Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor
Armor · ArmorBody3★An upgrade to Pal Metal Armor that handles cold climates.
Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor is 66th of 145 body armours by defense, at 375 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance Lv. 2, Heat Resistance Lv. 1, Ice Damage Reduction Lv. 1, Attack Up (S) Lv. 3, 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 40 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 118,030 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor Crafting Recipe
Pal Metal Ingot
Leather×52
High Quality Cloth
Cryogenic Coolant
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×208
Paldium Fragment×104
Pure Quartz×52
Aquatic Pal Fluids×8
Ice Organ×8Crafting it takes 121 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Cold Resistant Pal Metal 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 3) at 4.3% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 250 to 400, 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★ | Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor | 250 | 750 | 10000 |
| 1★ | Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor | 325 | 975 | 15000 |
| 2★ | Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor | 350 | 1050 | 20000 |
| 3★ | Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor (this one) | 375 | 1125 | 30000 |
| 4★ | Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor | 400 | 1200 | 40000 |
Schematics That Unlock Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor
The Technology tree hands you the plain Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor at level 50 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 3), 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 Pal Metal Armor schematic works out at roughly 33 containers against the 59 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 Pal Metal Armor Schematic 3 | 3★ | Treasure map digs (tier 3), Snowfields sea base camp stashes, Sakurajima camp loot +5 more — best 4.3% (grade 5/6) · Supply drops in the Snowfields (0.4%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Plasteel Armor at 385 defense; step down and it is Heat Resistant Pal Metal Armor at 375. The size of that step is what decides whether the crafting bill is justified yet.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
