How to Farm Ingots: All Types, Furnaces, and Best Pals

Ingots are the choke point on almost everything worth building in Palworld — guns, armor, saddles, and half the base structures all wait on a furnace finishing a bar. This guide covers all seven ingot types and what each costs in raw material, the five furnaces that smelt them, the Kindling Pals worth staffing those furnaces with, and the two Pals that drop finished Ingots so you can skip smelting entirely.

Ingots at a Glance

When someone says "Ingot" with no adjective, they mean the plain one: two Ore melted in a Primitive Furnace, unlocked at technology level 10 for 3 points. It is the cheapest thing a furnace makes and by far the most demanded — more than 150 crafting recipes list it, from your first Handgun at 50 a piece to the Helmet at 20. Everything below is measured against it.

Every Ingot Type and What It Costs

Seven bars come out of the furnace line, and they are not a smooth curve — the jumps are brutal. A Refined Ingot takes seven times the smelting work of a plain Ingot, a Pal Metal Ingot takes fifty times, and a Coralum Ingot takes five hundred times. The work column below is the in-game smelting effort, so treat it as how long a bar occupies your furnace relative to the others, not as seconds. The practical read: plain Ingots and Refined Ingots are things you mass-produce in the background, while anything from Pal Metal upward is a deliberate production run you plan a base around.

Ingot	Materials	Smelting work	Sells for	Weight
Ingot	Ore x2	1,000	240 Gold	5
Refined Ingot	Ore x2, Coal x2	7,000	720 Gold	5
Pal Metal Ingot	Ore x4, Pure Quartz x1, Paldium Fragment x2	50,000	1,250 Gold	5
Hexolite	Chromite x1, Hexolite Quartz x1	500,000	3,000 Gold	1
Coralum Ingot	Coralum Ore x2, Coal x5	500,000	6,000 Gold	3
Soralite Ingot	Soralite x2, Pure Quartz x2	700,000	7,200 Gold	3
Paloxite Ingot	Soralite x1, Paloxite x2, World Tree Holy Water x1	1,000,000	16,200 Gold	3

Two of these are odd ones out. Hexolite isn't really part of the Ore chain at all — it takes no Ore and no Coal, just Chromite and Hexolite Quartz, and at 1 weight per bar it's the only ingot you can stockpile without wrecking your carry capacity. Paloxite Ingot is the endgame wall: it needs a bar's worth of three separate late materials including World Tree Holy Water, which is why it sells for 16,200 Gold, 67x the plain Ingot.

The Furnace Chain: Every Smelter and What It Unlocks

Five furnaces exist and each one is gated behind a technology level, so your ingot ceiling is really your tech level. The important thing almost nobody notices: every furnace only asks for Kindling rank 1 to operate. Any fire Pal at all can light it — rank just decides how fast the bar finishes. That means the upgrade path below matters far more than the Pal you throw in on day one.

Furnace	Tech Lv	Points	Build cost	Unlocks
Primitive Furnace	10	3	Wood x20, Stone x40, Flame Organ x3	Ingot
Improved Furnace	34	4	Stone x100, Cement x30, Flame Organ x15, Cryogenic Coolant x5	Refined Ingot
Electric Furnace	44	5	Refined Ingot x50, Bio Battery x4, Polymer x20, Cryogenic Coolant x10	Pal Metal Ingot
Gigantic Furnace	58	5	Plasteel x150, Polymer x100, Flame Organ x200, Computer x12	Hexolite
Ancient Furnace	66	5	Coralum Ingot x100, Thermal Core x20, Computer x30, Ancient Civilization Core x10	Every ingot type

Primitive Furnace

Twenty Wood, forty Stone and three Flame Organ is the cheapest gate in the whole game, and you should clear it the moment you hit level 10. Flame Organ is the only awkward part — any fire Pal drops it, and Foxparks in the Grasslands will cover it in a couple of fights. Build two of these instead of one; smelting speed at this tier is slow enough that a second furnace is worth more than a better Pal.

Improved Furnace

This is the real quality-of-life jump, because Refined Ingot is what most mid-game weapons and armor actually ask for. The build cost adds Cement x30 and Cryogenic Coolant x5, so line up a cement pipeline before you spend the 4 technology points. From here on your bottleneck stops being furnaces and starts being Coal — each Refined Ingot eats two.

Electric Furnace

The Electric Furnace unlocks Pal Metal Ingot and is the first one that needs power, so it wants a generator and an electricity Pal on top of the Kindling Pal. It also costs 50 Refined Ingot to build, which is a full production run in itself. It processes faster than the earlier tiers, and you'll want that: a single Pal Metal Ingot is fifty times the smelting work of a plain one, and a Gatling Gun alone wants 150 of them.

Gigantic Furnace

The Gigantic Furnace is the only one multiple Pals can work at once, which is the whole point — by the time you're smelting Hexolite, single-worker throughput is hopeless. It's also the most expensive to put up, with 200 Flame Organ and 150 Plasteel in the recipe. Staff it with your three best Kindling Pals and leave it running permanently.

Ancient Furnace

The endgame smelter, and the one furnace that handles every ingot type in the game. It works by melting with fire and then flash-cooling, so it wants high-level Kindling and high-level Cooling Pals — the only furnace that asks for two work suitabilities. Building it costs 100 Coralum Ingot and 10 Ancient Civilization Core, so it's a project, not a purchase.

Best Kindling Pals for Your Furnaces

Because every furnace only requires Kindling rank 1, the ranking below is purely about speed and about what else the Pal does while it's standing there. Renjishi is the only Kindling 8 in the game and it also brings Handiwork 6, so it works your assembly lines between smelts — it's the single best furnace Pal if you can catch one. Below that, Jormuntide Ignis is the classic pick because it does nothing but Kindling at rank 7 and never wanders off to another job, which matters more than raw rank when your base has ten stations competing for workers. Dupin and Flaracle match it at 7 but split their time with Handiwork.

Pal	Kindling	Also does	Why bring it
Renjishi	8	Handiwork 6, Gathering 5, Transporting 5	Only rank 8 Kindling Pal — fastest smelts, and useful when the furnace is idle
Jormuntide Ignis	7	—	No competing suitabilities, so it never leaves the furnace
Flaracle	7	Handiwork 6	Rank 7 heat plus a genuinely strong crafter
Dupin	7	Handiwork 5, Medicine Production 4	Covers the medicine bench on the same base
Blazamut	6	Mining 7	Mines the Ore and then smelts it — a one-Pal ingot pipeline
Faleris	6	Transporting 3	Easy rank 6 that also hauls finished bars to storage
Knocklem Ignis	5	Mining 7, Transporting 7	The best all-rounder for a dedicated ingot base
Bushi	2	Lumbering 3, Handiwork 2	Weak heat, but it's the Pal that drops Ingots outright
Foxparks	1	—	Your day-one furnace lighter and Flame Organ source

For the full 44-Pal Kindling roster with spawn locations, the Best Pals for Kindling: Ranks, Spawns, and Furnaces guide goes deeper than this table does.

The Ancient Furnace Also Needs Cooling

The Ancient Furnace is the one place where a Cooling Pal is a production requirement instead of a food-preservation convenience. Bastigor is the only Cooling 8 and it throws in Lumbering 6 and Mining 5, making it the obvious partner; Frostallion at Cooling 7 is the alternative if you already have one for other reasons. Assign one of each alongside your Kindling Pal and the furnace runs at full tilt. The Best Pals for Cooling: Ranks, Spawns, and Coolers list covers the other 36.

Feeding the Furnaces: Ore, Coal, and Quartz

A furnace is only as good as its input pile, and the four raw materials below cover every ingot up to Coralum. Ore is the one you'll never have enough of — 1,632 nodes are mapped across the islands, roughly double the Coal count, and you'll still run out because a single Pal Metal Ingot eats four. Coal is the sneaky bottleneck once you move to Refined Ingots, and it's concentrated in the desert and volcanic regions rather than spread evenly. If you're setting up a dedicated smelting base, put it where Ore and Coal nodes overlap and let a Mining Pal keep the chests full.

Material	Nodes on the map	Sells	Weight	Feeds
Ore	1,632 nodes	100 Gold	8	Ingot, Refined Ingot, Pal Metal Ingot
Coal	824 nodes	200 Gold	5	Refined Ingot, Coralum Ingot
Pure Quartz	607 nodes	500 Gold	5	Pal Metal Ingot, Soralite Ingot
Paldium Fragment	711 nodes	70 Gold	1	Pal Metal Ingot
Hexolite Quartz	635 nodes	1,000 Gold	2	Hexolite
Soralite	226 nodes	2,500 Gold	5	Soralite Ingot, Paloxite Ingot

Soralite is the scarcest of the lot at 226 nodes, which is why Paloxite Ingot production stays slow no matter how many furnaces you own. You can also skip the pickaxe entirely for the common stuff: Pierdon drops 4-5 Ore and 4-5 Coal per kill at 100%, Blazamut drops a guaranteed 10 Coal, and Digtoise gives 2-3 Ore. Full breakdown in the How to Farm Ore: Best Locations and Mining Site Setup guide.

Ingots Without a Furnace

You can farm finished Ingots directly, and early on it's genuinely faster than mining. Bushi and Bushi Noct both drop 2-3 Ingots on every single kill — a guaranteed 100% drop, no rare roll involved. That's the equivalent of 4-6 Ore plus the smelting time, handed over for one fight. There's a neat symmetry here too: Bushi is itself a Kindling 2 Pal, so the thing that drops your Ingots can also light the furnace that makes more.

Source	Ingot	Rate	Amount
Bushi	Ingot	100%	2-3 per kill
Bushi Noct	Ingot	100%	2-3 per kill
Grasslands treasure chests	Ingot	2.86% of that slot's rolls	1
Forest treasure chests	Refined Ingot	4.67% of that slot's rolls	1

Chests are not a farming strategy — a sub-5% slot roll for one bar is pocket change next to a Bushi route. Use Bushi's spawn locations to set up a loop and treat chests as a bonus you pick up on the way. Nothing above tier one drops finished: Pal Metal Ingot and everything past it must be smelted, with no Pal or chest shortcut anywhere in the game.

Smelting Math: Never Haul Raw Ore Home

Two things happen in the furnace and both are worth exploiting. First, weight collapses. Two Ore weigh 16 and become one Ingot weighing 5 — a 69% cut. A Refined Ingot compresses 26 weight of Ore and Coal into 5, an 81% cut, and a Pal Metal Ingot compresses 39 into 5. If you're overloaded in the field, the answer is a furnace at a forward base, not a bigger backpack.

Second, value climbs by a flat 20%. Every single ingot in the game sells for exactly 1.2x the combined shop value of its ingredients: 200 Gold of Ore becomes a 240 Gold Ingot, 600 becomes 720, 5,000 of Coralum Ore and Coal becomes a 6,000 Gold Coralum Ingot, and 13,500 of late materials becomes a 16,200 Gold Paloxite Ingot. If you're selling raw materials to a merchant, you're leaving a fifth of the money on the table.

What Ingots Are Used For

Demand is heavily front-loaded: the plain Ingot appears in more than 150 recipes, Refined Ingot in over 100, and the exotic bars in a couple of dozen each. That inverts the usual instinct — you will burn more hours making tier-one Ingots across a playthrough than any other bar, because accessories, ammo and every armor upgrade quietly keep asking for them long after you've moved on. The biggest single sinks are late weapons: Gatling Gun wants 150 Pal Metal Ingot, and Charge Rifle wants 200 Coralum Ingot.

Ingot	Recipes using it	Biggest sinks
Ingot	150+	Makeshift Assault Rifle x70, Old Revolver x60, armor and accessory upgrades
Refined Ingot	100+	Semi-Auto Shotgun x50, Scatter Sphere Launcher x50, Electric Furnace x50
Pal Metal Ingot	44	Gatling Gun x150, Guided Missile Launcher x100, Laser Rifle x50
Coralum Ingot	22	Charge Rifle x200, Overheat Rifle x160, Ancient Furnace x100

Note that a Pal Metal Ingot also pays out roughly 16x the crafting experience of a plain Ingot, and a Coralum Ingot around 43x, so a long smelting queue is a quietly strong way to level while you're doing something else. If you're deciding what to spend those bars on first, Best Weapons at Every Tech Level and Best Armor at Every Tech Level map the upgrade order.

Summary

Build a Primitive Furnace at level 10 and two more beside it, kill Bushi for free Ingots while you're still poor, and put your base where Ore and Coal nodes overlap. Upgrade at tech 34, 44, 58 and 66 as the recipes demand, staff with the highest Kindling Pal you own rather than worrying about rank requirements, and always smelt before you sell — it's a free 20%.

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