Best Pals for Planting: Ranks, Spawns, and Plantations

Planting is the job that drops seeds into a plot, and 45 of the game's 288 Pals can do it. This guide ranks every one of them, lists the spawn counts and food costs that decide who actually earns a base slot, shows which six Pals clear the Ancient Farm's rank 6 gate, and covers the Silo, the handbook and the passive stack that make a farm finish faster.

Planting at a Glance

Planting is a narrow job with one very sharp edge. Seven of the eight structures that use it only ask for rank 1, so a Lifmunk sows berries exactly as legally as a Dandilord does — rank buys speed, not access. The eighth structure is the Ancient Farm, and that one demands rank 6 across three separate jobs, which is where the whole roster suddenly matters. The other thing to internalise early: Planting never works alone. Every plot in the game needs a planter, a waterer and a harvester, so a base with one great Planting Pal and nothing else grows nothing.

What	Detail
Pals with Planting	45 of 288 — the seventh-widest job, just under Watering's 46
Rank ceiling	8 — held by one Pal, Dandilord
Rank spread	8×1 · 7×2 · 6×3 · 5×4 · 4×5 · 3×16 · 2×9 · 1×5
Rank a plantation needs	Lv. 1 for all seven crop plots — rank only sets how fast the seeds go in
The one exception	Ancient Farm — Planting 6, Watering 6 and Gathering 6, all three
It never works alone	Every plot also needs Watering and Gathering, so budget three Pals per crop line
Base Work Speed	100 on all 288 Pals — nobody starts with an edge, so rank and passives are the whole story
Permanent +1	Applied Planting Handbook I — 300 Dog Coins at the Medal Shop
Speed structure	Silo at Tech Lv. 25 — one per base, a second does nothing
Biggest passive stack	+240% Work Speed across four slots
First unlock	Berry Plantation at Tech Lv. 5 — 3 Berry Seeds, 10 Wood, 10 Stone

Best Planting Pals in Palworld

These 15 are every Pal at Planting 4 or better. Read the last column before the rank column, because two of the top six have no wild spawn points at all — Dandilord and Silvance both breed only from a pair of themselves, which means you can't breed your way into either one. That leaves Lyleen as the best planter you can realistically go and catch tonight, at rank 7 across 42 spawn points. If you just want a plot running cheaply, Broncherry does rank 5 work on 6 food and turns up on 482 spawn points, which is more presence than every rank 6 and 7 planter in the game put together.

Pal	Planting	Other jobs it does	Food	Night shift	How to get it
Dandilord	8	Handiwork 6 · Medicine Production 6 · Gathering 5 · Transporting 3	9	Yes	No wild spawn points, and the only pair that hatches one is Dandilord × Dandilord
Lyleen	7	Gathering 6 · Handiwork 5 · Medicine Production 5	8	No	42 spawn points plus a Lv. 58 alpha — Lyleen spawn map
Ophydia	7	Watering 5	9	No	No ordinary spawns — a single Lv. 69 alpha on the map, or breed it — Ophydia alpha location
Carnibora	6	Handiwork 4 · Gathering 4 · Transporting 2	7	No	11 spawn points, the thinnest of any rank 6 — Carnibora spawn map
Mycora	6	Medicine Production 6 · Handiwork 4 · Gathering 4	7	No	42 spawn points plus a Lv. 78 alpha — Mycora spawn map
Silvance	6	Medicine Production 8 · Handiwork 6 · Gathering 4 · Transporting 2	9	No	No wild spawn points, and it only breeds from a Silvance pair
Broncherry	5	—	6	No	482 spawn points plus a Lv. 23 alpha — Broncherry spawn map
Braloha	5	Gathering 5 · Mining 3	7	No	247 spawn points, no alpha needed — Braloha spawn map
Quivern Botan	5	Gathering 4 · Transporting 4 · Mining 3 · Handiwork 2	6	No	59 spawn points — Quivern Botan spawn map
Tropicaw	5	Gathering 5	6	No	50 spawn points — Tropicaw spawn map
Mammorest	4	Lumbering 4 · Mining 4	6	No	484 spawn points plus a Lv. 38 alpha — Mammorest spawn map
Petallia	4	Medicine Production 4 · Handiwork 3 · Gathering 3 · Transporting 2	6	No	106 spawn points — Petallia spawn map
Verdash	4	Handiwork 5 · Gathering 5 · Lumbering 3 · Transporting 3	6	No	83 spawn points plus a Lv. 35 alpha — Verdash spawn map
Elizabee	4	Handiwork 4 · Gathering 4 · Medicine Production 4 · Lumbering 3	5	No	42 spawn points plus a Lv. 39 alpha — Elizabee spawn map
Palumba	4	Mining 5 · Gathering 4	6	No	42 spawn points — Palumba spawn map

Dandilord Is Rank 8 and Almost Unobtainable

Dandilord is the only Planting 8 in the game and it isn't close — it also carries Handiwork 6, Medicine Production 6 and Gathering 5, so a single one covers most of a small base on its own. The catch is availability: it has no wild spawn points anywhere on the map, and the only breeding pair that produces one is Dandilord × Dandilord, so the breeding farm is a duplicator here, not a route in. It also runs nocturnal, which means it works your plots through the night while your day shift sleeps — genuinely useful if you time your log-offs around it. Budget 9 food per feeding, the joint-highest appetite of any planter.

Lyleen Is the Best Planter You Can Actually Catch

Lyleen sits one rank below the ceiling at Planting 7, and it is the pick that matters for almost everyone. It spawns at 42 points on the map plus a Lv. 58 alpha, so you can farm as many as you want, and it eats 8 — one less than Dandilord for one less rank. The part nobody mentions: Lyleen also has Gathering 6, making it the only Pal in the game that clears two of the Ancient Farm's three rank 6 gates by itself. Slot one in and you've solved both the sowing and the harvesting half of your endgame farm with a single body.

Broncherry and Braloha Are the Volume Picks

If you're building the farm before you're ready to hunt rank 6s, take rank 5 and take a lot of it. Broncherry appears at 482 spawn points on 6 food and has no other work suitability at all, so it will never wander off to a workbench mid-crop — a real advantage in a mixed base. Braloha covers 247 points and pairs Planting 5 with Gathering 5, which means one Braloha can sow a plot and then harvest it. Both are XL Pals, so give them room; a cramped plot is the usual reason a big worker stands around doing nothing.

Needoll Is the Cheapest Body in the Job

Work rank is not the only currency — food is, and Needoll wins that column outright. It does Planting 3 on an appetite of 2, which is 1.5 ranks per food when nothing else in the job manages even 0.9. Six Needolls eat less than two Dandilords and out-sow them by a wide margin, and Needoll turns up on 366 spawn points as an XS Pal that fits anywhere. Needoll Noct is the same deal on 325 night-only points if you want a shift that works while you sleep. This is the setup to run before your base level supports big eaters.

The Ancient Farm's Rank 6 Gate

The Ancient Farm at Tech Lv. 78 is the only Planting structure with a real requirement, and it's a triple one: Planting 6, Watering 6 and Gathering 6. Exactly six Pals in the game clear the Planting half of that gate, and the table below is all of them. Look at the other two columns and the problem is obvious — not one of the six brings a rank 6 Watering, and only Lyleen brings a rank 6 Gathering. A working Ancient Farm therefore needs at least two Pals and usually three: Lyleen for Planting and Gathering, then a dedicated waterer from the short list of Shaolong at 8, Jormuntide and Neptilius at 7, or Faleris Aqua and Suzaku Aqua at 6.

Pal	Planting	Watering	Gathering	Clears the Ancient Farm on its own?
Dandilord	8	—	5	No — Gathering is one short and it has no Watering
Lyleen	7	—	6	Two gates of three — the best single body for the farm
Ophydia	7	5	—	No — Watering is one short, fixable with a handbook
Carnibora	6	—	4	No — Planting only
Mycora	6	—	4	No — Planting only
Silvance	6	—	4	No — Planting only

The handbook is the cheap way around all of this. Applied Planting Handbook I permanently adds +1 Planting to whichever Pal reads it, and it costs 300 Dog Coins at the Medal Shop. Feed one to a rank 5 planter and Broncherry, Braloha, Quivern Botan or Tropicaw all become Ancient Farm legal — which is a far shorter trip than hunting a Pal that has no spawn points. The same trick works on Ophydia's Watering 5, and the handbook and condenser rank-up guide covers the full set of twelve.

Every Plantation That Needs Planting

Eight structures use Planting, and seven of them are ordinary crop plots that any planter can staff. Note how the build cost jumps out of order: the Lettuce plot at Tech Lv. 25 is the single most expensive standard plantation in the game at 100 Wood, 70 Stone and 10 Aquatic Pal Fluids — more than the Carrot and Onion plots that unlock ten tech levels later. If you're pacing your unlocks, berries and wheat cost almost nothing and cover the early food problem, and tomato is the first plot that genuinely bites into your Fluids stock. Each harvest pays out 10 of the crop regardless of which plot it came from.

Plantation	Tech Lv.	Crop	Growth time	Build cost
Berry Plantation	5	Red Berries	3.0 min	3 Berry Seeds · 10 Wood · 10 Stone
Wheat Plantation	15	Wheat	4.5 min	3 Wheat Seeds · 15 Wood · 15 Stone
Tomato Plantation	21	Tomato	5.0 min	3 Tomato Seeds · 70 Wood · 50 Stone · 5 Aquatic Pal Fluids
Lettuce Plantation	25	Lettuce	5.5 min	3 Lettuce Seeds · 100 Wood · 70 Stone · 10 Aquatic Pal Fluids
Potato Plantation	29	Potato	5.8 min	3 Potato Seeds · 30 Wood · 20 Stone · 3 Aquatic Pal Fluids
Carrot Plantation	32	Carrot	6.2 min	3 Carrot Seeds · 30 Wood · 20 Stone · 1 Aquatic Pal Fluids
Onion Plantation	36	Onion	6.5 min	3 Onion Seeds · 30 Wood · 20 Stone · 2 Aquatic Pal Fluids
Ancient Farm	78	Any of the above	Same as the plot's crop	50 Paloxite Ingot · 50 World Tree Holy Water · 100 Mythical Wood · 10 Ancient Civilization Core

Growth time is only half the throughput story. A crop's total work — the combined planting, watering and harvesting effort your base Pals pour into one cycle — climbs much faster than the timer does: red berries finish in 3 minutes for 13,500 work, while onions take 6.5 minutes and 63,000. That's roughly 4.7× the labour for 2.2× the wait, so a base full of onion plots keeps every worker pinned far longer than the clock suggests. The full crop table lives on the Palworld crop growth times page.

Speed Planting Up: Silo, Handbook and Passives

Since every Pal in the game starts at 100 base Work Speed, the only levers you actually have are the Silo, the handbook and the four passive slots. The Silo unlocks at Tech Lv. 25 for 30 Wood, 20 Stone, 30 Fiber and 10 Cement, and it raises planting speed across the whole base just by existing — no Pal staffs it. Build exactly one: the game states outright that a second Silo does nothing, and people waste materials on rows of them constantly. Passives are the bigger multiplier. The four best Work Speed traits stack to +240%, and unlike the Silo they follow the Pal, so it's worth rolling them onto whoever you plan to keep.

Every Other Planting Pal

Sixteen Pals sit at Planting 3, and this is where most players actually build their first farm — these are common, cheap to feed and easy to catch in bulk. Prunelia has the widest presence of any planter in the game at 638 spawn points, Needoll and Needoll Noct are the appetite champions at 2 food, and Dualith is the odd one out: only Planting 3, but Mining 6 and Transporting 6 alongside it, so it earns its slot by doing three jobs rather than one well.

Pal	Food	Spawn points	Night shift	Also does
Prunelia	5	638	Yes	Medicine Production 3 · Gathering 2 · Handiwork 1
Needoll	2	366	No	Gathering 3 · Transporting 1
Needoll Noct	2	325 (night only)	Yes	Gathering 3 · Transporting 1
Dinossom	4	262	No	Lumbering 3
Shroomer Noct	5	189	Yes	Handiwork 3 · Gathering 3 · Lumbering 2
Leafan	7	105	No	Handiwork 3 · Gathering 3 · Transporting 2
Wumpo Botan	7	83	No	Transporting 6 · Lumbering 5 · Handiwork 3
Dualith	8	75	No	Mining 6 · Transporting 6 · Lumbering 5
Elgrove	8	75	No	Lumbering 3 · Transporting 3 · Gathering 2
Shroomer	5	60	No	Gathering 3 · Farming 3 · Handiwork 2
Mossanda	4	52	No	Lumbering 4 · Transporting 4 · Handiwork 2
Vaelet	5	32	No	Handiwork 3 · Gathering 3 · Medicine Production 3
Lullu	4	20	No	Handiwork 3 · Medicine Production 3 · Gathering 2
Nitemary Botan	6	13	No	Handiwork 4 · Transporting 2
Warsect	6	10	No	Transporting 5 · Lumbering 4 · Handiwork 3
Dualith Noct	8	3	Yes	Mining 6 · Transporting 6 · Lumbering 5

Below that, nine Pals hold Planting 2 — Caprity, Caprity Noct, Bristla, Cinnamoth, Ribbuny Botan, Beegarde, Robinquill, Flopie and Souffline — and five hold Planting 1: Lifmunk, Herbil, Gumoss, Tanzee and Clovee. None of these are worth a dedicated slot once you can catch a rank 3, but any of them will legally staff a Berry Plantation on hour one, and Caprity alone covers 393 spawn points. The full Planting suitability list and the work optimizer let you filter the whole roster by the jobs your base is missing.

The Short Answer

Catch a Lyleen and put it on your farm — Planting 7 plus Gathering 6 solves two thirds of the Ancient Farm with one body, and it spawns freely at 42 points. Dandilord is stronger at Planting 8 but has no spawns and no breeding route in, so treat it as a bonus rather than a plan. Before you get there, run a wall of Needoll or Broncherry on your seven crop plots, since every one of them only requires rank 1 anyway. Build one Silo at Tech Lv. 25, buy the 300 Dog Coin Applied Planting Handbook I when a rank 5 planter is one short of the Ancient Farm gate, and roll toward the +240% Work Speed passive stack on whoever you keep.

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