How to farm ore in Palworld

Considering ore is used to make ingots, it’s an important ingredient for making all sorts of things in Palworld, and you’re going to want a lot of it. Here’s how you can get more than you need.

Generally, if you build your base next to an ore deposit, you’ve got it made. Resources, whether they’re trees, rocks, or ore, respawn on a set timer. You can tweak this in your world’s custom settings, but if you’re playing using the default rules, it’s a day before a fully exhausted deposit respawns. Having a base next to one or more means that you can just keep mining the deposit whenever you’re at home.

But you can do better than that. There are larger clusters of ore deposits out in the world, or at least, there’s one as far as I’ve found. Thankfully, it’s not deep into hostile territory, and the nearest landmark stands out like a fresh mouth wound.

The Desolate Church

There is a rather massive cluster of ore deposits that you can find near a place called the Desolate Church. Considering all of Palworld is desolate, this place must be exceptionally desolate. It’s found in the middle of the hilly area covered with red trees. On the map, it looks like melted ice cream or a strawberry cake roll. The area is in the middle of some monumentally jagged rocks and can easily be spotted because there’s a big, gutted church in the middle of it. Hence the name.

The ore is around back of the church, but you’ll also find a waypoint, an effigy, and some other neat stuff. Better yet, the area around the church is perfectly flat and featureless, so it makes a pretty rad spot to plop down a base.

Ice Wind Island

The in-game spawn details may suggest Windswept is your best bet for resources, but when we’re talking Ore specifically, Ice Wind Island has my vote for Ore farming. Initially, I went with Windswept Island for my starting base, but quickly learned its mountainous terrain didn’t make for the quickest mining routes. I marked all of the nodes on the map above with the little pickaxe, and usually, there are two sitting side by side.

Ice Wind Island is mostly flat, so it’s easy to loop around in this big circle and bust Ore nodes with a Pal. Even if your main base isn’t here, it’s worth dropping a Pal Box hub so you can move around quickly and go back to your usual HQ.

So, if you take an ore deposit like this and build a base next to it, you’ll have more ore than is reasonable. That’ll keep you well-supplied through most of the early game.