# Onion

An old, well-loved vegetable that grows without much fuss, though it needs cooking before it's edible.

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

## Basics

- Type: Food / FoodVegetable
- Gold value: 100
- Weight: 1
- Max stack: 9999
- restoreFood: 9

## Where to find

| How | Where | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Merchant | Caravan Shop | 100 Gold |
| Plantation | Grown at your base | 6.5 min per harvest · 10 per crop |

## Used in

- Deluxe Bait x4
- Nutrient Tonic x20
- Extravagant Vegetable Cake x6
- Galeclaw Nikujaga x2
- Mammorest Curry x2
- Mushroom Quiche x2
- Broncherry Fried Noodles x1
- Minestrone x2
- Spring Rolls x2
- Stir-Fried Vegetables x2

## Notes we already publish

- (location) The Onion Plantation is a level 36 Technology entry costing 2 ordinary points, and it is the only way to grow Onions yourself. Building one takes 30 Wood, 20 Stone, 2 Aquatic Pal Fluids and 3 [[item:OnionSeeds]] — the seeds are the part that stalls people, since nothing on the crafting bench makes them.
- (location) Onion Seeds run 70 Gold each at the Caravan Shop, so a plantation costs 210 Gold in seeds if you simply buy them. Farming them instead is cheap: [[pal:TropicalOstrich]], [[pal:SakuraSaurus]] and [[pal:SakuraSaurus_Water]] each drop 1–2 every time, and [[pal:VioletFairy]] drops one half the time. Two or three kills covers the build.
- (strategy) One plantation needs three separate work suitabilities to cycle — Planting to sow, Watering to grow, Gathering to pull the crop. A base missing any one of the three leaves the field sitting at a stage forever, which reads like a broken structure rather than an unstaffed one. Check the plot's current stage before assuming the timer is wrong.
- (use) Onions are also sold outright at the Caravan Shop for 100 Gold each. Below roughly a stack a day that is the cheaper option than building the plantation and staffing it; the field only pays off once you are cooking in volume — Nutrient Tonic alone eats 20 per batch.

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