Phantom Blade Zero Broadplate Metal Locations

Stack by stack, this list was built on a PS5 run for Map Master, and the Phantom Blade Zero weapon upgrade guides and maps follow Soul’s other metals. Past level 10, Polished Broadplate Metal takes over, so this page covers the climb from level 1 to 10.

Phantom Blade Zero Broadplate Metal Upgrade Costs: Sanguine Reach to Level 10

Broadplate Metal upgrades two-handed blades and nothing else, and it’s reported to take them up to level 10. Sanguine Reach is the first one you’ll own, a long blade built for wide sweeps, and the Sanguine Reach and other two-handed weapons compare it with the ones that drop later.

Going from level 1 to 3 is reported to cost 6 Broadplate, 3 Solvent, and 2,700 Remnant Dust, and level 4 another 4 Broadplate, 2 Solvent, and 2,160 Dust. That’s 10 metal and 5 of the Solvent every weapon shares by level 4, so the Thorn Brute clearing’s three free Solvent cover level 3 but not level 4.

Weeping Creek Valley Broadplate Metal in Phantom Blade Zero: Open From the Start

Plenty of the valley’s stacks need nothing but a walk. A chest and a pipe end on the third floor of the Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base give a pair each once the Powderkegs are dealt with, and there’s more in the river chest north of The Axemaster’s Fall Bell, at the end of the lower terrace, in the cave behind the Madwoman, in the chest under the Waterfall Bridge Bell, and beside Hui’s Grave.

The hanging bags need the Feather Bow: one on the tower’s fourth floor, one in a bamboo tree, and one in a withered tree, two pieces each. The last pair is in the back room of the Peddler’s Shop, which opens only after Old Man Gen in the Village of Lu starts the Leave None Alive Tale, and the Purge the Sect and Leave None Alive Tales cover both.

Crimson Forest Broadplate Metal in Phantom Blade Zero: Stacks of Eight

Every Crimson Forest stack is eight pieces: by the corpses in front of the wooden wall, on a corpse at the barricade, at the end of the plateau outside Cliffside Lodge, and on the lower path near the bridge below the clearing where you fight Jing Ye, The Outlaw. The Crimson Forest map for Phantom Blade Zero places each one.

Quick Hand Zhang sells 12 more at 1,040 Remnant Dust each, 12,480 for his whole stock, while the valley Peddler has six at the same price. With eight-piece stacks lying around the forest, neither shelf is needed early, and the Peddler’s and Zhang’s metal prices show what else that Dust can buy.

Phantom Blade Zero Broadplate Metal in the Village of Lu, Pangzhen, and the Mandate Encampment

The Village of Lu’s Broadplate comes in stacks of 12, alongside a pair of the refined Polished Broadplate Metal for levels past 10. The Village of Lu map for Phantom Blade Zero places each stack, and this is where a two-handed blade makes a big jump toward level 10.

Pangzhen has a stack of ten, and the Mandate Encampment has stacks of nine and nineteen, a big single pile for a late climb toward level 10. The Pangzhen & Mirage Estate map for Phantom Blade Zero and the Phantom Blade Zero Mandate Encampment map place both regions’ stacks.

Buy or Find Broadplate Metal in Phantom Blade Zero? Dust and Refunds

Skip the Peddler’s Broadplate if you sweep the valley first. Buying his six costs 6,240 Remnant Dust, the same Dust that pays for Solvent, skills, and every other upgrade, and enemies don’t respawn to replace it. Buy only when a level is a piece or two short.

Levels under 10 are reported to refund for free, metal and Dust included, so trying a two-handed blade costs nothing in the long run. Past level 10, getting Polished metal back is reported to take a Weapon Reforge Talisman for high-level blades, which Zhang sells for 2,000 Dust.