# Refined Metal Spear

A melee weapon whose high-quality metal head raises its attack power, with enough shaft to strike from outside arm's length.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/item/Spear_3

## Basics

- Type: Weapon / WeaponMelee
- Gold value: 9420
- Weight: 20
- Max stack: 1
- attack: 310
- durability: 300

## Recipe

- Wood x36
- Stone x18
- Refined Ingot x10

## Notes we already publish

- (use) Nothing about this recipe forces a bench upgrade. The floor is the second rung of either crafting family — a Production Assembly Line or a Weapon Assembly Line — and every bench above either of those takes it as well: both Assembly Line IIs, the Advanced Workshop, the Advanced Weapon Assembly Line and the Ancient Workbench. That matters because level 34 is well past the point where most bases have at least one of those two standing, so the only thing between you and the spear is the three technology points and ten Refined Ingot.
- (strategy) Buy the plain Sword instead unless you specifically want the reach. It is a level 29 node against this one's 34, costs two technology points against three, and swings for 360 with 500 durability against 310 and 300 — earlier, cheaper and better on every number. It also weighs 10 where the spear weighs 20, so you are carrying twice the load for less damage. The spear's entire case is the shaft: it lets you poke from outside the arc of whatever is swinging back, which is worth something against melee alphas and worth nothing against anything ranged. If you are not actively using that spacing, the three points are better spent elsewhere in the tree.
- (use) Do not wait on a schematic for this one — there isn't one. 310 attack and 300 durability is the whole weapon, with no Uncommon-through-Legendary ladder behind it, unlike the [[item:Bat3]] line that runs to 750 attack and 2,000 durability across four grades, or [[item:Sword]], which climbs to 540 and 2,000 the same way. The only spears that carry grades are Lyleen's, and those are a different recipe entirely. Repair it, replace it, and stop checking chests for a sheet that does not exist.
- (strategy) This is the last craftable rung of the plain spear line, and the drop to the next one is twenty-one levels. [[item:Spear]] at level 3 gives 35 attack, [[item:Spear_2]] at 13 gives 80, this one at 34 gives 310 — and then nothing until [[item:Spear_ForestBoss]], Lily's Spear, at level 55 for 860, with [[item:Spear_ForestBoss2]] at 68 for 1,200. So if you commit to spears you are holding these 310 from the mid-30s through the entire back half of the tech tree, past the point where [[item:Bat3]] (level 40, 500 attack) and the Katana (level 44, 780, and only two points) have made it obsolete. Treat it as a bridge weapon, not a build.
- (trivia) Twenty weight is the same as the Refined Metal Axe and Refined Metal Pickaxe that unlock alongside it at level 34, and it is the heaviest of any melee weapon you would actually fight with at that tier — swords and katanas are 10, the Metal Bat is 3. Per unit of carry weight it returns about 15 attack, against roughly 36 for the level 29 Sword and 167 for the Metal Bat, which makes it a poor thing to keep slotted as a spare once something better is in the primary slot.

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Source: Palworld Database — https://palworld-db.com/item/Spear_3