# Pure Quartz

Common across snowy fields and similar terrain, and Circuit Board cannot be made without it.

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

## Basics

- Type: Material / MaterialOre
- Gold value: 500
- Weight: 5
- Max stack: 9999

## Where to find

| How | Where | Details |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mining and gathering | Palpagos Islands — 607 pure quartz nodes | Respawns after you break it |
| Expedition | Astral Frost Cavern | Hard · 60 min · 100% chance · 20–40 at a time |
| Expedition | PAL Genetic Research Laboratory | VeryHard · 120 min · 100% chance · 10–20 at a time |

## Dropped by

- Pierdon Cryst — 100%, 4-5

## Used in

- Cryolinx Ring x20
- Divine Dragon's Baton x20
- Lord of the Underworld's Baton x15
- Dragon Support Whistle x20
- Ring of Dragon Resistance x20
- Circuit Board x2
- Pal Metal Ingot x1
- Soralite Ingot x2

## Notes we already publish

- (location) The 607 nodes are not spread evenly — one snowfield pocket holds far more than anywhere else. Measured against our own node pins, the single best base site is roughly 120 m from the Unthawable Lake waypoint, where 16 quartz nodes fall inside one 75 m circle; four more circles of 7 to 11 nodes each sit within 320 m of the same waypoint, and 83 nodes in total (nearly one in seven on the map) are within 300 m of it. Pack cold resistance before you settle there.
- (location) If Unthawable Lake is taken by another base or you want a second quarry running, the next densest waypoints by node count within 300 m are Pristine Snow Field and Land of Absolute Zero (28 each), Thawtide Cape (26), Garden Beneath the Astral Mountains (23), then Garden Beneath the Cliffs and Icy Weasel Hill (13 each). Pristine Snow Field also carries two tight pockets of 6 to 7 nodes, one of them only 117 m out, so it is the best of the alternates for a compact mining base.
- (use) Once you clear technology level 52 you can stop travelling for it entirely: the Pure Quartz Quarry is an ancient structure costing 5 technology points, and it is built from 100 Pure Quartz, 70 Stone, 30 Paldium Fragment and 10 Ancient Civilization Parts. That buy-in is the point of the snowfield trips — mine one stockpile by hand, spend it on the quarry, and quartz becomes a passive base output like ore or coal.
- (use) The quarry is not self-running: it is a Production facility that only outputs while a pal with the Mining work suitability is working it, and the requirement is Mining rank 1. Every one of the 57 pals that has Mining at all clears that bar, so there is no reason to hold a top-tier miner back for it — a Cattiva ([[pal:PinkCat]]), Depresso ([[pal:NegativeKoala]]), Fuddler ([[pal:CuteMole]]) or Rushoar ([[pal:Boar]]) staffs it just as validly, and higher Mining ranks only make it faster. Keep the good miners on ore and put a spare Mining-1 body on the quartz.
- (drops) Pierdon Cryst ([[pal:RockBeast_Ice]]) is worth hunting rather than stumbling into, because every one of its mapped spawn points sits in a single snowfield pocket: 47 of the 50 are within 300 m of the Azure Covenant Tower Entrance waypoint, and the closest is about 20 m from The Azure Tapestry. It spawns there day and night, so one lap of that pocket with a strong Ground or Fire team is a repeatable 4-5 quartz per knockout with no mining pals involved.

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