
Tropical Outfit
Armor · ArmorBody3★A Cloth Outfit made in hot regions, with strong resistance to heat.
Tropical Outfit is an early body armour: 132nd of 145 by defense, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 37 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Heat Resistance Lv. 2, Attack Up (S) Lv. 3, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot.
Tropical Outfit Crafting Recipe
Crafting it takes 11 materials across 2 types.
Where to Find Tropical Outfit
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is treasure map digs (tier 1) at 1.9% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Tropical Outfit
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 25 to 40, a 1.6x 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★ | Tropical Outfit | 25 | 70 | 300 |
| 1★ | Tropical Outfit | 32 | 91 | 450 |
| 2★ | Tropical Outfit | 35 | 98 | 600 |
| 3★ | Tropical Outfit (this one) | 37 | 105 | 900 |
| 4★ | Tropical Outfit | 40 | 112 | 1200 |
Schematics That Unlock Tropical Outfit
The Technology tree hands you the plain Tropical Outfit at level 9 for 3 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 treasure map digs (tier 1), 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 Tropical Outfit schematic works out at roughly 74 containers against the 130 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3★ | Treasure map digs (tier 1), fishing in Grasslands, Grasslands chests — best 1.9% (grade 1/2/5) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Tundra Outfit at 40 defense; step down and it is Tundra Outfit at 37. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class: