# Coal

Turns up in caves and similar spots. High quality metal requires it.

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

## Basics

- Type: Material / MaterialOre
- Gold value: 200
- Weight: 5
- Max stack: 9999

## Where to find

| How | Where | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mining and gathering | Palpagos Islands — 824 coal nodes | Respawns after you break it |
| Expedition | Hidden Sanctum of the Desert | Normal · 45 min · 100% chance · 20–40 at a time |
| Expedition | Free Pal Alliance Illicit Trading Post | VeryHard · 120 min · 100% chance · 10–20 at a time |
| Expedition | PIDF Illegal Factory | VeryHard · 120 min · 100% chance · 10–20 at a time |
| World loot | Field drops in the Desert | Grade 1 · 14.1% chance · 1–3 at a time |
| World loot | Field drops in the Sakurajima | Grade 1 · 13.0% chance · 1–5 at a time |
| World loot | Field drops in the Snowfields | Grade 1 · 12.8% chance · 1–3 at a time |

## Dropped by

- Blazamut — 100%, 10
- Blazamut Ryu — 100%, 10
- Pierdon — 100%, 4-5

## Used in

- Blazamut's Talisman x15
- Coralum Ingot x5
- Refined Ingot x2
- Thermal Core x8
- Legendary Meowmere x22
- Meowmere x22

## Notes we already publish

- (location) Coal stops being a field resource once you can build the Coal Quarry. It unlocks at level 37 for 5 Ancient Technology Points, and a single Pal with the Mining work suitability assigned to it will keep the coal flowing at your base with no travel involved. Building one costs 100 Coal, 70 Stone, 30 [[item:Pal_crystal_S]] and 10 [[item:PalCrystal_Ex]] — so the first hundred still has to be mined or shipped in by hand.
- (location) Three spots on Palpagos pack enough of the 824 nodes into one patch of ground to be worth a base of their own. The densest is around (22, -153), about 265 m south of the Mount Flopie Summit statue: eight coal nodes and five copper ore deposits inside a 50 m radius, though not a single lumber node, so wood has to come from a second base. The desert coast at (423, 3) trades two coal for convenience — six nodes plus eight stone and four copper in the same radius, with the Dustview Coast statue roughly 25 m away, so every haul back is a teleport. For a late base, (-292, -468) on the volcano's eastern skirt, about 285 m from Foot of the Volcano, holds ten coal within 100 m next to nine paldium outcrops, which covers the 30 [[item:Pal_crystal_S]] the Coal Quarry asks for — it is hot ground, so bring heat protection before you settle.
- (strategy) If you are saving toward that 100-coal build cost and would rather not tour the mining nodes, the Hidden Sanctum of the Desert expedition is the cheapest route: it returns 20–40 coal every run at a guaranteed rate on a 45-minute Normal timer, so three or four dispatches cover the whole quarry.
- (strategy) A coal base only pays off if the deposits sit inside the build circle. Mining Pals work nodes enclosed by the base and drop the ore into nearby storage, but they will not step outside it, so drop the Palbox to swallow the cluster rather than to sit beside it, and staff the base with Mining Pals only — a crew carrying Lumbering will spend its time on the trees instead.

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