Cold Resistant Metal Armor
Armor · ArmorBody4★Metal Armor reworked so its wearer survives cold climates.
Cold Resistant Metal Armor is 98th of 145 body armours by defense, at 168 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance Lv. 2, Heat Resistance Lv. 1, Ice 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.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
At 30 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 46,660 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Cold Resistant Metal Armor Crafting Recipe
Ingot×80
Leather×26
Cloth×16
Ice Organ×16
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×160
Wool×32Crafting it takes 140 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Cold Resistant Metal 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 enemy camp loot in the Forest at 0.2% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Cold Resistant Metal Armor
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 105 to 168, 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★ | Cold Resistant Metal Armor | 105 | 250 | 1400 |
| 1★ | Cold Resistant Metal Armor | 136 | 325 | 2100 |
| 2★ | Cold Resistant Metal Armor | 147 | 350 | 2800 |
| 3★ | Cold Resistant Metal Armor | 157 | 375 | 4200 |
| 4★ | Cold Resistant Metal Armor (this one) | 168 | 400 | 5600 |
Schematics That Unlock Cold Resistant Metal Armor
The Technology tree hands you the plain Cold Resistant Metal Armor at level 27 for 2 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 enemy camp loot in the Forest, 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 Metal Armor schematic works out at roughly 154 containers against the 606 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 Metal Armor Schematic 4 | 4★ | Forest camp loot, Mount Obsidian camp loot, Forest camp stashes +8 more — best 0.2% (grade 2/3/4/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (0.04%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor at 180 defense; step down and it is Heat Resistant Metal Armor at 168. 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:
