Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor
Armor · ArmorBody3★Refined Metal Armor, upgraded to carry its wearer through cold climates.
Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor is 81st of 145 body armours by defense, at 270 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. 3, 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 35 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 91,200 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor Crafting Recipe
Refined Ingot
Leather×35
High Quality Cloth
Cryogenic Coolant
Ancient Civilization Parts
Coal×140
Ore×140
Aquatic Pal Fluids×7
Ice Organ×7Crafting it takes 119 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Cold Resistant Refined 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 2) at 2.6% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 180 to 288, 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 Refined Metal Armor | 180 | 500 | 3000 |
| 1★ | Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor | 234 | 650 | 4500 |
| 2★ | Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor | 252 | 700 | 6000 |
| 3★ | Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor (this one) | 270 | 750 | 9000 |
| 4★ | Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor | 288 | 800 | 12000 |
Schematics That Unlock Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor
The Technology tree hands you the plain Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor at level 41 for 4 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 Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor schematic, and they are not measured in the same thing: about 33 kills hunting it directly from menasting (alpha), or roughly 130 containers farming the 3★ copy from treasure map digs (tier 2) 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor Schematic 3 | 3★ | Treasure map digs (tier 2), Desert sea base camp stashes, Mount Obsidian sea base camp stashes +14 more — best 2.6% (grade 3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Desert (0.25%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Hallowed Plate Mail at 280 defense; step down and it is Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor at 270. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
