Palworld 1.0 Guide: How To Farm Leather Without Losing Your Mind
Crafting endgame gear demands a mountain of leather, and if you ignore your supply lines early on, you're in for a miserable grind.
I spent an embarrassing amount of time staring at my crafting bench realizing I needed tens of leather just to make a single piece of armor. The game doesn't hand this material out for free, and you can't synthesize it at a workbench. Before you bankrupt your base buying scraps from the Wandering Merchant at the Small Settlement, you need a strategy. He charges 150 Gold Coins per piece of leather. It sells for a pathetic 15 Gold, meaning buying in bulk drains your wallet instantly. Your gold is much better spent elsewhere unless you're in a desperate pinch.
The Best Early Targets For Fast Leather
You have to get your hands dirty to start your leather stockpile. Your best options are hunting, catching, or running a dedicated livestock ranch.
If you're still exploring the starting areas, your absolute highest priority target is the Eikthyrdeer. These guys spawn between level 9 and 10 and drop three to four pieces of leather per kill. That's a massive yield compared to the competition. You'll also find clusters of Fuack on the western beach right outside the starting zone. Sweeping through that shoreline gives you a great haul since they spawn so closely together.
For quick, low-level targets, keep an eye out for Foxparks in the immediate starting area. It's a fire type and incredibly easy to defeat. Rushoar is another excellent early option. It's a fast-moving boar found near the starting zone, and it doubles as a very useful early mount once you craft its saddle. Direhowl packs are also fantastic early sources, and since they hunt in groups, you'll vacuum up leather fast if you take down the whole pack.
Before you go on a mindless killing spree, keep this in mind. I highly recommend catching these Pals instead of just defeating them. Catching Pals yields the exact same material drops, but it also gives you a massive experience bonus. It's easily one of the fastest ways to level up in the game, granting you access to the advanced tiers of the technology tree much earlier.
Set Up A Passive Leather Farm
Active hunting is fine, but I prefer automating my chores so I can actually explore. Setting up a passive income stream is one of the most vital base upgrades you can invest in.
Once you hit level 5, you unlock the Livestock Farm. It's cheap, requiring only 50 wood, 20 stones, and 30 fibers. Build it immediately. You then want to assign specific Pals to work there. Melpaca and Vixy are your go-to workers for this. Vixy is a small fox-type Pal found extremely close to the starting area, making it incredibly accessible. Throw them in the farm, and they'll periodically drop leather, wool, and eggs right onto the ground for you. Both of these Pals have useful base work suitabilities anyway, making them highly valuable early catches.
Every Pal That Drops Leather
As you push into tougher map level zones, the drop pool expands massively. You'll never truly run out of targets if you keep moving forward. Over 50 different species drop leather across the biomes. If you're exploring and want to know exactly who holds the goods, here is the complete alphabetical list of every leather-dropping Pal currently in the game:
Where All Your Leather Actually Goes
You might think a stack of fifty leather will last a while. I assure you it won't. Leather feeds into three major crafting categories: armor, Pal Gear, and utility items. The volume requirements scale aggressively as you level up.
The Cost Of Survival
Pelt Armor is your first major hurdle, starting at 10 leather for the Common version and climbing to 67 leather for the Legendary tier. If you want Heat or Cold Resistant variants, you'll need Flame or Ice Organs on top of that. Metal Armor tiers require Ingots and Cloth alongside your hides, while Refined Metal Armor swaps in Refined Ingots and High Quality Cloth. The absolute peak of protection, Refined Metal Armor Legendary, demands 100 leather plus 202 Refined Ingots.
Saddles And Harnesses
Every mount saddle requires leather. Early gear like the Rushoar Saddle and Melpaca Saddle only cost 3 pieces each. Mid-tier options like the Nitewing Saddle (20) and Fenglope Saddle (30) start eating into your reserves. Then you hit the high-end gear. The Frostallion Saddle, Paladius Saddle, and Necromus Saddle all cost 100 leather each. Jetragon's Missile Launcher also costs 100 leather, making it one of the most expensive single crafts available. If you're experimenting with different party presets, you'll quickly drain your resources unlocking Partner Skill harnesses like Foxparks' Harness (3) and Galeclaw's Gloves (20).
Utility Items And Base Furniture
Feed bags and pouches are massive quality-of-life upgrades, and you'll want them maxed out as soon as possible. Even basic base decorations like the Leather Chair (1), Leather Couch (3), and Leather Armchair (2) chip away at your supply.
