Ankheg Plate Mail

Ankheg Plate Mail is a rare type of body armor. It's crafted from the shell of an Ankheg and as a result is bright green. Ankheg armor is as strong as Full Plate Mail, but as light as Studded Leather Armor. It has an armor class of 1 and offers protection modifiers of +1 against piercing and missiles and +3 against slashing attacks. This plate mail can be worn by druids. This piece of body armor is better than most of the plate mails in terms of protection, but all pieces of full plate mail are better, but all of them weigh more. It requires a strength of 8 to wear it. This item appears in Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.

In Baldur's Gate, to get your hands on a set of Ankheg Plate Mail, slay an Ankheg and take its shell to Taerom Fuiruim at the Thunderhammer Smithy in Beregost. He will charge 4000 GP for him to craft the shell into armor. Come back about 10 days later, to collect your shiny new armor. At a farm patch in Nashkel, you can find another set of ankheg armor.

To obtain this armor in Baldur's Gate II, bring a shell to Cromwell in the Athkatla Dock District. He will charge you 5000 gold to make the armor and you need to help him for a day. You can do this more than once.

In-game description
"This plate mail has been expertly crafted for you by Taerom Fuiruim of Beregost. Sheathed in the chitinous scales of the Ankheg, it provides a greater degree of protection than traditional plate mail and is not susceptible to rust. As any world-weary adventurer will tell you, however, the best appreciated aspect of ankheg mail is its light weight and low encumbrance. Monsters come and go but fatigue is a constant enemy."