Last updated: September 8, 2026 — updated for Palworld patches v1.0.3 and v1.0.4. v1.0.3 (August 12) doubled Fiber from trees, updated World Tree Holy Water, and more. v1.0.4 (September 7) fixed Ancient Material Synthesizer bugs. Changes are noted throughout.
All Palworld resources and materials span everything from the wood you chop on day one to the Paloxite Ingots gating the best endgame gear. Knowing what each material is, where to find it, how to farm it efficiently, and what it unlocks is the backbone of solid progression. This guide breaks down every material by category — raw resources, Pal drops, processed goods, ore and ingots, and the new 1.0 endgame materials — so you always know what to farm next.
TL;DR
- Materials fall into five groups: basic raw resources, Pal drops, processed/crafted goods, ores and ingots, and 1.0 endgame materials.
- Automate Wood, Stone, Fiber, and Ore at your base early — manual farming doesn’t scale past Level 25. [v1.0.3] Trees now drop double the Fiber per chop.
- Coal, Sulfur, and Pure Quartz gate mid and late game crafting — farm them in the desert and Astral Mountains.
- New 1.0 materials like Soralite and Paloxite require a Plasma Multicutter to harvest and are locked to new regions.
- Ancient Civilization Core is the top-tier drop — farm it from boss fights.
- The Ancient Material Synthesiser lets you craft rare materials like Chromite and Coralum at your base in 1.0. [v1.0.4] Collision and work-speed persistence bugs are now fixed.
- [v1.0.3] World Tree Holy Water weight reduced to 0.1, yields increased, and new sources added — expeditions, World Tree fishing, and the Large Fishing Pond.
Basic Raw Resources
These are the foundation of everything. You’ll use every one of them from your first hour to the endgame. Automate as many as possible early with base Pals and production buildings.
Wood
Harvested from any tree using an axe. Best automated with a Logging Site (unlocked at Level 7) — assign a Lumbering Pal and you produce 500+ wood per hour passively. A Lumbering Level 3+ Pal like Wursect, Wumpo, or Cryolinx speeds this up significantly. Wood feeds structure crafting, Charcoal production, Nails, and much more throughout the entire game. See our guide on how to get Hardwood for the upgraded version.
Stone
Mined from rocky terrain using a Pickaxe. Automated with a Stone Pit (Level 7). Used in nearly every structure, Cement, and early tools. Always keep a large surplus. Stone Pits with Mining Pals assigned generate it passively without you touching a rock.
Fiber
Drops from trees when you chop them. [v1.0.3] The amount of Fiber obtained from trees was doubled in the August 12, 2026 patch, so each chop is now significantly more productive than it was at launch. Used in tools, early structures, and some clothing recipes. You’ll naturally accumulate plenty from routine wood farming. For a direct guide, see our page on how to get Fiber in Palworld.
Paldium Fragments
Mined from small blue-glowing stones using a Pickaxe. Each stone drops around 10 fragments. Follow the starting beach west along the cliffs for a fast early farming loop with 20+ deposits in about 5 minutes. Paldium Fragments are the primary ingredient for Pal Spheres of all tiers, plus the Summoning Altar and other key structures.
Pal Drop Materials
These come from defeating or capturing Pals. Some can also be passively generated by assigning the right Pals to a Ranch. Each material has specific Pals that drop it — always check the Paldex entry once you capture a Pal to see what it can produce.
Leather
Dropped by many Pals including Foxparks, Eikthyrdeer, and Vixy. Can also be purchased from Wandering Merchants early on. Used in armor crafting throughout the game. For a dedicated farm setup, see our Leather farm guide.
Wool
Sheared from sheep-type Pals including Lamball, Cremis, and Melpaca. Place these Pals at a Ranch for passive Wool generation. Wool crafts into Cloth (2 Wool at any Workbench), which is used in clothing, armor, and beds. You’ll need it constantly through mid-game.
Bone
Dropped by skeleton and undead-type Pals. Also needed as an ingredient in Cement (Tech Level 19 — 50 Stone + 1 Bone + 1 Pal Fluid). Bone is often a crafting bottleneck for players who push to Level 19 quickly without farming it in advance.
Horn
Dropped by horned Pals like Eikthyrdeer and Fenglope. Used in specific armor and tool recipes. Sold by Wandering Merchants as a fallback if you’re short.
Flame Organ
Drops from Fire-type Pals such as Foxparks, Rooby, and Arsox. Used in flamethrowers, fire arrows, and several Fire-based tech items. Fire Pals at Fisherman’s Point are a good mid-game source, or set up kills in the Mount Obsidian biome.
Electric Organ
Drops from Electric-type Pals including Sparkit, Jolthog, and Rayhound. Used in electric equipment and machinery. The area around Duneshelter is a great spot — Sparkit, Jolthog, and Mossanda Lux all spawn nearby.
Ice Organ
Drops from Ice-type Pals. Used in Ice-based weapons and technology. Astral Mountains is the best biome for farming Ice-type Pals in bulk.
Venom Gland
Drops from Poison-type Pals. Used in toxin-related crafting recipes and some weapon upgrades. Farm from Fuddler, Viperquil, or Lyleen Noct.
Pal Fluids
Dropped by Water-type Pals. Essential for Cement crafting (1 Pal Fluid per batch). Best farmed from aquatic Pals near rivers and coastlines. See our dedicated guide on how to farm Aquatic Pal Fluids.
High Quality Pal Oil
One of the most important mid-game materials. Drops from oily Pals like Dumud, Digtoise, and Flambelle. Cannot be crafted — only farmed. Used to make Polymer, which feeds into Rifles, advanced spheres, and high-tier production buildings. Check our best High Quality Pal Oil farm guide for the most efficient method.
Ancient Civilization Parts
Drop from Tower Bosses, Alpha Pals, and Lucky Pals. Also occasionally found in dungeon chests. Used to craft Shields and many of the best gear pieces in the game. Farm these from boss fights and dungeons regularly. See our guide on how to get Ancient Technology Points to unlock the tech tied to these parts.
Processed and Crafted Materials
These are made at your base using raw inputs. Most are bottlenecked by specific ingredients — plan your farms around whichever ones you’re short on.
Cloth and High Quality Cloth
Cloth is made from 2 Wool at any Workbench. Used for clothing and armor across the whole game. High Quality Cloth requires Wool from higher-tier sources and is used in endgame armor sets.
Charcoal
Made by burning 2 Wood in a Furnace. Used to produce Gunpowder and Carbon Fiber. Easy to stockpile — just burn excess Wood.
Gunpowder
Crafted from Charcoal and Sulfur. The core ingredient for all firearms ammo. Once you unlock guns, Sulfur farming becomes a priority.
Nails
Crafted from 1 Ingot at any Workbench to produce 2 Nails. Used in a huge range of structures. Automating Nail production early saves a lot of time.
Cement
Unlocked at Tech Level 19. Made from 50 Stone + 1 Bone + 1 Pal Fluid at a High Quality Workbench. One of the earliest progression bottlenecks. Stock up on Bone and Pal Fluids before you hit Level 19.
Carbon Fiber
Unlocked at Tech Level 35. Made from 2 Coal (or 5 Charcoal) at a Production Assembly Line. Used in high-tier equipment. Requires a steady Coal supply — see our Coal farming tips below.
Polymer
Unlocked at Tech Level 33. Made from 2 High Quality Pal Oil at a Production Line. Essential for Rifles, advanced Pal Spheres, and higher-tier production buildings. Can also be dropped by Jetdragon. See our guide on how to get Crude Oil for related material needs.
Circuit Board
Made from 4 Pure Quartz + 2 Polymer at a Production Assembly Line. Used in some of the most advanced machines in the game, including the Sphere and Production Assembly Line II.
Corrosive Solvent
A mid-game processed material used in weapons, lightweight armor, and saddles. See our full guide on how to get Corrosive Solvent.
Cryogenic Coolant
Used in advanced crafting recipes in the mid-to-late game. See our guide on how to make Cryogenic Coolant.
Wooden Boards and High Quality Wooden Boards
Wooden Boards are crafted at the Workshop Assembly Line from Wood. Many buildings that previously used raw Wood now require Wooden Boards in Palworld 1.0, so automating this early matters. High Quality Wooden Boards require Hardwood and are used in advanced buildings like the Drafting Table and Large Fishing Pool. See our guide on how to get Wooden Boards for the full breakdown.
Ores and Ingots
Ores are mined from the world and smelted into Ingots at a Furnace. Each tier of Ingot gates a new tier of gear and structures. Always have a mining base running near ore clusters.
Ore and Ingot
Ore is the first thing to automate. Found in speckled stones throughout the map — each vein drops 30+ Ore. Smelt at a Furnace to make standard Ingots. Used for Nails, basic gear, and most early structures. Build your main mining base on a dense Ore cluster and assign high-level Mining Pals to it.
Coal and Refined Ingot
Coal is found in the desert and volcanic regions. Combine with Ore in an Improved Furnace to produce Refined Ingots. Automate with the Coal Quarry (Level 37). A strong early coal location is the desert area near Alpha Suzaku, where multiple nodes cluster together. Refined Ingots are required for mid-game weapons and structures.
Pure Quartz and Circuit Boards
Pure Quartz comes from black rocks with white protrusions. Best mined in the Astral Mountains, where nodes cluster and cold-resistant gear is required. Automate with the Quartz Quarry (Level 52). Used mainly for Circuit Boards and electric-tech builds.
Sulfur and Gunpowder
Sulfur appears in yellow-hued rocks in the desert and volcanic zones. A popular automated farm spot is around coordinates (-743, -442). Automate with the Sulfur Quarry (Level 46). Sulfur feeds directly into Gunpowder — once you unlock firearms, you need a steady supply. Some good Sulfur spots also include Pure Quartz nodes nearby, letting you farm both at once.
Pal Metal Ore and Pal Metal Ingot
Found in desert canyons and frozen peaks. Smelted at a Furnace into Pal Metal Ingots — a key alloy that incorporates Paldium. Required for the best weapons and armor before the 1.0 endgame tier unlocks. Often called Pal Metal Ingot in recipes for high-end guns and armor sets.
Plasteel
A higher-tier processed metal used in advanced weapons and some armor. Part of the mid-to-late game crafting chain feeding into guns and heavy-tier items.
Palworld 1.0 New Materials
The 1.0 update added a full new tier of materials tied to the Sunreach and World Tree regions. These are the hardest to farm but feed into the best gear in the game.
Hardwood
Harvested from special trees on the Sunreach floating islands. Can also be farmed on Sakurajima Island, which makes it accessible before unlocking the full 1.0 content. Automate with Logging Site II (Level 43). Used in High Quality Wooden Boards and advanced structures. See our full guide on getting Hardwood.
Chromite
One of the trickiest materials to farm. It cannot be mined normally — you need a Metal Detector (unlocked at Level 56) to locate deposits, primarily inside Feybreak dungeons. Bringing a Smokie Pal increases the amount of Chromite per deposit. Smokie’s saddle lets you activate its ability to detect Chromite without relying on the tool. See our Chromite farming guide for the full method. Combined with Hexolite Quartz to make the Hexolite alloy.
Hexolite Quartz and Hexolite
Hexolite Quartz is found as large rainbow-colored crystals on the surface of specific islands — easy to spot due to their shimmering appearance. Mine them with the Plasma Multicutter. Combine with Chromite to produce Hexolite, used in early endgame gear, Powerful Fishing Magnets, and components for Thermal Cores.
Coralum Ore and Coralum Ingot
Coralum Ore cannot be mined from the ground. You get it by crafting Powerful Fishing Magnets and using them to salvage floating debris around Feybreak Island. Coralum Ingots are used for some of the best weapons in the game (including the Rocket Launcher), several workstations like the Ancient Furnace, and unlocking water bases via the Aquatic Construction Kit. See our guide on how to get Coralum in Palworld.
Soralite Ore and Soralite Ingot
Soralite is exclusively found on the Sunreach floating islands in the southeastern corner of the map. Look for blue-glowing deposits and mine them with the Plasma Multicutter. Without the Plasma Multicutter unlocked from the Technology tab, you can’t harvest it — unlock it first before making the trip. Smelt Soralite Ore and Pure Quartz together at the Ancient Furnace to make Soralite Ingots. At Level 72 you can unlock the Soralite Quarry in the Ancient Technology tree to mine it passively at your base.
Soralite Ingots are one of the most important crafting materials in all of Palworld 1.0 — they appear in dozens of endgame recipes including the Laser Sword, Tactical Grenade Launcher, Heavy Assault Rifle, and most high-tier armor. See our guide on how to get Soralite and Soralite Ingots.
Paloxite Ore and Paloxite Ingot
Paloxite is found exclusively in the World Tree region. Head east until you reach the Dusty Ravine Watchtower and look for deposits with a distinct pink glow. The Plasma Multicutter is required to harvest it. Important: Paloxite nodes shatter and vanish when you approach, so you need to mine them immediately rather than walking directly up to them.
You also need to be under the effect of World Tree Holy Water to harvest Paloxite. Paloxite Ingots are crafted at the Ancient Furnace (Level 66 unlock) using Soralite, Paloxite, and World Tree Holy Water. Used in top-tier gear including Ancient Spheres and the Wing Pack. See our guide on getting Paloxite.
World Tree Holy Water
Required to harvest Paloxite and other World Tree resource nodes, and a crafting ingredient in Paloxite Ingots, the Ancient Relic Recycler, the Ancient Hot Spring, and several other late-game items. Every unit must come from inside the World Tree biome — it cannot be crafted, mined, or purchased.
[v1.0.3 — August 12, 2026] Several changes were made to make Holy Water significantly less of a bottleneck:
- Weight reduced from 1.0 to 0.1 — carry a large stockpile without it eating into your inventory.
- Buff duration extended — each unit lasts longer, covering more node harvesting per drink.
- Amounts increased from both World Tree Pal drops and Teafant Springs.
- New sources added — Holy Water now drops from World Tree expeditions, World Tree fishing spots, and the Large Fishing Pond.
The best farming spots are Teafant Springs (small glowing fountains that give 5–10 free Holy Water per interaction) and Level 70+ World Tree Pal kills, which drop it at roughly a 50% rate. See our full World Tree Holy Water farming guide for the best loop.
Mythical Wood
Found in the forest region south of the Dusty Ravine Watchtower in the World Tree area. The trees there produce Mythical Wood when cut. No special tool required — just standard woodcutting equipment. You also need a Pal with the World Tree passive to harvest it from nodes. Used in advanced late-game structures.
Ancient Civilization Core
The top crafting material in the game. The easiest and most reliable way to get it is to defeat bosses — every boss kill rewards Ancient Civilization Cores. Used for crafting AI Cores and Ancient Technology items. See our dedicated Ancient Civilization Core farming guide.
AI Core
The highest-tier crafting component. Unlocked at Level 67, crafted at the Advanced Workshop using Computers, Soralite Ingots, Thermal Cores, and Ancient Civilization Cores. Used for the Wing Pack, Ancient Armor, advanced weapons, and the most powerful endgame structures. See our Wing Pack guide for one of the main uses.
Ancient Material Synthesiser
New in Palworld 1.0, the Ancient Material Synthesiser is a base building that lets you craft rare materials like Chromite and Coralum directly without farming them from the world every time. Build it at your base, power it, and assign a high-level Mining Pal (Level 6+ Mining) for Ore-based materials or a high-level Lumbering Pal (Level 6+ Lumbering) for Wood-based materials. The better your assigned Pal, the faster the output. This is a major quality-of-life upgrade for endgame material farming.
[v1.0.4 — September 7, 2026] Two bugs in the Ancient Material Synthesiser were fixed in the September 7 patch: its collision model was incorrect, and its work speed multiplier was not being reapplied after resuming a saved game — meaning the machine ran slower than intended every time you logged back in. Both issues are now resolved, so the Synthesiser should perform consistently across sessions.
Hallowed Bars (Terraria Crossover)
A special crafting material from the Tides of Terraria crossover update. Hallowed Bars are only found inside the Sealed Realm of Terraria dungeon — from clay pots, chests, golden walls, and the Eye of Cthulhu boss. Used to craft Terraria-themed weapons and armor including the Terra Blade, Terraprisma, Excalibur, and the Hallowed Armor set. See our full Terraria Dungeon guide for all the loot details.
Quick Farming Priority Guide
Not sure what to farm next? Here’s a simple order to follow as you progress:
- Early game (Level 1–20): Automate Wood, Stone, and Fiber immediately — Fiber yield per tree is doubled since v1.0.3. Farm Paldium Fragments from blue rocks. Collect Wool, Leather, and Bone from Pals. Hit Level 19 with Cement ingredients already stocked.
- Mid game (Level 20–40): Set up Ore and Coal mining bases. Start farming High Quality Pal Oil for Polymer. Push for Pure Quartz in the Astral Mountains. Unlock Carbon Fiber and Circuit Boards.
- Late game (Level 40–60): Begin Chromite farming via Metal Detector in Feybreak dungeons. Farm Hexolite Quartz and Coralum. Unlock Hardwood from Sakurajima trees before Sunreach.
- Endgame (Level 60+): Unlock Plasma Multicutter and farm Soralite in Sunreach. Clear the World Tree questline and start farming Paloxite, World Tree Holy Water (now lighter and more abundant since v1.0.3), and Mythical Wood. Build the Ancient Material Synthesiser to automate rare material production — its bugs are fixed as of v1.0.4.
For more help with base setup and progression, see our guides on best Pals for farming, how to assign Pals to work, best stats to level up first, and all village and town locations for merchant shopping when you’re short on supplies. Palworld is available on Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, and via the Pocketpair website.
