Pelt Armor
Armor · ArmorBody3★Built from Leather, with better insulation and better protection than the plain version.
Pelt Armor is an early body armour: 123rd of 145 by defense, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 52 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance 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 10 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby.
Pelt Armor Crafting Recipe
Leather×17
Ingot×17
Fiber×35
Ore×34
Wood×18Crafting it takes 69 materials across 3 types.
Where to Find Pelt 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 1) at 1.3% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Pelt Armor
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 35 to 56, 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★ | Pelt Armor | 35 | 140 | 300 |
| 1★ | Pelt Armor | 45 | 182 | 800 |
| 2★ | Pelt Armor | 49 | 196 | 1000 |
| 3★ | Pelt Armor (this one) | 52 | 210 | 1200 |
| 4★ | Pelt Armor | 56 | 224 | 1400 |
What Pelt Armor Does
Pelt Armor grants Cold Resistance Lv. 1: Temperature Resist Cold +1.
Pelt Armor grants Attack Up (S) Lv. 3: Shot Attack +9.
Schematics That Unlock Pelt Armor
The Technology tree hands you the plain Pelt Armor at level 12 for 2 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 enemy camp loot in the Grasslands, 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 Pelt Armor schematic works out at roughly 104 containers against the 195 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Pelt Armor Schematic 3 | 3★ | Treasure map digs (tier 1), Grasslands camp loot, Grasslands sea base camp loot +5 more — best 1.3% (grade 2/3/4/5) · Supply drops in the Grasslands (0.46%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Pelt Armor at 56 defense; step down and it is V1 Armor at 51. 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:
