Common Shield

Details

It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot.

Common Shield Crafting Recipe

Paldium Fragment×10

Wood×20

Stone×20

Fiber×10

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

Wood×25

stone×20Paldium Fragment×10

Crafting it takes 60 materials across 4 types.

Where to Find Common Shield

Common Shield is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.

Using Common Shield Well

No special bench is involved. The Primitive Workbench you built in the first ten minutes takes this recipe, and so does every general-purpose bench above it — High-Quality Workbench, both Production Assembly Lines, the Advanced Workshop and the Ancient Workbench. Nothing about the shield line ever forces you to keep an old bench standing, which is not true of the weapon and Pal-gear families.

The 100 shield is not a fourth of a health bar you have to heal back — it refills itself once you stop taking hits, which at level 4 is the only self-repairing defence you own. That changes how you fight rather than how long you survive one fight: back off between exchanges, let it fill, re-engage. Against a chip-damage source (a pack of low-level Pals, an alpha's ranged pokes) it can absorb the whole encounter; against anything that hits for more than 100 in one swing it buys you exactly one mistake.

Build it the moment you hit level 4, because nothing replaces it for a very long time. The next rung, Mega Shield (Mega Shield), is a level 16 technology, so this 100-point buffer is the whole of your shield slot across twelve levels — the entire first-boss stretch. Two technology points is the cheapest defensive purchase available at that level, and the recipe is four base-tier gathers with no ingot, no bench upgrade and no schematic.

The shield ladder climbs steeply and unevenly once it starts: 100 here, 260 on Mega Shield at level 16, 540 on Giga Shield at 29, 1,045 on Hyper Shield at 43. Every one of those rungs is a 2-3 point technology, so the shield line is one of the best point-for-point returns in the tree — worth budgeting for at each of those four levels rather than saving up for later.

Every Tier of Common Shield

The same piece exists at 6 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: durability runs 1000 to 22000, a 22x 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.

Alternatives and Upgrades

This is the floor of the shield class on shield strength. Mega Shield is the next step up at 260 — worth switching to as soon as you can craft or find one.

Mega Shield260

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

Mega ShieldGiga ShieldHyper ShieldUltra ShieldUltra ShieldAdvanced ShieldAncient Shield