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Verified Palworld 1.0 · recentlyByYurii Luzhko

How to Get High Quality Pal Oil in Palworld 1.0 — Every Pal That Drops It

High Quality Pal Oil comes off Pals, not out of the ground. Here is every Pal that drops it, ranked by how many you get per kill — plus the merchants, expeditions and Ranch that skip the fight.

  • Best dropperMammorest5–10 per kill · 100% · tied with 1 other Pal
  • Pals that drop it24
  • Crafts intoPolymer+11 more
High Quality Pal Oil in Palworld — a flask of viscous oil beside a defeated Mammorest

The short answer

High Quality Pal Oil is a Pal drop, not a node, and Mammorest is the answer: 5-10 per kill at a 100% rate, more than double what most droppers give. Mammorest Cryst matches it. Below them, Eidrolon and Eidrolon Ignis give 5-6, then a tail running from four or five down to one. You do not have to fight for it at all, though: merchants sell it for 300 Gold, a Hard Desert expedition returns 10-20, and a Dumud Gild on a Ranch produces it while it grazes. It is the material behind Polymer, and it feeds most of the firearms — the Handgun alone takes fifteen.

All 24 Pals that drop High Quality Pal Oil

Sorted by drop rate, then by how many you get per kill — which is what decides where you actually farm once two Pals both drop at 100%.

What High Quality Pal Oil is for

  • Polymer×2
  • Handgun×15
  • Old Revolver×20
  • Marksman Revolver×15
  • Makeshift Assault Rifle×20
  • Mossanda's Grenade Launcher×20
  • Grizzbolt's Minigun×10
  • Mammorest Saddle×10
  • Starryon Primo Saddle×20
  • Revival Potion×20
  • Weapon Assembly Line×10
  • Watering Research I-VIII×5-130

Source: paldb.cc/en/High_Quality_Pal_Oil. Palworld 1.0 added recipes that our item catalogue does not carry, so this list is quoted rather than derived.

This is not Crude Oil

Palworld ships two oils and they behave nothing alike. Crude Oil comes from an oil field under a base and feeds Wing Cell; High Quality Pal Oil comes off Pals — killed, butchered, or grazing on a Ranch — and feeds Polymer and firearms. A recipe asking for one will not accept the other.

Butcher for more

Using a Meat Cleaver on a captured Pal returns its drop table again, so a captured Mammorest can be butchered rather than released. That doubles the return on the trip if you were going to catch it anyway.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Pal to farm for High Quality Pal Oil?
Mammorest, at 5-10 per kill on a 100% rate — the highest yield in our drop table, matched only by Mammorest Cryst. Eidrolon and Eidrolon Ignis are next at 5-6. Everything else drops one to a few.
Where do you find High Quality Pal Oil in Palworld?
It has no node and no field, so it never appears on the map. Pals carry it in their drop tables — this page lists every one of them — and beyond that, merchants sell it for 300 Gold at Duneshelter and Fisherman's Point, a Hard Desert expedition returns 10-20, fishing-pond chests roll it, and a Dumud or Dumud Gild assigned to a Ranch produces it while grazing.
What is High Quality Pal Oil used for?
Polymer, at two per unit, is the main sink, and Polymer gates most late-game gear. Past that it goes straight into most of the firearms — Handgun 15, Old Revolver 20, Marksman Revolver 15, Makeshift Assault Rifle 20 — plus saddles, fishing rods, medicines and eight tiers of Watering research. paldb lists 33 recipes in all; the table above quotes it, because our own item catalogue indexes only seven.
Is High Quality Pal Oil the same as Crude Oil?
No. Crude Oil is extracted from an oil field with a Crude Oil Extractor and feeds Wing Cell. High Quality Pal Oil comes off Pals, merchants, expeditions and Ranch grazing, and feeds Polymer and firearms. They are not interchangeable in any recipe.