Lightweight Plasteel Armor
Armor · ArmorBody0★An upgraded take on Plasteel Armor that raises how much the wearer can carry.
Lightweight Plasteel Armor is 64th of 145 body armours by defense, at 400 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance Lv. 1, Heat Resistance Lv. 1, Max Carrying Capacity 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 35 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 158,470 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Lightweight Plasteel Armor Crafting Recipe
Plasteel×30
Pal Metal Ingot
High Quality Cloth
Corrosive Solvent
Ore×270
Crude Oil×60
Paldium Fragment×60
Pure Quartz×30
Sulfur×8
Venom Gland×8Crafting it takes 73 materials across 4 types.
Where to Find Lightweight Plasteel Armor
Lightweight Plasteel Armor is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Every Tier of Lightweight 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.
| Rarity | Item | Defense | HP | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor (this one) | 400 | 1300 | 18000 |
| 1★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor | 520 | 1560 | 27000 |
| 2★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor | 560 | 1690 | 36000 |
| 3★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor | 600 | 1820 | 54000 |
| 4★ | Lightweight Plasteel Armor | 640 | 1950 | 72000 |
What Lightweight Plasteel Armor Does
Lightweight Plasteel Armor grants Cold Resistance Lv. 1: Temperature Resist Cold +1.
Lightweight Plasteel Armor grants Heat Resistance Lv. 1: Temperature Resist Heat +1.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Heat Resistant Plasteel Armor matches it exactly at 400 defense — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw defense, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Plasteel Armor at 500; below it is Plasteel Armor at 385.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
