# Best Pals for Gathering: Ranks, Spawns, and Plantations

Every Gathering Pal ranked by work suitability — who holds the rank 8 ceiling, the seven Pals that reach rank 6 for the Ancient Farm, exact spawn counts and food costs, the Pal that hands your whole base +1 Gathering, and how to staff a plantation.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/guides/best-pals-for-gathering
Updated: 2026-08-10

Gathering is the job that pulls finished crops out of the ground, and 109 of the game's 288 Pals can do it — which is why almost nobody thinks about it until a plot stalls or the [Ancient Farm](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-ancient-farm) refuses their entire box. This guide ranks every Gathering Pal worth owning, lists the exact spawn counts and food costs for each, covers the Pal that raises your whole base by a rank, and shows how to staff a plantation so the harvest keeps coming while you're away.

## Gathering at a Glance

Gathering is the joint-second widest job in the game — 109 Pals have it, tying [Handiwork](https://palworld-db.com/best-pals/handiwork) and sitting behind only Transporting's 140 — but the top of the ladder is brutally thin. Exactly one Pal reaches rank 8, three reach 7, and three reach 6, so seven bodies out of 288 clear the bar the Ancient Farm sets. For everything below that the rank barely gates you at all: all seven standard plantations accept **Gathering Lv. 1**, so rank buys you harvest speed, not permission. That makes this a job where a common rank 5 usually beats a legendary rank 7 you have to breed twice for.

| What | Detail |
| --- | --- |
| Pals with Gathering | 109 of 288 |
| Rank ceiling | 8 — held by one Pal, [Jetragon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/jetragon) |
| Rank spread | 8×1 · 7×3 · 6×3 · 5×11 · 4×13 · 3×20 · 2×29 · 1×29 |
| What it runs | The harvest half of every plantation —  through , plus the  |
| Rank needed | **Lv. 1** for all seven standard plots · **Lv. 6** for the Ancient Farm |
| The other two jobs | A plot also needs Planting and Watering assigned, or it stalls forever |
| Speed booster |  at Tech Lv. 24 — raises gathering speed base-wide, and a second one does nothing |
| Permanent +1 | [Applied Gathering Handbook I](https://palworld-db.com/item/WorkSuitability_AddTicket_Collection) — 300 Dog Coins at the Medal Shop |
| First unlock | Tech Lv. 5 for the [Berry Plantation](https://palworld-db.com/structures?q=Berry%20Plantation), 2 Technology Points |

## Best Gathering Pals in Palworld

These are the only seven Pals at Gathering 6 or better, and four of them have no wild spawn points at all — you fight an alpha or you breed. The honest recommendation depends on what you need the slot for: if you are staffing an Ancient Farm, [Lyleen](https://palworld-db.com/pal/lyleen) is the pick because Planting 7 rides along on the same body and covers two of the farm's three jobs by itself. If you just want a fast harvester for ordinary plots, [Venusa](https://palworld-db.com/pal/venusa) is rank 6 on a small frame that eats 6 food, which is the cheapest way anyone gets to the top of this ladder. Note the appetites: [Jetragon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/jetragon), [Frostallion Noct](https://palworld-db.com/pal/frostallion-noct) and [Hartalis](https://palworld-db.com/pal/hartalis) all eat 9 per meal, the highest figure on this page.

| Pal | Gathering | Other jobs it does | Food | How to get it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Jetragon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/jetragon) | **8** | — (nothing else) | 9 | No field spawns · level 70 alpha, or breed two Jetragon together |
| [Frostallion Noct](https://palworld-db.com/pal/frostallion-noct) | 7 | — (nothing else) | 9 | No field spawns · level 65 alpha, or [Frostallion](https://palworld-db.com/pal/frostallion) × [Helzephyr](https://palworld-db.com/pal/helzephyr) |
| [Hartalis](https://palworld-db.com/pal/hartalis) | 7 | Lumbering 7 | 9 | No field spawns and no alpha — only breeds from a pair of Hartalis |
| [Starryon Primo](https://palworld-db.com/pal/starryon-primo) | 7 | — (nothing else) | 6 | **63 spawn points** — [see the Starryon Primo spawn map](https://palworld-db.com/map?pal=NightBlueHorse_Neutral) · also [Starryon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/starryon) × [Celesdir](https://palworld-db.com/pal/celesdir) |
| [Lyleen](https://palworld-db.com/pal/lyleen) | 6 | Planting 7 · Handiwork 5 · Medicine Production 5 | 8 | 42 spawn points plus a level 58 alpha — [Lyleen spawn map](https://palworld-db.com/map?pal=LilyQueen) |
| [Lyleen Noct](https://palworld-db.com/pal/lyleen-noct) | 6 | Medicine Production 7 · Handiwork 5 | 8 | 42 spawn points plus a level 58 alpha — [Lyleen Noct spawn map](https://palworld-db.com/map?pal=LilyQueen_Dark) |
| [Venusa](https://palworld-db.com/pal/venusa) | 6 | Handiwork 6 · Medicine Production 5 · Transporting 2 | 6 | 26 spawn points, no alpha needed — [Venusa spawn map](https://palworld-db.com/map?pal=SnakeGirl) |

### Jetragon — the Only Gathering 8 Pal

[Jetragon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/jetragon) owns the ceiling alone, and its sheet is completely clean: Gathering 8 and no second suitability, so once it's placed it never wanders off to another station mid-cycle. The problem is opportunity cost. Jetragon is also the fastest mount in the game at 3,300 ride sprint speed, and it is a rarity 20 legendary with zero field spawn points — one level 70 alpha, or a pair of Jetragon in the [breeding farm](https://palworld-db.com/breeding). Parking your only one on a berry plot to shave seconds off a harvest is a bad trade unless you already have a spare. It eats 9 food per meal on top, which is a real drain on a base that isn't already running a Ranch.

### Frostallion Noct and Hartalis — Rank 7 With a Price

Both are pure-harvest bodies with an ugly acquisition path. [Frostallion Noct](https://palworld-db.com/pal/frostallion-noct) is Gathering 7 with nothing else attached, available as a level 65 alpha or from [Frostallion](https://palworld-db.com/pal/frostallion) paired with [Helzephyr](https://palworld-db.com/pal/helzephyr) — another rarity 20 legendary spent on farm labour. [Hartalis](https://palworld-db.com/pal/hartalis) is stranger still: it has no wild spawn points and no alpha at all, so a pair of Hartalis breeding together is the only route in, and you cannot get that pair without already owning one. What Hartalis does bring that nothing else in this tier does is Lumbering 7 on the same body, so it covers your [logging site](https://palworld-db.com/guides/best-pals-for-lumbering) and your plantation from a single base slot. Both eat 9 food.

### Starryon Primo — the Rank 7 You Can Actually Catch

This is the one most players should chase. [Starryon Primo](https://palworld-db.com/pal/starryon-primo) is Gathering 7 with no competing suitability, it eats **6 food** rather than 9, and unlike the three Pals above it, it genuinely spawns in the wild — 63 points on the map, no alpha fight required. If you would rather breed it, [Starryon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/starryon) × [Celesdir](https://palworld-db.com/pal/celesdir) produces it, and both parents are easy catches at 178 and 1,613 spawn points respectively. Feed a caught Starryon Primo one [Applied Gathering Handbook I](https://palworld-db.com/item/WorkSuitability_AddTicket_Collection) and it works at rank 8 permanently, which matches Jetragon for a Pal you can find in an afternoon.

### Lyleen, Lyleen Noct, and Venusa — the Rank 6 Multitaskers

The rank 6 trio is where the Ancient Farm crew actually comes from. [Lyleen](https://palworld-db.com/pal/lyleen) is the single best body you can put on a farm because Planting 7 and Gathering 6 covers two of the three required jobs, leaving you only a waterer to find — that's one slot saved on every plot. [Lyleen Noct](https://palworld-db.com/pal/lyleen-noct) swaps the planting for Medicine Production 7, so it's the pick if your base is also brewing [medical supplies](https://palworld-db.com/guides/best-pals-for-medicine-production). [Venusa](https://palworld-db.com/pal/venusa) is the sleeper: rank 6 on a Small frame at 6 food, with Handiwork 6 attached and no alpha to beat — just 26 spawn points to find. All three sit far below the legendaries in rarity and cost roughly two-thirds as much to feed.

## Best Gathering Pals You Can Catch Early

Below rank 6 the ladder stops mattering much and availability takes over, and one Pal dominates the whole conversation. [Omascul](https://palworld-db.com/pal/omascul) is Gathering 5 with **no other suitability at all**, a Small footprint, 5 food a meal, and **1,621 spawn points** — the second-highest count of any Gathering Pal in the game. You will trip over them, they never get pulled to a different station, and one handbook puts them at rank 6, which is Ancient Farm legal. Three Omascul is a complete harvest crew for the price of three captures. After that, look at what else the body does: [Shaolong](https://palworld-db.com/pal/shaolong) carries Watering 8 alongside Gathering 5, so it covers two farm jobs on its own, and [Tropicaw](https://palworld-db.com/pal/tropicaw) pairs Gathering 5 with Planting 5 for the same reason at a fraction of the food. Avoid [Gildane](https://palworld-db.com/pal/gildane) and [Roujay](https://palworld-db.com/pal/roujay) if your Feed Box is thin — both eat 8.

| Pal | Gathering | Other jobs it does | Food | Spawn points |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Omascul](https://palworld-db.com/pal/omascul) | 5 | — (nothing else) | 5 | **1,621**, plus a level 60 alpha — [Omascul spawn map](https://palworld-db.com/map?pal=MysteryMask) |
| [Gildane](https://palworld-db.com/pal/gildane) | 5 | — (nothing else) | 8 | 351 — Scorched Hill (75), Hidden Passage to the Oculus Gate (73), Loess Plains (65) |
| [Braloha](https://palworld-db.com/pal/braloha) | 5 | Planting 5 · Mining 3 | 7 | 247 — Isle of Murmurs (43), Isle of Silence Church Ruins (41) |
| [Starryon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/starryon) | 5 | — (nothing else) | 6 | 178 — Loess Plains (74), Wildlands Floodgate (51), plus a level 63 alpha |
| [Verdash](https://palworld-db.com/pal/verdash) | 5 | Handiwork 5 · Planting 4 · Lumbering 3 | 6 | 83 across Sakurajima, plus a level 35 alpha |
| [Shaolong](https://palworld-db.com/pal/shaolong) | 5 | **Watering 8** | 9 | 63 — covers two of the three plantation jobs alone |
| [Tropicaw](https://palworld-db.com/pal/tropicaw) | 5 | Planting 5 | 6 | 50 — Azure Covenant Tower Entrance (26), The Azure Tapestry (24) |
| [Maraith](https://palworld-db.com/pal/maraith) | 4 | Mining 4 | 5 | 356, **night only** — Icy Weasel Hill (55), No Man's Trail (55) |
| [Nyafia](https://palworld-db.com/pal/nyafia) | 4 | Handiwork 4 · Transporting 3 · Lumbering 2 | 6 | 259 — Emberstone Plateau (59), Stone Pillar Cave Entrance (58) |
| [Grintale](https://palworld-db.com/pal/grintale) | 3 | — (nothing else) | 4 | 619 — Cinnamoth Forest (69), Hypocrite Hill (64), Lake Center (64) |

## Clovee Gives Your Whole Base +1 Gathering

This is the trick that makes the rest of the page cheaper. [Clovee](https://palworld-db.com/pal/clovee) is a rarity 2 XS Pal with Gathering 1 and a partner skill called **Happy Clover** — while it sits in a base, every other Pal stationed there works at one Gathering rank higher. Park it next to three [Omascul](https://palworld-db.com/pal/omascul) and all three harvest as rank 6 workers, which is the same result as three [Applied Gathering Handbooks](https://palworld-db.com/item/WorkSuitability_AddTicket_Collection) for the cost of one capture. Clovee eats **1 food** — the lowest figure of any Pal on this page — so the buff costs you almost nothing to keep running. It appears at 60 spawn points, concentrated at the Rayne Syndicate Tower Entrance (25), Small Settlement (13) and Desolate Church (12); [the Clovee spawn map](https://palworld-db.com/map?pal=CloverFairy) has all of them. Every other base job has an equivalent, and [the full partner skill list](https://palworld-db.com/partner-skills) shows which Pal carries which.

## Handbooks, Passives, and the Flower Bed

Three different stacks speed up a harvest and they do not overlap, so a fully tuned plot uses all three. The **handbook** raises one Pal's Gathering affinity by +1 forever and is the only way past a Pal's natural ceiling — 300 Dog Coins at the Medal Shop is the reliable route, since the supply-drop and chest odds are miserable (fire-sealed chests in the World Tree are the best of them at 3.3%). **Work-speed passives** raise how fast that Pal finishes any station cycle, and Remarkable Craftsmanship at +75% is the biggest one you can breed onto a harvester. The **Flower Bed** is the one people forget: one placement lifts gathering speed for the entire base, it costs nothing to run, and the game states plainly that a second one adds nothing, so build exactly one and stop.

| Boost | What it does | Where it comes from |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Applied Gathering Handbook I](https://palworld-db.com/item/WorkSuitability_AddTicket_Collection) | Permanent **+1 Gathering** on one Pal | 300 Dog Coins at the Medal Shop, or 3.3% from fire-sealed World Tree chests |
|  | Raises gathering speed across the whole base — only one counts | Tech Lv. 24 · 30 [Wood](https://palworld-db.com/item/Wood), 50 [Stone](https://palworld-db.com/item/Stone), 20 [Cement](https://palworld-db.com/item/Cement), 10 [Beautiful Flower](https://palworld-db.com/item/Poppy) |
| Remarkable Craftsmanship | +75% work speed (rank 4 passive) | Breeding, or the Implant: Remarkable Craftsmanship at a Pal Surgery Table |
| Artisan | +50% work speed (rank 3 passive) | Breeding — the realistic target for a base crew |
| Speedy Worker Lv. 4 | +25% work speed (rank 4 passive) | Breeding — stacks with the Craftsmanship line |
| Work Slave | +30% work speed (rank 1 passive) | Common on wild catches — fine as budget filler |
| Slacker | **−30% work speed** — remove it | A rank −3 passive; check every catch before you assign it |

Passive ranks and their exact percentages are all on [the full passive skill list](https://palworld-db.com/passives), and [the Pal builds guide](https://palworld-db.com/guides/best-pal-builds) covers how to breed a work-speed pair onto one body without losing the suitability you wanted in the first place.

## Best Pals for Gathering Resources Yourself

Base harvesters and field-gathering partners are two different lists, and the second one has nothing to do with work suitability at all. Three partner skills raise what **you** pull out of nodes and plots while the Pal is summoned. [Astegon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/astegon) has the biggest gathering multiplier in the game at +150% rising to +300%, and it stacks a monstrous mining bonus on top — its saddle unlocks at tech level 39, which is early enough to matter. [Smokie](https://palworld-db.com/pal/smokie) is the budget version at +100% to +200%, but it's also one of the most common Pals in the game at 1,620 spawn points, so most players have one before they know it's useful. On the crop side, [Lullu](https://palworld-db.com/pal/lullu) speeds up how fast plants grow and [Prunelia](https://palworld-db.com/pal/prunelia) raises how much each harvest pays out — neither is a strong worker, but Prunelia turns up at 638 spawn points and costs 5 food to keep.

| Pal | Partner skill | Effect (Lv. 1 → Lv. 5) | Its own Gathering | Saddle |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Astegon](https://palworld-db.com/pal/astegon) | Black Ankylosaur | **+150% → +300%** gathering yield, plus a huge Mining bonus | None | Tech Lv. 39 |
| [Smokie](https://palworld-db.com/pal/smokie) | Dig, Smokie! Dig! | +100% → +200% gathering yield | 2 | Tech Lv. 58 |
| [Prunelia](https://palworld-db.com/pal/prunelia) | Prayer for Abundant Harvest | +18% → +35% crop harvest amount | 2 | Not rideable |
| [Lullu](https://palworld-db.com/pal/lullu) | Floral Boost | +50% → +70% crop growth speed | 2 | Not rideable |
| [Clovee](https://palworld-db.com/pal/clovee) | Happy Clover | **+1 Gathering rank** to base Pals | 1 | Not rideable |

## How to Staff a Plantation

A plot is three jobs, not one — Planting sows the seed, Watering keeps it alive, Gathering pulls it out — and a plantation missing any one of them sits there forever. Every standard plot accepts rank 1 in all three, so your starting roster qualifies; what changes with rank is throughput. The work column below is the real staffing number: [Red Berries](https://palworld-db.com/item/Berries) finish in 3 minutes for 13,500 work, while [Onion](https://palworld-db.com/item/Onion) takes barely twice as long but costs 63,000, so an onion plot keeps roughly five times as many worker-seconds busy per harvest even though both pay out 10 units. Put your fastest harvesters on the late-tier plots and leave berries to whatever is spare. [Corn](https://palworld-db.com/item/Corn) and [Pumpkin](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pumpkin) are the outliers at 7,500 work — the lightest load in the game — but they have no standalone plot, so they only grow in the [Ancient Farm](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-ancient-farm).

| Plantation | Tech Lv | Crop | Growth | Work per cycle |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | 5 | [Red Berries](https://palworld-db.com/item/Berries) | 3.0 min | 13,500 |
|  | 15 | [Wheat](https://palworld-db.com/item/Wheat) | 4.5 min | 22,500 |
|  | 21 | [Tomato](https://palworld-db.com/item/Tomato) | 5.0 min | 33,000 |
|  | 25 | [Lettuce](https://palworld-db.com/item/Lettuce) | 5.5 min | 45,000 |
|  | 29 | [Potato](https://palworld-db.com/item/Potato) | 5.8 min | 51,000 |
|  | 32 | [Carrot](https://palworld-db.com/item/Carrot) | 6.2 min | 57,000 |
|  | 36 | [Onion](https://palworld-db.com/item/Onion) | 6.5 min | 63,000 |
|  | 78 | Any seed, including [Corn](https://palworld-db.com/item/Corn) and [Pumpkin](https://palworld-db.com/item/Pumpkin) | Same as the crop | **Needs rank 6** in all three jobs |

Every plot costs 2 Technology Points, and all seven together come to 14 — the Ancient Farm replaces the lot for 4. Full build materials and the floor-stacking layout that fits all seven into one camp are in [the plantation stacking guide](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-stack-plantations); growth times and yields for every crop live on [the farming page](https://palworld-db.com/farm). Before you commit bodies, run your box through [the work suitability optimizer](https://palworld-db.com/work-optimizer) — it's easy to end up with four harvesters and nobody watering.

> **Tip.** The cheapest rank 6 harvest crew in the game is not a legendary at all — it's three [Omascul](https://palworld-db.com/pal/omascul) at rank 5 with one [Clovee](https://palworld-db.com/pal/clovee) parked in the same base for its +1 Gathering aura. Omascul sits at 1,621 spawn points and eats 5 food, Clovee eats 1, and that four-Pal setup legally staffs an [Ancient Farm](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-ancient-farm) without ever fighting a level 70 alpha.

## Related Guides

Workers and work suitability:
- [The full list of all 109 Gathering Pals](https://palworld-db.com/best-pals/gathering) — sortable, with every other job each one has
- [Best Pals for Every Work Suitability](https://palworld-db.com/best-pals) — all twelve job ladders in one place
- [Best Base Pals: 7 Workers for Every Job](https://palworld-db.com/guides/best-base-pals) — the roster that covers a whole camp
- [Best Pals for Lumbering: Ranks, Spawns, and Base Setup](https://palworld-db.com/guides/best-pals-for-lumbering) — the wood side of the same problem
- [Best Pals for Medicine Production](https://palworld-db.com/guides/best-pals-for-medicine-production) — where Lyleen Noct earns its slot
- [Palworld Work Suitability Optimizer](https://palworld-db.com/work-optimizer) — check a base for uncovered jobs

Farms, crops and upgrades:
- [How to Stack Plantations: Layout, Costs and Best Pals](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-stack-plantations) — fit all seven plots into one base
- [How to Get the Ancient Farm](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-ancient-farm) — the rank 6 endgame plot
- [Palworld Farming Page](https://palworld-db.com/farm) — every crop's growth time, yield and work cost
- [All Handbooks and the Best Pals to Use Them On](https://palworld-db.com/guides/all-handbooks-and-best-pals) — the permanent +1 to any suitability
- [How to Farm Dog Coins and Medal Shop Prices](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-farm-dog-coins) — how to afford the handbook
- [How Breeding Works](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-breeding-works) — the route to Starryon Primo and Frostallion Noct


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