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Advanced Technical Manual

Advanced Technical Manual

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Advanced Technical Manual is an uncommon Palworld item in the technology books category. It drops from 5 Pals when defeated or captured.

A book that contains secrets of amazing technology. Use it to obtain a few Technology Points.

Max stack
9,999
  • Outlying Isles 612
  • Windswept Hills 65
  • Twilight Dunes 47
  • Possible — chests, piles and wrecks that can pay it 797

Where to find it

Open the full map

Sold by

  • Bounty MerchantBounty Shop 15 Successful Bounty Tokens
Deep dive

What Technology Points buy — the full tech tree →

Unlocking all 537 regular technologies costs 1,413 Technology Points, and levelling to 80 pays only 474; manuals and fast-travel points make up the rest. The tech tree shows what each technology costs and unlocks.

How to get this item

Drops from 5 Pals. Best rate is Hoocrates at 1%.

Every source of Advanced Technical Manual

18 sources

Drop chances below are computed from Palworld’s own loot tables, so they are the game’s numbers rather than an estimate from play. Where a row names a grade, the chance is for a container of that grade — a snowfield chest holds four different pools and only one of them pays this item, so a figure averaged over all of them would be lower and would answer a different question.

Containers you open

Chance per container opened. One container can pay out several of the listed items at once.

  • Forest dungeon chest — Grade 52 tiers×150.0%
  • Grassland dungeon chest — Grade 52 tiers×150.0%
  • Grassland enemy camp — Grade 3×136.4%
  • Forest enemy camp — Grade 3×133.8%
  • Grassland chest — Grade 34 on the map×123.0%
  • Forest chest — Grade 317 on the map×1–219.6%
  • Oil rig×14.21%
  • Salvage point (Rank 1)776 on the map×1–31.29%

Fishing

Chance per catch.

  • Grassland fishing spot — Grade 3×123.0%
  • Forest fishing spot — Grade 3×1–219.6%
  • Forest base fishing pond×111.1%
  • Grassland base fishing pond×111.1%

Work you send Pals to do

Chance per reward roll, not per minute — an expedition rolls once when it returns.

  • World Tree relic recycler5 tiers×10.23%–0.48%
Strategy

Pal-drop farming tips

  • Butcher with a Meat Cleaver. Use a Meat Cleaver on a captured drop-Pal to butcher it — the drop table rolls the same as a wild kill, plus you keep the Paldex entry. Cheaper than chain-killing if the Pal is hard to find.

Frequently asked questions

Where do you get Advanced Technical Manual in Palworld?
Advanced Technical Manual drops from 5 Pals, with the best rate from Hoocrates at 1%. See the full Pal list with rates above.