# Metal Detector

Switch it on inside a dungeon and buried Chromite deposits get flagged for mining. Stray far enough from a flagged deposit and the marker drops off.

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

## Basics

- Type: Weapon / WeaponMetalDetector
- Gold value: 527040
- Weight: 25
- Max stack: 1
- durability: 400

## Recipe

- Plasteel x30
- Paldium Fragment x100
- Computer x15
- Nightstar Sand x20

## Notes we already publish

- (use) The Technology tree hands this over at level 58 for 3 Technology points, so it lands very late — every [[item:Chromium]] run before that is done by eye, and the detector is a convenience for farming the ore in bulk rather than the thing that gets you your first pieces.
- (use) It is a weapon-slot item with 0 attack, so it takes the place of a gun rather than sitting in a tool slot. Keep a real weapon on the bar next to it and swap back the moment a dungeon boss shows up — sweeping with the detector out leaves you holding something that cannot fight.
- (strategy) It cannot be hand-crafted from the inventory menu, and the build is a 500,000-work job — roughly sixteen times a mid-tier weapon. Queue it on an assembly line with your highest Handiwork Pals assigned and let it run while you do something else; standing there cranking it by hand is the slowest possible way to get one.

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