Best Weapons at Every Tech Level: Full Upgrade Path

Technology Points are scarce and weapon recipes are expensive, so the real question at every stage of Palworld is simple: what's the strongest thing I can actually craft right now? This guide answers it three ways — the raw hardest-hitter at each tech level, the everyday rifle line you'll actually hold most of the game, and the shotgun picks that earn their points.

The Hardest-Hitting Craft at Every Tech Level

Each row below beats everything craftable before it on single-hit attack — unlock these in order and your peak damage never stalls. The shape of the curve is telling: bows and crossbows carry the early game, the Musket's 1,000 attack at Tech 21 is a massive early spike, launchers own the mid-50s to low-60s, and the endgame belongs to the Charge Rifle and the absurd 20,000-attack Mechanical Bow.

Tech Lv	Weapon	Attack	Durability
1	Wooden Club	25	150
3	Old Bow	65	150
13	Crossbow	280	300
21	Musket	1,000	200
36	Single-Shot Rifle	1,100	1,000
38	Meteor Launcher	2,000	300
53	Grenade Launcher	3,000	600
56	Guided Missile Launcher	5,900	300
61	Plasma Cannon	10,000	300
65	Charge Rifle	12,500	200
67	Mechanical Bow	20,000	2,000

One honest caveat baked into these numbers: attack here is per hit, so the single-shot monsters (Musket, launchers, Charge Rifle) trade reload time for their spikes. That's exactly why the next table exists.

The Workhorse Line: Rifles You'll Actually Hold

Magazine size and durability decide what you carry between boss fights, and the rifle line is the backbone: the Semi-Auto Rifle at Tech 41 is the first weapon that hits hard and keeps firing, the Laser Rifle at 51 upgrades both numbers, and the Plasma Rifle at 78 is the endgame's forever-gun — 1,860 attack, a 38-round magazine, and 25,000 durability, more than four times anything else in its class.

Tech Lv	Rifle	Attack	Mag	Durability
21	Musket	1,000	1	200
36	Single-Shot Rifle	1,100	1	1,000
41	Semi-Auto Rifle	1,150	8	1,000
51	Laser Rifle	1,250	30	3,000
70	Heavy Assault Rifle	1,615	30	5,500
78	Plasma Rifle	1,860	38	25,000

Shotguns Worth the Points

The shotgun line is mostly sidegrades until two late spikes make it worth revisiting: the Energy Shotgun at Tech 63 nearly doubles the class's attack, and the Prototype Shotgun at 69 rewrites it entirely — 1,167 attack with a 12-round magazine and 6,000 durability, close-range damage that embarrasses rifles of the same era. Before those, the Pump-Action at Tech 43 is the only earlier model with the magazine to justify itself.

Tech Lv	Shotgun	Attack	Mag	Durability
43	Pump-Action Shotgun	220	8	150
63	Energy Shotgun	402	10	300
69	Prototype Shotgun	1,167	12	6,000

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