Hermit Sage in Palworld
SAN drops +50.0% slower. Work Speed -20% World Tree resources will not vanish when approached.
- Tier
- 5
- Roll weight
- 5
- Born with it
- No Pal
Game data
- Source
- DT_PassiveSkill_Main
- Build
- 4570950001
- Confidence
- exact
Values are the exact figures the game applies, not the rounded ones most guides quote.
Roll weight is the game’s own lottery weighting — higher means it appears more often when a random trait is rolled. It is a relative weight, not a percentage, and the game files contain no table converting it to one.
How to get Hermit Sage in Palworld
Hermit Sage buffs both the Pal carrying it and you, the player, while the Pal is in your party.
- Pal Surgery Table. Apply Disposable Implant: Hermit Sage at the Pal Surgery Table. The disposable implant is used up by the operation. To get the implant, it comes out of the ancient relic recycler (0.05% per item).
- No Pal is born with it, so it never comes guaranteed on a catch.
- Breed it down. A parent carrying Hermit Sage can pass it to the egg — how passive inheritance works.
- Rolls only on World Tree Pals — not on Pals from the rest of the map (roll weight 5).
Pals born with Hermit Sage
No Pal is born with Hermit Sage and it does not roll on ordinary Pals — it is inherited from a parent that already carries it. Palworld’s files contain no inheritance probability table, so anyone quoting you odds for that is estimating.
Other passives that change SAN loss rate
Hermit Sage gives -50%. Nothing in the game beats that, so this is the one to keep. A lower number is better here — the game stores the benefit as a negative.
| Passive | SAN loss rate | Roll weight |
|---|---|---|
| Heart of the Immovable King | -20% | |
| Workaholic | -15% | |
| Positive Thinker | -10% | |
| Unstable | +10% | |
| Demon’s Hand | +15% | |
| Destructive | +15% |
Other passives that change Work speed
Hermit Sage gives -20%. 10 passives beat it, the best being Demon’s Hand at +90%. A higher number is better here.
| Passive | Work speed | Roll weight |
|---|---|---|
| Demon’s Hand | +90% | |
| Remarkable Craftsmanship | +75% | |
| Artisan | +50% | |
| Work Slave | +30% | |
| Speedy Worker Lv. 4 | +25% | |
| Motivational Leader | +25% | |
| Lucky | +20% | |
| Speedy Worker Lv. 3 | +20% | |
| Serious | +20% | |
| Speedy Worker Lv. 2 | +15% |
Other passives that change World Tree resource decay
Hermit Sage gives 0%. Nothing in the game beats that, so this is the one to keep. A higher number is better here.
| Passive | World Tree resource decay | Roll weight |
|---|---|---|
| Demon’s Hand | 0% | |
| Dimensional Leap | 0% | |
| Sanctified Meat Shield | 0% | |
| Twin-Edged Holy Blade | 0% | |
| World Tree's Bounty | 0% |
Passives that move the same stat, nearest first: Heart of the Immovable King (-20), Workaholic (-15), Positive Thinker (-10), Unstable (+10) and Destructive (+15). A Pal can carry four, so the practical question is which four — breeding for passives covers how they are inherited.
There is an item for this one specifically — Disposable Implant: Hermit Sage— which changes a Pal’s passive rather than leaving it to breeding.
Extracted from Palworld's game files on (build 4570950001).Methodology