Plasteel Armor
Armor · ArmorBody3★Plasteel construction that raises defense while cutting weight, sitting at the edge of what the technology can do.
Plasteel Armor is 51st of 145 body armours by defense, at 577 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance Lv. 1, Heat Resistance Lv. 1, 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 266,590 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Plasteel Armor Crafting Recipe
Plasteel×52
Pal Metal Ingot
High Quality Cloth
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×468
Crude Oil×104
Paldium Fragment×104
Pure Quartz×52Crafting it takes 117 materials across 4 types.
Where to Find 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 loot in the Sakurajima at 10.6% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Plasteel Armor
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 385 to 616, 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★ | Plasteel Armor | 385 | 1300 | 18000 |
| 1★ | Plasteel Armor | 500 | 1560 | 27000 |
| 2★ | Plasteel Armor | 539 | 1690 | 36000 |
| 3★ | Plasteel Armor (this one) | 577 | 1820 | 54000 |
| 4★ | Plasteel Armor | 616 | 1950 | 72000 |
Schematics That Unlock Plasteel Armor
The Technology tree hands you the plain Plasteel Armor at level 51 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 loot 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 Plasteel Armor schematic works out at roughly 24 containers against the 47 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Plasteel Armor Schematic 3 | 3★ | Sakurajima sea base camp loot, Treasure map digs (tier 4), Sakurajima camp loot +5 more — best 10.6% (grade 5/6) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Hexolite Armor sits just above it at 580 defense — only 3 more, close enough that it is a sidegrade rather than an upgrade. The next real step is V2 Armor at 600; below it is Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor at 560.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
