Palworld
Dark Skill Fruit: Nightmare Ball

Dark Skill Fruit: Nightmare Ball

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Dark Skill Fruit: Nightmare Ball is a rare Palworld item in the misc category. It teaches Nightmare Ball — see the Pals that can learn it below.

Use on a Pal to teach it Nightmare Ball.

Max stack
9,999
  • Feybreak 19
  • Mt. Obsidian 12
  • Twilight Dunes 11
  • Possible — chests, piles and wrecks that can pay it 72

Where to find it

Open the full map

Teaches this skill

Nightmare BallDark Shot
Power 300CD 16sRange 5000

Creates a giant ball of darkness and hurls it at an enemy.

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8 Pals also learn this skill natively — so you can either apply this fruit to a different Pal, or capture/breed for one of these:

Teaches

Nightmare Ball — Dark skill, 300 power, 16s CD. Apply to any compatible Pal to teach this active skill.

Tree biomes: Windswept Hills, Bamboo Groves, Isle of Silence, Marsh Island, Verdant Brook, Crescent Moon Shore, Twilight Dunes, Desiccated Dunes, Mount Obsidian, Astral Mountains, Frostbitten Isle, Sakurajima, Feybreak (Dark Island)

Grows on every Skill Fruit Tree biome (base game + Sakurajima + Feybreak).

How to get this item

Not crafted, and no Pal drops it. It comes out of the world instead — 29 sources, the best of them Snowfield skill-fruit tree at 3.23%. Every one of them is listed below.

Every source of Dark Skill Fruit: Nightmare Ball

29 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.

  • Oil rig×12.56%
  • Snowfield chest — Grade 33 on the map×11.64%
  • Feybreak chest — Grade 312 on the map×11.49%
  • Sakurajima chest — Grade 3×11.49%
  • Sky Island chest — Grade 3×11.49%
  • Desert chest — Grade 33 on the map×11.10%
  • Volcano chest — Grade 32 on the map×11.10%
  • Yakushima chest×11.10%
  • Grassland chest — Grade 34 on the map×10.59%
  • Forest chest — Grade 317 on the map×10.50%

Fishing

Chance per catch.

  • Snowfield fishing spot — Grade 3×11.61%
  • Sakurajima fishing spot — Grade 3×11.47%
  • Feybreak fishing spot — Grade 3×11.00%
  • Desert fishing spot — Grade 3×10.98%
  • Volcano fishing spot — Grade 3×10.98%
  • Sky Island fishing spot — Grade 3×10.94%
  • Grassland fishing spot — Grade 3×10.59%
  • Forest fishing spot — Grade 3×10.50%

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×10.01%–0.02%

Out in the world

Chance per gather.

  • Snowfield skill-fruit tree2 on the map×13.23%
  • Feybreak skill-fruit tree7 on the map×12.70%
  • Desert skill-fruit tree2 on the map×12.70%
  • Sakurajima skill-fruit tree4 on the map×12.70%
  • Volcano skill-fruit tree2 on the map×12.63%
  • Forest skill-fruit tree×12.56%
  • Grassland skill-fruit tree10 on the map×12.56%
  • Sky Island skill-fruit tree4 on the map×12.33%
  • World Tree skill-fruit tree×12.08%
  • Sakurajima field drop×10.03%

Frequently asked questions

Where to find Dark Skill Fruit: Nightmare Ball in Palworld?
Dark Skill Fruit: Nightmare Ball drops from Skill Fruit trees scattered across Palpagos Islands and can also be bought from the Wandering Merchant at the Arena. Apply the fruit to a compatible Pal to teach it Nightmare Ball.
What skill does Dark Skill Fruit: Nightmare Ball teach in Palworld?
Dark Skill Fruit: Nightmare Ball teaches Nightmare Ball — a Dark-element active skill with 300 base power.
What pals already learn Nightmare Ball in Palworld?
8 Pals learn Nightmare Ball natively, including Astegon, Bakemi, Bellanoir Libero, plus 5 more. So you can either apply this fruit to a different Pal, or capture/breed for one of those.