Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor
Armor · ArmorBody2★Ancient Armor taken a step further, its cold resistance raised by ancient technology so the wearer holds onto their strength in extreme cold regions.
Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor is 8th of 145 body armours by defense, at 966 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance Lv. 3, Heat Resistance Lv. 2, Ice Damage Reduction Lv. 1, Attack Up (S) Lv. 2, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
At 40 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 3,072,700 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor Crafting Recipe
Paloxite Ingot
AI Core×7
Cryogenic Coolant
Ancient Civilization Parts
Wood×1,400
Ore×665
Pure Quartz×280
Coal×252
Crude Oil×210
Flame Organ×196
Soralite×185
High Quality Pal Oil×140
Sulfur×98
Paloxite×90
Aquatic Pal Fluids×75
Ice Organ×75
Electric Organ×70
World Tree Holy Water×45
Chromite×28
Hexolite Quartz×28
Venom Gland×28
Ancient Civilization Core×7Crafting it takes 134 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 8.4% 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.
| Rarity | Item | Defense | HP | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor | 840 | 2400 | 25000 |
| 1★ | Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor | 924 | 2640 | 37500 |
| 2★ | Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor (this one) | 966 | 2760 | 50000 |
| 3★ | Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor | 1008 | 2880 | 75000 |
| 4★ | Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor | 1092 | 3120 | 100000 |
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 2 | 2★ | fishing in World Tree, Treasure map digs (tier 5), World Tree fishing treasure spots +5 more — best 8.4% (grade 1/5) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Lightweight Ancient Armor at 1,008 defense; step down and it is Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor at 966. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
