Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor
Armor · ArmorBody4★Ancient Armor refined further, its heat resistance raised by ancient technology until it can ride out scorching environments.
Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor is among the best body armours by defense — 2nd of 145, at 1,092 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance Lv. 2, Heat Resistance Lv. 3, Fire Damage Reduction Lv. 1, Attack Up (S) Lv. 4, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
At 40 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 4,389,460 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor Crafting Recipe
Paloxite Ingot
AI Core×10
Thermal Core×12
Ancient Civilization Parts
Wood×2,000
Ore×950
Coal×456
Pure Quartz×400
Flame Organ×328
Crude Oil×300
Soralite×260
High Quality Pal Oil×200
Sulfur×164
Paloxite×120
Electric Organ×100
Chromite×64
Hexolite Quartz×64
Venom Gland×64
World Tree Holy Water×60
Ancient Civilization Core×10Crafting it takes 91 materials across 4 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 60× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Heat-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 0.8% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Heat-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★ | Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor | 840 | 2400 | 25000 |
| 1★ | Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor | 924 | 2640 | 37500 |
| 2★ | Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor | 966 | 2760 | 50000 |
| 3★ | Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor | 1008 | 2880 | 75000 |
| 4★ | Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor (this one) | 1092 | 3120 | 100000 |
Schematics That Unlock Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor
The Technology tree hands you the plain Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor at level 75 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 Heat-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 |
|---|---|---|
 Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor Schematic 4 | 4★ | fishing in World Tree, Treasure map digs (tier 5), World Tree fishing treasure spots +5 more — best 0.8% (grade 1/5) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor matches it exactly at 1,092 defense — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw defense, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. Nothing above it is meaningfully stronger, so this is effectively the top of the class — below it is Lightweight Ancient Armor at 1,092.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
