#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.
Best farm
Maraith
1 per kill at 50% — 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 and gathering nodes
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 | |
| Grass supply drop | 12.5% | 10–20 | |
| Sakurajima supply drop | 12.5% | 30–40 | |
| Snow supply drop | 12.5% | 25–35 | |
| Volcano supply drop | 12.5% | 20–30 | |
| Sakurajima expedition (hard) | 10% | 10–20 | |
| Oilrig Large 01 | 7.3% | 10–20 | |
| Oil rig 1 chests | 7.3% | 5–20 | |
| Oilrig Mini 01 | 3.7% | 5–20 | |
| Dark Island expedition | 0.6% | 15–30 | |
| Sakurajima expedition | 0.6% | 15–30 | |
| Oil rig 2 chests | 0.4% | 50–150 | |
| Oilrig Mini 02 | 0.3% | 5–15 | |
| Oilrig Large 02 | 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
- What is the fastest way to farm Crude Oil in Palworld?
- Hunt Maraith. It drops 1 at 50%, which works out at 0.5 per kill — the best return of the 3 Pals that drop it. It lives in Snowfield.
- 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 4570874460).Methodology