How to get and farm Coal in Palworld

As a survival crafting game, Palworld spawns many resources like Coal that you need to craft essential items. This useful ingredient is used for building firearms, which you need to defeat or weaken your foes in mid-to-late game. Here’s everything to know about how to get Coal in Palworld.

What is Coal used for in Palworld?

In Palworld, you need Coal to craft Refined Ingots, a crafting ingredient that’s required for many of the game’s firearms like the Assault Rifle, Shotgun, and Rocket Launcher. But you must reach level 34 and build an Improved Furnace in your base to craft Refined Ingots.

How to get Coal in Palworld

There are two main ways you can gather Coal in Palworld: mining Coal nodes in the desert or from building a Coal Mine in your base and harvesting the resource from this structure.

Coal nodes and their location

Coal nodes appear as big, black rocks that spawn in desert biomes around the map, as seen in our image above. There are a few different regions around the map with desert climates where you can find Coal. The desert biome is also where the powerful Pal Anubis can spawn, and you can find many other important resources there too, like High-Quality Pal Oil.

Before going on a quest to find Coal, you’ll want to craft Heat Resistant Armor to protect against the desert’s dangerous temperatures that will slowly chip away at your health. Additionally, you must have strong tools like a Metal Pickaxe to mine the Coal from a rock.

We found a place where a bunch of Coal spawned and dropped a Palbox in the middle of all the nodes, so we had an easy way to teleport between the Coal and our base to make the process smoother. But if you already have the maximum number of bases set up, prepare for a long walk.

How to make a Coal Mine in Palworld

Palworld’s Sakurajima update added Coal Mines, which you can place in your base. You can assign Pals with Mining skills to a Coal site to have a constant supply of the resource.

To unlock a Coal Mine in Palworld, reach level 41 first. Once you reach the required level, go to the Technology tab and use one Ancient Technology Point to unlock it. Next, you need to source the following ingredients required to build a Coal Mine:

1. 70 Stone
2. 100 Coal
3. 30 Paldium Fragment

You can use the farming methods mentioned in previous sections to get the Coal required for the Coal Mine. Once the mine is established in your base, you don’t have to worry about having a separate Coal Farm or going on quests to farm the resource.

How to make a Coal farm in Palworld without a Coal Mine

To create a coal farm in Palworld, find an area with lots of coal nodes around it, build a base there, and populate it with Pals that have the mining ability, the same way you would for an ore farm.

Here’s what you need to build a Coal farming base:

• Palbox
• Wooden Chest (five Stone, 15 Wood)
• Pal Beds (five Fiber, 10 Wood each)
• Feed box (20 Wood)

Here are a handful of good Pals for mining to keep at the base:

• Blazamut Ryu (Mining level four)
• Blazamut (Mining level four)
• Astegon (Mining level four)
• Digtoise (Mining level three)
• Ice Reptyro (Mining level three)
• Menasting (Mining level three)
• Anubis (Mining level three)
• Tombat (Mining level two)
• Dumud (Mining level two)