Craft one, not one per player. In this jacket you lose your sights, so it belongs on whoever stays inside on raid night, and each spare one is sheet metal parked in a box. Those sheets could have been a battering ram or a ring of high walls.
So learn it second. The heavy plate pants take a single sheet and leave your aim alone, so they get worn far more. One player learns both blueprints and crafts for the group; both sit at a Level 2 bench, well before the metal chest plate and its leather.
No bench makes a sheet, whatever the unfolded calculator shows, so the real bill here is a loot count. And keep spare jackets out of the recycler: it usually returns only half of the sheets.
Questions
Heavy Plate Jacket ×10: how many resources?
High Quality Metal ×40, Sheet Metal ×20.
Which workbench does Heavy Plate Jacket need?
Workbench level 2.
How long does Heavy Plate Jacket take to craft?
25 s for one, every step included.
How much scrap does researching Heavy Plate Jacket take?
