How to Get the Advanced Workshop and Craft AI Core

The Advanced Workshop is the fourth and final tier of Palworld's general crafting bench, and it exists for exactly one reason: it is the only structure in the game that produces AI Core, the part every piece of endgame gear is built around. This guide covers the technology level it sits behind, all four build materials and the raw haul underneath them, the electricity it eats, everything AI Cores go into, and which Pal to park on it.

Advanced Workshop at a Glance

Treat this as a gate rather than a convenience upgrade. Your Production Assembly Line II already handles almost every ordinary recipe, so the Advanced Workshop earns its slot on one entry: AI Core. It draws 1,000 electricity, which ties it with four other structures for the seventh-heaviest power draw in the game, and it takes 500,000 build workload to raise — ten times what the tier below it needed. One useful difference from the Ancient Workbench: you can stand at this one and craft yourself, while the Ancient bench is Pal-only.

How to Unlock the Advanced Workshop

Reach character level 62, open the Palworld technology tree, and spend 5 technology points. Level 62 is a generous row for this particular project — Coralum Ingot unlocks on it for 3 points and you cannot build the workshop without 50 of them, the Hexolite Quartz Mine gives you a base that farms Hexolite Quartz instead of flying to Feybreak for it, and the Powerful Fishing Magnet is how you drag Coralum Ore off the seabed. Budget 8 points minimum: 5 for the bench, 3 for the ingot. You also need a Gigantic Furnace from level 58 already standing, because both alloys smelt there and nowhere else.

Technology at Lv. 62	Points	Do you need it?
Advanced Workshop	5	The bench itself
Coralum Ingot	3	Yes — 50 of them are line one of the build
Hexolite Quartz Mine	5	Optional, but it feeds the 50 Hexolite you need
Powerful Fishing Magnet	3	Yes if you are short on Coralum Ore
Frostallion Saddle	5	No — mount, not production
Futuristic Structure Set	2	No — 20 decorative build pieces

Advanced Workshop Materials and Where to Make Them

Four lines on the build screen, and not one of them can be made at the workshop you are building — the whole bill runs through the Gigantic Furnace and the two assembly lines below it. Computer is the painful entry at 30 copies and 22,440 gold apiece, which by itself is over half the build's 1,167,800 gold value. Start banking Computers well before level 62; they only come off the Production Assembly Line II and each one swallows two Bio Batteries of its own.

Material	Qty	Made at	Recipe per unit	Value each
Coralum Ingot	50	Gigantic Furnace	2 Coralum Ore + 5 Coal	6,000
Hexolite	50	Gigantic Furnace	1 Chromite + 1 Hexolite Quartz	3,000
Computer	30	Production Assembly Line II	2 Circuit Board + 3 Plasteel + 2 Bio Battery + 2 Carbon Fiber	22,440
Bio Battery	20	Production Assembly Line II	1 Electric Organ + 1 Refined Ingot + 1 Carbon Fiber	2,230

The Full Raw Haul

Expand every sub-recipe down to things you dig, chop or kill for, and the four build lines become the list below — plus roughly 82.16 million crafting workload spread across the intermediate steps. The two alloys are 25 million of that each, so the Gigantic Furnace is your real bottleneck, not the workshop. Count 80 Bio Batteries rather than 20, because the 30 Computers eat 60 more, and that is what drives the Electric Organ and Carbon Fiber numbers so high.

Raw material	Qty	Where you get it
Wood	1,400	Chopped anywhere — it all burns into the 700 Charcoal for Carbon Fiber
Ore	610	Ore nodes; 500 of it goes into Plasteel, 160 into Refined Ingot
Coal	410	824 Coal nodes on the map — Coralum Ingot alone takes 250
Crude Oil	180	Oil fields, via a Crude Oil Extractor
Flame Organ	140	Fire Pals — one per Carbon Fiber
Pure Quartz	120	Snowfield nodes, for the 60 Circuit Boards
High Quality Pal Oil	120	Large Pals, for Polymer
Coralum Ore	100	Fished off the seabed with a magnet — see the Coralum Ore location guide
Electric Organ	80	Electric Pals — Prixter Lux drops 4-5 every kill at 100%
Sulfur	60	Volcanic nodes, for Polymer
Chromite	50	Dungeon deposits revealed with the Metal Detector
Hexolite Quartz	50	Feybreak only — 635 nodes on the map

What the Advanced Workshop Crafts: AI Core

One exclusive recipe, and it is the single most valuable material in Palworld: AI Core sells for 252,940 gold, five times what a Diamond is worth. Each one is 5,000,000 crafting workload — the same order as a legendary weapon — so a Pal with poor Handiwork will sit on one core for real hours. The hard part of the recipe is the Ancient Civilization Core, which only two Pals in the game drop: Silvance and Dandilord, one guaranteed each. That means one World Tree boss clear per AI Core, no exceptions.

Where Your AI Cores Go

Nineteen craft lines want AI Cores, and building one top-rarity copy of every single one adds up to 209 cores — so this bench stays lit long after the build that unlocked it. The Wing Pack is the one most players should chase first, since a permanent glider upgrade costs 20 cores once and pays off forever, while the launchers are the heaviest per-copy spend in the game. If you only ever make five, spend them on the Ancient Workbench and let a Pal crank out the rest of your endgame kit unattended.

Craft	AI Cores at top rarity	What it is
Jetragon's Missile Launcher	24	Pal gear — the heaviest AI Core cost of anything
Wing Pack	20	Glider — one-time buy, permanent upgrade
Beam Launcher	20	Best-in-class launcher
Drone Launcher	16	Launcher, second heaviest weapon spend
Plasma Rifle	16	Sustained-fire rifle
Lightweight Ancient Armor	14	Highest-defense body armor in the game
Ancient Armor	6	Cheapest way into the Ancient armor set
Homing Module	3	Sphere module — the cheapest thing on this list

Workbench Tiers Compared

Five general benches, and each one claims faster production than the last in its own description, but the practical difference is the recipe list and the power bill. The jump from Production Assembly Line II to the Advanced Workshop is where the costs stop being reasonable: ten times the build workload, two and a half times the power, and materials that need a Gigantic Furnace instead of a chunk of ore. Keep the older bench standing rather than dismantling it — it still makes Computers and Bio Batteries, which the Advanced Workshop cannot.

Bench	Tech Lv.	Power	Build workload	Materials
Primitive Workbench	Lv. 1	None	0	2 Wood
High-Quality Workbench	Lv. 11	None	3,000	8 Ingot, 20 Wood, 10 Nail
Production Assembly Line	Lv. 29	200	10,000	100 Ingot, 5 Wooden Board, 20 Nail, 10 Cement
Production Assembly Line II	Lv. 42	400	50,000	100 Refined Ingot, 10 Circuit Board, 30 Cement, 5 Corrosive Solvent
Advanced Workshop	Lv. 62	1,000	500,000	50 Coralum Ingot, 50 Hexolite, 30 Computer, 20 Bio Battery

Best Pals to Staff the Advanced Workshop

The bench runs on Handiwork Lv. 1, so 109 of the 288 Pals qualify, but at 5,000,000 workload per AI Core the ranks matter more here than anywhere else in your base. Only 33 Pals reach Handiwork Lv. 4, only 13 hit Lv. 6, and exactly one sits at the Lv. 8 cap. Put Solenne on it and stop thinking about it; Selyne at Lv. 7 is the runner-up and doubles as your medicine worker. Below that, pick by side job — Anubis mines the ore this bench indirectly eats, and Silvance and Dandilord are the two Pals that drop the Ancient Civilization Core each AI Core needs, so farming them serves double duty.

Pal	Handiwork	Other jobs	Why it works here
Solenne	Lv. 8	Gathering 4, Transporting 2	The only Lv. 8 crafter in the game, and it spawns at 47 spots
Selyne	Lv. 7	Medicine Production 6, Transporting 3	Second-fastest crafter; 40 spawn spots
Anubis	Lv. 6	Mining 6, Transporting 4	Best all-rounder — mines Ore and Coal between crafts
Silvance	Lv. 6	Medicine Production 8, Planting 6, Gathering 4	Drops the Ancient Civilization Core that gates AI Core
Dandilord	Lv. 6	Planting 8, Medicine Production 6, Gathering 5	The other guaranteed Ancient Civilization Core source
Wistella	Lv. 6	Medicine Production 6, Transporting 1	The cheapest Lv. 6 crafter to get hold of, at 40 spawn spots
Venusa	Lv. 6	Gathering 6, Medicine Production 5	Solid filler if your good crafters are already assigned

Is the Advanced Workshop Worth It?

It is mandatory rather than optional, but only from the point you want Ancient gear. Nothing else makes AI Core, and 19 craft lines plus the Ancient Workbench all demand it, so the honest answer to "when" is level 62 with a Gigantic Furnace already smelting, roughly 100 Coralum Ore and 410 Coal banked, 30 Computers stockpiled, and a generator that can spare 1,000 electricity. Build it, park your best Handiwork Pal on it, and treat every World Tree boss run afterwards as an AI Core run.

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