Palworld Farming With Pals: A Beginner’s Guide

Below: every plantation with its unlock level and cost, which Pals are best at planting, watering and ranching, how to speed it all up, and the server settings that change farm output. Everything comes from Pocketpair's patch notes, the official server docs and the game's own data files (version 1.0.x).

Last updated 9 October 2026. Checked against Palworld 1.0.5 (15 September 2026): the official patch notes, the official server docs and the game's data files. Older guides, ours included until this rewrite, named Pals and mechanics that the data does not support, so those are gone.

Palworld farming: plantations, the Ranch and the Breeding Farm

People say "farming" for three different buildings, and they do different things:

If your goal is "get seeds and early materials flowing", start with the Ranch. If your goal is food, build plantations. Eggs are a breeding topic, covered in our breeding combinations list.

Palworld planting: every plantation, its level and its cost

Each plantation has 3 of its own seeds in the build cost, so you need the seeds before you can place one. Unlock levels are the technology levels in the game data.

Where the seeds come from, according to the item descriptions in the data:

• Wheat Seeds, Lettuce Seeds and Tomato Seeds can be bought from a merchant.
• Berry Seeds drop when you pick Red Berries.
• Carrot, Onion and Potato Seeds are listed as "necessary for starting a farm", with no source given in the data, so I will not guess.
• Vaelet drops seeds while ranching (the 1.0 patch notes say so).

What to do with the crops: the Mill (level 15) turns Wheat into Flour, and it needs a Pal with Watering to spin the water turbine. The Cooking Pot (level 17) is needed for cooking and needs a Fire Pal to light it. A Feed Box (level 4, 20 Wood) stores food for your Pals to eat when they are hungry.

Best Pals for planting and watering

Work Suitability is a level per job; the highest in the Pal data is 8. These are the figures from the data. Variants (Noct, Lux, Ignis and so on) are separate Pals with their own numbers.

Planting

Level 5 and up: Dandilord (8), Lyleen (7), Ophydia (7), Carnibora (6), Mycora (6), Silvance (6), Braloha (5), Broncherry (5), Quivern Botan (5), Tropicaw (5).

Level 2: Beegarde (2), Bristla (2), Caprity (2), Caprity Noct (2), Cinnamoth (2), Flopie (2), Ribbuny Botan (2), Robinquill (2), Souffline (2).

Watering

Level 5 and up: Shaolong (8), Jormuntide (7), Neptilius (7), Faleris Aqua (6), Suzaku Aqua (6), Broncherry Aqua (5), Ghangler (5), Ghangler Ignis (5), Ophydia (5), Whalaska (5).

Level 2: Dumud (2), Dumud Gild (2), Finsider (2), Finsider Ignis (2), Fuack Ignis (2), Gloopie (2), Gloopie Primo (2), Gobfin (2), Jelliette (2), Jellroy (2), Munchill (2), Penking (2), Penking Lux (2), Skutlass Ignis (2), Turtacle (2), Turtacle Terra (2).

Harvesting is listed as a third job in the building text. The data files do not say which suitability it uses, so check a Pal's suitability list on its status screen before you assign it.

Raising a Pal's level

The data has one-use books for each job: Applied Planting Handbook I, Applied Watering Handbook I and Applied Ranching Handbook I. Each says that a Pal who reads it permanently gains +1 in that affinity. The 1.0 patch notes added the Ranching one, and also say a Pal's work suitability levels now go up as it ranks up.

Palworld farming Pals: the Ranch

The Ranch unlocks at level 5 and costs 30 Wood, 20 Stone, 30 Fiber. The 1.0 patch notes say ranch suitability was added to some Pals so early materials are easier to get, ranch output was increased and the default production interval changed. These Pals have Ranching suitability in the data, by level:

What each Pal produces is not in the data files, so I am only stating what the patch notes say: Vaelet drops seeds (1.0), and a 1.0.3 fix mentions Alpha Surfent producing Leather at a Ranch.

One more boost: the 1.0 patch notes say Cinnamoth's Mysterious Scales partner skill raises the Farming Work Suitability level of all other base Pals by +1 while it is at your base (it does not stack). The description of the Applied Ranching Handbook calls the same suitability "Farming", so this boost is for the Ranch, not the plantations.

Speed up crops: Crop Knowledge and Harvest Knowledge research

The Pal Labor Research Lab (level 19, 30 Ingot, 30 Paldium Fragment) runs Pal research. Two lines of it are about farming. The numbers below are the effect values in the data; the unit is not given, so read the exact bonus on the research screen.

There are higher-tier farm buildings too: the Skillfruit Orchard (level 71) grows Skillfruits from an original fruit, and the Ancient Farm (level 78) is a smaller plantation for indoor use that wants Pals with high Planting, Watering and Harvesting suitability.

Farming on your own server

If you run a world for friends, the official server docs list a setting for the Ranch: MonsterFarmActionSpeedRate, "item production speed multiplier from grazing". The 1.0 patch notes also say the time ranch items take can be changed in World Settings. Where to change settings is in our guide to changing your Palworld server settings. Setting up a world from scratch is in our Palworld server guide, and if you would rather not keep a PC on all day you can rent a Palworld server and edit the same settings there.

Palworld Farming FAQ

How do I start farming in Palworld?

Unlock the Berry Plantation or Wheat Plantation (levels 5 and 15), get the seeds (Berry Seeds drop from Red Berries, Wheat Seeds can be bought), build the plantation and assign Pals with Planting and Watering. Each plantation needs 3 seeds in its build cost.

Which Pals can plant and water crops?

Dandilord has the highest Planting level in the data (8) and Shaolong the highest Watering level (8). The lists above show every Pal at level 5 or higher, plus level 2 options.

How do I get seeds?

Wheat, Lettuce and Tomato Seeds can be bought from a merchant, Berry Seeds drop when you pick Red Berries, and Vaelet drops seeds at a Ranch. The data gives no source for Carrot, Onion and Potato Seeds.

What is the difference between the Ranch and a plantation?

A plantation grows crops from seeds and needs planting, watering and harvesting. The Ranch makes items from a Pal with Ranching suitability, with no seeds involved.

Can I make farming faster?

Yes: Crop Knowledge and Harvest Knowledge research at the Pal Labor Research Lab, higher Work Suitability levels (handbooks, Pal rank-ups) and, on your own server, MonsterFarmActionSpeedRate for the Ranch.

Want a world that keeps growing while you are offline? Our Palworld server guide covers setup and settings. Read next: the full Pals list and base building.