Ingots are one of the most important resources you’ll encounter throughout your Palworld playthrough, as they’re used to make tools, structures, and guns, among other items. Let’s talk about how to get ore and turn it into ingots.
How to Get Ore in Palworld
Ore is a common resource you can find in the wild by looking for brown and grey rocks. Unlike regular stone’s smooth texture, ore rocks have a multi-colored speckled appearance, differentiating it from stone and Paldium’s blue veins.
While you can break ore with your fists in desperate situations, you’ll want to get your hands on a stone pickaxe to start, with stronger ones available as you progress through the technology tree.
Just be careful as you mine ore, as it’s heavy, weighing around 8 pounds. It can quickly take up your carry limit, over-encumbering you if you mine too much. Keep an eye on your carry capacity and either drop some items or return to your base once you’re close to your limit.
Building a Palworld Ore Farm
You can build a base around ore deposits to create an ore farm in Palworld. Simply assign mining Pals to the base, and they’ll mine all the ore for you. As fun as mining is, doing everything by hand becomes tiring pretty fast. Which is why building an ore farm would be the way forward.
You can have multiple bases, so don’t worry if you don’t like the location of the farming one. The best early game location for an ore farm would be on the rocky mountain terrain, just north of The Desolate Church.
You will be surrounded by ore deposits and now you need to assign a Pal for the job. The best Pal for farming is Digtoise, mainly cause they can only mine and nothing else. They won’t get distracted with other tasks. After a short time, you will have an abundance of ore that will need to be turned into Ingots.
How to Turn Ore Into Ingots in Palworld
Once you have some ore, you’ll have to buy the technology for a furnace starting from level ten. Level ten unlocks the primitive furnace, which costs the following resources to make:
- Wood x20
- Stone x50
- Fire Organ x3
While wood and stone are easy to come by, fire organs require defeating or catching fire-type Pals in the wild.
After building your furnace and inserting your ore, you’ll need kindling to ignite a fire and get the ore cooking, which you can get by using a fire-type Pal such as Foxparks to activate. By assigning a Pal like Foxparks to your furnace, they’ll heat the ore and melt it into ingots over time, allowing you to focus on other tasks while that happens.
After a short delay, your fire-type Pal will melt the ore into ingots, allowing you to take them from your furnace and use them in building and crafting.
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