Item Rarity Explained: Colors, Stat Multipliers, and Costs

Every weapon, armour piece, schematic and consumable in Palworld sits in one of five rarity bands, and the colour behind the icon is the fastest read you get on whether something is worth carrying home. This guide covers all five tiers, exactly how much attack and defence each step adds, the hidden bonus only rare armour carries, what the higher tiers cost to build, and the real drop rates behind each band.

The Five Rarity Tiers

Rarity is stored as a number from 0 to 4 and painted onto the icon background, so you can sort a full chest by colour without reading a single tooltip. Across the game's 2,377 catalogued items the bands are close to evenly split — Common is the biggest bucket only because raw materials, ammo and building junk all live there. Selecting an item opens the stat window, which spells out the same tier in words. On this site the tier shows up as a star rating in the page title, so Assault Rifle (4★) and Assault Rifle (0★) stay separate pages instead of one blurred entry.

How Rarity Changes Weapon Stats

On weapons, rarity moves attack, magazine size and durability all at once. The Assault Rifle is the cleanest example because every tier exists as its own build: attack climbs from 320 to 560, the magazine grows from 20 rounds to 30, and durability nearly doubles. That works out to ×1.25, ×1.4, ×1.6 and ×1.75 on attack as you step up the ladder. The vendor value tracks it too — a Legendary copy is worth 120,000 gold against 57,600 for the Common one, so a spare Legendary is a genuinely good thing to sell.

Rarity	Weapon	Attack	Magazine	Durability	Gold value
Common	Assault Rifle (0★)	320	20	3,000	57,600
Uncommon	Assault Rifle (1★)	400	24	3,000	72,050
Rare	Assault Rifle (2★)	448	26	4,000	88,800
Epic	Assault Rifle (3★)	512	28	5,000	103,250
Legendary	Assault Rifle (4★)	560	30	6,000	120,000

The Multiplier Is Per Weapon, Not One Global Curve

This is the part most rarity explainers get wrong. There is no single ladder that every gun follows — each of the 52 weapons with a full rarity ladder carries its own curve, and the spread is huge. The Old Bow multiplies its damage by 3.8 between Common and Legendary. The late-game showpieces barely move: Charge Rifle, Beam Launcher, Mechanical Bow, Heavy Assault Rifle and Laser Sword all cap out at a flat +20%.

The practical read: hunting Legendary schematics pays off most on the mid-tier guns you already use, and least on the endgame hardware that was already strong. Attack numbers only mean anything against other weapons of the same class — a handgun's 625 and a rocket launcher's 14,000 are measured on completely different scales — but the gain column compares fine across the whole table, because it is each weapon against itself.

Weapon	Class	Common attack	Legendary attack	Legendary gain
Old Bow	Bow	65	247	×3.80
Old Revolver	Handgun	600	1,500	×2.50
Handgun	Handgun	250	625	×2.50
Core Eject Shotgun	Shotgun	230	575	×2.50
Single-Shot Rifle	Rifle	1,100	2,310	×2.10
Musket	Rifle	1,000	2,000	×2.00
Assault Rifle	Rifle	320	560	×1.75
Advanced Bow	Bow	5,800	8,700	×1.50
Rocket Launcher	Launcher	10,000	14,000	×1.40
Heavy Assault Rifle	Rifle	1,615	1,938	×1.20
Charge Rifle	Rifle	12,500	15,000	×1.20
Beam Launcher	Launcher	14,000	16,800	×1.20
Mechanical Bow	Bow	20,000	24,000	×1.20
Laser Sword	Melee	2,000	2,400	×1.20

How Rarity Changes Armor

Armour follows the same idea with a flatter curve on the stat line and a much bigger jump on durability. Refined Metal Armor is a good mid-game reference: defence goes 150 → 240 and HP goes 500 → 800, both a ×1.6 spread, while durability leaps from 1,500 to 7,000 — so the Legendary copy survives more than four times as long between repairs. The 61 armour lines with a full ladder mostly land on that ×1.6 shape, but the ancient-material sets are stingier: Ancient Armor and Cold Resistant Hexolite Armor only reach ×1.3, because their Common versions already start high.

The temperature-resistance lines never change with rarity. A Common heat-resistant chestpiece keeps you alive in the volcano exactly as well as the Legendary one — you are paying purely for defence, HP, durability and the bonus below.

Rarity	Armour	Defense	HP	Durability	Built-in bonus
Common	Refined Metal Armor (0★)	150	500	1,500	—
Uncommon	Refined Metal Armor (1★)	195	650	4,000	Attack Up (S) Lv. 1
Rare	Refined Metal Armor (2★)	210	700	5,000	Attack Up (S) Lv. 2
Epic	Refined Metal Armor (3★)	225	750	6,000	Attack Up (S) Lv. 3
Legendary	Refined Metal Armor (4★)	240	800	7,000	Attack Up (S) Lv. 4

The Hidden Attack Bonus on Rare Armor

Here is the bit almost nobody mentions: every body armour above Common carries a free Attack Up (S) passive that scales with its rarity, and it boosts your ranged damage. Common gets nothing, then it steps +3%, +6%, +9% and +12%. It runs on all 28 armour lines that carry it, from Refined Metal Armor up to Ancient Armor. It stacks on top of whatever your weapon is doing, so a Legendary chestpiece is quietly a damage upgrade as well as a defence one — and it means a Legendary early-tier armour can out-earn a Common piece from the next tech tier if you fight with guns.

The Five Hats Where Rarity Does Nothing

Five Pal-themed headpieces break the pattern completely — their defence and HP are identical at every tier, 20 and 60 flat from Common all the way to Legendary. Upgrading one is a pure cosmetic exercise, so spend the schematics elsewhere. The only stat that moves is the elemental resistance line, which turns into Dark resistance on every copy above Common regardless of what the base hat resisted.

Headgear	Defense (0★ → 4★)	HP (0★ → 4★)	What actually changes
Dazzi Hat	20 → 20	60 → 60	Resistance flips to Dark above Common
Ribbuny Headband	20 → 20	60 → 60	Resistance flips to Dark above Common
Swee Cap	20 → 20	60 → 60	Resistance flips to Dark above Common
Killamari Cap	20 → 20	60 → 60	Nothing at all
Leezpunk Hood	20 → 20	60 → 60	Nothing at all

Rarity and Drop Rates

Rarity is also a promise about how often something falls out of a Pal, and the ancient relic line proves it better than anything else in the game because all five tiers drop from the same 143 sources. From an ordinary wild Pal the chance halves and halves again as you climb: 10% for the Decayed Ancient Relic down to 2% for the Glistening Ancient Relic. Fight the Alpha version of that same species and every number multiplies by five, which is the single strongest argument for relic-farming Alphas instead of the wild population.

Rarity	Relic	Wild Pal	Alpha version	Guaranteed-tier Pals
Common	Decayed Ancient Relic	10%	50%	100%
Uncommon	Dormant Ancient Relic	5%	25%	100%
Rare	Gorgeous Ancient Relic	3.3%	15%	100%
Epic	Glowing Ancient Relic	2.5%	12.5%	50%
Legendary	Glistening Ancient Relic	2%	10%	25%

The last column covers 67 Pals that hand over the bottom three relics every single kill and only start rolling dice at Epic — Kingpaca, Eikthyrdeer, Azurobe and Univolt are all in that group, which makes them far better relic routes than their rarity suggests. Two Alphas do even better than the standard boss multiplier, Silvance and Dandilord, both handing over the Glistening relic 20% of the time. Wispaw is the clearest before-and-after: 2% wild, 10% as an Alpha.

KingpacaEikthyrdeerAzurobeUnivoltSilvanceDandilordWispaw

Legendary Schematics Drop at Exactly 3%

The top of the schematic ladder is the strictest number in the game. 24 Legendary schematics each drop from exactly one Pal at a flat 3%, and there is no second source for any of them — no chest, no merchant, no dungeon container. That is roughly 33 kills for an average player before the schematic shows up, which is why building one at the Drafting Table is often faster than farming it. Across all 236 schematic lines, 92 exist at every rarity from Uncommon to Legendary, so most of your gear has a full ladder waiting to be climbed.

Pal	Legendary schematic it drops	Rate
Jetragon	Rocket Launcher Schematic 4	3%
Blazamut	Assault Rifle Schematic 4	3%
Suzaku	Pump-Action Shotgun Schematic 4	3%
Beakon	SMG Schematic 4	3%
Frostallion	Plasma Cannon Schematic 4	3%
Necromus	Hexolite Helmet Schematic 4	3%
Paladius	Lightweight Hexolite Armor Schematic 4	3%
Elizabee	Double-Barreled Shotgun Schematic 4	3%
Astegon	Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor Schematic 4	3%
Verdash	Single-Shot Rifle Schematic 4	3%

Higher Rarity Costs More to Craft

Owning the schematic is only half the bill. Higher tiers want more of every material and add a new one that the Common recipe never asks for: Ancient Civilization Parts, one per rarity step. The Pump-Action Shotgun shows the shape — Refined Ingot doubles from 30 to 60, and the Legendary build needs four Ancient Civilization Parts on top.

Craft time is the sneakier cost. The work value doubles at every step after the first, ending at 32 times the Common build, so a Legendary weapon ties up your best Handiwork Pals for a long stretch. Line up the best Handiwork Pals before you queue one, and read the Palworld crafting guide if you want the station-by-station breakdown.

Rarity	Shotgun	Attack	Refined Ingot	Polymer	Carbon Fiber	Ancient Civilization Parts	Craft work
Common	Pump-Action Shotgun (0★)	220	30	20	10	—	120,000
Uncommon	Pump-Action Shotgun (1★)	275	37	25	12	1	480,000
Rare	Pump-Action Shotgun (2★)	308	45	30	15	2	960,000
Epic	Pump-Action Shotgun (3★)	352	52	35	17	3	1,920,000
Legendary	Pump-Action Shotgun (4★)	385	60	40	20	4	3,840,000

Consumables and Materials Use the Same Bands

Rarity is not just a gear thing. Plenty of item families are really one ladder wearing five names, and the colour tells you where each rung sits. Healing is the obvious one: Low Quality Recovery Meds restores *some* health, Recovery Meds a decent amount, High Quality Recovery Meds a lot, and the Epic-band Advanced Recovery Meds refills you almost instantly — with the shop value climbing 2,820 → 6,180 → 12,600 → 20,520 to match.

Pal Souls run the same ladder for statue upgrades, treasure maps carry their difficulty as a rarity, and skill fruits sit at Uncommon, Rare or Epic depending on how strong the move they teach is — no skill fruit in the game is Legendary. When you are not sure whether a stack is worth the weight, the colour is the answer.

Ladder	Common	Uncommon	Rare	Epic	Legendary
Healing	Low Quality Recovery Meds	Recovery Meds	High Quality Recovery Meds	Advanced Recovery Meds	—
Pal Souls	—	Small Pal Soul	Medium Pal Soul	Large Pal Soul	Giant Pal Soul
Treasure maps	Treasure Map (0★)	Treasure Map (1★)	Treasure Map (2★)	Treasure Map (3★)	Treasure Map (4★)
Ancient relics	Decayed	Dormant	Gorgeous	Glowing	Glistening

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