Unlock
- Technology Lv 46
- Staffing requirement: Mining Lv 1 — that is the whole gate
- One cycle is 300 work units: 10m00s at work level 1, 6s at level 10
How to Get Sulfur in Palworld
There are 288 sulfur nodes on the Palpagos map. 163 of them — more than every other region combined — sit in Mt. Obsidian, the volcanic northeast. Below: a region-by-region breakdown, the best mining Pals, and a base setup that farms it passively.
Sulfur nodes by region
Every sulfur-node pin counted from the live map, sorted by density. Click a region to jump to its full marker list.
The best place to farm Sulfur
Mt. Obsidian holds 163 of the island's 288 sulfur nodes (57%) — more than every other region combined.
It's an endgame-tier volcanic biome that deals fire and heat damage, so bring Heat Resistant Pelt Armor and ideally a Fire-immune mining Pal. Once you're geared, set a base inside a cluster and the nodes farm themselves.
Backup spots: Verdant Brook (40), Bamboo Grove (35), Sakurajima (19) — smaller but accessible at lower levels.
Best mining Pals for Sulfur
Any mining Pal breaks sulfur nodes; a higher Mining level just clears them faster. Full ranking in the mining tier list.
AstegonMining Lv 7S-tier endgame miner (Mining Lv 7). It also spawns around the volcanic regions where sulfur lives, so you can catch and farm in the same trip.
BlazamutMining Lv 7Mining Lv 7 Fire alpha from Mt. Obsidian — the same region with the most sulfur. Fire-immune, so the lava terrain doesn't chip its HP.
AnubisMining Lv 6A-tier generalist (Mining Lv 6 + Handiwork Lv 6). The best all-round worker to leave on a sulfur base.
DigtoiseMining Lv 4Mid-game Mining Lv 4 and an easy catch. Its rolling attack chews through mineral nodes hands-free.
What Sulfur crafts into
The passive Sulfur Mine
Once you reach its Technology level, the Sulfur Mine base structure turns Pal labour into a continuous sulfur drip — no more field runs. Any Pal with Mining Lv 1 can staff it; a higher Mining level only shortens the cycle. Quick reference:
Build cost
70 Stone
100 Sulfur
30 Paldium Fragment
10 Ancient Civilization Parts
Staff it with Digtoise, Anubis, or any other mining Pal (full list in the best mining Pals guide). Work-speed passives such as Artisan shorten the cycle further. What they do not do is unlock anything: the requirement to staff this building is Mining Lv 1, the same as the Stone Pit.
The 100 Sulfur you spend building it comes back out of the mine, so past the first stretch it is pure gain. We do not print an hours figure — that depends on the Pal you assign, its passives and your world settings, and nothing we ship models it.
Sulfur in dungeons (early-game safe source)
Mt. Obsidian is the canonical answer but the volcano biome damages you without Heat Resistant Pelt Armor (Lv 30) — a non-starter at Lv 15–25. Until then, the safest sulfur is inside dungeons: a fraction of dungeons spawn sulfur node deposits in the deeper rooms, and the boss-clear chest sometimes drops a stack of raw sulfur as a guaranteed reward. Run any dungeon you find via the dungeon map — it's slower per-hour than Mt. Obsidian but doesn't require armor you can't craft yet.
Frequently asked questions
Where do you find Sulfur in Palworld?
Sulfur comes from sulfur nodes — the yellow-crusted mineral rocks concentrated in the volcanic parts of the map. Mt. Obsidian holds the largest share by a wide margin; Verdant Brook is the next-best source, followed by Bamboo Grove, with smaller pockets on Sakurajima, in Twilight Dunes, the Windswept Hills, and the Outlying Isles.
What is the best place to farm Sulfur?
Mt. Obsidian — the volcanic region in the northeast. It holds more sulfur nodes than every other region combined. The terrain is endgame-tier and deals fire/heat damage, so bring heat-resistant armor and ideally a Fire-immune mining Pal like Blazamut. Set a base near a node cluster to farm it passively.
Which Pal is best for mining Sulfur?
Any mining-capable Pal works. Because most sulfur sits in lava terrain, a Fire-element or Fire-immune miner is ideal — Blazamut (Mining Lv 7) shrugs off the heat. Since 1.0 raised the work-suitability ceiling, Lv 7 is no longer the top of the chart: Aegidron, a World Tree Pal, mines at Lv 8. For a base you can staff without a World Tree trip, Astegon (Mining Lv 7) and Anubis (Mining Lv 6) remain the strongest picks; Digtoise (Mining Lv 4) is the easiest early catch.
What is Sulfur used for in Palworld?
Sulfur is the backbone of Palworld's ammunition and explosives economy — it feeds the Gunpowder line that your firearms, shells, and grenades depend on. If you're building toward gun-based combat or explosives, you'll be farming sulfur regularly, which is why a Mt. Obsidian base pays off.
Do Sulfur nodes respawn?
Yes — about 30 minutes of real time per node, the same figure our map's own marker text gives, so an empty-looking spot is usually on cooldown rather than missing. Build a base inside a node cluster, assign two or three mining Pals, and the pile refills itself while you handle other content.
Can you mine Sulfur early in the game?
It's possible but slow. The richest sulfur fields are in Mt. Obsidian, an endgame-level volcanic zone that punishes underleveled players. Early on you can pick up the smaller Bamboo Grove and Twilight Dunes deposits; the serious sulfur farm opens up once you can survive the volcano.
Sources: Sulfur node counts computed live from games/palworld/data/markers-seed.json (Pindrop's map dataset, 288 markers). Mining-suitability data from pal-stats.json. See the canonical Sulfur item page and mining tier list.