Lightweight Plasteel Armor
Armor · ArmorBody4★An upgraded take on Plasteel Armor that raises how much the wearer can carry.
Lightweight Plasteel Armor is 39th of 145 body armours by defense, at 640 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. 4, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
It feeds no other recipe, which makes it a terminal item: craft what you will actually carry and stop there.
Details
At 35 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 324,140 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Lightweight Plasteel Armor Crafting Recipe
Plasteel×60
Pal Metal Ingot
High Quality Cloth
Corrosive Solvent
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×540
Crude Oil×120
Paldium Fragment×120
Pure Quartz×60
Sulfur×16
Venom Gland×16Crafting it takes 152 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 treasure map digs (tier 4) at 1.0% 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 | 600 | 1820 | 54000 |
| 4★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor (this one) | 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 4 | 4★ | Treasure map digs (tier 4), Sakurajima sea base camp stashes, Sakurajima camp stashes +1 more — best 1.0% (grade 5) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Heat Resistant Plasteel Armor matches it exactly at 640 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 Lightweight Hexolite Armor at 660; below it is Hexolite Armor at 638.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
