# Defense Pendant

A pendant giving Defense a small lift.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/item/Accessory_defense_1

## Basics

- Type: Accessory
- Gold value: 15540
- Weight: 2
- Max stack: 1

## Recipe

- Ingot x30
- Ore x20
- Paldium Fragment x25
- Ancient Civilization Parts x2

## Notes we already publish

- (use) "Slightly raises Defense" is a bad description of what this does. The pendant carries the third step of the four-rung accessory Defense ladder — a 20% increase to your Defense stat, against 10% for the first rung and 25% for the top one. It is unconditional and it runs the whole time the pendant sits in an accessory slot: no HP threshold, no stance, no element requirement. The line points at you and only you, so a partner Pal out on the field gets nothing from it; the Pal-side Defense boosts are a separate set of passives that only work off a Pal's own equipment.
- (location) Nothing drops this. No Pal, boss or alpha carries it, and the pendant itself is off every chest table in the game — the only way to hold one is to build it from the recipe on this page. The single thing bearing its name that does appear as loot is the Defense Pendant Schematic ([[item:Blueprint_Accessory_defense_1_2]]), which sits on grade 5 chest tables and nowhere else: 3.45% from treasure chests inside Feybreak Cavern, 1.18% from the crates on the oil rigs, 0.19% from ordinary field chests in Feybreak. That works out to roughly 29 cavern chests, 85 rig crates or 520 field chests per copy, so the cavern run is the only one of the three that repays a deliberate farm.
- (strategy) Skip the schematic unless you collect rarity labels. Holding it in your inventory unlocks a Rare-tier recipe for the same pendant, and every Defense Pendant in the item table — plain and Rare alike — carries the identical 20% Defense line at the identical weight of 2. The rarer paper moves the colour of the frame and the sell price, not your damage taken.
- (use) The real gate is the 2 Ancient Civilization Parts, not the ore. Everything else in the recipe is bulk mining you already do, so the decision is whether 2 parts are better spent here than on a saddle or a tower-tier gun. For a slot you never have to think about again, 20% flat Defense usually wins — it scales with your armour instead of replacing it, and unlike the elemental resistance rings it never becomes dead weight because you walked into the wrong fight.

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Source: Palworld Database — https://palworld-db.com/item/Accessory_defense_1