Lightweight Hexolite Armor

Details

At 40 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 697,200 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Lightweight Hexolite Armor Crafting Recipe

Hexolite×150

Plasteel×30

High Quality Cloth×15

Corrosive Solvent×15

Ancient Civilization Parts×5

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

Chromite×150Hexolite Quartz×150Ore×150Crude Oil×60High Quality Cloth×15Sulfur×15Venom Gland×15Ancient Civilization Parts×5

Crafting it takes 215 materials across 5 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 150× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.

Where to Find Lightweight Hexolite 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 5) at 3.7% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Lightweight Hexolite Armor

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 600 to 780, a 1.3x 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 Lightweight Hexolite Armor

The Technology tree hands you the plain Lightweight Hexolite Armor at level 65 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. Two routes to the top-tier Lightweight Hexolite Armor schematic, and they are not measured in the same thing: about 33 kills hunting it directly from paladius (alpha), or roughly 70 containers farming the 3★ copy from sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Feybreak 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
Lightweight Hexolite Armor Schematic 2	2★	Treasure map digs (tier 5), Crates on the large oil rig — best 3.7% (grade 5)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Heat Resistant Hexolite Armor matches it exactly at 690 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 720; below it is Hexolite Armor at 667.

Heat Resistant Hexolite Armor690Hexolite Armor667

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

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