Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor
Armor · ArmorBody3★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 5th of 145 body armours by defense, at 1,008 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. 3, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
At 40 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 3,523,870 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor Crafting Recipe
Paloxite Ingot
AI Core×8
Cryogenic Coolant
Ancient Civilization Parts
Wood×1,600
Ore×760
Pure Quartz×320
Coal×288
Crude Oil×240
Flame Organ×224
Soralite×212
High Quality Pal Oil×160
Sulfur×112
Paloxite×104
Aquatic Pal Fluids×87
Ice Organ×87
Electric Organ×80
World Tree Holy Water×52
Chromite×32
Hexolite Quartz×32
Venom Gland×32
Ancient Civilization Core×8Crafting it takes 155 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 2.6% 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 | 966 | 2760 | 50000 |
| 3★ | Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor (this one) | 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 3 | 3★ | fishing in World Tree, Treasure map digs (tier 5), World Tree fishing treasure spots +5 more — best 2.6% (grade 1/5) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Ancient Armor at 1,040 defense; step down and it is Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor at 1,008. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
