How to Get Antique Mirror Set: Level 16 and All 3 Mirrors

The Antique Mirror Set is a one-point technology unlock at level 16 that puts all three of Palworld's mirrors into your build menu — the Antique Mirror, the Antique Oval Mirror and the Antique Wall Mirror. This guide covers the level and point cost, each mirror's exact recipe, the full 30 Wood, 28 Stone and 5 Paldium Fragment bill, and the one thing every player asks about mirrors that the answer is no to.

Antique Mirror Set at a Glance

Three pieces for one technology point is the standard rate for a decoration set, and this one is unusual in what it asks for rather than how much. It is the only antique set in the game that wants Paldium Fragment — every other one runs on wood, stone, cloth or metal — which means five fragments you would otherwise be spending on a Sphere Workbench or an Egg Incubator. In exchange you get the only three mirrors that exist in Palworld; there is no non-antique mirror anywhere in the build menu. None of them is a work station, so there is no power draw, no assigned Pal and nothing to feed. The set has no parent technology either, so hitting level 16 is the entire requirement.

How to Unlock the Antique Mirror Set

Reach character level 16, open the Palworld Technology Tree, and spend one point on the Antique Mirror Set — all three mirrors then live permanently in the Furniture tab of your build menu. There is no schematic to hunt down and no boss gating it. The level 16 row asks for 9 normal points if you want everything on it, which you will not have, so know what you are passing on: Heat Resistant Pelt Armor at three points is what lets you survive the desert, and Mega Shield at two is a flat survivability upgrade for every fight after it. The three decoration sets on this row all cost one point each and can wait for a later level-up without costing you anything. Lockpicking Tool v1 sits on the same row but does not compete — it is bought with an Ancient Technology Point from a tower boss, which comes out of a completely separate pool.

Level 16 technology	Points	Point type
Antique Mirror Set	1	Normal
Antique Bath Set	1	Normal
Faux Golden Foliage Set	1	Normal
Heat Resistant Pelt Armor	3	Normal
Mega Shield	2	Normal
Surfent Saddle	1	Normal
Lockpicking Tool v1	1	Ancient

All 3 Antique Mirrors and Build Costs

The three recipes are nearly identical, which makes this one of the easiest sets to plan around — 10 Wood each, 8 to 10 Stone each, and one or two Paldium Fragment. The plain Antique Mirror is the cheapest of the three at a single fragment, so build that one first if your Paldium stock is thin. The Antique Wall Mirror is the piece actually worth the point: it mounts on a wall, and only three structures in the entire Furniture tab can do that — this mirror, the Antique Curtain and the Emergency Exit Wall Sign. If you are decorating a room with real walls rather than dropping furniture on open ground, that makes it the standout. The Antique Oval Mirror is the floor-standing showpiece and the tallest of the three.

Mirror	Placement	Materials	What it is
Antique Mirror	Floor	10 Wood, 8 Stone, 1 Paldium Fragment	The cheapest piece in the set and the only one that needs a single fragment
Antique Oval Mirror	Floor	10 Wood, 10 Stone, 2 Paldium Fragment	Tall standing oval mirror — the centrepiece of the three
Antique Wall Mirror	Wall-mounted	10 Wood, 10 Stone, 2 Paldium Fragment	One of only three wall-mountable pieces in the Furniture tab

Total Material Cost for the Full Set

Building all three costs 30 Wood, 28 Stone and 5 Paldium Fragment — and unlike most furniture sets, nothing here is refined. There is no furnace step, no workbench step, no ingots or cloth to prepare first, so what you see is genuinely what you pay. That makes this the fastest antique set to complete at its level: 58 units of raw rock and timber is a single gathering trip. Paldium is the only line worth thinking about, because at level 16 you are still competing with the Sphere Workbench, the Egg Incubator and the Stone Pit for every fragment you own.

Material	Qty needed	Refining needed	Where it comes from
Wood	30	None — raw	Chopped from trees, produced by a Logging Site, or bought for 12 Gold each from a Wandering Trader
Stone	28	None — raw	Mined from rocks, produced by a Stone Pit, or bought for 12 Gold each from a Wandering Trader
Paldium Fragment	5	None — raw	Mined from Paldium Ore nodes, or bought for 70 Gold each from a Wander Shop

Where to Farm the 28 Stone

Stone is the single most abundant node type in the game — 8,157 rocks plus another 4,286 small rocks across Palpagos Islands, and you can see every one of them on the Palworld interactive map with the rock layer on. Twenty-eight Stone is one big boulder and change, so the real move at level 16 is not farming it manually but building a Stone Pit, which unlocks all the way back at technology level 7 for 50 Stone, 20 Wood and 10 Paldium Fragment. Park a Mining worker on it and stone stops being a thing you think about. Mining runs from rank 1 to rank 8 across 57 Pals; the ones below are the realistic catches around this stage of the game.

Pal	Mining	Other jobs	Why bring it
Bulldosu	4	Transporting 3	Best mining rank you can realistically catch at this level, and it hauls its own output to a chest
Digtoise	4	None	Same rank as Bulldosu and its rolling attack shreds nodes out in the field too
Incineram	3	Kindling 3, Handiwork 2, Transporting 2	The all-rounder — covers your furnace and workbench on the same Palbox slot
Snugloo	3	Cooling 3, Handiwork 2, Transporting 2	Common catch that doubles as a Cooler worker for your egg incubators
Cattiva	1	Handiwork 1, Gathering 1, Transporting 1	Slow, but you caught one in the first ten minutes and it will chip away at a Stone Pit for free
Knocklem	7	Transporting 7, Gathering 4	The endgame answer — rank 7 Mining and rank 7 Transporting on one Pal

How to Get the 5 Paldium Fragment

This is the only line on the bill that can actually stall you. Paldium Ore is far rarer than rock — 711 nodes on the whole map against 12,443 stone nodes — and it is the glowing blue crystal formation you have been walking past since the tutorial. The Palworld map with the Paldium Ore layer enabled shows which cluster is nearest your base, and a single node yields far more than the five fragments this set needs. If you would rather not travel, a Wander Shop sells fragments outright at 70 Gold each, so the whole set's Paldium bill is 350 Gold — genuinely cheap by level 16 standards. Field drops are the third route: killing wild Pals in the harsher regions turns up fragments at a decent clip, best of all in the Snowfields.

Where to Farm the 30 Wood

Thirty Wood is the smallest ask of any antique set at this tier and takes about a minute with a stone axe — there are 4,654 lumber nodes across the islands, visible on the Palworld map with the lumber layer on. If you already run a Logging Site at your base you will not even need to leave; it unlocks at technology level 7 alongside the Stone Pit, and between the two of them this entire set builds itself out of base storage. For the Pals worth putting on that job, see Best Pals for Lumbering.

Do the Mirrors Let You Change Your Appearance?

No — and this is the one thing worth knowing before you spend the point. All three mirrors are pure decoration; standing in front of one does nothing but look good. The structure that actually reopens the character creator is the Antique Dresser, a separate unlock at level 21 that costs one Ancient Technology Point — a completely different pool from the normal points this set uses — plus 20 Wooden Board, 20 Fiber and 30 Stone to build. If "remake my character" is what brought you here, skip the mirrors and go straight to the dresser. If you want a bathroom or bedroom that reads as a real room, the mirrors are still the right buy — just build them next to the Dresser rather than instead of it.

How It Compares to the Other Antique Sets

Eleven antique technologies run from level 9 to level 26, and every single one costs exactly one point, so the only question is what each point buys you. This set is the cheapest of the mid-tier ones by total material weight — 63 units against the Antique Storage Cabinet Set's 168 — and it is the only one in the family that touches Paldium at all. By pure value the Antique Storage Set at level 10 still wins the family: five pieces, every one a working container. The Antique Bath Set sits on the exact same level 16 row as this one and gives four pieces instead of three, so if you are only buying one decoration technology at 16, the bath set is the bigger haul. Buy both if you are building a manor — the mirrors and the washstand were clearly designed to share a room.

Where to Put Each Mirror

The Antique Wall Mirror needs an actual built wall behind it, so it is the one piece here that will not go anywhere until you have a proper room — hang it over the Antique Washstand and the bathroom stops looking like a storage shed. The Antique Mirror and Antique Oval Mirror are both floor-standing and want a corner or a wall edge; drop either in the middle of a walkway and your base Pals will path straight through the space and make the room feel cramped. Because none of the three is a job station, they are safe to place inside living quarters without pulling workers away from your production lines. The one real warning is the structure cap: all three still count against your base's build limit, so budget three slots before you start. For the full picture of what else is competing for those slots, see the list of all base structures.

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