Best Pals for Cooling: Ranks, Spawns, and Coolers

Cooling is the job that keeps your food from rotting, your desert base survivable and your eggs hatching, and only 38 of the game's 288 Pals can do it. This guide ranks all 38 by base Cooling level, lists the spawn counts, level bands and food costs behind each one, covers every structure that needs a chiller, and explains the rank 6 gate on the Ancient Furnace that almost nobody knows about.

Cooling at a Glance

Cooling is the third-narrowest of the twelve base jobs — only Farming's 29 Pals and Generating Electricity's 25 are smaller pools — and it is the only job in the game where every single Pal that has it shares one element. All 38 are Ice types, with no exceptions and no clever off-element pick. The other headline is the rank gate: six structures ask for a chiller and all six are happy with Cooling 1, so a rank 1 Pengullet legally runs your Refrigerator. The Ancient Furnace is the exception, and it is a big one.

What	Detail
Pals with Cooling	38 of 288 — the third-narrowest of the twelve base jobs
Rank ceiling	8 — held by one Pal, Bastigor
Rank spread	8×1 · 7×1 · 6×4 · 5×7 · 4×8 · 3×6 · 2×7 · 1×4
Element rule	All 38 are Ice Pals — no other element gets Cooling
Structures that need it	6, plus the Ancient Furnace as a special case
Rank those six ask for	Lv. 1 across the board — no ordinary Cooling structure has a rank gate
The hidden gate	The Ancient Furnace wants Kindling 6 and Cooling 6 at the same time
Most common chiller	Pengullet — 1,125 spawn points at Cooling 1
Best rank per food	Univolt Cryst — Cooling 6 on an appetite of 3
Cheapest chiller of all	Foxparks Cryst — Cooling 2 on an appetite of 1
Speed levers	+40% from the research lab's Cooling line, +1 rank from a handbook, a Snowman, four passive slots
Bargain of the lab	The Cooling speed line costs 570,000 work — every other job's costs 5,750,000 or more

Best Cooling Pals in Palworld

These 13 are every Pal at Cooling 5 or better. Read the food column next to the rank column, because Cooling's top end is expensive to feed: Bastigor and Frostallion both eat 9, the joint-highest appetite in this list, and Univolt Cryst delivers Cooling 6 on an appetite of 3. Below the top four, pick by the second job — Wumpo adds Lumbering 5 and Transporting 6, Icelyn adds Handiwork 5 and Medicine Production 4, and either one turns a single base slot into two jobs' worth of output.

Pal	Cooling	Other jobs it does	Food	How to get it
Bastigor	8	Lumbering 6 · Mining 5	9	69 spawn points, Lv. 75-80 — catching is the only route, it breeds from nothing but itself — Bastigor spawn map
Frostallion	7	—	9	No ordinary spawns — one Lv. 60 legendary fight, and it also breeds only from itself — Frostallion location
Whalaska	6	Watering 5	8	187 spawn points from Lv. 42, plus a Lv. 55 alpha — Whalaska spawn map
Whalaska Ignis	6	Kindling 5	8	112 spawn points at Lv. 71-80, plus a Lv. 74 alpha — Whalaska Ignis spawn map
Univolt Cryst	6	Lumbering 3	3	69 spawn points at Lv. 75-77, or 117 breeding pairs land on it — Univolt Cryst spawn map
Pierdon Cryst	6	Mining 5	8	50 spawn points at Lv. 68-69, half of them by the Azure Covenant Tower — Pierdon Cryst spawn map
Reptyro Cryst	5	Mining 5	7	133 spawn points, the widest spread at this rank — Reptyro Cryst spawn map
Mammorest Cryst	5	Lumbering 5 · Mining 4	6	84 spawn points from Lv. 36, mostly the Pristine Snow Field — Mammorest Cryst spawn map
Elgrove Cryst	5	Lumbering 3 · Mining 3 · Transporting 3	8	69 spawn points at Lv. 75-77 — Elgrove Cryst spawn map
Beakon Cryst	5	Gathering 2 · Transporting 5	5	69 spawn points at Lv. 75-77 — Beakon Cryst spawn map
Wumpo	5	Handiwork 3 · Lumbering 5 · Transporting 6	7	53 spawn points, 81% of them in the Land of Absolute Zero — Wumpo spawn map
Icelyn	5	Handiwork 5 · Medicine Production 4 · Transporting 2	5	38 spawn points, 84% of them in the Land of Absolute Zero — Icelyn spawn map
Moldron Cryst	5	Mining 5	8	No ordinary spawns — one Lv. 78 alpha, or 57 breeding pairs — Moldron Cryst location

Bastigor Is the Only Cooling 8 and You Have to Catch It

Bastigor is the single Cooling 8 in the game and it is unusually reachable for a best-in-slot worker: 69 spawn points in the Lv. 75-80 band, no boss fight required. The catch is that breeding cannot shortcut it — the only pair in the game that produces a Bastigor is Bastigor plus Bastigor, so the first one has to come off the map. It is worth the trip for more than the chiller job, because Lumbering 6 and Mining 5 ride along, and it doubles as a ground mount with a 1,100 sprint speed once you have the saddle at Lv. 73. Budget for the appetite of 9, though: this is one of the hungriest workers you can park in a base, so pair it with a stocked Cold Food Box rather than a basic feed box.

Frostallion Is Cooling 7 With Nothing Else Attached

Frostallion has zero ordinary spawn points — it exists as a single Lv. 60 legendary encounter, and like Bastigor it breeds only from itself. Cooling 7 is the second-highest in the game, but it is also Frostallion's *only* work suitability, so a base slot spent on it does one thing and nothing else. That is a real cost when Whalaska gives up one rank and hands you Watering 5 in exchange. The honest use for a Frostallion is as a flying mount — 1,800 sprint speed, sixth-fastest of the game's 115 mounts — with base duty as the side job when it is benched. It is also the best Ice Organ drop in the game at a guaranteed 10 per kill.

Univolt Cryst Is the Best Cooling Per Bite

Food is the quiet tax on every base, and Univolt Cryst pays the least of any serious chiller: Cooling 6 on an appetite of 3, against 8 or 9 for every other Pal at rank 6 or better. Over a long session that is the difference between a cake-and-salad pipeline and a base that feeds itself on berries. It spawns at 69 points in the Lv. 75-77 band and 117 different breeding pairs land on it, which makes it the easiest rank 6 to acquire deliberately rather than by luck. If you only ever tame one Cooling Pal for a permanent base, make it this one — the Palworld breeding calculator will show you which of your current pair options gets there.

Whalaska and Whalaska Ignis Cover Two Jobs Each

Whalaska is Cooling 6 with Watering 5, and at 187 spawn points starting from Lv. 42 it is the earliest rank 6 chiller most players can realistically get — it covers the Cooler Box and the water wheel from one slot. Its Ignis variant is the more interesting Pal: Whalaska Ignis is the only Pal in the game carrying both Kindling and Cooling, which matters enormously for the Ancient Furnace below. Both are ground mounts, both eat 8, and both drop Ice Organ when you hunt them instead of catching them.

Every Structure That Needs Cooling

Six structures list a Cooling worker, and all six accept Cooling 1. The two that matter most on any base are the Cooler Box at Tech 13 and the Refrigerator at Tech 38, because both slow how fast the food inside them spoils — that is what lets you cook 40 cakes for a breeding run and still have them intact days later. The Cooler and Electric Cooler are the temperature ones: park either in a desert or volcano base and your Pals stop wilting, and you stop swapping armour every time you visit. The odd one out is the Cryogenic Crusher, a Tech 54 production station that takes Ore and converts it into other materials, and it needs 300 power on top of the chiller.

Structure	Tech	Cooling	Power	Materials	What it does
Cooler Box	13	Lv. 1	—	10 Ingot · 10 Stone · 2 Ice Organ	Small food vault — slows spoilage on everything inside
Cooler	18	Lv. 1	—	20 Ingot · 20 Stone · 5 Ice Organ	Drops base temperature — the fix for a hot-region base
Refrigerator	38	Lv. 1	50	50 Refined Ingot · 20 Polymer · 10 Cryogenic Coolant · 5 Circuit Board	Large food vault — the cake and salad store for breeding
Electric Cooler	42	Lv. 1	100	30 Refined Ingot · 10 Circuit Board · 10 Cryogenic Coolant	Much stronger cooling than the basic Cooler, wider range
Cold Food Box	51	Lv. 1	—	20 Pal Metal Ingot · 20 Plasteel · 15 Cryogenic Coolant	Feed box that keeps Pal food fresh — stops the rot cycle
Cryogenic Crusher	54	Lv. 1	300	50 Pal Metal Ingot · 30 Plasteel · 25 Cryogenic Coolant · 20 Corrosive Solvent	Crushes Ore into other materials — very efficient, power hungry
Ancient Furnace	66	Lv. 6	3,000	100 Coralum Ingot · 20 Thermal Core · 30 Computer · 10 Ancient Civilization Core	Smelts every ingot type — needs Kindling 6 and Cooling 6

The Ancient Furnace Wants Cooling 6, Not Cooling 1

This is the gate that catches people out. The Ancient Furnace melts with fire and solidifies with ice, so it runs two work types at once — and it asks for rank 6 in both, not the rank 1 every other Cooling station accepts. Exactly six Pals in the game clear the Cooling half, and only eight clear the Kindling half, so this one station quietly dictates two late-game catches. Plan for it before you spend 100 Coralum Ingot and 10 Ancient Civilization Cores on the build.

Pal	Cooling	Kindling	Verdict for the Ancient Furnace
Bastigor	8	—	The best ice half you can staff, and catchable at 69 spawn points
Frostallion	7	—	Clears it comfortably, but you are burning a legendary on a furnace slot
Whalaska Ignis	6	5	One rank short on fire — an Applied Kindling Handbook I fixes it and makes it the only Pal that covers both halves
Whalaska	6	—	Just clears it, and the easiest of the six to find early
Univolt Cryst	6	—	Clears it on an appetite of 3 — the cheapest body to leave standing there
Pierdon Cryst	6	—	Clears it and brings Mining 5 for the ore side of the pipeline

The neat trick is Whalaska Ignis. It is the only Pal in the game with both Kindling and Cooling on its sheet, and its Cooling is already 6 — so a single Applied Kindling Handbook I pushes its Kindling from 5 to 6 and it satisfies both halves of the furnace by itself. Everyone else has to be paired: a Cooling 6 from the table above, plus a Kindling 6 like Dupin or Jormuntide Ignis from the best Pals for Kindling list.

The Snowman Is a Free Cooling Speed Boost

The Snowman is not a station anyone works at — it is a decoration that passively speeds up every Cooling task on the base just by standing there. It unlocks at Tech 33 and costs 5 Ice Organ, 10 Wood and 5 Cloth, which makes it the cheapest permanent upgrade on this page by a wide margin. Pocketpair hasn't published the exact percentage, so don't build a plan around a specific number, but the in-game rule is explicit: a second Snowman does nothing. One per base, then spend the Ice Organ on Coolers instead. It also has 5,000 HP, so raiders will chew on it before they reach your Refrigerator.

Research, Handbook, and Passives

Every Pal starts on the same base work speed, so the levers are the research lab, the handbook, the Snowman and four passive slots — and the lab is where Cooling is absurdly good value. Five projects add +40% Cooling speed for 570,000 total work, while the equivalent line for Mining, Watering, Planting or Lumbering costs 5,750,000 and the ones for Handiwork and Kindling cost 17,250,000. Same lab, same kind of bonus, a tenth of the grind. The branch also carries the food-spoilage line (-30% in total), the egg-hatching line (+30%) and the Snowman unlock, which is why this is the first branch to clear if you breed at all.

Research project	Effect	Work cost	Needs
Cooling Storage Lv. 1	-10% food spoilage	5,000	—
Cooling Lv. 1	+10% Cooling speed	15,000	Cooling Storage Lv. 1
Snowman Development	Unlocks the Snowman	15,000	Cooling Lv. 1
Cooling Lv. 2	+5%	30,000	Snowman Development
Cooling Lv. 3	+5%	75,000	Cooling Lv. 2
Cooling Lv. 4	+10%	150,000	Cooling Lv. 3
Cooling Lv. 5	+10% — +40% in total	300,000	Cooling Lv. 4
Cooling Storage Lv. 2-4	-20% more spoilage, -30% in total	15,000 to 75,000	Cooling Lv. 1
Incubation Acceleration Lv. 1-4	+30% egg hatching speed	15,000 to 150,000	Cooling Storage Lv. 1
Cooling Research Tips Lv. 1-2	+20% lab research speed	15,000 + 30,000	Cooling Storage Lv. 1
Pals at Base Enhancement Lv. 1-3	+2% defense, +4% attack for base workers	100,000 to 300,000	Cooling Research Tips Lv. 2

The whole Cooling branch costs 1,670 Ice Organ, 70 Swee Hair and 421 Ancient Pal Manuscript in materials, which sounds heavy until you notice that the Pals you are catching for the job drop the Ice Organ themselves. After the lab, the Applied Cooling Handbook I is the direct upgrade — it permanently adds +1 Cooling to whichever Pal reads it, which is how a Cooling 5 becomes furnace-legal. Passives are the last multiplier, and they stack across all four slots.

Ice Organ: The Pals You Assign Also Build the Coolers

Ice Organ is the material behind the Cooler, the Cooler Box, the Snowman and — once refined into Cryogenic Coolant — the Refrigerator, Electric Cooler, Cold Food Box and Cryogenic Crusher. There's a tidy loop here: 31 Pals drop Ice Organ, and every single one of them is a Cooling Pal, so the exact species you hunt for the material are the ones you would otherwise be catching for the base. Every drop listed below is a 100% rate, so the only variable is how many you get per kill. Coolant itself is one Ice Organ plus one Aquatic Pal Fluids at the Production Assembly Line.

Pal	Ice Organ	Cooling	Where it lives
Frostallion	10 guaranteed	7	One Lv. 60 legendary — the biggest single haul in the game
Kingpaca Cryst	3-6	4	No ordinary spawns — a Lv. 46 alpha
Moldron Cryst	4-5	5	No ordinary spawns — a Lv. 78 alpha
Pierdon Cryst	4-5	6	50 spawn points at Lv. 68-69 — the best repeatable farm
Bastigor	2-5	8	69 spawn points at Lv. 75-80
Reptyro Cryst	3-4	5	133 spawn points — high volume, decent yield
Penking	1-3	2	313 spawn points from Lv. 15 — the early-game answer
Azurobe Cryst	1-3	4	259 spawn points from Lv. 50
Polapup	1-3	4	242 spawn points from Lv. 33
Foxcicle	2-3	4	187 spawn points from Lv. 15 — the cheapest farm before Lv. 40

Every Other Cooling Pal

These are the remaining 25, ranks 4 down to 1. None of them is a bad pick for an ordinary Cooler or Refrigerator, because those stations only ask for rank 1 — the difference is purely how fast the job finishes. Two stand out for reasons other than rank: Loupmoon Cryst has 461 spawn points, more than any other Cooling Pal above rank 2, and eats only 3; and Hangyu Cryst is the one night-only spawn in the whole list, so daytime searching for it is wasted effort. If you just want a body on a Cooler Box today, Pengullet has 1,125 spawn points from Lv. 2 and an appetite of 1.

Pal	Cooling	Other jobs	Food	Spawn points
Loupmoon Cryst	4	Handiwork 4	3	461 — Lv. 40-66, plus a Lv. 66 alpha
Azurobe Cryst	4	—	5	259 — Lv. 50-80
Polapup	4	Watering 3	4	242 — Lv. 33-45
Foxcicle	4	Farming 3	4	187 — Lv. 15-37, plus a Lv. 15 alpha
Frostplume	4	Gathering 2	5	100 — Lv. 39-68
Cryolinx	4	Handiwork 3 · Lumbering 4 · Transporting 4	7	39 — Lv. 36-49
Polapup Terra	4	Mining 4	4	26 — all of them on Suncrest Islet
Kingpaca Cryst	4	Gathering 2	4	None — a Lv. 46 alpha only
Munchill	3	Watering 2 · Transporting 1	3	228 — Lv. 10-45
Rayhound Cryst	3	—	4	145 — Lv. 35-77
Sweepa	3	Gathering 2	4	99 — Lv. 11-40, plus a Lv. 11 alpha
Reindrix	3	Lumbering 3	4	64 — Lv. 32-80
Sibelyx	3	Medicine Production 3 · Farming 3	5	48 — Lv. 36-45, plus a Lv. 40 alpha
Snugloo	3	Handiwork 2 · Mining 3 · Transporting 2	5	21 — Lv. 32-34
Hangyu Cryst	2	Handiwork 3 · Gathering 2 · Transporting 3	1	335 — night only, Lv. 32-40
Penking	2	Watering 2 · Handiwork 2 · Mining 3 · Transporting 3	4	313 — Lv. 15-44, plus a Lv. 15 alpha
Muffly	2	Transporting 1	3	270 — Lv. 15-65
Vanwyrm Cryst	2	Transporting 3	5	260 — Lv. 23-67
Chillet	2	Gathering 1	3	117 — Lv. 11-80, plus a Lv. 11 alpha
Foxparks Cryst	2	—	1	43 — 74% of them at the Unthawable Lake
Smokie Cryst	2	Gathering 2	3	8 — all on the Glacial Memento Islet
Pengullet	1	Watering 1 · Handiwork 1 · Transporting 1	1	1,125 — Lv. 2-45, the most common Cooling Pal alive
Swee	1	Gathering 1	1	100 — Lv. 7-34, and it drops the Swee Hair the lab wants
Jolthog Cryst	1	—	1	69 — Lv. 10-24
Mau Cryst	1	Farming 1	1	3 — the rarest Cooling Pal on the map

The Short Answer

Catch a Univolt Cryst and put it on your Refrigerator — Cooling 6 on an appetite of 3 is the best output-per-food deal in the job, and 117 breeding pairs reach it if the map is being stubborn. Go get Bastigor when you are in the Lv. 75+ band, because it is the only Cooling 8 and it brings Lumbering 6 and Mining 5 with it. Early on, don't overthink it: all six ordinary Cooling structures accept rank 1, so a Pengullet runs your Cooler Box on one food slot. And before your next catch, clear the lab's Cooling line — +40% work speed for 570,000 work is the cheapest speed research in the game, and it beats a two-rank upgrade on the Pal.

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