Lightweight Plasteel Armor
Armor · ArmorBody3★An upgraded take on Plasteel Armor that raises how much the wearer can carry.
Lightweight Plasteel Armor is 45th of 145 body armours by defense, at 600 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance Lv. 1, Heat Resistance Lv. 1, Max Carrying Capacity Lv. 3, Attack Up (S) Lv. 3, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
At 35 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 278,690 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Lightweight Plasteel Armor Crafting Recipe
Plasteel×52
Pal Metal Ingot
High Quality Cloth
Corrosive Solvent
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×468
Crude Oil×104
Paldium Fragment×104
Pure Quartz×52
Sulfur×14
Venom Gland×14Crafting it takes 131 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Lightweight 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 sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Sakurajima at 7.2% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Lightweight 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.
| Rarity | Item | Defense | HP | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor | 400 | 1300 | 18000 |
| 1★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor | 520 | 1560 | 27000 |
| 2★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor | 560 | 1690 | 36000 |
| 3★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor (this one) | 600 | 1820 | 54000 |
| 4★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor | 640 | 1950 | 72000 |
Schematics That Unlock Lightweight Plasteel Armor
The Technology tree hands you the plain Lightweight Plasteel Armor at level 55 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 treasure map digs (tier 4), 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 Lightweight Plasteel Armor schematic works out at roughly 56 containers against the 97 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Lightweight Plasteel Armor Schematic 3 | 3★ | Sakurajima sea base camp stashes, Treasure map digs (tier 4), Sakurajima camp stashes +1 more — best 7.2% (grade 5) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Heat Resistant Plasteel Armor matches it exactly at 600 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 Plasteel Armor at 616; below it is Cold Resistant Hexolite Armor at 600.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
