How to Get the Gigantic Furnace and All It Smelts

The Gigantic Furnace is the level 58 smelter that turns on the entire late game — it is the first bench in Palworld that can refine Hexolite and Coralum Ingot, and ten structures plus every energy weapon in the game are locked behind those two bars. This guide covers the unlock cost, the full build bill broken all the way down to raw ore, all seven recipes it can run, where its inputs come from, and which Kindling Pals to put in front of it.

Gigantic Furnace at a Glance

It sits in the Production tab of the build menu, two furnace tiers above the Electric Furnace you unlocked at level 44. Two details define it. First, it is the fourth of five furnaces and the point where smelting stops being a background chore and becomes the thing gating your gear — Hexolite and Coralum Ingot cannot be made anywhere else until the Ancient Furnace arrives eight levels later. Second, it draws 1,500 power, triple the Electric Furnace's 500, so you need a generator and an Electric Pal running before you place it or it will sit there cold.

How to Unlock the Gigantic Furnace

The unlock itself is cheap and unconditional: reach character level 58, open the Technology screen, and spend 5 Technology Points on the Gigantic Furnace node. There is no boss kill, no schematic and no Ancient Technology Point involved, which makes it one of the easier level 58 unlocks to justify — the row it sits on also holds the Large-Scale Electric Egg Incubator and the Advanced Sphere Assembly Line, and both of those want Hexolite you cannot make yet. Unlock the furnace first and the rest of the row opens up behind it.

Gigantic Furnace Materials and Full Raw Bill

Four materials go on the build panel, and three of them are themselves crafted. The Flame Organ is the only line you can farm directly — the other three are the tail end of a supply chain that starts at oil fields and copper nodes. Plasteel is the expensive one by a distance: the 150 on the panel plus the 36 hidden inside the Computers works out to 186 bars, and at 200,000 crafting workload each that alone is 37,200,000 workload before you count anything else.

Material	Qty	Where it comes from
Plasteel	150	Electric Furnace — 2 Crude Oil + 5 Ore per bar
Polymer	100	Production Assembly Line — 2 High Quality Pal Oil + 1 Sulfur each
Flame Organ	200	Drops from 37 Fire Pals — Blazamut gives a flat 10 per kill
Computer	12	Production Assembly Line II — 2 Circuit Board + 3 Plasteel + 2 Bio Battery + 2 Carbon Fiber each

Expand every sub-craft and the real bill is the table below. Ore is the headline number at 978, and almost all of it (930) is eaten by Plasteel — five per bar adds up fast. The 480 Wood is only there to become 240 Charcoal for Carbon Fiber, so a Lumbering Pal at base covers it passively. Add up the crafting workload across every intermediate step and one Gigantic Furnace costs roughly 43.5 million workload of bench time, which is why you want this queued on an Advanced Workshop with a good Handiwork crew rather than hand-cranked.

Raw material	Total needed	How to get it
Ore	978	1,632 ore nodes on the map
Wood	480	4,654 lumber nodes, or a Lumbering Pal at base
Crude Oil	372	185 oil fields with a Crude Oil Extractor on top
Flame Organ	248	37 Fire Pals drop it — Suzaku gives 5–10, Ragnahawk 5–7
High Quality Pal Oil	248	25 Pals drop it — Mammorest gives 5–10
Sulfur	124	655 sulfur nodes, mostly in the desert
Pure Quartz	48	607 pure quartz nodes
Coal	48	824 coal nodes, or 10 per Blazamut
Electric Organ	24	23 Electric Pals drop it — Prixter Lux gives 4–5

All Craftable Items at the Gigantic Furnace

Seven recipes in total. Two of them — Hexolite and Coralum Ingot — are the reason the building exists and cannot be made at any earlier bench; the other five are inherited from the furnace tiers below, so a Gigantic Furnace quietly replaces every furnace you already own. Watch the workload column rather than the material list, because that is what decides throughput: Hexolite and Coralum Ingot are 500,000 workload per single bar, five hundred times a batch of Charcoal and more than double a bar of Plasteel. One Kindling Pal will not keep up, and that is exactly why this furnace was built large enough for a crew.

Product	Materials per craft	Workload	First unlocked at
Hexolite	1 Chromite + 1 Hexolite Quartz	500,000	Gigantic Furnace
Coralum Ingot	2 Coralum Ore + 5 Coal	500,000	Gigantic Furnace
Plasteel	2 Crude Oil + 5 Ore	200,000	Electric Furnace
Pal Metal Ingot	4 Ore + 1 Pure Quartz + 2 Paldium Fragment	50,000	Electric Furnace
Refined Ingot	2 Ore + 2 Coal	7,000	Improved Furnace
Ingot	2 Ore	1,000	Primitive Furnace
Charcoal	2 Wood	1,000	Primitive Furnace

Hexolite

Hexolite is an alloy of Chromite and Hexolite Quartz, one of each per bar, and it is the single most demanded material in the level 59-65 gear band — 63 different craftable items list it. Both inputs are cheap in isolation and neither can be bought, so the real cost is 500,000 workload a bar. Queue it in long batches and leave the furnace running while you do something else; stopping and restarting the queue wastes the ramp-up your crew builds.

Coralum Ingot

Coralum Ingot takes 2 Coralum Ore and 5 Coal per bar at the same 500,000 workload. It is the rarer of the two in practice because Coralum Ore comes off the ocean floor and only three Pals drop it, while Coal is sitting on 824 map nodes. Thirty-five items want Coralum Ingot, and the Charge Rifle alone asks for 200 of them — plan on a long production run before you attempt the top-tier guns.

The Lower Tiers It Absorbs

Plasteel, Pal Metal Ingot, Refined Ingot, Ingot and Charcoal all still run here, which matters more than it sounds: a base with one Gigantic Furnace no longer needs a row of Primitive Furnaces taking up floor space and worker attention. The catch is the power bill — 1,500 for one Gigantic Furnace versus nothing at all for the two lowest tiers. If all you are doing is burning Wood into Charcoal, keep a Primitive Furnace on the side and save the big one for the 500,000-workload jobs.

Where to Get Chromite, Hexolite Quartz and Coralum Ore

The three exclusive inputs behave very differently, and knowing which is which saves a lot of wasted flying. Hexolite Quartz is the easy one — it is a mineable node with 635 pins scattered across the main island, so a single circuit tops you up. Chromite and Coralum Ore are Pal drops only, with no nodes at all, which means your farming route is really a hunting route. Neptilius is the standout: 10 Coralum Ore per kill at a guaranteed rate, roughly four times what a Whalaska gives you.

Input	Best source	Yield	Also from
Hexolite Quartz	635 mineable nodes	Node mining	Celesdir drops 2–3
Chromite	Silvegis	2–3 per kill, 100%	Smokie drops 1–2
Coralum Ore	Neptilius	10 per kill, 100%	Whalaska and Whalaska Ignis drop 2–3
Coal	824 coal nodes	Node mining	Blazamut drops 10, Pierdon 4–5

Only three Pals in the game drop Coralum Ore, so it is worth reading the full Coralum Ore locations guide before you commit an evening to it — there is a fishing angle that saves a lot of swimming. For Chromite, Silvegis is the better target of the two despite Smokie being far easier to find, simply because you get two to three times the ore per fight.

What Hexolite and Coralum Ingot Unlock

This is the payoff, and it is bigger than the furnace's own cost suggests. Every energy weapon in Palworld runs on one or both of these bars, and attack numbers only mean something inside their own class — the Charge Rifle at 12,500 is the hardest-hitting assault rifle in the game, while the Laser Gatling Gun at 530 is the better of the only two gatling guns. Note that these are the base-rarity versions; the schematic upgrades push the numbers higher and the material costs with them.

Weapon	Class	Base Attack	Hexolite	Coralum Ingot	Tech
Charge Rifle	Assault Rifle	12,500	—	200	65
Plasma Cannon	Rocket Launcher	10,000	130	—	61
Rocket Launcher	Rocket Launcher	10,000	—	75	65
Overheat Rifle	Assault Rifle	1,225	135	160	64
Laser Gatling Gun	Gatling Gun	530	100	—	59
Energy Shotgun	Shotgun	402	130	155	63
Megaboost Gun	Handgun	250	120	150	63

Armor is the other half. The Hexolite set is the second-strongest body armor family in the game behind Ancient Armor — Hexolite Armor gives 580 defense and 1,750 HP for 50 Hexolite and 20 Plasteel, and the Cold, Heat and Lightweight variants all reach 600 defense. Lightweight Hexolite Armor is the one to aim for if you plan to carry ore, though it doubles the Hexolite cost to 100 per piece. Pair any of them with the Hexolite Helmet at 350 defense and you have a kit that carries you from level 59 to the Ancient tier.

Ten base structures also need these bars, and one of them is the furnace that replaces this one — the Ancient Furnace at level 66 costs 100 Coralum Ingot, so there is no route to the top furnace that skips this one.

Structure	Tech	Cost from this furnace
Ancient Furnace	66	100 Coralum Ingot
Large-Scale Electric Egg Incubator	58	100 Hexolite
Advanced Workshop	62	50 Hexolite + 50 Coralum Ingot
Advanced Medicine Workbench	61	50 Hexolite
Advanced Sphere Assembly Line	58	50 Hexolite
Advanced Weapon Assembly Line	63	50 Coralum Ingot
Japanese-Style Hot Spring	64	30 Coralum Ingot
Advanced Chest	59	20 Hexolite
Large Fishing Pond	69	10 Coralum Ingot

Best Pals to Run the Gigantic Furnace

The staffing requirement is generous — Kindling Lv. 1 is all the furnace asks, so every one of the 44 Kindling Pals technically qualifies. What separates them is how much work each one contributes per tick, and with 500,000-workload recipes on the menu that difference is enormous over a session. Renjishi is alone at Kindling Lv. 8 and is the single best worker you can put here; below it, Jormuntide Ignis, Flaracle and Dupin share Lv. 7. Size matters too — Jormuntide Ignis is XL and eats base space, so Flaracle and Dupin are the friendlier picks for a crowded base.

Pal	Kindling	Size	Why bring it
Renjishi	Lv. 8	L	The only Lv. 8 Kindling Pal in the game — nothing else clears a 500,000-workload queue faster
Flaracle	Lv. 7	M	Top-tier Kindling in a medium body, so it fits bases where the XL options do not
Dupin	Lv. 7	M	Same Lv. 7 output as Flaracle, and the easier of the two to get hold of
Jormuntide Ignis	Lv. 7	XL	Lv. 7 Kindling, but XL — worth the footprint only if the furnace is your base's main job
Blazamut	Lv. 6	XL	Doubles as a farm target: drops 10 Flame Organ and 10 Coal per kill
Faleris	Lv. 6	L	Lv. 6 Kindling and a flying mount, so it earns its slot outside the base too
Ragnahawk	Lv. 4	L	The realistic pick before level 50 — mountable, and drops 5–7 Flame Organ

Gigantic Furnace vs the Other Furnaces

Five furnaces, and each one is defined by the single alloy it adds rather than by raw speed. The first two are free to run and cost almost nothing to build; from the Electric Furnace onward you are paying a power bill for the privilege. The Gigantic Furnace is the biggest jump on the ladder — it triples the Electric Furnace's power draw but adds the two alloys that every level 59+ weapon, armor piece and structure is built from. The Ancient Furnace above it smelts everything including Soralite Ingot, but it costs 100 Coralum Ingot and needs Cooling Pals as well as Kindling, so it is a genuine upgrade rather than a replacement you rush.

Furnace	Tech	Points	Power	Adds
Primitive Furnace	10	3	None	Ingot, Charcoal
Improved Furnace	34	4	None	Refined Ingot
Electric Furnace	44	5	500	Pal Metal Ingot, Plasteel
Gigantic Furnace	58	5	1,500	[[item:StainlessSteel|Hexolite]], [[item:ManganeseIngot|Coralum Ingot]]
Ancient Furnace	66	5	3,000	Soralite Ingot — needs Kindling and Cooling

Summary

Hit level 58, spend 5 Technology Points, and pay 150 Plasteel, 100 Polymer, 200 Flame Organ and 12 Computer — about 978 raw Ore and 372 Crude Oil once you trace it all back. Feed it Chromite and Hexolite Quartz for Hexolite, Coralum Ore and Coal for Coralum Ingot, and staff it with the highest-Kindling Pal you own. Everything from Hexolite Armor to the Charge Rifle to the Ancient Furnace itself runs through this one building.

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