies it hands you fuse upward into the one you want. Counting them, a top-tier Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor schematic works out at roughly 54 containers against the 119 the 4★ drop rate alone suggests. Spare low tiers are progress, not clutter. 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
Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor Schematic 1	1★	fishing in World Tree, Recycling Glistening Ancient Relics, World Tree fishing treasure spots +4 more — best 18.4% (grade 1)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Ancient Armor at 960 defense; step down and it is Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor at 924. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.

Ancient Armor960Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor924

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

Heat-Resistant Ancient ArmorLightweight Ancient ArmorLightweight Ancient ArmorAncient ArmorHeat-Resistant Ancient ArmorCold-Resistant Ancient ArmorCold-Resistant Ancient ArmorHeat-Resistant Ancient ArmorAncient ArmorLightweight Hexolite ArmorHeat Resistant Hexolite ArmorCold Resistant Hexolite Armor