How to Craft the Decal Gun Set: Materials and All 5 Guns

The Decal Gun Set is the level 45 technology that turns one Ancient Technology Point into five paint guns, each of which sprays a different Pal onto whatever you shoot. This guide covers the exact unlock cost, the full material bill for all five guns, which Pal each one paints, where to farm the Ancient Civilization Parts that gate it, and how to keep it loaded with Decal Ink.

Decal Gun Set Stats and Unlock Requirements

The Decal Gun Set is unusual for an Ancient Technology: it sits at level 45, deep in the late tree, but costs a single Ancient Technology Point. Only five entries in the entire 51-technology ancient tree are that cheap, and this is the only one past level 21 — everything else in the level 38 to 52 band asks for two to five points. That single point unlocks all five guns plus the ammo in one go, so you are never picking a favourite Cattiva gun over a favourite Anubis gun.

The stat line is where it stops behaving like a weapon. Every gun in the set carries no attack value and no durability value at all — it does zero damage and it never wears out. What it does carry is a 99-round magazine, the largest of any handgun in the game by a mile (the best real handgun holds 16), and behind only the two Gatling Guns at 100 across every weapon class. Treat it as a decorating tool that happens to occupy a weapon slot.

Minimum Requirements Checklist

How to Craft the Decal Gun Set

Spend the point in the technology menu at level 45, then walk up to a Weapon Workbench and build the guns individually — the unlock is a set, the crafting is not. Each gun takes the same four materials and the same 40,000 work to assemble, which is heavy for a level 45 handgun but light next to anything on the assembly lines. Ancient Civilization Parts are the only line that will slow you down; the other three are things a mid-game base already stockpiles.

Material	Qty (per gun)	Where to get it
Ingot	30	Smelt 2 Copper Ore each in a furnace — 1,632 Copper Ore nodes on the copper ore layer
Polymer	10	Each one is 2 High Quality Pal Oil + 1 Sulfur, so 20 oil and 10 sulfur — 655 Sulfur nodes on the sulfur layer
Paldium Fragment	15	711 Paldium Ore nodes on the paldium layer; Lunaris also drops 2-3 per kill
Ancient Civilization Parts	3	Guaranteed from every Alpha and tower boss — see the farming table below

Building the whole set of five costs 150 Ingot, 50 Polymer, 75 Paldium Fragment and 15 Ancient Civilization Parts, which unpacks to roughly 300 Copper Ore, 100 High Quality Pal Oil and 50 Sulfur once you trace the chains back. If you are only after one gun, pick the Pal you actually want to see on your walls first — they are functionally identical, so there is no reason to build a second one except to spray a different face.

Where to Farm Ancient Civilization Parts

This is the one material with no mining node. All 90 Alpha Pals marked on the interactive map drop Ancient Civilization Parts at a 100% rate, so a single kill almost always covers the 3 a gun needs, and the high-level Alphas cover a gun and a half on their own. If you are hitting level 45 on schedule, the fastest route is not the strongest Alpha but the closest one — Foxcicle is the standout, because a level 15 fight pays out 6-8 parts, more than most Alphas twice its level.

Alpha	Lv.	Parts per kill	Why farm it
Foxcicle	15	6-8	Best parts-per-level fight in the game — two kills fund three guns. See its map pins
Chillet	11	2-4	Earliest Alpha you can realistically drop, useful long before level 45. Map pins
Penking	15	3-4	Sits in the starter zone with an easy approach. Map pins
Nitewing	18	3-4	One kill is exactly one gun's worth. Map pins
Jetragon	70	7-9	Top of the payout band if you are already farming it for other reasons

The Ancient Technology Point itself comes from the same kills, which is the neat part of doing this at level 45: one lap of the Alpha route pays the unlock and the parts at the same time. The full ancient tree wants 185 points across its 51 entries, so a 1-point technology is genuinely cheap — you are giving up about half a percent of the total to get it.

All 5 Decal Guns and the Pals They Paint

The five guns share one model, one price and one recipe. The only difference is the decal that lands where the shot hits, and since all five icons are identical in the inventory, the Pal below is the only way to tell them apart before you fire. Cattiva and Lamball are the two most people build first because the art reads clearly at small sizes; Anubis and Relaxaurus are the large-format picks for a base wall or a ceiling.

Gun	Paints	Materials	Magazine
Decal Gun 1	Cattiva	30 Ingot, 10 Polymer, 15 Paldium Fragment, 3 Ancient Civilization Parts	99
Decal Gun 2	Lamball	30 Ingot, 10 Polymer, 15 Paldium Fragment, 3 Ancient Civilization Parts	99
Decal Gun 3	Melpaca	30 Ingot, 10 Polymer, 15 Paldium Fragment, 3 Ancient Civilization Parts	99
Decal Gun 4	Anubis	30 Ingot, 10 Polymer, 15 Paldium Fragment, 3 Ancient Civilization Parts	99
Decal Gun 5	Relaxaurus	30 Ingot, 10 Polymer, 15 Paldium Fragment, 3 Ancient Civilization Parts	99

How to Craft Decal Ink

The guns are useless without ammo, and Decal Ink unlocks with the same single point — it is bundled into the set, not a separate technology. One craft at a Weapon Workbench turns 1 Aquatic Pal Fluids and 1 High Quality Pal Oil into 10 Decal Ink, and it takes only 500 work to do it. That is the cheapest crafting time of any ammunition in Palworld; the next-fastest is the humble Arrow at 1,000, and every gunpowder round in the game is 40,000 or worse.

Detail	Value
Materials	Aquatic Pal Fluids x1, High Quality Pal Oil x1
Yield	10 per craft
Work	500 (lowest of any ammo)
Weight	0.05 each
Max Stack	9,999
Bench	Weapon Workbench

Filling one 99-round magazine takes ten crafts, so budget 10 Aquatic Pal Fluids and 10 High Quality Pal Oil per full load. Both come off Pals you are probably farming anyway: 37 different Pals drop Aquatic Pal Fluids, with Azurobe giving 2-4 per kill, and 25 drop High Quality Pal Oil, led by Mammorest at 5-10 per kill. A ranch with water Pals and one Mammorest hunting trip will keep you painting for hours.

Decal Gun vs Real Handguns

Do not let the Handgun classification fool you into holstering one for a fight. Compared inside the handgun class only — a rifle or shotgun is a different scale entirely — the Decal Gun is the odd row out: every other handgun trades magazine size for stopping power, while this one has all the magazine and none of the power. If you unlocked it at level 45 hoping for a weapon, the Old Revolver at technology 33 is still the hardest-hitting common handgun you can build, and the Palworld guns tier list covers what should actually be in your holster at this point.

Handgun	Tech Lv	Attack	Magazine	Durability
Makeshift Handgun	24	320	6	300
Boost Gun	25	250	8	400
Handgun	28	250	8	400
Marksman Revolver	32	250	—	400
Old Revolver	33	600	6	400
Decal Gun	45	None	99	None

Summary

Hit level 45, spend one Ancient Technology Point, and all five Decal Guns plus Decal Ink become craftable at any Weapon Workbench. Each gun costs 30 Ingot, 10 Polymer, 15 Paldium Fragment and 3 Ancient Civilization Parts, the parts come free with any Alpha kill, and the ink is the cheapest ammo in the game to produce. It deals no damage and never breaks — this is a base decoration tool wearing a handgun's classification, and it is the single cheapest ancient technology in the late tree.

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