How to Trade Pals: Drops, Guild Storage, and Merchants

Palworld has no trade window, so trading Pals means one of three things: dropping one for the player standing next to you, passing it through storage you both share, or paying a merchant for one. This guide covers all three routes, what the game requires for each, exactly what stays on a Pal when it changes hands, and every Pal you can buy with gold instead.

Trading Pals at a Glance

The important thing to understand up front is that a Pal is not an item — it carries everything you invested in it, so a handover is worth far more than the gold value attached to it. There is no trade request, no confirmation screen between two players and no way to send a Pal to someone offline. Every method below is either physical (the Pal lands on the ground) or shared (both players can reach the same box), and the only one that crosses save files is the Global Palbox, which copies data rather than moving a Pal.

What	Detail
Is there a trade window?	No — Palworld has no player-to-player trade UI
Fastest way to hand a Pal over	Drop it from the Party tab with R or the right stick
Trading through storage	Both players must be in the same guild
Guild members (default)	20, raisable to 100 in world settings
Buying Pals for gold	Black Marketeers and regional Pal Merchants, 5 on the counter at a time
Pals you can buy in total	52 merchant entries across the 6 stock pools
Sell price	One-twentieth of what the same Pal costs to buy
Across two save files	Global Palbox only, and it copies rather than moves

All Three Ways to Trade a Pal

Pick the route by who you are trading with. If the other player is standing in front of you, dropping is instant and needs nothing built. If you play together regularly, joining one guild removes the ceremony entirely — shared Pal storage means neither of you has to be online at the same time. Merchants are the fallback when nobody has the Pal you want, and the only one of the three that costs gold instead of goodwill.

Method	Works with	What you need	The catch
Drop the Pal	Anyone standing nearby, guild or not	Nothing — it is a default input	First person to touch it takes it, so do it somewhere quiet
Shared Pal storage	Guild members only	Same guild, plus Dimensional Pal Storage for a shared box	Requires joining their guild, which shares your bases too
Merchants	Yourself — you buy from an NPC	Gold, and the right merchant for the Pal	Random 5-Pal stock and prices that scale hard with level
Global Palbox	Your own other save files	Tech Lv 3 and one technology point	Copies genetic data — the original stays behind

Trade Through the Palbox and Shared Storage

The clean way to trade with someone you play with often is to be in the same guild, because a guild owns its bases, its base Pals and its storage collectively. Once you are in, the Palbox at that base is reachable by both of you: one player deposits, the other withdraws, and nobody has to be standing there at the same moment. It also means everything else on that base becomes shared, so join the guild of people you actually trust rather than a stranger who offered you a Pal.

The upgrade worth building for a trading guild is Dimensional Pal Storage, which adds a second Pal box that every guild member can open. It costs 2 Ancient Technology Points at Lv 20 plus 20 Ingot, 40 Paldium Fragment and 5 Ancient Civilization Parts, and it can be flipped to private if you would rather use it as personal overflow. In a co-op world it turns one dedicated breeder into everyone's supplier — they park the results in the box, and the rest of the guild collects whenever they log in.

Storage	Who can pull from it	Unlock	Cost
Palbox	Anyone in the guild that owns the base	Placed to found a base	Free — it is your first build
Dimensional Pal Storage	Every guild member, or private if you toggle it	Tech Lv 20	2 Ancient points, 20 Ingot, 40 Paldium Fragment, 5 Ancient Civilization Parts
Guild Chest	Every guild member, from any of your bases	Tech Lv 41	4 Ancient points — items only, not Pals

Hand a Pal Over Directly

The direct trade is a drop. Open the menu, switch to the Party tab, highlight the Pal, then press R on keyboard or click the right stick on controller — the Pal pops out onto the ground in front of you and the next player to interact with it owns it. That last part is the whole risk: a dropped Pal is not reserved for the person you meant it for, so do your handovers away from a busy spawn point rather than in the middle of a public lobby.

Because the drop carries the Pal's entire history, this is how a group skips work rather than just shares it. A five-star condensed hauler like Lunaris handed to a new player arrives condensed, and a bred Pal with a stacked passive set arrives with the passives intact — which is why most co-op worlds run one breeding specialist instead of four separate farms. The full input walkthrough, including what the game refuses to let you drop, is in how to drop items and Pals.

Clear the Favorite Lock First

If the button does nothing, the Pal is favorited. Favoriting exists so you never hand away or release the mount you fly everywhere on, and it blocks the input silently instead of warning you. Select the Pal, tap the lock icon beside its Trust bar, and the drop works immediately — then re-favorite your own main flyer, because the same button that gives a friend a Pal is the one that loses you your Jetragon.

What Transfers With the Pal

A traded Pal is the exact same individual, not a fresh copy, so everything stored on it comes along. That includes the levels you paid for, the condensing you ground out and the passive skills it rolled or inherited — which is what makes a good trade so much more valuable than the gold price on the same species. The one thing a trade never transfers is technology: a saddle still has to be researched by someone, though gear itself can be handed over separately.

Buy and Sell Pals From Merchants

Merchants are the trade route that always works, because the NPC never logs off. Two families sell live Pals: Black Marketeers, who stand at fixed spots and carry the strong regional roster, and the ordinary Pal Merchants in the desert and volcano regions. Each one puts 5 Pals on the counter at a time, rolled from its own pool, so the Pal you want may simply not be in stock on the day you arrive — rerolling vendor stock is the fix for that.

Price is base value multiplied by level: the multiplier starts at 1.65x at Lv 1 and climbs 0.15 per level, so the same Pal at the top of a merchant's band costs noticeably more than at the bottom. Pocketpair has never published the formula, so treat the gold figures below as very close rather than to-the-coin. Every fixed merchant position is pinned on our interactive map, where the merchant layer carries 12 pins including the four Black Marketeers.

Merchant	Level band	Pals on the counter	Pool size	Price range
Black Marketeer (endgame)	Lv 50–55	5	8	13,887 – 30,352
Black Marketeer (highlands)	Lv 42–48	5	8	8,237 – 23,359
Black Marketeer (volcanic)	Lv 35–40	5	9	3,328 – 21,832
Black Marketeer (early)	Lv 20–30	5	11	3,722 – 17,478
Desert Pal Merchant	Lv 40–45	5	8	4,620 – 13,010
Volcano Pal Merchant	Lv 30–35	5	8	2,442 – 9,882

Every Pal a Merchant Can Sell You

Here is the complete purchasable roster, grouped by the merchant that stocks it and sorted by value inside each pool. The price column spans the merchant's level band, so the low number is what you pay for the weakest roll and the high number for the strongest. Dualith at up to 30,352 gold is the single most expensive Pal any merchant carries, while the Volcano Pal Merchant's Kelpsea Ignis at 2,442 is the cheapest live Pal on any counter — and Gorirat Terra is the only Pal sold by two different merchants, which makes the Desert Pal Merchant the cheaper of the two by roughly 400 gold.

Pal	Merchant	Base value	Price at the band
Warsect	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	2,913	13,108 – 17,478
Mammorest	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	2,220	9,990 – 13,320
Helzephyr	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	2,109	9,490 – 12,654
Elgrove	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	2,041	9,184 – 12,246
Mossanda	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	1,475	6,638 – 8,850
Katress	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	1,356	6,102 – 8,136
Robinquill	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	1,335	6,008 – 8,010
Beegarde	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	1,166	5,247 – 6,996
Tombat	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	1,147	5,162 – 6,882
Dumud	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	995	4,478 – 5,970
Wispaw	Black Marketeer (Lv 20–30)	827	3,722 – 4,962
Moldron	Black Marketeer (Lv 35–40)	2,911	19,649 – 21,832
Relaxaurus	Black Marketeer (Lv 35–40)	2,365	15,964 – 17,738
Ragnahawk	Black Marketeer (Lv 35–40)	2,263	15,275 – 16,972
Blazehowl	Black Marketeer (Lv 35–40)	1,794	12,110 – 13,455
Pyrin	Black Marketeer (Lv 35–40)	1,464	9,882 – 10,980
Bushi	Black Marketeer (Lv 35–40)	1,442	9,734 – 10,815
Incineram	Black Marketeer (Lv 35–40)	1,325	8,944 – 9,938
Wixen	Black Marketeer (Lv 35–40)	1,284	8,667 – 9,630
Leezpunk Ignis	Black Marketeer (Lv 35–40)	493	3,328 – 3,698
Relaxaurus Lux	Black Marketeer (Lv 42–48)	2,685	20,943 – 23,359
Sekhmet	Black Marketeer (Lv 42–48)	2,638	20,576 – 22,951
Gildra	Black Marketeer (Lv 42–48)	2,529	19,726 – 22,002
Palumba	Black Marketeer (Lv 42–48)	2,529	19,726 – 22,002
Menasting	Black Marketeer (Lv 42–48)	2,469	19,258 – 21,480
Beakon	Black Marketeer (Lv 42–48)	1,934	15,085 – 16,826
Gorirat Terra	Black Marketeer (Lv 42–48)	1,284	10,015 – 11,171
Lovander	Black Marketeer (Lv 42–48)	1,056	8,237 – 9,187
Dualith	Black Marketeer (Lv 50–55)	3,113	28,017 – 30,352
Wumpo	Black Marketeer (Lv 50–55)	2,591	23,319 – 25,262
Mammorest Cryst	Black Marketeer (Lv 50–55)	2,424	21,816 – 23,634
Icelyn	Black Marketeer (Lv 50–55)	2,277	20,493 – 22,201
Quivern	Black Marketeer (Lv 50–55)	2,081	18,729 – 20,290
Cryolinx	Black Marketeer (Lv 50–55)	1,987	17,883 – 19,373
Lunaris	Black Marketeer (Lv 50–55)	1,845	16,605 – 17,989
Foxcicle	Black Marketeer (Lv 50–55)	1,543	13,887 – 15,044
Digtoise	Desert Pal Merchant (Lv 40–45)	1,577	11,828 – 13,010
Dinossom Lux	Desert Pal Merchant (Lv 40–45)	1,543	11,572 – 12,730
Gorirat Terra	Desert Pal Merchant (Lv 40–45)	1,284	9,630 – 10,593
Surfent Terra	Desert Pal Merchant (Lv 40–45)	1,205	9,038 – 9,941
Dazemu	Desert Pal Merchant (Lv 40–45)	896	6,720 – 7,392
Cawgnito	Desert Pal Merchant (Lv 40–45)	770	5,775 – 6,352
Needoll	Desert Pal Merchant (Lv 40–45)	702	5,265 – 5,792
Dazzi	Desert Pal Merchant (Lv 40–45)	616	4,620 – 5,082
Vanwyrm	Volcano Pal Merchant (Lv 30–35)	1,464	8,784 – 9,882
Arsox	Volcano Pal Merchant (Lv 30–35)	1,176	7,056 – 7,938
Gobfin Ignis	Volcano Pal Merchant (Lv 30–35)	850	5,100 – 5,738
Turtacle	Volcano Pal Merchant (Lv 30–35)	661	3,966 – 4,462
Leezpunk	Volcano Pal Merchant (Lv 30–35)	476	2,856 – 3,213
Fuack Ignis	Volcano Pal Merchant (Lv 30–35)	463	2,778 – 3,125
Flambelle	Volcano Pal Merchant (Lv 30–35)	436	2,616 – 2,943
Kelpsea Ignis	Volcano Pal Merchant (Lv 30–35)	407	2,442 – 2,747

What Selling a Pal Actually Pays

Selling runs on the same curve but pays out one-twentieth of the buy price, which makes offloading Pals one of the worst gold sources in the game. A Pal you paid 20,000 for returns around 1,000 if you sell it straight back, and levelling one before selling costs more in Training Crystals and food than the extra payout returns. Sell only Pals you were going to release anyway, and get your money from the actual gold farming methods instead — the full price list is in Pal buy and sell values.

Trading Pals Between Your Own Worlds

If the trade is with yourself — a new world, a friend's server, a dedicated server you just rented — the Global Palbox is the tool. It unlocks at technology Lv 3 for a single point and costs 3 Paldium Fragment, 5 Wood and 15 Stone, which is buildable in your first hour. Deposit a Pal and its data becomes available in every save you load, so a fresh character can start with a proper team instead of grinding one up again.

The distinction that trips people up is that it stores a copy of the Pal's genetic data, not the Pal itself. The original stays in your ordinary Palbox doing its job, and the version you withdraw elsewhere is a rebuild — which also means it is not a way to hand a Pal to another player, since only your own saves can read your box. For that, you are back to dropping or shared guild storage.

Trade Rules Worth Knowing First

Most failed trades come down to one of the same handful of rules rather than a bug. Run through this list before you agree to anything, especially with a player you do not know — a dropped Pal cannot be un-dropped, and a guild invite hands over more than most people realise.

The Short Answer

To trade a Pal with another player, stand next to them, open the Party tab, highlight the Pal and press R or the right stick to drop it — clearing the favorite lock first if nothing happens. If you play together regularly, join one guild instead and pass Pals through the shared Palbox or Dimensional Pal Storage at Tech Lv 20, which works whether or not you are both online. If nobody has the Pal you want, the six merchant pools hold 52 buyable entries between them, from 2,442 gold for a Kelpsea Ignis to 30,352 for a Dualith. And to move Pals between your own saves, build the Global Palbox at Tech Lv 3.

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