Best Pals for Handiwork: Ranks, Spawns, and Workbenches

Handiwork is the job that builds your structures and empties every crafting queue you leave behind, and 109 of the game's 288 Pals can do it — the widest job in the game after Transporting. This guide ranks every Handiwork Pal worth a base slot, lists the exact spawn counts and food costs, explains why the rank never actually locks you out of a workbench, and covers the passives and the handbook that turn a decent crafter into a fast one.

Handiwork at a Glance

The important thing about Handiwork is the thing nobody tells you: every single structure that uses it only requires rank 1. All 23 of them, from the Primitive Workbench you build in the first ten minutes to the Advanced Workshop at Tech Lv. 62. There is no rank 6 gate the way the Ancient Farm gates Gathering. Rank buys you speed and nothing else, which changes the whole calculus — a common Pal you can catch fifty of beats a legendary you have to breed twice for, as long as it does the job overnight.

What	Detail
Pals with Handiwork	109 of 288 — second only to Transporting's 140
Rank ceiling	8 — held by one Pal, Solenne
Rank spread	8×1 · 7×1 · 6×11 · 5×8 · 4×12 · 3×25 · 2×29 · 1×22
Rank a station needs	Lv. 1 — all 23 of them. Rank only sets how fast the job finishes
What it runs	Every workbench and assembly line, plus Drafting Table, Fishing Pond, Ancient Relic Recycler and the three mounted turrets
It also builds	Anything you place — Pals with Handiwork finish blueprints while you're off doing something else
Base Work Speed	100 on all 288 Pals — nobody starts with an edge, so the rank and the passives are the whole story
Permanent +1	Applied Handiwork Handbook I — 300 Dog Coins at the Medal Shop
Biggest passive	Demon's Hand at +90% Work Speed, and four passive slots to fill
First unlock	The Primitive Workbench at Tech Lv. 1 for 1 Technology Point

Best Handiwork Pals in Palworld

These 13 are every Pal at Handiwork 6 or better. Four of them have no wild spawn points at all, so the practical shortlist is shorter than it looks. If you want the fastest crafter and don't mind a 9-food appetite, Solenne is the answer and there is no second place. If you want a rank 6 crew tonight without breeding anything, Sekhmet and Splatterina between them cover 1,129 spawn points and neither one needs an alpha kill. And if you're feeding a big base, look at the Food column before the rank column — Wistella does the same rank 6 work on 5 food that Silvance does on 9.

Pal	Handiwork	Other jobs it does	Food	Night shift	How to get it
Solenne	8	Gathering 4 · Transporting 2	9	Yes	47 spawn points, no alpha needed — Solenne spawn map · also 46 breeding pairs
Selyne	7	Medicine Production 6 · Transporting 3	9	Yes	40 spawn points — Selyne spawn map · breeds only from a Selyne pair
Anubis	6	Mining 6 · Transporting 4	8	No	35 spawn points plus a level 55 alpha — Anubis spawn map
Sekhmet	6	Mining 3 · Transporting 2	7	No	360 spawn points, no alpha needed — heaviest presence of any rank 6 · Sekhmet spawn map
Splatterina	6	Medicine Production 5 · Lumbering 3 · Transporting 2	7	Yes	769 spawn points, night only plus a level 65 alpha, and it spawns inside Feybreak Cavern — Splatterina spawn map
Wistella	6	Medicine Production 6 · Transporting 1	5	Yes	40 spawn points plus a level 66 alpha — Wistella spawn map
Venusa	6	Gathering 6 · Medicine Production 5 · Transporting 2	6	Yes	26 spawn points, no alpha needed — Venusa spawn map
Lapure	6	Gathering 5	7	No	29 spawn points, no alpha needed — Lapure spawn map
Flaracle	6	Kindling 7 · Transporting 2	8	No	26 spawn points plus a level 68 alpha — Flaracle spawn map
Renjishi	6	Kindling 8 · Gathering 5 · Transporting 5	8	No	No field spawns — a level 78 alpha, or any of 48 breeding pairs
Silvance	6	Medicine Production 8 · Planting 6 · Gathering 4 · Transporting 2	9	No	No spawns and no alpha — only breeds from a Silvance pair
Dandilord	6	Planting 8 · Medicine Production 6 · Gathering 5 · Transporting 3	9	Yes	No spawns and no alpha — only breeds from a Dandilord pair
Bellanoir Libero	6	Medicine Production 7 · Transporting 4	7	Yes	Summoned raid boss — see how to beat the Bellanoir raid boss

Solenne — the Only Handiwork 8 Pal

Solenne holds the ceiling by itself and is one of the few top-rank workers you can walk up to and catch — 47 spawn points, no alpha fight required. It is Dark/Neutral and nocturnal, so it keeps hammering the assembly line while the rest of your base sleeps, which in practice is worth more than the single rank it has over the next tier. The costs are real though: it eats 9 food per meal, the highest figure on this page, and its side jobs are thin at Gathering 4 and Transporting 2, so it won't cover a second station for you. Put it on your longest queue — the Advanced Workshop or the Weapon Assembly Line — and let something cheaper handle the small stuff.

Selyne — Rank 7 With a Medic Attached

Selyne is the only Pal at Handiwork 7, and unlike Solenne it earns its slot twice: Medicine Production 6 means it also runs your Advanced Medicine Workbench and patches up injured workers without a second body in the base. It's nocturnal too, and it sits on 40 spawn points. The catch is breeding — Selyne is a self-only combo, meaning a Selyne pair is the only pairing in the entire breeding table that produces one, so if you want a second you catch a second. Nine food per meal, same as Solenne.

Sekhmet and Splatterina — the Rank 6 Pals You Can Just Catch

This pair is the honest recommendation for most players. Sekhmet has 360 spawn points and no alpha requirement, concentrated heavily around Duneshelter — 93 of them sit there, another 40 in the Deep Sand Dunes. It's rarity 5, eats 7, and brings Mining 3 along. Splatterina is even more common at 769 spawn points, but every one of them is night-only, so plan the trip after dark; the densest clusters are the Scarlet Outlook at 99 and the Crimson Labyrinth and Scorched Hill at 78 each, and it also turns up inside Feybreak Cavern. Splatterina is nocturnal, which means it works your night shift, and Medicine Production 5 makes it a dual-station body. Between the two you can staff an entire crafting base at rank 6 without touching the breeding farm.

Wistella — the Cheapest Rank 6 in the Game

Wistella is the value pick and it isn't close. It is rarity 2 — one of the least rare Pals on this entire page — and eats 5 food per meal, the lowest figure of any Handiwork 6 Pal, against 9 for Solenne and Silvance. It's nocturnal, it carries Medicine Production 6 as a second job, and it sits on 40 spawn points with a level 66 alpha available if you want a strong one. A base staffed with Wistellas costs nearly half the food of a base staffed with legendaries and crafts at the same rank 6 speed. If your food box keeps emptying overnight, this is the fix.

Renjishi, Silvance, Dandilord, and Bellanoir Libero

These four are rank 6 with no field spawns, and they are only worth the trouble for their second jobs. Renjishi is the best of them on paper — Kindling 8 and Transporting 5 on top of Handiwork 6 makes it a three-station body — but it means a level 78 alpha or one of 48 breeding pairs. Silvance and Dandilord are both self-only combos, so you breed one from a pair you already own or you don't get one; Silvance's Medicine Production 8 and Dandilord's Planting 8 are the actual reasons to bother. Bellanoir Libero only comes out of a summoned raid, and parking a raid boss on a workbench is a flex, not a plan.

Rank 4 and 5 Handiwork Pals Worth Using

Twenty Pals sit at Handiwork 4 or 5, and because no station requires more than rank 1, these are perfectly good workers — the only thing you lose against a rank 6 is a bit of queue time. The standout is Loupmoon Cryst: 461 spawn points, only 3 food per meal, and Cooling 4 so it doubles on your food box. Gildra is the rank 5 version of the same argument at 325 spawn points and 6 food. Lunaris and Nyafia are the easy mid-game catches, and Elizabee is here for players who already run a Beegarde base.

Pal	Handiwork	Other jobs it does	Food	Night shift	Spawn points
Gildra	5	Medicine Production 4 · Transporting 2	6	Yes	325 — Gildra spawn map
Verdash	5	Gathering 5 · Planting 4 · Lumbering 3 · Transporting 3	6	No	83 plus a level 35 alpha
Dupin	5	Kindling 7 · Medicine Production 4 · Transporting 2	8	No	81
Lyleen	5	Planting 7 · Gathering 6 · Medicine Production 5	8	No	42 plus a level 58 alpha
Lyleen Noct	5	Medicine Production 7 · Gathering 6	8	Yes	42 plus a level 58 alpha
Icelyn	5	Cooling 5 · Medicine Production 4 · Transporting 2	5	No	38
Majex	5	Kindling 4 · Medicine Production 3 · Transporting 2	8	Yes	36
Loupmoon Cryst	4	Cooling 4	3	No	461 plus a level 66 alpha — Loupmoon Cryst spawn map
Nyafia	4	Gathering 4 · Transporting 3 · Lumbering 2	6	Yes	259 plus a level 55 alpha
Wixen Noct	4	Kindling 4 · Transporting 2	4	Yes	184
Nitemary	4	Transporting 2	6	Yes	106
Lunaris	4	Gathering 2 · Transporting 2	4	No	63
Dogen	4	Gathering 3 · Lumbering 3 · Transporting 3 · Medicine Production 2	5	No	52
Elizabee	4	Planting 4 · Gathering 4 · Medicine Production 4 · Lumbering 3	5	No	42 plus a level 45 alpha
Grizzbolt	4	Generating Electricity 5 · Transporting 5 · Lumbering 3	6	No	40 plus an alpha

Best Early Handiwork Pals

Early on you have no handbooks, no rank 6 catches and a food box that empties in an afternoon, so the right move is volume: cheap Pals with Handiwork on the sheet, parked on the Primitive Workbench and the High-Quality Workbench. Hangyu Cryst is the one to look for — Handiwork 3 on a 1 food appetite, which is the best ratio in the game and the reason it stays useful long after you've outgrown the rest of this table. Bushi Noct is the most common Handiwork Pal anywhere at 1,990 spawn points, works nights, and brings Lumbering 5 so it can swap to the logging site when the queue empties. Below that, the starter trio of Cattiva, Lamball and Pengullet all eat 1 food and all do Handiwork 1 — not fast, but three of them on a bench beats one of them.

Pal	Handiwork	Other jobs it does	Food	Night shift	Spawn points
Hangyu Cryst	3	Transporting 3 · Gathering 2 · Cooling 2	1	No	335, night only
Lovander	3	Medicine Production 3 · Mining 2 · Transporting 2	4	Yes	768, night only
Katress	3	Medicine Production 3 · Transporting 2	4	Yes	605 — Katress spawn map
Sootseer	3	Kindling 3 · Mining 3 · Gathering 2 · Farming 2	7	Yes	649
Robinquill Terra	3	Gathering 3 · Lumbering 2 · Medicine Production 2 · Transporting 2	3	No	545
Bushi Noct	2	Lumbering 5 · Kindling 2 · Transporting 2 · Gathering 1	5	Yes	1,990 — the most common Handiwork Pal in the game
Bushi	2	Lumbering 3 · Kindling 2 · Transporting 2 · Gathering 1	5	No	1,838
Loupmoon	2	— (nothing else)	3	Yes	1,109
Leezpunk	2	Gathering 1 · Transporting 1	2	Yes	836
Pengullet	1	Watering 1 · Cooling 1 · Transporting 1	1	No	1,125
Cattiva	1	Gathering 1 · Mining 1 · Transporting 1	1	No	367
Lamball	1	Transporting 1 · Farming 1	1	No	351

Every Structure That Needs Handiwork

Twenty-three structures assign a Handiwork worker, and every one of them asks for rank 1 — that's the whole reason a Cattiva can technically staff the Advanced Workshop. The four crafting families run in parallel tiers: general production (workbenches → Production Assembly Line → Advanced Workshop), spheres, weapons, and the odd one-offs. Walking the general chain from the Primitive Workbench to the Advanced Workshop costs 17 Technology Points across five unlocks, and the three top-tier lines each draw 1,000 power, so a Large Power Generator has to be online before any of them will run. Note the ones people miss: the Drafting Table, both Fishing Ponds and all three mounted turrets pull a Handiwork Pal off your crafting queue when they need work.

Structure	Tech Lv.	Points	Power	Rank needed
Primitive Workbench	1	1	—	1
Repair Bench	2	1	—	1
Pal Gear Workbench	6	2	—	1
High-Quality Workbench	11	3	—	1
Sphere Workbench	14	3	—	1
Weapon Workbench	20	3	—	1
Mounted Crossbow	26	—	—	1
Sphere Assembly Line	27	3	200	1
Production Assembly Line	29	3	200	1
Fishing Pond	31	—	—	1
Weapon Assembly Line	32	3	200	1
Sphere Assembly Line II	35	5	400	1
Mounted Machine Gun	40	—	—	1
Production Assembly Line II	42	5	400	1
Drafting Table	45	4	—	1
Weapon Assembly Line II	47	5	400	1
Mounted Missile Launcher	50	—	1000	1
Advanced Sphere Assembly Line	58	5	1000	1
Advanced Workshop	62	5	1000	1
Advanced Weapon Assembly Line	63	5	1000	1
Large Fishing Pond	69	—	—	1
Gold Coin Assembly Line	73	4	200	1
Ancient Relic Recycler	74	3	800	1

Passives That Change Handiwork Speed

Because every Pal starts at the same base Work Speed of 100, passives do more for your crafting output than the rank does. A Pal carries four, and the three big craft-speed passives plus Lucky come to +235% — swap Lucky for Work Slave and it's +245%, paid for with 30% of its Shot Attack, which a base Pal never uses anyway. The trap is the negative rolls: a wild catch with Slacker and Musclehead is at −80% before you've done anything, and that Pal will look busy at a bench for hours while producing nothing. Check the passive list on anything you intend to keep, and re-roll the bad ones — the min-maxing guide covers how. Insomnia is the sleeper pick here: it makes a day-shift Pal work through the night, which effectively doubles its output without touching Work Speed at all.

Applied Handiwork Handbook: A Permanent +1

The Applied Handiwork Handbook I permanently raises a Pal's Handiwork affinity by one rank when you let it read the book, and it is the only thing in the game that moves the rank itself — star-ranking a Pal at the Pal Essence Condenser raises its combat stats, not its job. That means a Solenne that has read one sits a full rank above anything else in the world. The smarter use is on a Pal you already have a lot of: feeding one to a 5-food Wistella gets you rank 7 crafting on the cheapest appetite of any top-tier worker. At 300 Dog Coins it's also one of the better things to spend Medal Shop currency on.

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