Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor

Details

At 35 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 108,000 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor Crafting Recipe

Refined Ingot×80

Leather×40

High Quality Cloth×5

Flame Organ×24

Ancient Civilization Parts×4

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

Coal×160Ore×160Leather×40Flame Organ×24High Quality Cloth×5Ancient Civilization Parts×4

Crafting it takes 153 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 1.0% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Using Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor Well

The technology behind this armor line opens at Level 40 and costs 4 Technology Points. Research it once and every rarity of the piece — including this legendary one — becomes craftable; the schematic itself only raises the tier you are allowed to build.

Build it at a Production Assembly Line or anything further up that ladder — Production Assembly Line II, the Advanced Workshop, or the Ancient Workbench all accept the recipe. A plain Primitive Workbench will not.

It carries Cold Resistance Lv. 1 on top of its Heat Resistance Lv. 2, so a volcanic run that stretches into a cold night no longer forces a mid-trip armor swap. The cold rating is only enough for mild chill, though — the frozen north still wants [[item:IronArmorCold_5]] instead.

Fire Damage Reduction Lv. 1 is baked in, which trims what Fire-element attacks take off you. Against a Fire boss the desert and volcano regions throw at you, that resistance is doing as much work as the raw defense number.

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.

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 4	4★	Treasure map digs (tier 2), Desert sea base camp stashes, Mount Obsidian sea base camp stashes +14 more — best 1.0% (grade 3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Desert (0.05%) · Astegon (3%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor matches it exactly at 288 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 300; below it is Pal Metal Armor at 286.

Cold Resistant Refined Metal Armor288Pal Metal Armor286

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

Cold Resistant Refined Metal ArmorV1 ArmorPal Metal ArmorHallowed Plate MailRefined Metal ArmorCold Resistant Pal Metal ArmorHeat Resistant Pal Metal ArmorCold Resistant Metal ArmorHeat Resistant Metal ArmorMetal ArmorCold Resistant Pelt ArmorHeat Resistant Pelt Armor