How to Craft in Palworld: Essential Recipes for Beginners

If you’re wondering how to craft in Palworld, the answer is simple, but mastering it is the key to surviving, progressing, and eventually automating almost everything you do.

Crafting in Palworld is more than just combining materials; it’s about unlocking the right recipes, setting up the right Workbenches, and using your Pals to do the heavy lifting.

Here is what beginners should focus on first:

• Primitive Workbench - The first thing you should ever craft in Palworld, as it forms the basis for all of your crafting needs. Requires wood.

• Stone Pickaxe - Crafted on the Primitive Workbench; requires wood and stone - speeds up mining.

• Stone Axe - Crafted in the Primitive Workbench; needs wood + stone. Speeds up tree chopping.

• Bow & Arrows - Primitive Workbench; needs wood, fiber, stone. First ranged weapon.

• Pal Sphere - Sphere Workbench; needs wood, stone, Paldium Fragments. Lets you capture Pals for work or combat.

• Feed Box - Workbench; needs wood + fiber. Keeps Pals fed automatically.

• Furnace - Workbench; needs stone + wood. Smelt ore into ingots for stronger gear.

With these unlocked and crafted, you’ll be able to gather resources faster, catch Pals to help automate tasks, and start producing materials for better weapons and gear.

Now that’s out of the way, let’s cover how to craft in Palworld in a little more depth.

How Crafting Works in Palworld

In Palworld, crafting turns raw resources into tools, weapons, armour, Pal Spheres, medicine, and other essentials.

Unlike games like Minecraft or Terraria, your crafting efficiency depends heavily on Pals, the creatures you capture and train. Some recipes can be made by hand, but many require a Pal with the right work skills to operate a station, speed up production, or fully automate the process.

In short, better resources, smarter tech unlocks, and a well-assigned Pal workforce are the keys to crafting success.

And for most items, you’ll need a dedicated crafting station or Workbench.

Crafting Stations/Workbenches

The majority of crafting is done at dedicated stations you place in your base.

Each station focuses on a specific category of items:

• Workbench - Basic tools, armour, and simple weapons.

• Weapon Workbench - Melee and ranged weapons like swords, spears, and bows.

• Sphere Workbench - Pal Spheres for capturing Pals.

• Furnace - Smelts ore into ingots and produces charcoal.

• Medicine Workbench - Potions, bandages, and antidotes.

• Crusher - Breaks down resources into Fiber or Paldium Fragments.

• Repair Bench - Fixes damaged tools, armour, and weapons.

• Pal Gear Workbench - Saddles, gloves, and weapons for Pals.

Unlocking Recipes (via Tech Tree)

Crafting options (including the stations themselves) are tied to your Technology Menu (Tech Tree).

As you level up by exploring, fighting, and capturing Pals, you’ll earn Technology Points.

These points are spent to unlock new stations and item blueprints on whatever you feel like you need next to survive.

If you haven’t unlocked an item in the Tech Tree, you can’t craft it, even if you have the materials with you, so you must spend your tech points wisely.

Materials & Requirements

Every recipe requires specific materials (wood, stone, ore, leather, etc.), all of which can be gathered throughout the game world.

Some of these materials (especially the basic ones) can be gathered via resource points around the world (such as trees and rocks), but others will require you to defeat enemies such as world bosses or thugs that raid your base.

If you are crafting manually, they MUST be in your inventory to be able to use them for crafting. If you assign a Pal to the station, they can pull the materials from nearby storage instead.

Some crafting processes also require a Pal with the right work skill to operate the station, such as:

• Kindling – For furnaces and smelting.

• Handiwork – For most Workbenches.

• Watering – For certain cooking or farming processes.

Progression

Like most survival-crafting games, Palworld has a clear progression path, though your exact route will vary depending on what you unlock in the tech tree.

You’ll start with a Primitive Workbench for simple, early-game tools and gear. As you level up, you’ll replace these beginner stations with advanced versions like Production Assembly Lines or Sphere Assembly Lines, which unlock higher-tier recipes and speed up production.

This loop is the heart of the game: better stations let you craft stronger items, which help you capture stronger Pals, which in turn make you more efficient at gathering and crafting, and the cycle keeps building from there.

How to Access the Crafting Menu in Palworld

When you first start in Palworld, you won’t have any stations available; you’ll need to build the Primitive Workbench first so you can craft your most basic gear/tools/items.

First, gather 2 pieces of wood, which can be done by punching any tree you see.

Then, on PC, press Tab to open your inventory, and scroll down the crafting list on the right-hand side.

On a controller, press Start/Menu and you’ll see the same list.

From here, you can make the Primitive Workbench.

You’ll see a little outlined blueprint version of the item; just find a good spot and place it down using the action button.

Once that has been placed in your base, walk up to it and press the interaction button.

This opens the station’s crafting menu, which lists all recipes for that station. As you’ll see, the options you have are extremely limited.

Most gear, weapons, and useful items require higher-level Workbenches and crafting stations, which, as mentioned already, can be unlocked only via your tech tree.

Although every item in this menu has its use, the ones you should be focusing on are:

Essential Recipes for Beginners

• Primitive Workbench - This is essentially the very first thing you will AND need to craft if you want to progress. Requires 2 Wood.

• Stone Pickaxe - The very first tool you should craft, via the Primitive Workbench. It speeds up mining stone and ore, which you’ll need for almost every recipe going forward. Requires 5 Wood and 5 Stone, and no crafting station.

• Stone Axe - Similar to the pickaxe, but for chopping down trees faster. Wood is another core material for crafting Workbenches, weapons, and base structures. Requires 5 Wood and 5 Stone, and no crafting station.

• Hand-held Torch - The torch allows you to see at night, whilst also keeping you warm. It can also be used as a low-damage melee weapon. Requires 2 Wood and 2 Stone.

• Old Bow and Arrows - Your first reliable ranged weapon, letting you fight hostile Pals and wild animals from a safe distance. Crafted at the Primitive Workbench. The bow requires 5 Wood and 5 Fibre, while a batch of 20 arrows needs 1 Wood and 1 Stone.

• Pal Sphere - The sooner you can craft these, the sooner you can expand your workforce. A captured Pal can work at crafting stations, gather resources, or fight alongside you. Made at the Sphere Workbench using 3 Wood, 3 Stone, and 1 Paldium Fragment.

• Feed Box - Keeps your Pals fed automatically so they can keep working without constant micromanagement. Crafted at the Primitive Workbench from 20 Wood. Worth building as soon as you have several Pals working in your base.

• Primitive Furnace - Placing a Furnace early unlocks the ability to smelt copper or iron ore into ingots. These ingots are the building blocks for mid-tier gear, weapons, and better stations. Requires 20 Wood, 50 Stone, and 3 Flame Organs, and requires a Pal with Kindling to operate automatically.

With these recipes and stations in place, you’ll have the basic loop covered: gather resources faster, catch Pals to help automate work, and start producing materials for stronger gear.

Once you’ve got this foundation, you can move into more advanced crafting - better weapons, Pal gear, medicine, and eventually automated assembly lines.

Next Crafting Milestones

Okay, you’ve done this. What should you focus on unlocking next? Here are a few options:

• Metal Tools – Upgrade your pickaxe and axe to metal versions for faster gathering and better durability. Requires smelted Ingots from a Furnace and a Primitive Workbench.

• Weapon Workbench - lets you craft stronger melee and ranged weapons, including guns later on. Needs Ingot, Wood, and Stone to build.

• Medicine Workbench - For making potions, bandages, and antidotes to survive tougher fights and dangerous biomes. Built from Wood, Stone, and Fiber.

• Pal Gear Workbench - Unlocks saddles, gloves, and gear to use your Pals’ special abilities in combat or exploration. Crafted from Ingot, Wood, and Paldium Fragments.

• Sphere Upgrades - Replace your basic Sphere Workbench with higher-tier versions to catch stronger Pals more reliably. Requires Ingot, Paldium Fragments, and High-Quality Pal Oil.

Hitting these milestones will set you up for mid-game Palworld, where automation, stronger Pals, and advanced weapons start to take over.

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