Palworld Expeditions Guide: Teams, Loot, and Tips

The Pal Expedition Station sends Pals on timed missions to places like dungeons. They fight and gather, then bring resources home. Set strong teams once, queue the next run when they return, and treat expeditions as AFK income next to your world farms.

Pal Expedition Station

Structures

A facility that allows Pals to be sent on expeditions to places like dungeons. The dispatched Pals engage in battles and gather items, bringing back resources to the base.

How to unlock Expeditions

• Unlock Pal Expedition Station in Technology around level 22.
• Build it at a base with power and pathing so assigned Pals can reach the station.
• Open the station UI, pick a biome mission, assign a team, and start the timer.

How a run works

• Pick a mission tier your Pals can clear. Hard variants print better tables.
• Assign a team that matches the mission strength. Overqualified teams improve reward volume even after the UI shows 100% success.
• Wait out the timer. Collect rewards, then queue the next run immediately.
• Sending an overpowered team no longer shortens the timer. It increases reward quantity instead.

What Expeditions can return

Live drop tables print biome kits. Highlights players actually spend:

• Windswept Island: Small Pal Soul (3-5), early spheres, ore, meats.
• Crescent Moon Shore: Kinship Peach (1-3 on Hard), spheres, mushrooms, Bellanoir slab fragments.
• Desiccated Dunes / Mount Obsidian: Medium Pal Soul stacks, organs, coal, ores.
• Astral Mountains / Sakurajima: Large and Giant Pal Souls, late spheres, Crude Oil on Sakurajima.
• Feybreak / Sunreach: Giant Pal Soul, Hexolite Quartz / Chromite / Coralum / Soralite lines, Crude Oil on Feybreak.
• Foot of the World Tree: Giant Pal Soul (8-12), Ancient Civilization Core, Ancient Civilization Parts, Ancient Relics, Paloxite, Dog Coin.

Giant Pal Soul

Materials

The soul left behind by a highly trained Pal. It can draw out hidden abilities if offered to a Statue of Power.

Ancient Civilization Core

Materials

Core from technology that was lost long ago. Nearly impossible to find on the Palpagos Islands, it contains a wealth of forgotten knowledge.

Kinship Peach

Enhancement

A rarely seen magical fruit. It is said that a Pal who eats it will open its heart to humans. Choose carefully which Pal you give it to.

Dog Coin

Materials

A mysterious coin. Apparently there are people who collect these. A Mimog will usually have them, but for some reason, they cannot be obtained by butchering it.

Crude Oil

Materials

Material that can be processed into various products. Obtained by installing a Crude Oil Extractor on an oil field.

Team building tips

• Combat-first condensed Pals clear higher tiers. Match requested traits when the UI asks.
• Do not stop upgrading the squad the moment success hits 100%. Overcap still improves rewards.
• Park expedition teams you will not miss in the field. Keep your breeding Past Party and Predator crew separate.
• Passive skills that cut expedition time exist in data. Prefer trait match and raw strength first, then slot time-cost passives when you have them.

When Expeditions beat world farms

• Giant / Large Pal Soul stacks while you do something else: hard late expeditions and World Tree runs.
• Kinship Peach top-ups on Hard biome missions when you are not running bounties.
• Ancient Civilization Cores and Relics from Foot of the World Tree expeditions between manual World Tree loops.
• Crude Oil on Feybreak / Sakurajima expeditions as backup to Extractors and Oil Rig bursts.
• Still clear Oil Rigs yourself when you need Lotus (L) and Platform schematic rolls. Expeditions do not replace that chest table.

Running multiple stations without babysitting

Once you have more than one Pal Expedition Station, treat them like a rotation instead of checking each one individually every time you log in. Queue the longest missions on stations you will not visit again soon, and save the short missions for stations near your main base that you naturally pass by often. This keeps every station working instead of a few running constantly while others sit idle for days.

Picking a team for a specific biome

• Match element and trait requests when the mission UI asks for them. A team that satisfies the request pulls ahead of a raw-strength team that ignores it.
• Send your strongest available combat Pals on Foot of the World Tree and other late missions, since the reward tables there scale hardest with team quality.
• Do not send Pals you need for other jobs. A Pal locked into a multi-hour expedition cannot also work your base or fight beside you that same session.

Common expedition mistakes

• Stopping team upgrades the moment the success chance shows 100%. Reward quantity keeps climbing past that point, so a stronger team is never wasted.
• Leaving a station empty because you forgot to requeue after collecting rewards. An idle station is lost income for no reason.
• Sending your entire breeding or Predator crew on expeditions and then wondering why those other loops stalled for the day.