Metal Helm

Details

At 10 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby.

Metal Helm Crafting Recipe

Ingot×25

Paldium Fragment×12

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

Ore×50Paldium Fragment×12

Crafting it takes 37 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 25× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.

Where to Find Metal Helm

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 26.0% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Metal Helm

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 50 to 80, 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 Metal Helm

The Technology tree hands you the plain Metal Helm at level 23 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. Two routes to the top-tier Metal Helm schematic, and they are not measured in the same thing: about 33 kills hunting it directly from bushi (alpha), or roughly 85 containers farming the 3★ copy from sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Grasslands and fusing five. Which is faster depends on how long one of each takes you. 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
Metal Helm Schematic 1	1★	Forest camp loot, Mount Obsidian camp loot, Desert camp loot +9 more — best 26.0% (grade 2/3/4/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (8.71%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Monarch's Crown at 67 defense; step down and it is Bowler Hat at 60. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.

Monarch's Crown67Bowler Hat60

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

Hallowed HeadgearHallowed HelmetHallowed HoodHallowed MaskBowler HatDazzi HatExplorer CapFarming HatGolden CrownGraduation CapGrinning Tocotoco CapGumoss Cap