# How to Use the Monitoring Stand and All Upgrades

How the Monitoring Stand works in Palworld — issuing work orders, allowing or banning specific jobs, plus the High Quality and Ancient upgrades that cut SAN drain, with build costs for all three tiers.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/guides/monitoring-stand
Updated: 2026-07-22

The Monitoring Stand is the structure that turns your base from a free-for-all into an organized workforce: station a Pal at it and you can issue work orders across the whole base — including allowing or outright banning specific kinds of work for individual Pals. It unlocks early, and its two upgrades ease the biggest cost of pushing your Pals hard: SAN drain. Here's each tier, what it adds, and what it costs.

## All Three Monitoring Stands

The three tiers arrive at very different points in the game — Tech 7, 28, and 71 — and each solves the problem of its era: the base stand gives you control at all, the High Quality version blunts the SAN drain of a busy mid-game base, and the Ancient stand exists so a max-output endgame base can run hard without a mutiny.

| Structure | Unlock | Build Cost | What It Adds |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | Tech Lv 7 | 30× [Wood](https://palworld-db.com/item/Wood), 10× [Stone](https://palworld-db.com/item/Stone) | Issue work orders — allow or prohibit individual kinds of work per Pal |
|  | Tech Lv 28 | 100× [Ingot](https://palworld-db.com/item/CopperIngot), 30× [Cement](https://palworld-db.com/item/Cement) | Lowers the SAN cost of working Pals and improves conditions, so they're less likely to get dissatisfied |
|  | Tech Lv 71 | 100× [Soralite Ingot](https://palworld-db.com/item/SkyislandIngot), 5× [Ancient Civilization Core](https://palworld-db.com/item/AncientParts2) | Red Paldium holographic interface — commands the entire base and keeps Pals calm even in harsh working conditions |

## How Work Orders Work

Interact with the stand and you get per-Pal control over the base workflow: you can steer a Pal toward the jobs you actually want done and ban the ones you don't — no more watching your best miner wander off to water crops. It's the fix for Pals ping-ponging between tasks. Pair it with the right workers and the base runs itself; the [Best Pals for every base job](https://palworld-db.com/best-pals) rankings tell you exactly who to assign where.

> **Tip.** Pushing Pals harder burns through their sanity — that's the trade the upgrades exist to soften. If SAN keeps tanking, upgrade the stand, and stock food that restores sanity: [Cake](https://palworld-db.com/guides/all-cakes-in-palworld) and other high-grade meals help a lot.

## Is the Ancient Upgrade Worth It?

The Ancient Monitoring Stand lands at Tech Lv 71, right alongside other [Soralite](https://palworld-db.com/item/SkyislandIngot)-hungry endgame projects like the [Ancient Relic Recycler](https://palworld-db.com/guides/ancient-relic-recycler). Five [Ancient Civilization Cores](https://palworld-db.com/item/AncientParts2) is a modest ask at that stage, and the payoff — a whole base of calm Pals under harsh workloads — is one of the better quality-of-life buys in the late game. If you're running a max-output production base, build it.

## Related Guides

More base-building help:

- [Best Pals for every base job](https://palworld-db.com/best-pals)
- [How to Get and Use the Ancient Relic Recycler](https://palworld-db.com/guides/ancient-relic-recycler)
- [How to Get Ancient Civilization Cores and Uses](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-get-ancient-civilization-cores)
- [Full structures database — every build cost](https://palworld-db.com/structures)
- [How to Farm Honey and All Honey Sources](https://palworld-db.com/guides/how-to-farm-honey)
- [The complete technology tree](https://palworld-db.com/tech)


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