List of All Materials: Locations, Sources, and Uses

Palworld's item list carries 149 crafting materials once you strip out Pal eggs and gold, and they arrive by a dozen completely different routes — swinging a pickaxe at a rock, killing a boss, feeding relics into a recycler, or just buying the thing off a merchant. This guide sorts every one of them into the group it belongs to, gives the exact node count on the map for the ones you mine, and names the best Pal for the ones you farm off kills.

Every Material Group at a Glance

The fastest way to stop wasting time is to know which bucket a material sits in, because each bucket has exactly one efficient farm. Mined materials come from fixed world nodes that respawn, so they reward a route. Pal drops come from spawn points, so they reward a level-appropriate hunting ground. Refined components are pure crafting and never appear in the world at all, which means a shortage there is always a raw-material shortage upstream. The biggest single group is Pal body parts at 24 entries, but the group you will spend the most hours on is the 20 mined materials — they gate almost every base structure and every gun in the game.

All 20 Mined Materials and Their Node Counts

These are the materials with real, permanent pins on the world map — hit the node, it breaks, it comes back. The counts below are the actual number of nodes placed across Palpagos, and they explain a lot about mid-game bottlenecks: there are 8,157 rock nodes but only 226 Soralite nodes, so stone is never your problem and Soralite always is. Ore is the one to build your first base around at 1,632 nodes, and Paldium Fragment at 711 is the resource most players under-farm early, then run dry on the moment they want a second Palbox. Every row below opens our Palworld interactive map with just that layer switched on.

Material	Nodes on map	Where they cluster	What it feeds
Stone	8,157 rock + 4,286 small rock	Everywhere, all regions	Foundations, Cement, every early structure
Wood	4,654 lumber nodes	Everywhere, densest in the forest	Charcoal, Wooden Board, walls
Ore	1,632 nodes	Grasslands and desert cliffs	Ingot, Refined Ingot, Plasteel
Coal	824 nodes	Desert and Mount Obsidian	Refined Ingot, Thermal Core, gunpowder
Paldium Fragment	711 nodes	Blue crystal veins in every region	Spheres, Palboxes, Pal Metal Ingot
Sulfur	655 nodes	Desert and volcano	Ammo, Polymer, Corrosive Solvent
Hexolite Quartz	635 nodes	Feybreak	Hexolite — the whole late-game gun tier
Pure Quartz	607 nodes	Snowfields and Sakurajima	Circuit Board, Soralite Ingot
Nightstar Sand	271 nodes	Sakurajima	Every Air Walker and dash boot recipe
Soralite	226 nodes	Sunreach Isle only	Soralite Ingot, 95 downstream recipes
Beautiful Flower	27 nodes	Scattered, plus the Caravan Shop at 500 gold	Talismans, batons, Memory Wiping Medicine
Ancient Lava	10 nodes	Volcanic ground, the rarest node in the game	Air Walker Mk II, Ring of Trust, Wumpo Charm

The Ores With No Node Anywhere on the Map

Five mined-tier materials have zero world nodes, and that is exactly why they feel impossible to farm. Chromite and Coralum Ore have no pin at all — the only repeatable sources are the Ancient Material Synthesizer, expeditions, and oil rig crates. Paloxite is worse: it is a 100% guaranteed output of relic recycling and effectively nothing else, at 1-3 per Decayed relic scaling up to 9-11 per Glistening one. If you are stuck on a late-game armour recipe, the answer is almost always "go feed relics into a recycler" rather than "go mining".

Material	Best repeatable source	Rate	Second source
Chromite	Ancient Material Synthesizer, 8,000 work per unit	—	Silvegis at 2-3 a kill; Feybreak supply drops at 30-40
Coralum Ore	Salvaging wrecks (rank 2)	100%, 6-11	Oil rig crates at 83.3% for 8-12; fishing the World Tree at 12-25
Paloxite	Recycling Glistening Ancient Relics	100%, 9-11	Field drops in the World Tree, 18.7% for 1-5
Crude Oil	Crates on the large oil rig	100%, 10-300	185 oil field sites for the Crude Oil Extractor
Meteorite Fragment	Xenolord	100%, 7-15	Xenogard at 5-12; crush it for Paldium Fragments

Wood, Fiber, and Plant Materials

Only five materials sit in the wood family, and they ladder cleanly from free to nearly unobtainable. Wood and Fiber are the tutorial pair — you will have thousands by level 20. Hardwood is the first real gate, and the thing most players miss is that every merchant sells it for 100 gold, which is often faster than a Logging Site II. Mythical Wood is the top of the ladder and behaves exactly like Paloxite: guaranteed from relic recycling, at the same 1-3 through 9-11 scaling, and basically nowhere else.

Material	Rarity	Best source	Notes
Wood	Common	4,654 lumber nodes or a Logging Site	Also 12 gold from the Wandering Trader
Fiber	Common	Hoocrates and Hangyu, 5-10 per kill	Chopped from bushes and small trees too
Hardwood	Uncommon	100 gold at any village, desert or volcano shop	Wumpo Botan drops 2-5; Logging Site II makes it at 8,000 work
Ancient Bark	Uncommon	Ancient-tier gear material	Wanted by Air Walker Mk I, Islander's Tool Belt and Reptyro Charm
Mythical Wood	Rare	Recycling Ancient Relics, 100%	1-3 from Decayed relics up to 9-11 from Glistening
Beautiful Flower	Common	27 world pickups	Feeds 11 recipes including both Lyleen talismans

All 11 Ingots and Bars

Ingots are where the ore you mined turns into something a weapon recipe will accept, and the jump in value across the line is brutal — an Ingot is worth 240 gold, a Paloxite Ingot is worth 16,200, which is 67 times more for one bar. Three of them need a specific furnace tier and will not appear in your crafting list until you build it: Hexolite and Coralum Ingot need the Gigantic Furnace, Plasteel needs the Electric Furnace, and Soralite Ingot needs the Ancient Furnace. If you only chase one, make it Soralite Ingot — 95 recipes call for it, more than any other bar in the game.

Ingot	Recipe	Made at	Feeds	Gold value
Charcoal	2 Wood	Furnace	9 recipes incl. Carbon Fiber	30
Ingot	2 Ore	Furnace	Nail and the entire early tech tree	240
Refined Ingot	2 Ore + 2 Coal	Furnace	Mid-game guns, armour and Bio Battery	720
Pal Metal Ingot	4 Ore + 1 Pure Quartz + 2 Paldium Fragment	Furnace	Pal Metal armour and rifles	1,250
Plasteel	2 Crude Oil + 5 Ore	Electric Furnace	Computer, Plasteel armour line	2,520
Hexolite	1 Chromite + 1 Hexolite Quartz	Gigantic Furnace	68 recipes — ammo, Hexolite armour, Air Walkers	3,000
Coralum Ingot	2 Coralum Ore + 5 Coal	Gigantic Furnace	40 recipes, mostly saddles and boots	6,000
Soralite Ingot	2 Soralite + 2 Pure Quartz	Ancient Furnace	95 recipes — the widest reach of any bar	7,200
Paloxite Ingot	1 Soralite + 2 Paloxite + 1 World Tree Holy Water	Furnace	51 recipes incl. Ancient armour	16,200
Hallowed Bar	Not craftable	—	55 recipes — the Hallowed armour set	300
Luminite Bar	Not craftable — dropped by Moon Lord	—	Tides of Terraria material	200

All 22 Refined Components

Nothing in this group is found in the world. Every single entry is a craft, which means the only way to fix a shortage is to trace it back to a raw material and farm that instead. The chain runs deeper than it looks: an AI Core needs 5 Computers, and each Computer needs Circuit Boards, Plasteel, Bio Batteries and Carbon Fiber, each of which has its own tree underneath. That single item is worth 252,940 gold and is the most expensive material in the game by a wide margin, which is a fair signal of how much farming sits behind it. The practical advice: build a Cement and Cloth supply early, because those two are cheap and block dozens of structures.

Component	Recipe	Made at	Gold value
Cement	20 Stone + 1 Bone + 1 Aquatic Pal Fluids → 10 Cement	High-Quality Workbench	90
Cloth	2 Wool	Primitive Workbench	480
Nail	1 Ingot → 5 Nails	Primitive Workbench	60
Wooden Board	10 Wood + 5 Fiber + 1 Nail	Primitive Workbench	260
Gunpowder	2 Charcoal + 1 Sulfur	Workbench	430
High Quality Cloth	10 Wool + 1 Leather	High-Quality Workbench	2,640
Carbon Fiber	5 Charcoal + 1 Flame Organ	Production Assembly Line	840
Polymer	2 High Quality Pal Oil + 1 Sulfur	Production Assembly Line	1,080
Corrosive Solvent	1 Venom Gland + 1 Sulfur	Production Assembly Line	720
Cryogenic Coolant	1 Aquatic Pal Fluids + 1 Ice Organ	Production Assembly Line	720
Circuit Board	2 Pure Quartz + 1 Polymer	Production Assembly Line	2,500
Bio Battery	1 Electric Organ + 1 Refined Ingot + 1 Carbon Fiber	Production Assembly Line II	2,230
Thermal Core	4 Flame Organ + 8 Coal + 2 Corrosive Solvent + 2 Hexolite	Production Assembly Line II	12,290
Computer	2 Circuit Board + 3 Plasteel + 2 Bio Battery + 2 Carbon Fiber	Production Assembly Line II	22,440
High Quality Wooden Board	10 Hardwood + 10 Wood + 2 High Quality Cloth	Production Assembly Line II	7,680
Mythical Wooden Board	10 Mythical Wood + 10 Hardwood + 5 Chromite	Ancient bench	—
AI Core	5 Computer + 10 Soralite Ingot + 2 Thermal Core + 1 Ancient Civilization Core	Advanced Workshop	252,940

The remaining five entries in this group — Electronic Circuit, Gasoline, Propellant, Silicon and the older Gunpowder listing — carry no recipe and no source in the game's tables. They are leftovers, and you will never see them in a menu.

Pal Body Parts: What Drops What

This is the group you farm by fighting, and picking the right Pal matters far more than picking the right area. Mammorest alone hands over 5-10 Leather and 5-10 High Quality Pal Oil per kill at 100%, which makes it the single best two-birds farm in the game. For organs, the pattern is that the tier-one legendary of an element gives a flat maximum — Frostallion is a guaranteed 10 Ice Organ, Blazamut a guaranteed 10 Flame Organ — while common Pals give 2-5. Every rate below is a 100% drop, so the numbers are kills-to-target, not luck.

Material	Best Pal	Per kill	Pals that drop it	Used for
Leather	Mammorest	5-10	78	Armour, saddles, High Quality Cloth
High Quality Pal Oil	Mammorest	5-10	25	Polymer and every gun that needs it
Flame Organ	Blazamut	10	37	Carbon Fiber, Thermal Core, heat gear
Ice Organ	Frostallion	10	32	Cryogenic Coolant, cold gear
Electric Organ	Prixter Lux	4-5	23	Bio Battery, generators
Aquatic Pal Fluids	Suzaku Aqua	5	37	Cement, Cryogenic Coolant
Venom Gland	Menasting	5-10	17	Corrosive Solvent, poison ammo
Bone	Anubis	3-5	23	Cement, arrows, Pal food
Wool	Melpaca	2-5	9	Cloth and High Quality Cloth
Horn	Elgrove	2-3	20	Pendants, spears, mid-tier armour
Dark Fragment	Splatterina	2-3	9	Dark-element gear and summoning slabs
Ancient Civilization Parts	Dualith	7-9	288	Every pendant, saddle and ancient structure

A word on the duplicates: the material list contains two entries each for Leather, Claw, Fang and Animal Skin, and only one of each pair is live. If a wiki table or a spreadsheet ever shows you a Leather with no Pal attached to it, that is the dead copy — the real Leather is the one 78 Pals drop.

Materials Your Base Produces While You Are Away

The ranch quietly turns 13 different materials into a passive income, and it is the most under-used building in the game. Put Kelpsea on a ranch and Aquatic Pal Fluids stop being a diving trip; put Dumud Gild on one and High Quality Pal Oil stops gating your Polymer. Two of these are genuinely valuable: Sibelyx Primo produces High Quality Cloth directly, skipping the 10 Wool plus 1 Leather recipe entirely, and Mau produces gold coins with no material input at all. The spot counts below are how many places that Pal appears in the world, which is a fair proxy for how quickly you can go get one.

Material	Ranch Pal	Rank	Spawn spots
Aquatic Pal Fluids	Kelpsea	1	1,359
Bone	Cawgnito	1	1,463
Flame Organ	Kelpsea Ignis	1	786
Ice Organ	Foxcicle	3	187
Electric Organ	Sparkit	1	45
Venom Gland	Depresso	1	406
Wool	Lamball	1	351
Leather	Surfent	2	301
High Quality Pal Oil	Dumud	1	368
High Quality Cloth	Sibelyx	3	48

All 9 Radiant Gems

Radiant Gems are the awakening material, one per element, and they are the least random farm in the game: every source drops 10-20 at a 100% rate. That means a single kill can finish a whole awakening, and the only question is which Pal is closest. Electric has the most donors at 23 Pals and Water the fewest at 10, so Water Radiant Gem is the one worth planning a trip for — Azurobe is the reliable answer there. If you would rather not hunt at all, relic recycling coughs up a random gem at 2.1-4.4% per relic depending on grade, which is slow but runs in the background.

Gem	Best Pal to farm	Per kill	Pals that drop it
Neutral Radiant Gem	Eikthyrdeer	10-20	13
Fire Radiant Gem	Pyrin	10-20	20
Water Radiant Gem	Azurobe	10-20	10
Grass Radiant Gem	Elgrove	10-20	18
Electric Radiant Gem	Univolt	10-20	23
Ice Radiant Gem	Azurobe Cryst	10-20	17
Ground Radiant Gem	Eikthyrdeer Terra	10-20	15
Dark Radiant Gem	Helzephyr	10-20	17
Dragon Radiant Gem	Elphidran	10-20	18

Ancient Relics and the Recycler

Ancient Relics are five grades of the same item, and 143 Pals drop all five. The catch is the rate ladder: from a single Eikthyrdeer you get 30-50 Decayed relics at 100%, but only 1 Glistening relic at 25%. Grade matters because the Ancient Relic Recycler converts relics into Paloxite and Mythical Wood at 100% both, scaling with grade — 1-3 apiece from Decayed, 9-11 apiece from Glistening. Glistening relics also pay out 5-10 Ancient Civilization Cores at 41.5%, which is the only farmable route to a material that otherwise only drops from two bosses.

Relic	Drop rate	Per kill	Recycles into	Core chance
Decayed Ancient Relic	100%	30-50	1-3 Paloxite + 1-3 Mythical Wood	20% for 1
Dormant Ancient Relic	100%	10-20	3-5 + 3-5	24% for 5-10
Gorgeous Ancient Relic	100%	4-8	5-7 + 5-7	28.8% for 5-10
Glowing Ancient Relic	50%	2-3	7-9 + 7-9	34.6% for 5-10
Glistening Ancient Relic	25%	1	9-11 + 9-11	41.5% for 5-10

The other two ancient materials round out the group. Ancient Civilization Core drops one guaranteed from Silvance and Dandilord, and appears at 100% in World Tree treasure chests for 1-3. Ancient Pal Manuscript is the research material and comes almost entirely from expeditions and fishing — 46.5% on a Grasslands catch, and 8-16 at a time from World Tree treasure spots.

Pal Souls and Rank-Up Materials

Four soul tiers feed ranking Pals up, and the donor pool shrinks fast as you climb. Small Pal Soul comes from 13 Pals with Wistella the best at 3-5 a kill, while Giant Pal Soul comes from exactly four, all of them bosses you cannot casually farm. The tier worth building a route around is Large: 19 Pals drop it, Sekhmet gives 1-2 at 100%, and it is the tier most rank-up costs actually ask for.

Soul	Best Pal	Per kill	Pals that drop it
Small Pal Soul	Wistella	3-5	13
Medium Pal Soul	Menasting Terra	2-3	10
Large Pal Soul	Sekhmet	1-2	19
Giant Pal Soul	Aegidron	1	4

All 10 Stat Lotuses

Lotuses are the permanent stat items, split into a small version that makes a Remedy and a large version that makes an Elixir. The small ones are a map job — there are 866 lotus pins scattered across the world, and clearing them is a genuine afternoon. The large ones are not on the map at all: the only meaningful source is oil rig crates at 20% per crate on the standard rigs, which makes an oil rig run the single most efficient large-lotus farm. Relic recycling can also produce them, but at 0.05-0.15% it is not a plan.

Lotus	Makes	Gold value	Best source
Life Lotus (S)	Vital Remedy	20,000	World pickups · oil rig crates 4%
Power Lotus (S)	Might Remedy	20,000	World pickups · oil rig crates 4%
Speed Lotus (S)	Speed Remedy	20,000	World pickups · oil rig crates 4%
Stamina Lotus (S)	Stamina Remedy	20,000	World pickups · oil rig crates 4%
Carrying Lotus (S)	Burden Remedy	20,000	World pickups · oil rig crates 4%
Life Lotus (L)	Vital Elixir	30,000	Oil rig crates, 20%
Power Lotus (L)	Might Elixir	30,000	Oil rig crates, 20%
Speed Lotus (L)	Speed Elixir	30,000	Oil rig crates, 20%
Stamina Lotus (L)	Stamina Elixir	30,000	Oil rig crates, 20%
Carrying Lotus (L)	Burden Elixir	30,000	Oil rig crates, 20%

Both Elixirs and Remedies also want Predator Core — 2 per Elixir, 1 per Remedy — which drops from Predator Pals and nothing else. That is 10 recipes riding on one material, so bank cores whenever you meet a Predator.

Gems, Coins, and Sell-Only Materials

Here is the thing nobody tells you: Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and Diamond are used in zero recipes. They exist purely to be sold, at 20,000 / 30,000 / 40,000 / 50,000 gold respectively, and every merchant buys them at that price. Each one is region-locked to its own chest pool, which is a neat progression signal — Ruby in the Grasslands, Sapphire in the Forest, Emerald in the Desert and Mount Obsidian, Diamond in the Snowfields and everything past it. The five Precious items work the same way: pure gold, no crafting use, up to 15,000 a piece.

Material	Gold value	Where it comes from	Craft use
Diamond	50,000	100% from Snowfields, Sakurajima, Feybreak and Sunreach chests	None — sell it
Emerald	40,000	100% from Desert and Mount Obsidian chests	None — sell it
Sapphire	30,000	100% from Forest chests and enemy camp boss stashes	None — sell it
Ruby	20,000	100% from Grasslands chests; 27.7% while fishing there	None — sell it
Precious Dragon Stone	15,000	Jetragon, 7-9 per kill; 25 Pals total	None — sell it
Precious Entrails	12,500	Paladius, 6-8 per kill; 95 Pals total	None — sell it
Precious Plume	10,000	Faleris, 6-8 per kill; 38 Pals total	None — sell it
Precious Claw	7,500	Cryolinx, 6-8 per kill; 45 Pals total	None — sell it
Precious Pelt	5,000	Foxcicle, 6-8 per kill; 85 Pals total	None — sell it
Dog Coin	Medal Shop currency	Mimog drops 170-250; 128 world pins; sealed chests at ~99%	Buys accessory slots and gear
Predator Core	20,000	Predator Pals	10 recipes — all Elixirs and Remedies

Treasure Keys and World Tree Holy Water

Three keys open the locked chests in dungeons, and each one is tied to a specific dungeon tier rather than dropping randomly. Copper Key shows up in the starter caverns, Silver Key in the mid-game ones, Gold Key in Astral Mountains, Cherry Blossom and Feybreak Cavern. Fishing is a surprisingly good key source — a Grasslands junk haul gives a Copper Key 36% of the time. World Tree Holy Water belongs here too: it is a guaranteed 5-10 field drop in the World Tree, and without it you cannot make a single Paloxite Ingot.

Item	Best source	Rate	Dungeons that hold it
Copper Key	Junk hauls while fishing in the Grasslands	36%	Hillside Cavern, Isolated Island Cavern, Ravine Grotto
Silver Key	Sealed chests in Sakurajima	33.3% for 1-2	Cavern of the Dunes, Mountain Stream Grotto, Volcanic Cavern
Gold Key	Water-sealed chests in the World Tree	100% for 1-2	Astral Mountains Cavern, Cherry Blossom Cave, Feybreak Cavern
World Tree Holy Water	Field drops in the World Tree	100% for 5-10	—

The Short Answer

Mine Ore, Coal and Paldium Fragment hard in the early game — 1,632, 824 and 711 nodes respectively, and every structure you build wants them. Put Kelpsea, Lamball and Dumud on ranches so organs, wool and oil accumulate while you play. From level 50, farm Mammorest for leather and oil, run oil rigs for large Lotuses and Coralum Ore, and feed every Ancient Relic you pick up into a recycler — that one loop supplies both Paloxite and Mythical Wood at 100%. And do not hoard Diamonds: nothing in the game crafts with them, so they are 50,000 gold sitting in your box.

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