All Schematics and What They Unlock
579 schematics, the item or structure each one unlocks, and the rarity tier it was found at.
The Technology tree hands you most recipes, but the strongest gear in Palworld is deliberately kept off it. Those recipes arrive as schematics — drops you have to go and find — and until one lands in your inventory the crafting bench simply will not list the item.
Rarity is the part people miss. A schematic is not a yes-or-no unlock. Weapons and armour built from a higher-rarity copy come out with higher attack or defence than the exact same recipe built from a common one, and the difference is large enough that an old weapon from a legendary schematic will beat a newer one from a common. Keep farming a schematic you already own; you are farming the tier, not the unlock.
Where they come from. Container loot, for all but 24 of them. Nearly every schematic in the game sits on the loot tables of four channels: crates on the oil rigs, treasure map digs, the chests and enemy camp stashes of each region, and fishing. Set your expectations for the top tier before you start: a 4★ weapon schematic tops out near 2% per container anywhere in the game, and most tables sit under 1%. Oil rig crates and sea base enemy camp loot hold the best of those odds; treasure map digs appear on more 4★ tables than any other source but pay under 1% each, so they are the widest net rather than the fastest one. Ordinary region chests and fishing carry the same schematics at lower tiers, which is where the bulk of a 1★–3★ collection actually comes from. The two late islands are the odd ones out: the cavern chests of Feybreak and Sunreach Isle each run a table of their own, and every accessory schematic in the game is on one of those two. The ancient-tier guns and armour are the third exception and the sharpest one: not one of those four channels carries them, and the section below is the only routing that works for them.
The exception is worth planning your route around. 24 legendary schematics are also carried by one specific Alpha each, at a flat 3% per kill — better than the best container roll on every single one of them, and aimed at a fixed target you can walk to instead of a table you have to keep rolling. If the recipe you want is in the table below, the Alpha is the route; the rig run is what you do for the rest.
A few of them you can just buy. 12 schematics carry a price instead of a drop rate — the Arena Shop stocks most of them for Battle Tickets, and the Medal Shop sells both Lily's Spear recipes for Dog Coins. Nine are 4★, the top tier there is, bought with no farming and no luck involved. If the weapon you want is on that list, every hour spent on oil rig crates is wasted. See the table below, plus the arena guide for ticket rates.
The craft option will not appear if the schematic is in a chest. Learning a schematic is not permanent the way a Technology unlock is — the recipe only shows up at the bench while the schematic item is physically in your own inventory. Stash it in a base container or a Pal's pack to save weight and the entry silently vanishes from the crafting list.
Schematics You Can Buy Outright (12)
These are the only schematics in the game with a price tag instead of a drop rate. Every one is 4★ or 3★, so the copy you buy is the best copy — there is no reason to farm a higher tier of any weapon on this list. Prices are per purchase and the currency is earned rather than looted: Battle Tickets from arena rounds, Dog Coins from junk hauls while fishing and the coin nodes scattered across the islands.
| Schematic | Rarity | Unlocks | Price | Shop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charge Rifle Schematic 4 | 4★ | 1,500 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop | |
| Core Eject Shotgun Schematic 4 | 4★ | 1,300 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop | |
| Energy Shotgun Schematic 4 | 4★ | 1,500 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop | |
| Enhanced Lily's Spear Schematic 4 | 4★ | 840 Dog Coin | Medal Shop | |
| Lily's Spear Schematic 4 | 4★ | 600 Dog Coin | Medal Shop | |
| Marksman Revolver Schematic 4 | 4★ | 1,300 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop | |
| Overheat Rifle Schematic 4 | 4★ | 1,500 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop | |
| V1 Armor Schematic 4 | 4★ | 1,000 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop | |
| V2 Armor Schematic 4 | 4★ | 1,000 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop | |
| Charge Rifle Schematic 3 | 3★ | 600 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop | |
| Energy Shotgun Schematic 3 | 3★ | 600 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop | |
| Overheat Rifle Schematic 3 | 3★ | 600 Battle Ticket | Arena Shop |
Cosmetic headgear is the other exception: Desert Shop, Village Shop and Volcano Shop sell 22 decorative hat and cap schematics for a flat 500 Gold each. They carry no stats, so one copy is the whole story.
Legendary Schematics with a Dedicated Alpha (24)
Each of these Alphas carries one 4★ schematic and no other, at 3% per kill. The last column is the best container anywhere in the game for the same schematic, so the gap is the whole argument: even a 2% oil rig crate is a worse roll than the Alpha, and the sub-1% ones are not close. Alphas sit at fixed spawn points and return, which makes this the only schematic route you can farm on purpose rather than by volume — pick the one whose level you can already beat, learn the approach, and repeat it.
The trade is level gating. The list runs from Lv 11 to Lv 70, and a 3% roll still means most trips end with nothing, so the honest expectation is roughly 23 clears for an even chance at a copy. Kills also stack toward the same fusion maths as containers — five copies of a lower grade make one of the next at the Ancient Workbench — but an Alpha only ever hands over the 4★ copy, so nothing here needs fusing.
Levels are the Alpha's, not the Pal's — see the Alpha list for stat multipliers and the map for each spawn point.
The Ancient Tier Ignores All of That (7)
7 recipes sit at the ceiling of the weapon and armour ladders, and every route above misses every one of them. No Alpha carries an ancient schematic. Nothing on an oil rig holds one, no enemy camp stash or region chest lists one, and no shop takes money for one. Three container channels feed the tier and all three hang off the World Tree — plus one route that is not a container at all, below the table.
| Schematic | Unlocks | World Tree fishing | Treasure map (tier 5) | Glistening relic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor Schematic 4 | 0.841% | 0.149% | 0.029% | |
| Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor Schematic 4 | 0.841% | 0.149% | 0.029% | |
| Beam Launcher Schematic 4 | 0.363% | 0.149% | 0.029% | |
| Beam Scatter Schematic 4 | 0.363% | 0.149% | 0.029% | |
| Drone Launcher Schematic 4 | 0.363% | 0.149% | 0.029% | |
| Lightweight Ancient Armor Schematic 4 | 0.363% | 0.149% | 0.029% | |
| Plasma Rifle Schematic 4 | 0.363% | 0.149% | 0.029% |
Fish, and fish specifically there. A rod at a World Tree spot beats the tier-5 dig on every row and beats the recycler by roughly an order of magnitude, which inverts the usual advice: for the ancient set the oil rig run is worth nothing and the fishing spots are the whole route. The two resistance armours roll better than the guns from the same water, so a session aimed at the armour is the more efficient one.
Recycling is a by-product, not a plan. The Ancient Relic Recycler pays these seven and nothing else in the schematic slot, so anything it hands you is on this table — but the relic grade decides whether the roll exists at all. A Glistening relic is the only grade with a 4★ rate worth writing down; a Decayed one rounds to zero and is a wood-and-ore machine in practice. Feed it what you pick up on the way past and treat a schematic as a bonus.
5 of the 7 have a second home: the hard-mode tower rematches. Clearing all eight towers on normal opens a rematch ladder, and each of these five bosses carries one ancient-tier recipe and no other — a different one per tower, so there is nothing to compete over and nothing to reroll for. It is a chance on the reward table rather than a guarantee, unlike the trainer's hat, which lands on the first clear every time. What it buys you over the rod is aim: the World Tree pools hand out whichever of the seven they feel like, while a tower is a named schematic you walk to.
| Hard rematch | Effective HP | Schematic | Unlocks | World Tree fishing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ×400 | Cold-Resistant Ancient Armor Schematic 4 | 0.841% | ||
| ×417 | Lightweight Ancient Armor Schematic 4 | 0.363% | ||
| ×440 | Beam Launcher Schematic 4 | 0.363% | ||
| ×465 | Plasma Rifle Schematic 4 | 0.363% | ||
| ×733 | Heat-Resistant Ancient Armor Schematic 4 | 0.841% |
Effective HP is the rematch health multiplier divided by its damage-taken multiplier — the real size of the bar, and the only number worth sorting this list by. Victor & Shadowbeak at ×400 is the cheapest entry point of the five and Axel & Orserk at ×733 the most expensive, which is roughly 1.8× the work for one recipe of the same tier. Order your run by that column, not by which weapon you want first. The 2 recipes with no tower behind them stay a fishing job. Unlock conditions and full multipliers are on the hard mode tower guide and the tower boss list.
Schematics the Arena Hands Over Free (3)
Beating an arena rank for the first time pays a fixed bundle on top of the Battle Tickets, and 3 of those bundles contain a schematic outright — 100%, no roll, once per rank. This is separate from spending tickets at the counter: you get these for winning, whether or not you ever shop.
| Rank | Schematic | Rarity | Unlocks | Tickets with it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver | Handgun Schematic 1 | 1★ | 10 | |
| Gold | Heat Resistant Refined Metal Armor Schematic 1 | 1★ | 15 | |
| Platinum | Meteor Launcher Schematic 4 | 4★ | 20 |
Meteor Launcher Schematic 4 is the one that matters. It is a 4★ recipe with no loot table anywhere in the game — nothing drops it, no container rolls it, no merchant stocks it, and no lower-grade copy of it exists to fuse upward from. Beating the Platinum rank and its Lv 50 team once is the only way Meteor Launcher ever gets built, which makes that clear worth pushing for even if you never enter the arena again.
Opponent teams, levels and the ticket economy are on the arena page.
Weapon Schematics (224)
Guns, bows and melee weapons. These are the schematics worth farming: weapon damage scales with the rarity of the schematic you built from, so the same gun can be several tiers apart depending on which copy you used.
Accessory Schematics (70)
Rings, whistles, pendants, talismans, batons, charms and belts — the family the rarity rule above does not apply to. An accessory schematic exists at exactly one rarity and never rolls another, because the power ladder is written into the item names instead: Air Walker Mk I, Mk II, Mk III and EX are four separate recipes behind four separate schematics, so a duplicate of the one you already hold buys you nothing and the upgrade is a different drop entirely.
Two islands hold all of them, and they do not overlap. The 29 rare (2★) ones — every elemental resistance ring, every support whistle, the pendants and the undershirts — sit on Feybreak: treasure chests in its caverns at 3.4%, crates on the oil rigs at 1.2%, surface chests at 0.2%. The 41 epic (3★) ones — the named Pal talismans, rings and batons, the Air Walker ladder, the charms and belts — sit on Sunreach Isle instead: cavern treasure chests at 2.4%, large oil rig crates at 1%, surface chests at 0.2%. Nothing else in the game drops an accessory schematic, so farming the wrong island returns exactly zero of the set you want.
Cavern treasure chests are the only route worth running. Within each island every schematic sits at the same odds, which makes a treasure chest close to a uniform pick from that island's set — you cannot aim at one, but every open rolls at all of them. Reckon on about 20 Feybreak chests or 29 Sunreach ones for an even chance at a specific schematic; the surface chests, at 0.2%, are more than an order of magnitude worse and not worth the walk. One item has no table at all: the Phantom Ring schematic is carried by nothing.
Building them is a second gate. The material bill stays hidden until the schematic is physically on you, and the two sets cost what their islands suggest. Feybreak recipes are built at a High-Quality Workbench and want plain Ingot plus Ancient Civilization Parts; every Sunreach recipe needs the Production Assembly Line, most of them want Refined Ingot, and nine also call for Ancient Civilization Core. Have an ancient-parts supply running before you start opening chests, or you will end up holding recipes you cannot build.
Armour and Shield Schematics (268)
Body armour, headgear and shields. Defence scales with schematic rarity the same way weapon attack does, so a legendary copy of an early-tier chestpiece can outlast several tech-tree upgrades.
Structure Schematics (15)
A handful of buildables are not on the Technology tree at all — decorative and themed pieces that only exist as a schematic drop. There is no rarity scaling here; one copy is all you need.
Other Schematics (2)
Consumables, saddles, spheres and utility gear that arrive as schematics rather than tech points.
| Schematic | Rarity | Unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| Celestial Sigil Schematic | 3★ | |
| Faded Schematic | 4★ |
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