How to Get Viewing Cage: Level 15, Materials, and Uses

The Viewing Cage is a level 15 technology that lets you take one captured Pal out of storage and put it on display at your base, where it can't work, can't fight and never gets hungry. This guide covers the unlock level and point cost, the full 10 Paldium Fragment, 10 Wood and 20 Stone recipe, where to farm every piece of it, and how the cage differs from the storage boxes you already own.

Viewing Cage at a Glance

Two technology points at character level 15 buys you the whole thing, and there is no parent technology gating it — reach the level, spend the points, and it appears in the Pal tab of the build menu. The recipe is the friendliest part: 40 items across three materials you have been picking up since your first hour, none of them refined, so nothing has to pass through a Furnace or Workbench first. The trade-off is that the cage is purely a showpiece. A Pal locked inside is off your work roster and out of your party until you take it back out, which is why most players place one late, next to the Global Palbox, rather than burning early points on it.

What	Detail
Structure	Viewing Cage
Type	Technology unlock — Pal structure
Technology level	Lv. 15
Technology points	2
Prerequisite	None — no parent technology to buy first
Build menu tab	Pal
Materials	10 Paldium Fragment, 10 Wood, 20 Stone
Total items to build	40, all unrefined
Holds	One captured Pal, on display
Upkeep	None — a caged Pal never gets hungry
Restrictions	A caged Pal can't work at the base or join a fight

How to Unlock the Viewing Cage

Hitting character level 15 is the entire requirement — open the Technology screen, find the Viewing Cage, and pay 2 points. The catch is that level 15 is one of the busiest rows in the tree, with seven other entries competing for the same pool. If you are still riding a ground mount and cooking flour by hand, the technology points are better spent on the Mill and the Nitewing Saddle first; the cage decorates a base, it doesn't advance one. Points are never lost, though — you can come back for it the moment your build queue frees up.

Level 15 technology	Points	What it gives you
Viewing Cage	2	Display one captured Pal at your base
Mill	2	Turns Wheat into Flour for the bread and cake recipes
Nitewing Saddle	2	First flying mount saddle for Nitewing
Wheat Plantation	2	Wheat crop plot for your base
Beginner Fishing Set	2	Opens up fishing spots and the fishing rod
Arsox Saddle	1	Ground mount saddle for Arsox
Wooden Board	1	Refined Wooden Board, needed by the Breeding Farm
Hip Lantern	2 Ancient	Costs Ancient Technology Points, not regular ones

Viewing Cage Materials and Where to Farm Them

The whole bill is 40 items and every one of them comes out of a node you can hit with a starter pickaxe or axe. Stone is the bulk of it at 20, and it is also the material you are least likely to be short on — there are more rock nodes on Palpagos than any other resource. Paldium Fragment is the only piece that can slow you down, because it comes from a specific blue ore node rather than any old rock. If you are mid-build and stuck, a Wandering Trader will sell you all three outright, which puts the entire cage at roughly 1,060 Gold if you buy every item instead of mining it.

Material	Qty	Node on the map	Nodes	Trader price
Paldium Fragment	10	Paldium Ore	711	70 Gold each
Wood	10	Lumber	4,654	12 Gold each
Stone	20	Rock and Small Rock	12,443	12 Gold each

Paldium Fragment ×10

Paldium comes from the glowing blue ore nodes, and there are 711 of them scattered across the islands — plenty, but far rarer than plain rock, so they are worth marking near your base. If you would rather not mine at all, two early expeditions hand it over on a guaranteed basis: Verdant Hollow returns 10-30 Fragments in 30 minutes, and Secret Realm of the Forest returns 20-40 in the same window. Either one covers this recipe in a single run. Field drops in the Desert and Mount Obsidian also cough up small stacks, and the Wander Shop stocks it at 70 Gold if you are in a hurry.

Wood ×10

Ten Wood is a rounding error — 4,654 Lumber nodes are marked across Palpagos and every tree near your base regrows. The only reason to think about it at all is that the same trip usually needs to cover the Wooden Board costs for other level-15 through level-19 unlocks, so bring a Lumbering worker rather than swinging the axe yourself. Celesdir Noct tops the Lumbering ranks at level 8 and Celesdir sits right behind at level 7, but anything with a Lumbering rank will clear this in one cycle.

Stone ×20

Stone is the single most abundant resource on the map, with 8,157 Rock nodes and another 4,286 Small Rock nodes on top — 12,443 in total, more than double the Lumber count. Twenty of it is one boulder and change. If your base already has a Mining worker on rotation you almost certainly have this sitting in a chest already; if not, Aegidron leads the Mining ranks at level 8, and any Pal with a Mining rank will fill the gap while you gather the Paldium.

What the Viewing Cage Actually Does

The cage is a container for observing a captured Pal, and the game is upfront about the cost: a Pal inside cannot take part in battle or production. In exchange, it never becomes hungry, so there is no food drain and no Sanity decay to babysit — you can leave a Pal in there indefinitely and come back to it exactly as you left it. Practically, that makes it a trophy case. It is the only structure in the Pal tab that exists to show a Pal off rather than to store, breed, hatch, dress or condense one, so the usual pick is your rarest catch: a Lv. 70 alpha, a shiny-rare variant, or whatever you spent three hours chasing across the map.

Viewing Cage vs the Other Pal Structures

There are 23 structures in the Pal tab, and the Viewing Cage is the only one with no mechanical function whatsoever — everything else around its unlock level is doing work for you. The Global Palbox and the Palbox already store Pals for free with no hunger drain, so the cage is not a storage upgrade; it is a display slot. If you are at level 15 and choosing where the 2 points go, note that the Monitoring Stand at level 7 and the Ranch at level 5 are far cheaper per point of actual output, and the Dimensional Pal Storage five levels later is what actually solves a full box.

Structure	Level	Materials	What it's for
Palbox	2	1 Paldium, 8 Wood, 3 Stone	Defines the base and stores your Pals
Pal Dressing Facility	2	10 Stone, 10 Paldium	Applies Pal skins
Global Palbox	3	3 Paldium, 5 Wood, 15 Stone	Moves Pals between your worlds
Ranch	5	30 Wood, 20 Stone, 30 Fiber	Passive item production from ranch Pals
Monitoring Stand	7	30 Wood, 10 Stone	Sets work priorities for base Pals
Pal Essence Condenser	14	20 Paldium, 20 Ingot, 5 Ancient Parts	Raises a Pal's star rank
Viewing Cage	15	10 Paldium, 10 Wood, 20 Stone	Displays one captured Pal — no work, no hunger
Breeding Farm	19	10 Wooden Board, 20 Stone, 50 Fiber	Produces eggs from a breeding pair
Dimensional Pal Storage	20	20 Ingot, 40 Paldium, 5 Ancient Parts	Access your Palbox from anywhere

Best Pals to Show Off in the Viewing Cage

One cage, one Pal, so it may as well be something nobody walks past. The eight rarest Pals in the game all sit at rarity 20, and six of those are field alphas you have to hunt down and beat in the open world rather than pull from an egg — which is exactly what makes them worth caging. Jetragon is the headline pick: it is the highest-level alpha on the map at Lv. 70 and an XL-size Dragon, so it fills the cage visually in a way a Medium Pal never will. If you want scale over prestige, Neptilius is the other XL on the list. Build a second cage if you can't choose — nothing stops you placing more than one.

Pal	Rarity	Size	Element	Why it's a showpiece
Jetragon	20	XL	Dragon	Highest-level alpha in the game at Lv. 70, and XL-size
Frostallion Noct	20	L	Dark	Lv. 65 alpha — the rarer Dark variant of Frostallion
Neptilius	20	XL	Water	Lv. 60 alpha and the other XL-size legendary
Frostallion	20	L	Ice	Lv. 60 alpha, and the only Ice Pal at rarity 20
Paladius	20	L	Neutral	Lv. 60 alpha with a striking Neutral-white model
Anubis	10	M	Ground	Lv. 55 alpha — rarity 10 and instantly recognisable

Summary

Reach character level 15, spend 2 technology points on the Viewing Cage, and build it from 10 Paldium Fragment, 10 Wood and 20 Stone in the Pal tab of the build menu. It holds exactly one captured Pal, that Pal stops working and stops fighting, and in return it never gets hungry — so treat the cage as a trophy case for your best alpha catch rather than as extra storage.

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