Heat Resistant Metal Armor

Details

At 30 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 39,740 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Heat Resistant Metal Armor Crafting Recipe

Ingot×70

Leather×22

Cloth×14

Flame Organ×14

Ancient Civilization Parts×1

What it really costs, once every sub-recipe is expanded

Ore×140Wool×28Leather×22Flame Organ×14Ancient Civilization Parts×1

Crafting it takes 121 materials across 5 types.

Where to Find Heat 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 0.8% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Heat 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.

Schematics That Unlock Heat Resistant Metal Armor

The Technology tree hands you the plain Heat Resistant Metal Armor at level 25 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 Heat Resistant Metal Armor schematic works out at roughly 154 containers against the 391 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 Metal Armor Schematic 3	3★	Forest camp loot, Treasure map digs (tier 1), Mount Obsidian camp loot +9 more — best 0.8% (grade 2/3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (0.21%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Cold Resistant Metal Armor matches it exactly at 157 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. The next real step is Heat Resistant Metal Armor at 168; below it is Refined Metal Armor at 150.

Cold Resistant Metal Armor157Refined Metal Armor150

Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:

Cold Resistant Metal ArmorHallowed Plate MailMetal ArmorCold Resistant Pelt ArmorHeat Resistant Pelt ArmorRefined Metal ArmorPelt ArmorTropical OutfitTundra OutfitDepresso ArmorCloth OutfitPal Metal Armor