There are 12 armor sets in Ghost of Yotei, and each one comes with its own collection of dyes that can often be applied to a matching helmet, hat, headband, or mask too. This guide walks through where to find every armor set, what it takes to fully upgrade each one, and how every dye looks once it’s on.
Game+ Note:
Starting a new game with Game+ unlocks a Mysterious Merchant near Atsu’s Home. This merchant sells two additional armor sets (Oyuki’s and Ina’s), along with weapon kits, armor pieces, shamisen dyes, charms, hats, and masks. All of these are purchased using Ghost Flowers, which you earn by replaying the game.
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Armour of the Undying
Description:
A curse passed on, an armour that stays death. Choose the right weapon, recover what is lost.
Comes with:
Helmet of the Prideful
Mask of the Prideful
Complete the “The Undying Samurai” Mission at Ishikari Plain:
-> Meet Storyteller Ugetsu at the location, where the flower is on the map
-> Find the four chimes in the yellow circle on the map, as shown in the screenshot below.
-> Find the lair: The entrance is by the coast. Look for spears with gear hanging from the top.
-> Cross the cave and crawl through the opening at the end.
-> Hang up the four chimes and defeat the samurai.
Upgrade 1:
650 Coin
Upgrade 2:
1,100 Coin
10 Textiles
30 Oni Raider Mask Pieces
Upgrade 3:
2,000 Coin
20 Textiles
10 Precious Metals
Full Upgrade
-> With Helmet of the Undying and Mask of the Undying
Effects
-> If weapon aligned, Staggering enemies restores a major amount of Health.
-> If weapon aligned, the window to perform Perfect Parry and Perfect Dodge is increased by a moderate amount.
-> If weapon aligned, Focus Attacks have a moderate chance to increase Stagger damage.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – Gilded Pride
Buy it for 15 flowers at Crimson Dye Beach, Ishikari Plain. Comes with mask and helmet dye.
2 – Grave Maker
Buy it for 15 flowers at the Black Dye House, Teshio Ridge. Only comes with additional helmet dye – no mask dye.
3 – Jade Dragon
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 15 flowers. Only comes with additional helmet dye – no mask dye
4 – Mountain Air
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 15 flowers. Comes with mask and helmet dye.
5 – Summit Snow
Starting Dye.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same helmet and mask dye, where available. Otherwise, with the starting dye.
Gilded Pride
Grave Maker
Jade Dragon
Mountain Air
Summit’s Snow
Bounty Master Armour
Description:
A hunter seeks challenge. A killer seeks precision. A bounty is won.
I received this armour after completing the Bounty: Soma the Condemned. Keep completing bounties to receive it.
Comes with: Bounty Master Headband and Bounty Master Mask
Upgrade 1:
650 Coin
Upgrade 2:
1,100 Coin
50 Young Bamboo
20 Textiles
Upgrade 3:
2,000 Coin
30 Textiles
20 Precious Metals
Full Upgrade
-> With Bounty Master Headband and Bounty Master Mask
Effects
-> Perfect Parry windows are increased by a major amount, but regular Parries are disabled.
-> A Perfect Parry enables 3 additional counterattacks.
-> All Spirit Gains are increased by a moderate amount.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – Cold Blood
Complete the Bounty: A Brokered Trust. Armour dye only. Headband and mask not included.
2 – Grand Hunter
Starting Dye.
3 – Mercy’s Burial
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 15 flowers.
4 – Prey’s Scent
Buy it for 15 flowers at Crimson Dye Beach, Ishikari Plain.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same helmet and mask dye, where available. Otherwise, with the starting dye.
Cold Blood
Grand Hunter
Mercy’s Burial
Prey’s Scent
Crimson Kimono
Description:
“A kimono stained red with blood. Imbued with a mother’s love to shroud its wearer from danger.”
Meet the storyteller at Sakuru Woods in the southeast of the Teshio Ridge region. He’s at the bright orange Mother Daughter Tree. This starts “The Crimson Kimono” quest.
Investigate the mother and daughter snow sculpture nearby. Then, follow the Yuki Mushi bugs to an Abandoned Camp. Examine a child’s doll and read the scroll.
Travel to the east of the Hakodake Mountains. You will know that you’re at the right place when you see the orange tree with the bugs swirling around it. Examine the Mother Daughter sculpture to summon the Yuki Mushi.
Follow them and fight the Nine Tails when they appear. Interact with the swarm to continue. They will lead you to a climbable wall up to an abandoned house. Examine the hunting gear near the tree stump, and inside, read the note.
The last stop to find the Crimson Kimono is the “Mountain House” in the southeast. Look for the Mother Daughter Tree here. Examine the sculpture and follow the snow bugs.
They will lead to a crawl space in the mountain towards the east. Enter the cave and keep following the bugs.
Exit the cave at the other side and pull down a branch to cross over to the next cave. Cross the second cave to find the Old Home. Enter the house and investigate the Kimono, the bloody shears on the floor, the sketches on the table. Head upstairs and read the note. Head to the nearby pond with the sculpture and interact with it.
The Yuki Mushi will then guide you uphill to a grave with a stone pile next to it, where the Crimson Kimono is hidden.
Upgrade 1:
650 Coin
Upgrade 2:
1,100 Coin
10 Textiles
30 Shinobi Steel
Upgrade 3:
2,000 Coin
20 Textiles
10 Precious Metals
Full Upgrade
-> With Crimson Kimono Mask.
Effects
-> Chain Assassinations can be performed with Kunai (max 2 Kunai thrown).
-> Enemy detection is reduced by a moderate amount.
-> Kusarigama Assassinations can be unleashed from further away. The distance is increased by a major amount.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – Burrowed Moss
Buy it for 15 flowers at the Green Dye House, Tokachi Range
2 – Daughter’s Regret
Starting Dye.
3 – Eclipsed Plum
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 15 flowers.
4 – Hidden Sakura
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 15 flowers.
5 – Stolen Sunflower
Buy it for 15 flowers from Ginji the Armourer.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same mask dyes.
Burrowed Moss
Daughter’s Regret
Eclipsed Plum
Hidden Sakura
Stolen Sunflower
Dragonfly Armour
Description:
“Daijiro’s armour, before forgoing the name Lord Furuya. A note reads: “May your arrows fly with the speed of a dragonfly.”
Save Daijiro from a Bounty Hunter at Cairn Forks, Tokachi Range. It’s a location by the southern river, east of Traveller’s Rest. He’s expecting you at Huranui’s Rest Inn further to the west.
Follow Daijiro into the inn to the attic to gamble with him. Win and defeat the Ronin. Then free Daijiro at a camp called Nupur River Campsite near Horusaru Falls. Ambush Saito’s men, together with Daijiro, at the same camp. Then return to Huranui’s Rest to receive the armour. He has his stash not far from the bounty board.
Comes with: Dragonfly’s Prey Helmet
Upgrade 1:
650 Coin
Upgrade 2:
1,100 Coin
10 Textiles
50 Young Bamboo
Upgrade 3:
2,000 Coin
20 Textiles
10 Precious Metals
Full Upgrade
-> With Dragonfly’s Rebirth Helmet and Dragonfly’s Kill Mask
Effects
-> Fully drawing your bow creates a brief, timed glint. Firing an arrow during the glint empowers your shot, majorly increasing its damage and range.
-> Firing an empowered Arrow grants a moderate amount of Concentration.
-> Increase Arrow reload speed by a major amount.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – A Breeze in Battle
Buy it for 8 flowers at the Green Dye House, Tokachi Range.
2 – Archer in the Water
Buy it for 8 flowers at the Blue Dye Merchant, Oshima Coast.
3 – Daijiro’s Gift
Starting Dye.
4 – Forgotten Rust
Buy it for 8 flowers from Ginji the Armourer.
5 – Victory’s Shine
Buy it for 8 flowers from any Ainu Merchant.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same helmet & mask dyes.
A Breeze in Battle
Archer in the Water
Daijiro’s Gift
Forgotten Rust
Victory’s Shine
Fundoshi
Description:
“The best revenge is cold and silent.”
Find and bathe in all Hot Springs of Ghost of Yotei to receive this armour.
No Upgrades, no Dyes
Effects
-> At the cost of warmth, running and sprinting no longer create noise.
How It Looks
… in the chilling snow…
Fundoshi
Ginji’s Guard Armour
Description:
“A prototype crafted by Ginji, the armourer, to protect its wearer from incoming gunfire.”
Find and talk to Ginji the Armourer at Benten Port, Oshima Coast.
He will tell you to meet him at the southeastern coast, by the bridge at the mouth of Oyobe River. He will ask you to retrieve his new armour from a tea house. You will hide in a barrel and be delivered to the tea house.
At the Joyo Tea House, defeat Saito’s men and free Ginji. Find the armour in one of the pots in the attic.
Comes with: Ginji’s Guard Helmet & Ginji’s Guard Mask
Upgrade 1:
650 Coin
Upgrade 2:
1,100 Coin
10 Textiles
10 Gun Parts
Upgrade 3:
2,000 Coin
20 Textiles
10 Precious Metals
Full Upgrade
-> With Ginji’s Guard Helmet & Ginji’s Guard Mask
Effects
-> Increase Tanegahima reload speed by a moderate amount.
-> Blocking deflects incoming bullets and grants a minor amount of Spirit.
-> Incoming projectiles inflict less damage by a massive amount.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – Gunfire Bulwark
Starting Dye.
2 – Silver Shield
Silver Shield: Buy it for 8 flowers at the White Dye Merchant at Yotei Grasslands.
3 – Sovereign’s Guard
Buy it for 8 flowers from Ginji the Armourer.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same helmet & mask dyes.
Gunfire Bulwark
Silver Shield
Sovereign’s Guard
Mercenary Attire
Description:
“A versatile outfit that hides both dust and blood.”
Follow the story and receive in the mission: Belly of the Beast
Comes with: Old Straw Hat and Mercenary’s Mask
Upgrade 1:
650 Coin
Upgrade 2:
1,100 Coin
10 Textiles
30 Oni Raider Mask Pieces
Upgrade 3:
2,000 Coin
20 Textiles
10 Precious Metals
Full Upgrade
Effects
-> Thrown Melee weapons deal increased damage by a moderate amount and grant a moderate amount of Spirit.
-> Assassinating an enemy has a guaranteed chance of dropping Sake.
-> Drinking Sake grants a major amount of additional Spirit.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – At First Light
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 8 flowers.
2 – Silver Shield
Buy it for 8 flowers at the Blue Dye Merchant, Oshima Coast.
3 – Bounty’s Den
Starting Dye
4 – Cutting Sand
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 8 flowers.
5 – Death’s Gamble
Buy it from Taro the Scavenger for 8 flowers.
6 – Duelling Harvest
Buy it from Taro the Scavenger for 8 flowers.
7 – Fallen Spring
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 8 flowers.
8 – Ginkgo’s Vengeance
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 8 flowers.
9 – Highest Bidder
Buy it from Taro the Scavenger for 8 flowers.
10 – Honourable Thief
Buy it from Ginji the Armourer for 8 flowers.
11 – Mist Blood
Buy it from Ginji the Armourer for 8 flowers.
12 – River Gem
River Gem: Buy it for 8 flowers at the Blue Dye Merchant, Oshima Coast.
13 – Salt Bite
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 8 flowers.
14 – Sly Bandit
Inside a box at the northern gates of Oshima Coast.
15 – Sly Hunter
Buy it from Taro the Scavenger for 8 flowers.
16 – Yotei’s Blessing
Complete all Reliquaries and their puzzle in Ghost of Yotei.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
The hat and mask are not dyeable.
At First Light
Blades on the Coast
Bounty’s Den
Cutting Sand
Death’s Gamble
Duelling Harvest
Fallen Spring
Ginkgo’s Vengeance
Highest Bidder
Honourable Thief
Mist Blood
River Gem
Salt Bite
Sly Bandit
Sly Hunter
Yotei’s Blessing
Nine Tail Armour
Description:
“Worn by the shinobi haunting Teshio Ridge. Designed for stealth and cunning.”
Follow the story until you need to enter the Nine Tail Hideout at Teshio Ridge in the quest “Blood on the Snow”. You need to reach the building above the main hideout house. Use the cypher to turn the statues in the right way and enter the building to find the armour.
Comes with: Nine Tail Acolyte Headband & Nine Tail Acolyte Mask
Upgrade 1:
650 Coin
Upgrade 2:
1,100 Coin
10 Textiles
30 Shinobi Steel
Upgrade 3:
2,000 Coin
20 Textiles
10 Precious Metals
Full Upgrade
-> With Nine Tail Mater Hat and Nine Tail Master Mask
Effects
-> Quickfire weapon damage and duration of status effects inflicted on enemies are increased by a moderate amount.
-> Assassinating enemies has a minor chance of granting 2 Quickfire ammo.
-> Enemy detection speed and Assassination noises are reduced by a major amount.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – Ambush at Dusk
Buy it from the White Dye Merchant in Yotei Grasslands for 8 flowers.
2 – Death of a Secret
Buy it for 8 flowers from Ginji the Armourer.
3 – Eyes in Smoke
Starting Dye.
4 – Fire in the Mountain
-Buy it for 8 flowers at Crimson Dye Beach, Ishikari Plain.
5 – Lair in the Deep
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 8 flowers.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same helmet & mask dyes.
Ambush at Dusk
Death of a Secret
Eyes in Smoke
Fire in the Mountain
Lair in the Deep
Onryo Armour
Description:
“The infamous armour of the vengeful ghost hunting the Yotei Six.”
Starting gear.
Comes with: Lone Wolf’s Straw Hat
Upgrades:
Follow the Gold Ginkgo Leaf story on the map to Upgrade.
Full Upgrade
-> With Lone Wolf’s Straw Hat and Onryo Mask
Effects
-> Quickfire weapon damage and duration of status effects inflicted on enemies are increased by a moderate amount.
-> Assassinating enemies has a minor chance of granting 2 Quickfire ammo.
-> Enemy detection speed and Assassination noises are reduced by a major amount.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – A Lady in Snow
Buy it from the White Dye Merchant in Yotei Grasslands for 20 flowers.
2 – Blood and Flies
Complete the game’s story.
3 – Curse in the Forest
Buy it for 20 flowers at the Green Dye House, Tokachi Range.
4 – Endless Sky
Buy it for 20 flowers from Ginji the Armourer.
5 – Lightning in the Dark
Buy it for 20 flowers at the Black Dye House, Teshio Ridge
6 – Lone Wolf
Starting Dye
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same helmet & mask dyes.
A Lady in the Snow
Blood and Flies
Curse in the Forest
Endless Sky
Lightning in the Dark
Lone Wolf
Robes for Sitturaynu
Description:
“Made by huci to help a lost hunter find their way.”
Meet Huci at Hushko Kotan, Nayoro Wilds, to start this quest.
Meet her at the top of the hill and follow her to Iwor Woods to investigate a robbery in Kaeka’s house. When prompted to talk to the husband, find him by the water. Then investigate the house. Look at the clothes hanger in the corner and the loom. Then, talk to Kaeka again.
Then, follow huci into the woods to investigate bark strips hanging on a tree. Follow the bark strips on a given path to a horse and a mountain path. You will now split up.
You get to climb the lower path. Look where huci is and climb up to her. Keep following her until you find dead wolves. Continue your climb and find huci with the thief.
Return to Husko Kutan to receive the armour. The Robes for Sitturaynu upgrades with found Ainu Items. Therefore, you have to find a total of 15 Ainu Items to upgrade the robes to the maximum. Visit Kaeka at Husko Kutan to upgrade. Here is a guide to all 30 Ainu Items in Ghost of Yotei.
Upgrade 1:
5 Ainu Items
Upgrade 2:
10 Ainu Items (total)
Upgrade 3:
15 Ainu Items (total)
Full Upgrade
-> With Traveller’s Dusk Hat
Effects
-> Fireflies and controller vibrations guide you to Altars of Reflection and Ainu Items when you are within a 100m distance.
-> Golden Birds can lead to Shamisen Songs, Sumi-e Painting locations, Pillars of the Fallen, and Dye Merchants.
-> Flowers have a major chance to be automatically collected when riding through white flower trails or stealthing through tall grass.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – By the Hearth
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 15 flowers.
2 – Clear Skies
Find all 30 Ainu Items in Ghost of Yotei.
3 – On the Hunt
Starting Dye.
4 – Resting Bear
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 15 flowers.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same hat dye.
By the Hearth
Clear Skies
On the Hunt
Resting Bear
Spider Lily Armour
Description:
“The armour of a general, lost to grief. All enemies fall to its bloodthirsty intent.”
To get this armor, go to the southern part of the Tokachi Range region. When you find a Mysterious Gate, approach it, and Ugetsu, the Storyteller, will appear to start “The Spider Lily General” quest.
Squeeze through the gap to investigate the Large Pagoda behind the gate. Follow the lit path and investigate the killed swordsmen on the way. Enter the Large Pagoda area – now identified as “Abandoned Tominaga Estate” and investigate the Pagoda to the right. There is a key inside a box.
Collect the key and the general appears, asking you to find your way home. The main gate in the area requires four keys. One from the Pagoda (just picked up), one from the Maze, one from the Gravestone, and the fourth from the Cave.
Head to the west, and you will encounter graverobbers. Defeat them and climb the ladder. Follow the path to the upper graveyard, where you will encounter some more grave robbers. Attack them, and the general will defeat them for you, leaving the gravestone key.
Return to the center of the Abandoned Tominaga Estate and head to the northeast. There is a lit entrance to the maze. Inside, you will also find the Misty Valley Bamboo Strike, which you can only use after you’ve defeated the maze. Always follow the path with the red flowers. Do this three times to find the maze key hanging on the Misty Valley Bamboo Strike.
Exit the maze (the two lamps mark the exit) and head to the east, where you will find the cave entrance. Talk to the Saito Outlaw at the cavern entrance. Enter the cave and follow the torches to a campfire. From there, follow the path upwards, where to can climb up, to a hole in the roof of the cave.
Here are the red spider lilies, leading to a crawl space. Squeeze through there and follow the red flowers into another cave, where you will hear a Saito Outlaw scream in agony. Descend to find a room with a child’s drawings. The cave key is in the note in this room.
Once you’ve collected all four keys, head back to the main gate to unlock it. Inspect the blood-soaked bed, then make your way to the courtyard and follow the trail of red flowers to a door. Open the door and step into what looks like a practice range. In the center, you’ll find another bloodstain to examine. After that, leave the range and follow the lamps to a barricade. Use your grapple to pull it open, squeeze through, and prepare to face the general.
Comes with: Spider Lily Headband
Upgrade 1:
650 Coin
Upgrade 2:
1,100 Coin
10 Textiles
25 Metals
Upgrade 3:
2,000 Coin
20 Textiles
10 Precious Metals
Full Upgrade
-> With Spider Lily Helmet and Spider Lily Mask
Effects
-> Enemies have a moderate chance to drop throwable weapons.
-> Stagger damage inflicted by melee weapons increases by a moderate amount.
-> Staggering an enemy has a moderate chance of dealing moderate Stagger damage to nearby enemies.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – Autumn Lily
Buy it for 15 flowers from Ginji the Armourer.
2 – Grief of a General
Starting dye
3 – Spring Lily
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 15 flowers.
4 – Summer Lily
Buy it from any Ainu Merchant for 15 flowers.
5 – Winter Lily
Buy it for 15 flowers at the Blue Dye Merchant, Oshima Coast.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same helmet & mask dyes.
Autumn Lily
Grief of a General
Spring Lily
Summer Lily
Winter Lily
Taro’s Armour
Description:
“An armour for the resilient survivor. Assembled by Taro from the fallen of Ezo.”
Once you build your own camp to rest, Taro the Scavenger will appear to offer his goods. At the end of the trade, he will give you this armour.
Upgrade 1:
650 Coin
Upgrade 2:
1,100 Coin
10 Textiles
25 Metals
Upgrade 3:
2,000 Coin
20 Textiles
10 Precious Metals
Full Upgrade
-> With Resilient Straw Hat.
Effects
-> All Spirit gains increased by a moderate amount when graced with a cooking bonus.
-> Maximum health increased by a moderate amount.
-> Fire and Cold damage reduced by a major amount.
Armour Dyes: Where To Find Them
1 – Flowers in the Sun
Buy it from Taro the Scavenger for 8 flowers.
2 – Memories Gone
Buy it for 8 flowers at the Black Dye House, Teshio Ridge.
3 – One More Day
Starting Dye.
4 – Scavenging the Dead
Buy it for 8 flowers from the White Dye Merchant in Yotei Grasslands.
5 – Tenacious Spirit
Buy it for 8 flowers from Ginji the Armourer.
Armour Dyes: How They Look
With the same hat dye.
Flowers in the Sun
Memories Gone
One More Day
Scavenging the Dead
Tenacious Spirit
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Release: October 2, 2025
Developer: Sucker Punch Productions
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
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