Looking to craft the best armor set in The Forge? While most players focus heavily on weapons in this popular Roblox mining experience, armor is just as crucial to your success. When push comes to shove, strong protection matters just as much as damage. That’s exactly why I’ve put together this list of the best armor recipes in The Forge.
The Best Armor Recipes in The Forge
The armor system in The Forge is not particularly complicated. For example, there are no penalties for wearing heavy armor, as you would normally see in RPGs, such as becoming slower or having less stamina due to being cumbersome. Instead, they just outright give you better defense and health buffs, making it an obvious choice.
Why would you not wear a heavy armor set when there are no penalties to it - just straight-up better stats? With that in mind, let's see what the best The Forge crafting recipes for armor are, including the best Chestplate, the best Helmet, and the best Leggings.
| Armor | Crafting Recipe | Multiplier & Chance | Stats & Traits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Chestplate | x20 Darkryte x13 Demonite x6 Mythril | Multiplier: 5.60x Chance: 73 | Base Defense: 280 Traits: ▪️Shadow's Phantom Step: 15% chance to dodge damage. ▪️Demon's Backfire: +25% chance to burn enemies for 20% weapon damage when you take damage. ▪️20% burn for 2 seconds with a 15% chance on-hit ▪️5.13% Vitality |
| Heavy Helmet | x12 Darkryte x8 Demonite x6 Mythril | Multiplier: 5.41x Chance: 51 | Base Defense: 203 Traits: ▪️Shadow's Phantom Step: 15% chance to dodge damage. ▪️Demon's Backfire: +25% chance to burn enemies for 20% weapon damage when you take damage. ▪️20% burn for 2 seconds with a 15% chance on-hit ▪️10.33% Vitality |
| Heavy Leggins | x12 Darkryte x10 Demonite x8 Mythril | Multiplier: 5.29x Chance: 49 | Base Defense: 231 Traits: ▪️Shadow's Phantom Step: 15% chance to dodge damage. ▪️Demon's Backfire: +25% chance to burn enemies for 20% weapon damage when you take damage. ▪️20% burn for 2 seconds with a 15% chance on-hit ▪️12.75% Vitality |
These The Forge armor recipes offer the highest base defense across every set piece, on top of insanely powerful passive traits. Since all the burn passives stack, you’ll quite literally become a walking inferno, melting everything around you to ashes while staying fully protected with massive defense and boosted health.
Best End Game Armor Recipes in The Forge
While the recipes above are excellent overall, a few tweaks can make them even better for specific late-game builds. Here, I shift the focus away from raw base defense and toward boosting your maximum health, allowing you to increase your damage with Eye Ores without sacrificing HP. That’s the core idea, so let’s jump straight to the recipe table before diving into the details.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The Uranium trait is one of the few traits in the game whose effect caps at 5% and doesn’t stack beyond that. Because of this, you should only use it on a single armor piece (the helmet is the best choice), since there’s no benefit to applying it to every slot.
| Armor | Crafting Recipe | Multiplier & Chance | Stats & Traits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Chestplate | x18 Mythril x10 Eye Ore x10 Obsidian | Multiplier: 3.3x Chance: 71 | Base Defense: 166 Traits: ▪️+15% Vitality ▪️+12.51% Weapon Damage ▪️-8.34% Health ▪️+25.03% VItality |
| Heavy Helmet | x9 Mythril x9 Uranium x9 Obsidian | Multiplier: 2.96x Chance: 47 | Base Defense: 109 Traits: ▪️+15% Vitality ▪️+5% Max HP as AoE Damage ▪️+30% VItality |
| Heavy Leggins | x12 Mythril x10 Eye Ore x8 Obsidian | Multiplier: 3.36x Chance: 49 | Base Defense: 148 Traits: ▪️+15% Vitality ▪️15% Weapon Damage ▪️-10% Health ▪️+25% VItality |
As you can see, this build gives up a good chunk of raw defense in exchange for massively boosting your maximum HP. The goal is to get a free damage boost from Eye Ore while stacking HP to turn Uranium’s +5% Max HP into AoE damage. Since every other trait stacks, you effectively become a walking tank, capable of soaking up absurd amounts of damage without even noticing it.
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Fast Armor Set
First off, shoutout to MistPC on The Forge Discord for coming up with this build. The goal here is to create a bulky, high-defense character that still stays fast and agile. As mentioned earlier, The Forge has no heavy armor penalties, so running a bulky set won’t slow you down at all. With that said, let's check out these "fast" The Forge armor recipes.
| Armor | Crafting Recipe | Multiplier & Chance | Stats & Traits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Chestplate | x17 Darkryte x13 Demonite x13 Lightite | Multiplier: 5.54x Chance: 79 | Base Defense: 277 Traits: ▪️Shadow's Phantom Step: 15% chance to dodge damage. ▪️Demon's Backfire: +25% chance to burn enemies for 20% weapon damage when you take damage. ▪️15% chance on-hit to deal 20% weapon damage over 2 seconds ▪️15% Bonus Movement Speed |
| Heavy Helmet | x9 Darkryte x8 Demonite x9 Lightite | Multiplier: 5.5x Chance: 51 | Base Defense: 206 Traits: ▪️Shadow's Phantom Step: 15% chance to dodge damage. ▪️Demon's Backfire: +25% chance to burn enemies for 20% weapon damage when you take damage. ▪️15% chance on-hit to deal 20% weapon damage over 2 seconds ▪️15% Bonus Movement Speed |
| Heavy Leggins | x10 Darkryte x10 Demonite x10 Lightite | Multiplier: 5.47x Chance: 49 | Base Defense: 239 Traits: ▪️Shadow's Phantom Step: 15% chance to dodge damage. ▪️Demon's Backfire: +25% chance to burn enemies for 20% weapon damage when you take damage. ▪️15% chance on-hit to deal 20% weapon damage over 2 seconds ▪️15% Bonus Movement Speed |
As you can see, this build is quite similar to the first one, but swapping in Lightite shifts the focus toward speed instead of extra HP. It’s an excellent option if you prefer active movement in combat over pure tanking, letting you reposition more easily in fights and move through the map faster overall.
With that said, my guide has come to an end. In my opinion, these are the three best armor recipes that you can craft in The Forge. Of course, there are other possibilities as well, and I encourage you to do some of your own experimentation, as this game is all about forging your own gear. Last but not least, while you're here, don't forget to check out our The Forge Weapon Tier list.
The Forge Armor Recipes FAQ
Using 40 ore in a crucible gives you an 84% chance to craft a Heavy Chest. However, that setup isn’t ideal for the builds we discussed earlier.
Heavy Leggings are one of the hardest armor pieces to obtain in the game, and a 49% success rate (using 30 ore) is actually the highest chance you can get for crafting a set.
Using 26 ore gives you a 51% chance to craft a Heavy Helmet, which lines up closely with the amounts we use in the builds above.
Darkryte and Demonite are the best core ores to use, with other ores added as needed depending on what you’re trying to achieve with your build.
Nikola is a Senior Staff Writer at Pro Game Guides with over 13 years of experience in gaming journalism. He has been playing video games since his father bought him an NES and a Sega Mega Drive in the early 1990s. Over the years, he has mainly become a PC gamer with a love for narrative-driven RPGs, real-time strategy games, and psychological/survival horror titles. Still, he enjoys any game that’s worth his time.
