How to Get Metal Chair and Desk Set: Level 22, 26 Ingot

The Metal Chair and Desk Set is a one-point technology at level 22 that adds four iron furniture pieces to your build menu — a chair, a stool, a round table and a desk that finally stop your metal-walled base looking like it was furnished from a lumber pile. This guide covers the unlock level and point cost, every piece with its exact recipe, the full material bill traced back to raw Ore, and the best Pals in Palworld to run the mining and smelting chain at that stage of the game.

Metal Chair and Desk Set at a Glance

This is a cheap unlock with an expensive build cost, which is the opposite of most decoration sets. One technology point buys you all four pieces permanently, but actually placing them runs 26 Ingot — and that is before the two Wooden Board the desk demands. Nothing here needs power or a worker assigned, so once built the set is pure decoration you can drop anywhere inside your base radius.

How to Unlock the Metal Chair and Desk Set

Reach character level 22, open the Palworld Technology Tree, and spend one point on the Metal Chair and Desk Set — all four pieces appear in the build menu straight away with no schematic to hunt and no parent technology to buy first. Level 22 is a busy row and the competition is real: the Pal Expedition Station at two points starts paying you passive loot forever, and the Stun Baton at two points is the tool that makes catching high-level Pals far less painful. Furniture should be your third or fourth purchase here, but at one point it is the cheapest thing on the row alongside the Clock Set and High Quality Bait. The Homeward Thundercloud does not actually compete — it is a boss technology paid for with Ancient Technology Points, which come from a completely separate pool.

Level 22 technology	Points	Point type
Metal Chair and Desk Set	1	Normal
Clock Set	1	Normal
High Quality Bait	1	Normal
Flea Market (Pals)	2	Normal
Flea Market (Items)	2	Normal
Pal Expedition Station	2	Normal
Stun Baton	2	Normal
Vanwyrm Cryst Saddle	2	Normal
Homeward Thundercloud	2	Ancient

All 4 Metal Chair and Desk Set Pieces and Build Costs

Three of the four are single-material builds — pure Ingot, nothing else — which makes them trivially easy to spam once your furnace is running. The Iron Stool and Iron Chair are the cheap filler at 3 Ingot each, and the Round Iron Table at 5 Ingot is still small change. The Iron Desk is where the budget goes: 15 Ingot plus 2 Wooden Board is more than the other three pieces combined, so build it last and only where you actually want a centrepiece. One quirk worth knowing — the Iron Chair's in-game description still calls it a decorative wooden chair, a leftover from the wooden set it was modelled on. It is iron.

Piece	Materials	What it is
Iron Chair	3 Ingot	Backed seat — the one to place at a desk or table
Iron Stool	3 Ingot	Backless seat, same price — best for rows and bar lines
Round Iron Table	5 Ingot	The set's only table — pairs with four stools
Iron Desk	15 Ingot, 2 Wooden Board	Priciest piece by far, and the reason you need a workbench too

Total Material Cost for the Full Set

The headline number is 26 Ingot and 2 Wooden Board, but the Wooden Board hides a second Ingot cost: each board takes 10 Wood, 5 Fiber and 1 Nail, and Nails are themselves smelted metal at 5 per Ingot. Trace it all the way down and the real bill is 27 Ingot, which is 54 Ore out of the ground, plus 20 Wood and 10 Fiber. Two Nails cost a single Ingot craft and you keep the other three, so it is barely a rounding error — but it does mean you cannot finish the desk without a furnace, no matter how much Wood you are sitting on.

Raw material	Amount	Where it comes from
Ore	54	Mined from ore nodes, then smelted 2 Ore → 1 Ingot in a furnace
Wood	20	Chopped from trees — 10 per Wooden Board
Fiber	10	Gathered off the same trees — 5 per Wooden Board
Nail	2	Crafted 5 at a time from 1 Ingot, which is already counted above

How to Farm the 54 Ore

Ore is the whole guide in one material, and there is a lot of it — 1,632 ore nodes are scattered across the world, so the Palworld Interactive Map with the ore layer on is the fastest way to find a cluster near your base. Node mining is the only method that scales; the Pierdon drop is the best per-kill rate in the game at a guaranteed 4-5 Ore, but you would need roughly a dozen kills to cover the set and Pierdon does not stand still for you. Buying is the emergency option: a Wandering Trader sells Ore at 100 gold each, so the full 54 costs 5,400 gold — fine if you are rich, terrible if you are not.

Source	Yield	Notes
Ore nodes	Repeatable	1,632 nodes worldwide — open the ore layer on the map and pick the nearest cluster
Pierdon	4-5 (100%)	Best guaranteed Ore drop of any Pal — kill or capture
Digtoise	2-3 (100%)	Drops Ore *and* mines it for you — the one to catch, not kill
Gorirat Terra	2-3 (100%)	Common early-area alternative if Pierdon is out of range
Knocklem	2-3 (100%)	Late-game Pal, but the drop is guaranteed
Wandering Trader	Unlimited	100 gold per Ore — 5,400 gold for the whole set

Best Pals for the Mining and Smelting Chain

Two jobs matter here: something to break the ore nodes and something to keep the furnace lit. Digtoise is the standout at this stage — Mining 4 is the highest rank you can realistically field around level 22, and its Drill Crusher partner skill lets you ride it straight into a node and shred it far faster than swinging a pickaxe. For the furnace, Arsox at Kindling 3 is triple the rank of the starter fire Pals and is easy to find in the volcanic zones. Do not sleep on Fuddler either: its Mining rank is only 1, but Mining Assistance boosts your own mining by 30% at base and up to 60% at max level, which is the cheapest speed-up available to a fresh account. Anubis and Astegon are the real endgame answers at Mining 6 and 7, but neither is a level-22 proposition.

Pal	Job	Rank	Why bring it
Digtoise	Mining	4	Best realistic miner at this level, and Drill Crusher lets you ride it into nodes
Tombat	Mining	3	Also has Gathering 2 and Transporting 2 — a solid all-round base body
Penking	Mining	3	Five work suitabilities in one Pal, so it covers gaps while it mines
Fuddler	Mining	1	Weak worker, but Mining Assistance adds 30-60% to *your* mining speed
Arsox	Kindling	3	Best early furnace pal — also Lumbering 2 for the Wooden Board wood
Foxparks	Kindling	1	The fallback if you have not reached the volcano yet — one is enough for a Primitive Furnace
Anubis	Mining	6	Later upgrade — Handiwork 6 as well, so it crafts the Ingot it mined
Astegon	Mining	7	Endgame miner, tied for the highest Mining rank outside of Aegidron

Metal Chair and Desk Set vs Other Seating Sets

Every seating and table set in the game costs exactly one technology point, so the only real decision is which look you want at which point in your run — and how much you are willing to pay in materials. The Metal Chair and Desk Set sits at the awkward middle of that curve: it is the first seating set that costs metal rather than wood, which makes it noticeably more expensive than everything before it, and it is beaten on piece count by the wooden set at level 5. What it does have is the only iron-finish seating in the game until the Ironwood Table Set at level 35, and that set is tables only — no chairs. If you have built a metal or industrial base, this is the one unlock that matches it.

Is the Metal Chair and Desk Set Worth It?

Yes, if you have a furnace running and a metal-walled base to fill. One point for four pieces is good value on a tree where saddles and weapons cost two to five, and by level 22 you should have Ingot production going anyway for the weapons and armour of that tier. Skip it if your base is still all wood — the Tidy Table Set and the Antique sets look better against timber and cost nothing but logs. And if you are short on points at 22, buy the Pal Expedition Station first; furniture will still be there next level.

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