Fiber
Material · MaterialWood0★Stripped from trees, and it goes into bows and similar gear.
Fiber feeds 141 different recipes, which is why it is worth farming past the point you think you need it.
Details
It weighs almost nothing and stacks to 9,999, so there is no reason not to carry a full stack. It sells for almost nothing, so do not bother hauling it to a shop.
Fiber Crafting Recipe
Crafting it takes 1 material across 1 type. Each craft returns 2, so the real cost per unit is lower than the list suggests.
Where to Find Fiber
9 Pals drop Fiber when defeated or captured, which is usually the faster route if you are already out hunting — the drop list below is sorted by how reliably each one gives it up.
Using Fiber Well
The Wood-into-Fiber conversion listed above is not a workbench recipe — it runs on the Crusher, a base production structure unlocked at technology level 8 for 2 points and built from 50 Wood, 20 Stone and 10 Paldium Fragment. Until you place one, chopping trees by hand is the only supply you have.
You cannot work the Crusher yourself. The object is flagged as not player-workable and its job is a Watering order, so it stands idle until a base Pal with a Watering suitability of at least 1 is assigned to it. Rank 1 is the whole requirement, and every early Watering Pal clears it: Fuack, Celaray, Teafant and Pengullet are all catchable long before the technology unlocks. Penking brings rank 2 if you want the wheel turning faster.
Because the chain is one material deep — Wood in, 2 Fiber out — every Fiber costs exactly half a log, which makes the big recipes far cheaper than their numbers suggest. The 200-Fiber Giant Feed Bag is 100 Wood; the 100-Fiber Extra Weapon Holster 2 is 50. Put a Lumbering worker and a Watering worker in the same base as the Crusher and both halves of that run without you.
The craft itself is trivially cheap in work terms — 500 units per batch, against 10,000 for a single Carbon Fiber — so one rank-1 Watering Pal keeps a Crusher saturated. The bottleneck on a Fiber stockpile is always the log supply feeding it, never the machine.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Other crafting materials at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class: