# Simple Bait

The basic lure for drawing Pals in, and a prerequisite for fishing at all.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/item/FishingBait_1

## Basics

- Type: Consume / ConsumeFishingBait
- Gold value: 160
- Weight: 0.025
- Max stack: 9999

## Recipe

- Aquatic Pal Fluids x2
- Red Berries x4
- Flour x2
- Yields 10

## Where to find

| How | Where | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Merchant | Desert Shop | 160 Gold |
| Merchant | Village Shop | 160 Gold |
| Merchant | Volcano Shop | 160 Gold |
| Merchant | Wander Shop | 160 Gold |
| World loot | Chests in the Grasslands | Grade 1 · 25.0% chance · 1–2 at a time · also in Hillside Cavern, Isolated Island Cavern and Ravine Grotto |
| World loot | Chests in the Forest | Grade 3 · 25.0% chance · 2–3 at a time · also in Mountain Stream Grotto |
| World loot | Junk hauls while fishing in the Grasslands | Grade 1 · 25.0% chance · 2–3 at a time |
| World loot | Salvaging wrecks (rank 1) | Grade 1 · 25.0% chance · 2–3 at a time |
| World loot | Chests in the Desert | Grade 3 · 16.7% chance · 2–3 at a time · also in Cavern of the Dunes |
| World loot | Chests in the Mount Obsidian | Grade 3 · 8.3% chance · 2–3 at a time · also in Volcanic Cavern |

## Notes we already publish

- (use) Simple Bait is the yardstick, not a buff. The fishing table gives it 1.0 on every knob it could turn: bite chance, hit-bar width, and the struggle you gain on a good pull or lose on a bad one all sit at their unmodified values, and it adds nothing to the chance of a bonus drop from what you land. When another bait is described as "1.5x bite rate" or "wider bar", that multiplier is measured against a cast made with this. Using it costs you nothing and buys you nothing — it is the ticket that lets the rod work at all.
- (strategy) Two baits sit at the same tier and each beats it at one thing, if you have the salvage blueprint that unlocks them. Sweet Bait ([[item:FishingBait_1_B]]) carries 1.5x bite chance — the same search bonus High Quality Bait ([[item:FishingBait_2]]) gives, several tech tiers early. Beginner Bait ([[item:FishingBait_1_A]]) drops the struggle you lose on a missed pull to 0.68x, which is the forgiving option while you are still learning the minigame. Both use the same three ingredients but want 4 Aquatic Pal Fluids instead of 2 and come out one at a time instead of ten, so they are what you save for a specific spot; Simple Bait is what you burn through.
- (use) Nothing else in the bait line is close on throughput. A batch takes 1,200 work and yields 10, so 120 work per bait — against 400 per bait for High Quality Bait ([[item:FishingBait_2]]) and 3,500 per bait for Deluxe Bait ([[item:FishingBait_3]]). It also needs no upgraded station: the Primitive Workbench crafts it, so a Handiwork Pal parked at your first bench can keep a stack of hundreds topped up from berries and fluid you already farm.
- (use) Buy it only when you are caught short at a spot. Merchants charge 160 Gold a piece, so ten off a vendor is 1,600 Gold for what one craft batch produces from 2 Aquatic Pal Fluids, 4 Red Berries and 2 Flour. Carrying it is free either way — at 0.025 weight, a thousand baits is 25 weight and the stack cap is 9,999, so there is no reason to leave home with fewer than a few hundred.

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Source: Palworld Database — https://palworld-db.com/item/FishingBait_1