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×30

Paldium Fragment×15

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

Ore×60Paldium Fragment×15

Crafting it takes 45 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 30× 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 sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Grasslands at 14.6% 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 2	2★	Grasslands sea base camp stashes, Forest camp loot, Mount Obsidian camp loot +11 more — best 14.6% (grade 2/3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Forest (1.74%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Depresso Helmet matches it exactly at 70 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 Tricorne at 75; below it is Golden Crown at 67.

Depresso Helmet70Golden Crown67

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

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