Pal Metal Helm

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At 15 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 69,360 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Pal Metal Helm Crafting Recipe

Pal Metal Ingot×40

Paldium Fragment×40

Ancient Civilization Parts×5

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

Ore×160Paldium Fragment×120Pure Quartz×40Ancient Civilization Parts×5

Crafting it takes 85 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 treasure map digs (tier 3) at 1.7% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

One enemy answers this whole page: the boss of a sea base enemy camp in the Snowfields. Its stash pays the schematic outright — Rare 11.521%, Epic 2.304%, Legendary 0.461%, and no Uncommon grade at all — and since five copies of any grade fuse into one of the next, that is 1.38% of a finished Legendary per clear on its own. The same stash then hands over a tier 3 treasure map on 60% of clears, and the dig those maps mark is the richest pool in the game for this line at 10.684% Rare, 4.274% Epic and 1.709% Legendary, worth 2.99% a hole. Add the two together and a single clear plus its dig comes to about 3.18%, near 31 clears for the finished schematic. Nothing else is within a factor of two.

The runners-up are worth knowing only to rule them out, and the ranking is not what the raw table suggests, because every one of these pools runs an exact five-to-one ladder where the Uncommon grade you keep seeing is worth a hundred and twenty-fifth of the Legendary. Counted in finished Legendaries per container: Snowfields and Sakurajima supply drops 0.531%, Snowfields chests 0.247%, fishing in the Snowfields the same 0.247% — yes, this schematic is genuinely in the fishing table — ordinary Snowfields camp loot 0.223%, and Snowfields land camp boss stashes 0.217%. That last one climbs to about 1.53% once you count its 44% tier 3 map, still only half the sea base route. The desert sea base boss matches the Snowfields one on maps at 60% but never drops this schematic itself, so it lands at 1.79% a clear, roughly 56 clears. And the whole line is Snowfields-locked: outside the two supply drops it appears in no Sakurajima, Feybreak, Mount Obsidian or oil rig pool anywhere.

Using Pal Metal Helm Well

Unlike the Pal Metal chest piece, no grade of this helmet carries a single equipment passive — no temperature resistance, no attack bonus, nothing at any of the five rarities. The schematics buy raw numbers and only raw numbers, which is worth knowing before you commit: the same Snowfields sea base stash also rolls the Cold and Heat Resistant Pal Metal chest schematics, each at 0.276% for the Legendary against this helm's 0.461%, and those do carry resistances plus Attack Up. When both fall out of the same clear, the chest piece is the better build. The helm's own ladder costs 20/25/30/35/40 Pal Metal Ingot and the same count of Paldium Fragment, 0/2/3/4/5 Ancient Civilization Parts, and 120,000 work quadrupling to 480,000 then doubling to 3,840,000. Never craft an intermediate grade to tide you over — fusing five schematics into one costs nothing but the schematics, while an Epic build alone burns 4 Parts you cannot farm on demand.

Check your level before you spend the parts, because the window here is five levels wide and then it shuts hard. Pal Metal Helm unlocks at 46 and Plasteel Helmet at 51, and the plain Plasteel craft asks for no schematic and no Ancient Civilization Parts at all yet opens at 260 defence, 600 HP and 12 weight against this piece's 240, 560 and 15. It beats the Legendary on armour, on health and on the load you carry, and the entire Pal Metal schematic ladder — 195, 210, 225, 240 — sits under it. All you keep past 51 is 20,000 durability against Plasteel's 18,000, so this stays the head slot you wear while you are mining and hauling rather than fighting. If you are already past 50, bank the schematic and put the clears toward Hexolite at 60 instead.

This is the weight spike in the middle of the armour chain. Refined Metal Helm below it weighs 12 and Plasteel Helmet above it weighs 12, but every Pal Metal Helm from the plain craft to the Legendary hangs 15 on you — the same as Hexolite Helm and Ancient Helm, pieces with more than twice its defence. On a build that is already fighting its carry limit, those three points are the reason to skip straight from Refined Metal to Plasteel.

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 4	4★	Treasure map digs (tier 3), Snowfields sea base camp stashes, Snowfields chests +4 more — best 1.7% (grade 5/6) · Supply drops in the Snowfields (0.13%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Plasteel Helmet at 260 defense; step down and it is Pal Metal Helm at 225. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.

Plasteel Helmet260Pal Metal Helm225

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

Hallowed HeadgearHallowed HelmetHallowed HoodHallowed MaskRefined Metal HelmMetal HelmAuri HatAxel HatBjorn HatLily HatMarcus HatSaya Hat