Heat Resistant Metal Armor
Armor · ArmorBody4★Metal Armor reworked to hold strong heat resistance.
Heat Resistant Metal Armor is 99th of 145 body armours by defense, at 168 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Heat Resistance Lv. 2, Cold Resistance Lv. 1, 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.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
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.
Heat Resistant Metal Armor Crafting Recipe
Ingot×80
Leather×26
Cloth×16
Flame Organ×16
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×160
Wool×32Crafting it takes 140 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 treasure map digs (tier 1) at 0.3% 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.
| Rarity | Item | Defense | HP | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Heat Resistant Metal Armor | 105 | 250 | 1400 |
| 1★ | Heat Resistant Metal Armor | 136 | 325 | 2100 |
| 2★ | Heat Resistant Metal Armor | 147 | 350 | 2800 |
| 3★ | Heat Resistant Metal Armor | 157 | 375 | 4200 |
| 4★ | Heat Resistant Metal Armor (this one) | 168 | 400 | 5600 |
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 4 | 4★ | Treasure map digs (tier 1), Forest camp loot, Mount Obsidian camp loot +9 more — best 0.3% (grade 2/3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (0.04%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Cold Resistant Metal Armor matches it exactly at 168 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 Refined Metal Armor at 180; below it is Cold Resistant Metal Armor at 157.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
