Palworld Pal condensation

Every rank and what it costs. The catch nobody mentions: the soul changes as you climb, so a maxed Pal is not "30 souls" but a bill in four currencies — 10 Small Pal Souls, 6 Medium Pal Souls, 6 Large Pal Souls, 30 Giant Pal Souls.

Rank	Soul	Cost	Running total of that soul	Reset cost
1	Small Pal Soul	1	1	100
2	Small Pal Soul	2	3	300
3	Small Pal Soul	3	6	500
4	Small Pal Soul	4	10	700
5	Medium Pal Soul	1	1	1,000
6	Medium Pal Soul	2	3	1,200
7	Medium Pal Soul	3	6	1,500
8	Large Pal Soul	1	1	2,000
9	Large Pal Soul	2	3	2,500
10	Large Pal Soul	3	6	3,000
11	Giant Pal Soul	1	1	4,000
12	Giant Pal Soul	2	3	5,000
13	Giant Pal Soul	2	5	6,000
14	Giant Pal Soul	3	8	7,000
15	Giant Pal Soul	3	11	8,000
16	Giant Pal Soul	3	14	9,000
17	Giant Pal Soul	4	18	10,000
18	Giant Pal Soul	4	22	15,000
19	Giant Pal Soul	4	26	20,000
20	Giant Pal Soul	4	30	30,000

The four soul tiers

This is the part that catches people out. Ranks 1–4 take Small Pal Souls, and a stockpile of them feels like real progress. Rank 5 switches to Medium, rank 8 to Large and rank 11 to Giant — and every Small Soul you saved past rank 4 is now dead weight for this Pal. Plan the tier you are aiming for before you start hoarding.

Soul	Ranks it covers	Total needed
Small Pal Soul	1–4	10
Medium Pal Soul	5–7	6
Large Pal Soul	8–10	6
Giant Pal Soul	11–20	30

Resetting costs gold, and it climbs hard

The reset cost is gold rather than souls, and it tracks the rank steeply: rank 1 undoes for 100, rank 20 for 30,000. Condensing the wrong Pal late is an expensive mistake to undo, which is the real argument for deciding the target before you spend the first soul.

Stat fruits

Separate from condensation, and often confused with it. Each fruit adds a flat amount to one stat’s talent value.

Fruit	Stat	Adds
Life Fruit	HP	+10
Power Fruit	Attack	+10
Stout Fruit	Defense	+10

Where the souls come from

Souls are a drop and a shop item rather than something you craft, so the practical route to a maxed Pal runs through dungeon chests and merchants. Both are listed here with their real drop tables.

What this page does not claim

The upgrade table states costs, not effects. What each rank does to a Pal’s stats is not in it, so this page does not put a number on it — the totals above are arithmetic on the game’s own figures, and nothing more has been added.

Condensation is the closest thing Palworld has to an upgrade path, which is whywhether Pals evolve gets asked so often — they do not, and this is what people are usually reaching for instead.

Extracted from Palworld's game files on 7 September 2026 (build 4570874460).Methodology