Sturdy Plating Upgrades

Description

Sturdy material used to upgrade armors even further.

This item is a crucial part of upgrading armor from level 5 to level 7 in the Smithing Station, which you can build for your base by going into the craft menu, clicking the Sorage and Utilities Option, and then searching for the Smithing Station in the Misc category.

You will need six Sturdy Platings to upgrade a piece of armor from level 5 to level 7.

You will also need to unlock this craft by unlocking the Advanced Smithing: Mighty Glob research for 2500 raw science after acquiring the Black Anthill BURGL chip.

How to Find this Item

Like with the Brittle Plating, there are two ways to get your hands on the Sturdy Plating. Both methods will require you to craft them at your base’s workbench. The two methods are:

1x Sap, 1x Ladybug Part
1x Sturdy Marble Shard

The first method requires the player to gather sap from woody areas of the grasslands, or by collecting sap from your base’s sap collector. You will also need to defeat Ladybug’s which are present throughout the grassy areas of the garden, marked with their red and black shells. From our experience, you can typically find Ladybugs near the Koi pond, along with the grassy area of the map. Feel free to climb ono higher ground so you can see these big beetles walking around.

The second method is via mining for Sturdy Marble Shards. These items are found in the cave areas or off the beaten path in Labs throughout the course of the game. You can typically find them in their bulky rock formations, or via being already broken into shards. There are three sturdy Marbles rocks avaialble early on, with players able to grab a few easily in the Old Anthill via the big rock near the Milk Molar and the SCA.B. You can also easily get one from The Broken Lazer cave as part of the Mysterious Machine quest, where you fight the red mites attacking the cable. There’s also some in the Hamster cave found near the rake. However, this is guarded by a Wolf and Orb Weavber spider, and a few Spiderlings, so players will need to be more prepared for that location.