Pal Metal Armor
Armor · ArmorBody3★Forged from Pal Metal Ingot, it carries enormous weight in exchange for very high defense — gear that signals a hero's nerve.
Pal Metal Armor is 71st of 145 body armours by defense, at 330 against the 1,092 of Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor.
Wearing it also carries the effects Cold Resistance Lv. 1, Heat Resistance Lv. 1, Attack Up (S) Lv. 3, which matters more than the raw numbers in the biomes that punish you for the wrong outfit.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
At 40 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 78,370 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Pal Metal Armor Crafting Recipe
Pal Metal Ingot
Leather×35
High Quality Cloth
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×140
Paldium Fragment×70
Pure Quartz×35Crafting it takes 78 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 treasure map digs (tier 3) at 4.3% 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.
| Rarity | Item | Defense | HP | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Pal Metal Armor | 220 | 750 | 5000 |
| 1★ | Pal Metal Armor | 286 | 975 | 14000 |
| 2★ | Pal Metal Armor | 308 | 1050 | 18000 |
| 3★ | Pal Metal Armor (this one) | 330 | 1125 | 22000 |
| 4★ | Pal Metal Armor | 352 | 1200 | 26000 |
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. 3: Shot Attack +9.
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 3 | 3★ | Treasure map digs (tier 3), Snowfields camp loot, Snowfields sea base camp loot +2 more — best 4.3% (grade 5/6) · Supply drops in the Snowfields (0.67%) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Heat Resistant Pal Metal Armor at 350 defense; step down and it is Cold Resistant Pal Metal Armor at 325. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.
Other body armours at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
