#1 Unlabelled areaPals Lv 1–10 nearby
score 3812 paldium, 6 crude oil within 100 m · map position 73.4%, 47.5% · open on the map →
Where to get Crude Oil in Palworld
3 Pals drop Crude Oil, and they are not equal — Maraith gives 1 at 50%, which is the best return per kill in the game. Every rate below is the game's own figure.
Most per kill
Maraith
1 at 50% · avg 0.5 per kill — Snowfield, level 38–59
Pals that drop Crude Oil
Rate and amount are stated by the game. “Avg per kill” is ours — the rate multiplied by the mean of the amount range — so you can compare a rare big drop against a reliable small one without doing it in your head.
Chests, expeditions, nodes and other sources
The game stores these as weights rather than percentages — an item’s chance is its weight against everything else in the same grade. The odds below are that division done, so you can compare a route against hunting.
| Source | Type | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desert supply drop | 12.5% | 20–30 | |
| Forest supply drop | 12.5% | 15–25 | |
| Grasslands supply drop | 12.5% | 10–20 | |
| Sakurajima supply drop | 12.5% | 30–40 | |
| Snowfield supply drop | 12.5% | 25–35 | |
| Volcano supply drop | 12.5% | 20–30 | |
| Moonflower's Secret Hideout expedition | 10% | 10–20 | |
| Large oil rig chests (table 1) | 7.3% | 10–20 | |
| Oil rig chests (table 1) | 7.3% | 5–20 | |
| Small oil rig chests (table 1) | 3.7% | 5–20 | |
| Dark Cave of Feybreak expedition | 0.6% | 15–30 | |
| Celestial Sakura Cavern expedition | 0.6% | 15–30 | |
| Oil rig chests (table 2) | 0.4% | 50–150 | |
| Small oil rig chests (table 2) | 0.3% | 5–15 | |
| Large oil rig chests (table 2) | 0.2% | 150–300 |
What Crude Oil is used for
6 recipes use Crude Oil, and the heaviest is Wing Cell at 20 per craft. Knowing what it feeds is usually the point — how much you need depends entirely on what you are building.
| Makes | Crude Oil needed |
|---|---|
| Wing Cell | 20 |
| Menasting Terra Ring | 15 |
| Frag Grenade Mk2 | 3 |
| Flamethrower Fuel | 2 |
| Plasteel | 2 |
| Missile Ammo | 1 |
Crude Oil questions
- Which Pal is best to farm for Crude Oil in Palworld?
- Maraith gives the most per kill: 1 at 50%, an average of 0.5 — the highest of the 3 Pals that drop it. It lives in Snowfield at level 38–59. How fast any of these farms is depends on spawn density and kill time, which the game files do not state.
- What do you need Crude Oil for?
- 6 recipes use it, the heaviest being Wing Cell at 20 per craft.
- Can you buy Crude Oil in Palworld?
- No. No merchant stocks it in the game files, so it has to be farmed.
Other materials
Where Crude Oil nodes cluster
The world itself is a source too: every Crude Oil node on the map — 184 exact positions read from the game’s own level data, not plotted by hand. The three densest patches, by nodes within 100 m of one spot:
#2 Unlabelled areaPals Lv 40–50 nearby
score 3812 paldium, 6 crude oil within 100 m · map position 89.7%, 26.6% · open on the map →
#3 VolcanoPals Lv 30–48 nearby
score 295 crude oil, 3 ore, 1 sulfur within 100 m · map position 34.7%, 45.2% · open on the map →
Extracted from Palworld's game files on (build 4570950001).Methodology