Where to get Gunpowder in Palworld
One Pal drops Gunpowder, and they are not equal — Tocotoco gives 1 at 100%, which is the best return per kill in the game. Every rate below is the game's own figure.
Pals that drop Gunpowder
| Pal | Rate | Amount | Avg per kill | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tocotoco | 100% | 1 | 1 |
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.
Making it instead
Gunpowder has a recipe, so past a certain point it is cheaper to build than to hunt.
| Makes | From | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Gunpowder | 2× Charcoal, 1× Sulfur | 3,000 |
Everything Gunpowder needs, all the way down
Ingredients that are themselves crafted are expanded here. A recipe list that stops at the first line sends you off to look up four more pages; this is the whole tree.
What Gunpowder is used for
23 recipes use Gunpowder, and the heaviest is Heavy Assault Rifle Ammo at 10 per craft. Knowing what it feeds is usually the point — how much you need depends entirely on what you are building.
| Makes | Gunpowder needed |
|---|---|
| Heavy Assault Rifle Ammo | 10 |
| Tactical Grenade Launcher Ammo | 10 |
| Prototype Shotgun Ammo | 8 |
| Combat SMG Ammo | 6 |
| Gatling Gun Ammo | 3 |
| Grenade Ammo | 3 |
| Shotgun Shell | 3 |
| Assault Rifle Ammo | 2 |
| Rifle Ammo | 2 |
| Coarse Ammo | 1 |
| Dark Grenade | 1 |
| Dragon Grenade | 1 |
| Frag Grenade | 1 |
| Frag Grenade Mk2 | 1 |
| Grass Grenade | 1 |
| Ground Grenade | 1 |
| Handgun Ammo | 1 |
| Ice Grenade | 1 |
| Incendiary Grenade | 1 |
| Pal Recovery Grenade | 1 |
| Shock Grenade | 1 |
| Sunreach Rapid-Fire Ammo | 1 |
| Water Grenade | 1 |
Gunpowder questions
- What is the fastest way to farm Gunpowder in Palworld?
- Hunt Tocotoco. It drops 1 at 100%, which works out at 1 per kill — the best return of the 1 Pal that drops it. It lives in Desert, Sakurajima.
- What do you need Gunpowder for?
- 23 recipes use it, the heaviest being Heavy Assault Rifle Ammo at 10 per craft.
- Can you buy Gunpowder in Palworld?
- No. No merchant stocks it in the game files, so it has to be farmed.
- Can you craft Gunpowder?
- Yes — 1 at a time, from 2× Charcoal, 1× Sulfur.
Other materials
Extracted from Palworld’s game files on (build 4797106687).