Hyper Shield

Details

It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot. At 41,040 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Hyper Shield Crafting Recipe

Ancient Civilization Parts×20

Paldium Fragment×100

Ingot×30

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

Paldium Fragment×100Ore×60Ancient Civilization Parts×20

Crafting it takes 150 materials across 3 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 100× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.

Where to Find Hyper Shield

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

Using Hyper Shield Well

This is the last shield you can build out of ordinary mining. The recipe is bulk Paldium, 30 Ingot and 20 Ancient Civilization Parts — no crafted intermediates at all. Every rung above it changes that: Ultra Shield (Ultra Shield) adds 30 Ancient Civilization Cores (Ancient Civilization Core) plus Plasteel and Bio Batteries, Advanced Shield (Advanced Shield) wants Hexolite and a Thermal Core on top of the same 30 Cores, and Ancient Shield (Ancient Shield) asks for Soralite Ingots and an AI Core. So the 20 Ancient Civilization Parts here are the whole price of admission, and a second Hyper Shield as a spare costs you nothing you cannot mine.

Budget bench time, not just materials. The build is 150,000 work — nearly four times the 40,000 that Giga Shield (Giga Shield) takes, and no shield in the game can be made from the handcraft menu, so it has to sit on a production line the whole time. Put it on your fastest line with your best Handiwork Pals before you log off rather than starting it when you need the shield. In exchange it is still the cheap end of the curve: Ultra Shield is 600,000 work and Ancient Shield is 10,000,000.

You will wear this longer than any shield before it. Giga Shield unlocks at 29 and Hyper at 43, but the next one is not until 55 — a twelve-level gap covering the whole back half of the tech tree, including the point where towers and raids start hitting for real. That makes the 3 technology points and the 20 Ancient Civilization Parts an easy yes even if you are hoarding parts for a saddle or a late gun.

Every shield in the game weighs exactly 5, from Common through Ancient. Upgrading a shield never costs you carry capacity, so there is no reason to keep an older one equipped once a better one is built — only a reason to keep it in a box as a backup while the new one is being repaired.

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

Step up from here and you get Ultra Shield at 1,520 shield strength; step down and it is Giga Shield at 540. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.

Ultra Shield1520Giga Shield540

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

Giga ShieldUltra ShieldUltra ShieldAdvanced ShieldMega ShieldCommon ShieldAncient Shield