Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor

Details

At 35 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 200,360 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor Crafting Recipe

Plasteel×37

Pal Metal Ingot×37

High Quality Cloth×6

Cryogenic Coolant×12

Ancient Civilization Parts×3

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

Ore×333Crude Oil×74Paldium Fragment×74Pure Quartz×37Aquatic Pal Fluids×12Ice Organ×12High Quality Cloth×6Ancient Civilization Parts×3

Crafting it takes 95 materials across 5 types.

Where to Find Cold Resistant Plasteel 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 enemy camp boss stashes in the Sakurajima at 5.9% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 400 to 640, 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 Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor

The Technology tree hands you the plain Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor at level 54 for 5 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. The fastest route is sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Sakurajima, and the reason is the ladder rather than the top rung: that pool stocks every tier, so the common copies it hands you fuse upward into the one you want. Counting them, a top-tier Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor schematic works out at roughly 38 containers against the 94 the 4★ drop rate alone suggests. Spare low tiers are progress, not clutter. 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 Plasteel Armor Schematic 1	1★	Sakurajima camp stashes, Sakurajima camp loot, Sakurajima chests +3 more — best 5.9% (grade 5/6)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Plasteel Armor at 539 defense; step down and it is Heat Resistant Plasteel Armor at 520. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.

Plasteel Armor539Heat Resistant Plasteel Armor520

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

Heat Resistant Plasteel ArmorLightweight Plasteel ArmorPlasteel ArmorHeat Resistant Pal Metal ArmorCold Resistant Pal Metal ArmorHeat Resistant Refined Metal ArmorCold Resistant Refined Metal ArmorHexolite ArmorPal Metal ArmorCold Resistant Hexolite ArmorRefined Metal ArmorHeat Resistant Hexolite Armor