NPCs & Merchants in Palworld

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How NPC services work

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• 23 NPCs
  Merchants

  Pal Merchants sell Pals for gold (6 of them). Wandering Merchants sell items, ammunition and spheres (8). Black Marketeers sell the rarer, pricier Pals (4). The Arena Merchant trades Battle Tickets, and Medal Merchants trade Dog Coins — all four Medal Merchants stand at churches.

  • Wandering Merchant ×8
  • Pal Merchant ×6
  • Medal Merchant ×4
  • Black Marketeer ×4
  • Arena Merchant ×1
• 13 NPCs
  Bounty

  Two different jobs, often confused. The PIDF Bounty Officer (3) is the shop — hand over Successful Bounty Tokens for gold, implants, stat fruit and Pal Reversers. The Bounty Intel Dealer (10) sells you the wanted list's locations and buys nothing.

  • Bounty Intel Dealer ×10
  • PIDF Bounty Officer ×3
• 9 NPCs
  Pal appraisers

  Show an Arrogant Pal Critic a Pal from the roster it keeps and it pays out items. Nine stand across the islands and each wants a different list.

  • Arrogant Pal Critic ×9
• 10 NPCs
  PIDF officers

  Free Pal Investigation Department staff. Some carry a quest thread, some are posted somewhere and nothing more is known about them than that.

  • Cautious PIDF Officer ×3
  • Reliable PIDF Officer ×2
  • PIDF Grunt ×1
  • PIDF Goody Two-Shoes ×1
  • PIDF Bonfire-Lover ×1
  • PIDF Slacker ×1
  • Sensitive-Nosed PIDF Officer ×1
• 91 NPCs
  Lore NPCs

  Story-and-side-quest NPCs without a recurring role.

  • Messenger of Love ×17
  • Fia ×3
  • Sunreach Citizen ×3
  • Gadel ×2
  • Snowbound Villager ×2
  • Feybreak Researcher ×2
  • Bamboo Grove Inhabitant ×2
  • Sakurajima Inhabitant ×2
  • +58 more roles

Distribution by region

• Windswept Hills
  32 · 22%
• Twilight Dunes
  26 · 18%
• Mt. Obsidian
  20 · 14%
• Feybreak
  18 · 12%
• Verdant Brook
  9 · 6%
• Sakurajima
  9 · 6%
• Astral Mountains
  9 · 6%
• Marsh Island
  5 · 3%
• Sea Breeze Archipelago
  5 · 3%
• Bamboo Grove
  4 · 3%
• Outlying Isles
  4 · 3%
• Isle of Silence
  3 · 2%
• Eastern Wild Island
  2 · 1%

All npcs & merchants by region

On the World Tree (1)

Palworld 1.0 draws the World Tree as its own map rather than a corner of the Palpagos Islands, so these 1 npcs & merchants have no Palpagos region and are listed on their own.

• NPC #1 — The Verdant Rootpath-1457, 1388

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Strategy tips

• For Pals, go to a Pal Merchant — there are 6, and the 8 Wandering Merchants do not stock Pals at all.
• Spend bounty tokens with a PIDF Bounty Officer, not a Bounty Intel Dealer. Only three exist: Small Settlement, Fisherman's Point and Duneshelter.
• The four farmers, four researchers, four breeders, four hunters and four wanderers are all quest-givers with a named reward — the marker says which.
• Single-instance NPCs often gate a quest reward. The role chip in the All NPCs list marks them before you walk over.

Frequently asked questions

Related deep dives

• Palworld Factions →
  Who leads each faction, the tower you fight them in, and where their camps and people stand.
• Bounty Target Locations →
  All 33 wanted criminals, level 10 to 59, and what each one pays.
• Palworld Breeding Calculator →
  Which Pal pairs produce which offspring, for when you are done shopping.