Pal Metal Armor

Details

At 40 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 52,240 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.

Pal Metal Armor Crafting Recipe

Pal Metal Ingot×25

Leather×25

High Quality Cloth×2

Ancient Civilization Parts×2

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

Ore×100Paldium Fragment×50Leather×25Pure Quartz×25Ancient Civilization Parts×2High Quality Cloth×2

Crafting it takes 54 materials across 4 types.

Where to Find 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 enemy camp loot in the Snowfields at 10.5% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.

Every Tier of Pal Metal Armor

The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: defense runs 220 to 352, 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 Pal Metal Armor Does

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

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

Pal Metal Armor grants Attack Up (S) Lv. 1: Shot Attack +3.

Schematics That Unlock Pal Metal Armor

The Technology tree hands you the plain Pal Metal Armor at level 46 for 4 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 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
Pal Metal Armor Schematic 1	1★	Snowfields camp loot, Snowfields sea base camp loot, Snowfields chests +1 more — best 10.5% (grade 5/6) · Supply drops in the Snowfields (16.69%)

Alternatives and Upgrades

Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor sits just above it at 288 defense — only 2 more, close enough that it is a sidegrade rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Hallowed Plate Mail at 300; below it is Hallowed Plate Mail at 280.

Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor288Hallowed Plate Mail280

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

Cold Resistant Refined Metal ArmorRefined Metal ArmorHeat Resistant Refined Metal ArmorCold Resistant Metal ArmorHeat Resistant Metal ArmorCold Resistant Pal Metal ArmorHeat Resistant Pal Metal ArmorMetal ArmorHallowed Plate MailCold Resistant Pelt ArmorHeat Resistant Pelt ArmorPelt Armor