Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor
Armor · ArmorBody3★Refined Metal Armor, upgraded for high heat resistance.
Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor is 82nd of 145 body armours by defense, at 270 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. 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 92,710 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor Crafting Recipe
Refined Ingot
Leather×35
High Quality Cloth
Flame Organ×21
Ancient Civilization Parts
Coal×140
Ore×140Crafting it takes 133 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Heat 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 Heat 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★ | Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor | 180 | 500 | 3000 |
| 1★ | Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor | 234 | 650 | 4500 |
| 2★ | Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor | 252 | 700 | 6000 |
| 3★ | Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor (this one) | 270 | 750 | 9000 |
| 4★ | Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor | 288 | 800 | 12000 |
Schematics That Unlock Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor
The Technology tree hands you the plain Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor at level 40 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 Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor schematic, and they are not measured in the same thing: about 33 kills hunting it directly from astegon (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 |
|---|---|---|
 Heat 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
Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor matches it exactly at 270 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 Hallowed Plate Mail at 280; below it is Hallowed Plate Mail at 260.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
