Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor

Details

At 35 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 327,600 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor Crafting Recipe

Plasteel×60

Pal Metal Ingot×60

High Quality Cloth×10

Cryogenic Coolant×20

Ancient Civilization Parts×6

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

Ore×540Crude Oil×120Paldium Fragment×120Pure Quartz×60Aquatic Pal Fluids×20Ice Organ×20High Quality Cloth×10Ancient Civilization Parts×6

Crafting it takes 156 materials across 5 types.

Where to Find Cold Resistant Plasteel 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 loot in the Sakurajima at 1.1% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Using Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor Well

The research for this armor line sits at Level 54 and costs 5 Technology Points. Buying it once covers every rarity of the piece — the legendary schematic only decides which tier you may queue, so without the tech nothing in the line shows up in a crafting menu at all.

Nothing in this line can be made by hand. It needs a Production Assembly Line II or one of the benches above it — the Advanced Workshop or the Ancient Workbench.

The build order carries exactly twice the work of the rare tier and thirty-two times the work of the plain common version. It is one of the longest non-Ancient crafts in the game, so staff the line with your best Handiwork Pals before you commit the materials rather than after.

The passive package is Cold Resistance Lv. 2, Heat Resistance Lv. 1 and Ice Damage Reduction Lv. 1. The heat rating is real but small — enough to cross a warm stretch without swapping, not enough for the volcano — and the ice line cuts 15% off incoming Ice-element damage, which pays off against exactly the bosses that live in the snowfields this armor is for.

It out-defends the legendary plain Plasteel Armor — 640 physical defense against 616 — with identical HP, durability and weight. The only extra cost is 20 Cryogenic Coolant and about a third more work. If you are building a legendary Plasteel chest piece at all, this is the one to build, snow trip or not.

Defensively it is a mirror of the legendary Heat Resistant Plasteel Armor — same 640 defense, 1,950 HP and 72,000 durability — so the choice between them is purely which gauge you need capped. This one is the cheaper build of the pair: 20 Cryogenic Coolant against 40 Flame Organs.

This tier grants +12 shot attack, up from +9 on the rare version. Stepping up from rare is a damage gain as well as a defensive one, which is unusual for a chest piece.

Every Tier of Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 400 to 640, 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.

What Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor Does

Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor grants Cold Resistance Lv. 2: Temperature Resist Cold +2.

Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor grants Heat Resistance Lv. 1: Temperature Resist Heat +1.

Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor grants Ice Damage Reduction Lv. 1: Element Resist Ice +15.

Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor grants Attack Up (S) Lv. 4: Shot Attack +12.

Schematics That Unlock Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor

The Technology tree hands you the plain Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor at level 54 for 5 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 sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Sakurajima, 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 Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor schematic works out at roughly 38 containers against the 94 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
Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor Schematic 4	4★	Sakurajima sea base camp loot, Treasure map digs (tier 4), Sakurajima sea base camp stashes +6 more — best 1.1% (grade 5/6)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Lightweight Hexolite Armor at 660 defense; step down and it is Heat Resistant Plasteel Armor at 640. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.

Lightweight Hexolite Armor660Heat Resistant Plasteel Armor640

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

Heat Resistant Plasteel ArmorLightweight Plasteel ArmorPlasteel ArmorHeat Resistant Pal Metal ArmorCold Resistant Pal Metal ArmorV1 ArmorHeat Resistant Refined Metal ArmorCold Resistant Refined Metal ArmorHexolite ArmorPal Metal ArmorHallowed Plate MailCold Resistant Hexolite Armor