Refined Metal Armor
Armor · ArmorBody2★Built from high quality metal — excellent protection, at the cost of considerable weight.
Refined Metal Armor is 93rd of 145 body armours by defense, at 210 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance Lv. 1, Heat Resistance Lv. 1, Attack Up (S) Lv. 2, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
At 35 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 55,300 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Refined Metal Armor Crafting Recipe
Refined Ingot
Leather×22
High Quality Cloth
Ancient Civilization Parts
Coal×90
Ore×90Crafting it takes 73 materials across 4 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 45× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Refined 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 sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Mount Obsidian at 8.9% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Refined Metal Armor
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.
| Rarity | Item | Defense | HP | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Refined Metal Armor | 150 | 500 | 1500 |
| 1★ | Refined Metal Armor | 195 | 650 | 4000 |
| 2★ | Refined Metal Armor (this one) | 210 | 700 | 5000 |
| 3★ | Refined Metal Armor | 225 | 750 | 6000 |
| 4★ | Refined Metal Armor | 240 | 800 | 7000 |
What Refined Metal Armor Does
Refined Metal Armor grants Cold Resistance Lv. 1: Temperature Resist Cold +1.
Refined Metal Armor grants Heat Resistance Lv. 1: Temperature Resist Heat +1.
Refined Metal Armor grants Attack Up (S) Lv. 2: Shot Attack +6.
Schematics That Unlock Refined Metal Armor
The Technology tree hands you the plain Refined Metal Armor at level 37 for 3 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 2), 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 Refined Metal Armor schematic works out at roughly 56 containers against the 97 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 |
|---|---|---|
 Refined Metal Armor Schematic 2 | 2★ | Mount Obsidian sea base camp stashes, Treasure map digs (tier 2), Mount Obsidian camp loot +13 more — best 8.9% (grade 3/4/5/6) · Supply drops in the Desert (2.11%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Pal Metal Armor at 220 defense; step down and it is Hallowed Plate Mail at 200. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
