Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor

Details

At 40 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 138,050 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor Crafting Recipe

Pal Metal Ingot×60

Leather×60

High Quality Cloth×6

Cryogenic Coolant×10

Ancient Civilization Parts×5

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

Ore×240Paldium Fragment×120Leather×60Pure Quartz×60Aquatic Pal Fluids×10Ice Organ×10High Quality Cloth×6Ancient Civilization Parts×5

Crafting it takes 141 materials across 5 types.

Where to Find Cold Resistant Pal 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 treasure map digs (tier 3) at 1.7% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Using Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor Well

Technology level 50 and 5 points buy the plain Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor and nothing else — this legendary tier is not on the tech tree at all. It only appears in your craft list while the Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor Schematic (Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor Schematic 4) is sitting in your inventory. Spending the points and then hunting the tech list for the stronger version is the usual mistake — the paper is the gate, not the level.

The schematic is built, not found. Only the lowest paper (Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor Schematic 1) drops; every tier above it is a 5-to-1 merge, so 5 of the drop make one tier up, and the full climb to Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor Schematic 4 costs 125 copies of the base schematic. Each merge itself is trivial work — 1,000 units — so the whole cost is the hunt, not the bench time.

The three resistance passives are identical on every tier of this chest piece, from the plain version up: Cold Resistance Lv. 2, Heat Resistance Lv. 1, and Ice damage taken cut by 15%. The Lv. 1 heat line is the part people miss — this is not a snow-only piece, it takes the edge off a warm day too. What the legendary tier adds on top is a fourth passive worth +12 Shot Attack, where the first schematic tier only gives +3, so the ranged bonus scales harder across the ladder than the 250 → 400 defense does.

Budget the bench time before you start. This build order is 6,400,000 work against 200,000 for the plain Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor — 32 times the labour for one chest piece, doubling at every schematic tier. Stack your best Handiwork Pals on the bench and have all five materials in the box before you queue it, because the crafter will sit idle mid-job otherwise.

Cold Resistance Lv. 2 is the ceiling for this chain no matter which tier you craft. Cold Resistant Hexolite Armor and Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor carry Lv. 3 instead, so if raw survival in the deepest cold is the goal, those are the upgrade and 125 schematics spent here do not move that line. Pair this with a cold accessory if you are staying in the snow, and save the paper for the later chains otherwise.

Every Tier of Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 250 to 400, 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 Pal Metal Armor Does

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

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

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

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

Schematics That Unlock Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor

The Technology tree hands you the plain Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor at level 50 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 treasure map digs (tier 3), 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 Pal Metal Armor schematic works out at roughly 33 containers against the 59 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 Pal Metal Armor Schematic 4	4★	Treasure map digs (tier 3), Snowfields sea base camp stashes, Sakurajima camp loot +5 more — best 1.7% (grade 5/6) · Supply drops in the Snowfields (0.08%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Step up from here and you get Plasteel Armor at 500 defense; step down and it is Heat Resistant Pal Metal Armor at 400. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.

Plasteel Armor500Heat Resistant Pal Metal Armor400

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

Heat Resistant Pal Metal ArmorV1 ArmorHeat Resistant Refined Metal ArmorCold Resistant Refined Metal ArmorPal Metal ArmorHallowed Plate MailRefined Metal ArmorCold Resistant Metal ArmorHeat Resistant Metal ArmorMetal ArmorCold Resistant Pelt ArmorHeat Resistant Pelt Armor