Pal Metal Helm

Details

At 15 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 42,000 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Pal Metal Helm Crafting Recipe

Pal Metal Ingot×25

Paldium Fragment×25

Ancient Civilization Parts×2

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

Ore×100Paldium Fragment×75Pure Quartz×25Ancient Civilization Parts×2

Crafting it takes 52 materials across 3 types.

Where to Find Pal Metal Helm

The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is chests in the Snowfields at 7.7% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Pal Metal Helm

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 150 to 240, 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.

Schematics That Unlock Pal Metal Helm

The Technology tree hands you the plain Pal Metal Helm at level 46 for 4 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 Pal Metal Helm 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
Pal Metal Helm Schematic 1	1★	Snowfields chests, fishing in Snowfields, Snowfields camp loot +2 more — best 7.7% (grade 5/6) · Supply drops in the Snowfields (16.69%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Pal Metal Helm at 210 defense; step down and it is Hallowed Headgear at 182. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.

Pal Metal Helm210Hallowed Headgear182

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

Refined Metal HelmHallowed HeadgearHallowed HelmetHallowed HoodHallowed MaskMetal HelmBowler HatDazzi HatExplorer CapFarming HatGolden CrownGraduation Cap