Metal Armor
Armor · ArmorBody0★Metal plating that trades some mobility for solid protection.
Metal Armor is an early body armour: 115th of 145 by defense, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 70 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Temperature Resist Cold1, Temperature Resist Heat1, 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 30 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 13,920 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Metal Armor Crafting Recipe
Ingot×30
Leather×10
Cloth×5
Ore×60
Wool×10Crafting it takes 45 materials across 3 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 30× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Metal Armor
Metal Armor is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Every Tier of Metal Armor
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 70 to 112, 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★ | Metal Armor (this one) | 70 | 250 | 700 |
| 1★ | Metal Armor | 91 | 325 | 1800 |
| 2★ | Metal Armor | 98 | 350 | 2200 |
| 3★ | Metal Armor | 105 | 375 | 2600 |
| 4★ | Metal Armor | 112 | 400 | 3000 |
What Metal Armor Does
Metal Armor grants Temperature Resist Cold1: Temperature Resist Cold +1.
Metal Armor grants Temperature Resist Heat1: Temperature Resist Heat +1.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Heat Resistant Pelt Armor at 72 defense; step down and it is Cold Resistant Pelt Armor at 67. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
