The easiest pair that hatches Croajiro Noct
Croajiro and Bushi Noct is the cheapest pair that hatches Croajiro Noct in Palworld 1.0, out of 2 pairs that work. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 46.
both catchable in the wild · found from about level 46. Parents must be opposite genders.
Croajiro Noct
Easiest pair first · rarest child first. Every parent pair is in the list below.
Gender odds on the Croajiro and Bushi Noct pair
Both Croajiro and Bushi Noct hatch 50/50 male, so every one you catch is a coin flip and two of each covers it. Croajiro Noct comes out 50/50 too. Two of the same gender produces nothing at all, however right the pair is.
Weak to
Deals double to
Paldex entry
“The Croajiro who have forsaken their honor gather and form splinter groups. They will use any underhanded means to take down their chosen prey. If you encounter a pack of Croajiro Noct in the dead of the night, it's your life that's on the line.”
Croajiro Noct is a Water/Dark-type pal with 2 parent pairs in Palworld 1.0, and not one of them is a special one-off recipe. Wild ones sit at level 61-80. Best jobs: Handiwork 2, Watering 1.
Partner skill
Shadow Stance. When activated, Croajiro Noct channels its loyalty and puffs up its abdomen to store energy. Climbing on top will propel the player high into the air. While in party, improves player's and Pals' Dark damage to enemy weak points by 25%. (Does not stack)
Rank 1 → 5: 25 · 27 · 30 · 34 · 40
Work suitability
Stats
Scaled across all 299 pals. A longer bar is a higher place in the roster.
Trust scaling
Stat gain per trust rank, straight from the game's own parameter table. Read it as what Croajiro Noct is worth after you have actually used it.
Drops
- Ancient Civilization Parts ×3-4 · alpha
- Aquatic Pal Fluids ×1-2
- Cloth ×1-2 · 25%
- Precious Entrails ×2-3 · alpha
- Venom Gland ×2-4
Per kill or capture. Each item links to every pal that drops it.
All 2 parent combinations for Croajiro Noct
Every pair that produces Croajiro Noct averages to its breed rank of 1860, and 2 pairs in the Palworld 1.0 table hit that number. Opposite genders, cake in the breeding farm, then the egg goes in an egg incubator. Every pair here is two wild catches.
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both catchable · Lv 46
Croajiro
Bushi Noct
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both catchable · Lv 61
Croajiro Noct
Croajiro Noct
Why an older Croajiro Noct combo list won't work
Pre-1.0 guides name a recipe. The 1.0 table works on averages: a pair produces Croajiro Noct when the two parents' breed ranks average to its 1860. Only 2 pairs hit that average, so a stale list has a real chance of naming one that never worked. Croajiro Noct is a variant form as well, and variants sit at ranks the common pals rarely average to.
Ours is the game's real 44,849-pair table, shipped verbatim rather than approximated from the rank formula. The 19,044 figure still in circulation is 138 squared, the pre-1.0 roster of base forms counted as ordered pairs, so it measures something else. One pair shows the difference. Every calculator downstream of palcalc ships Panthalus and Panthalus as breeding true, and the game's own tables prove it cannot, because that pair yields Aegidron.
The shortest breeding path to Croajiro Noct
No chain of starter pals reaches Croajiro Noct inside six generations, so the first one has to be caught at level 61-80.
Croajiro Noct passive skill odds per egg
A clean four-passive pool across both parents gives 10.0% per Croajiro Noct egg, which is about 22 eggs for a 90% shot at all four. Every extra passive skill on either parent lowers it.
| You want | Parent pool | Per egg | Eggs for 90% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 specific passives | 4 | 10.0% | 22 |
| 4 specific passives | 5 | 2.0% | 114 |
| 4 specific passives | 6 | 0.7% | 345 |
| 3 specific passives | 3 | 30.0% | 7 |
| 3 specific passives | 4 | 15.0% | 15 |
| 3 specific passives | 5 | 6.0% | 38 |
| 2 specific passives | 2 | 60.0% | 3 |
| 2 specific passives | 4 | 25.0% | 9 |
One junk passive on a parent can double the eggs you need. The per-egg column is the chance every passive skill you want lands on the egg, with random extras allowed. The roll behind these numbers is worked through in Palworld passive skill inheritance, step by step, and the planner ranks the pairs in your own box by them.
Is Croajiro Noct worth breeding, or should you catch one?
Breed toward it, then catch one when you get there. Croajiro Noct only spawns at level 61-80, late enough that a pair often lands first. Nothing in a starter box reaches it inside six generations, and the cheapest pair needs a level 46 catch. Only 2 pairs work, so the parents are specific and worth checking against what you own.
Breed it anyway once you own one. A pair is how you roll passive skills; catching is how you get the species.
Where to find Croajiro Noct in the wild
Croajiro Noct spawns in Scorched Hill and 7 other areas, at level 61-62. Another 131 of its spawn points sit outside every named region.
| Region | Level | Spawn points |
|---|---|---|
| Scorched Hill | 61-62 | 147 |
| Deserted Ash Plateau | 61-62 | 52 |
| Hidden Passage to the Oculus Gate | 61-62 | 41 |
| Emberstone Plateau | 61-62 | 35 |
| Stone Pillar Cave | 61-62 | 19 |
| Crystalized Ancient Tree | 61-62 | 15 |
| The Oculus Gate, Tower in Sight | 61-62 | 5 |
| Loess Plains | 61-62 | 4 |
Croajiro Noct work suitability and drops
Croajiro Noct has Handiwork 2 and Watering 1 in Palworld 1.0, and drops Ancient Civilization Parts and Aquatic Pal Fluids when killed or caught. Those levels and the drop rows come from our own export of the game's tables.
What Croajiro Noct is actually for once it hatches
Handiwork 2 is the best it does, which is base filler out of a ceiling of 8. Check best Handiwork pals for anything that does it properly. It works through the night, when the rest of the base is asleep.
Croajiro Noct active skills and partner skill
Croajiro Noct learns 8 active skills as it levels, the last at level 70. Its partner skill is Shadow Stance. That learnset is our own export of the game's level table, cooldowns and all.
- Lv 1 Dark Poison Blast 30 2s
- Lv 7 Dark Dark Shot 40 2s
- Lv 15 Dark Dark Arrow 120 8s
- Lv 22 Water Acid Rain 120 8s
- Lv 30 Dark Nightmare Ball 300 16s
- Lv 40 Water Hydro Slicer 350 16s
- Lv 50 Dark Dark Laser 450 20s
- Lv 70 Dark Dark Whisp 600 30s
What Croajiro Noct breeds into as a parent
Paired with other species, Croajiro Noct produces 100 different children, the rarest of them Menasting and Kingpaca. A parent that wide is worth a farm slot on its own.
Croajiro Noct breeding FAQ
- Can you breed Croajiro Noct in Palworld?
- Yes. 2 pairs produce Croajiro Noct in the Palworld 1.0 breeding table. Both parents have to be opposite genders, in a breeding farm, with cake in the feed box. The cheapest of those pairs is Croajiro and Bushi Noct, and the egg then needs an egg incubator to hatch.
- What two Pals make Croajiro Noct in Palworld?
- Croajiro and Bushi Noct, opposite genders. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 46, which makes it the cheapest of the 2 pairs that produce Croajiro Noct. Every other pair is listed on this page. Both parents average to its breed rank of 1860.
- Can you catch Croajiro Noct in the wild in Palworld 1.0?
- Yes, at level 61-80. Its spawn points fall inside 8 named regions, the densest Scorched Hill, where they run level 61-62. There is no alpha Croajiro Noct, so field spawns are the only source of one. The map on this page marks 449 spawn points for it in total.
- Are these Croajiro Noct breeding combos updated for Palworld 1.0?
- Yes. Every pair here comes out of the game's real 44,849-pair table, shipped verbatim rather than approximated. All 2 of Croajiro Noct's pairs are in the list. Panthalus and Panthalus is the usual tell of a stale list, and the game's tables rule it out.
- Can Croajiro Noct be bred in the early game?
- No. No chain of starter pals reaches Croajiro Noct inside six generations, so the first one has to be caught at level 61-80. 2 pairs breed more of them, the cheapest Croajiro and Bushi Noct, which needs a level 46 catch of its own.
- Can Croajiro Noct inherit all four passive skills from one egg?
- Only if both parents' combined pool is exactly those four. Croajiro Noct is born with no fixed passive, so all four slots are open, and a pair like Croajiro and Bushi Noct has to carry nothing else. A clean four-passive pool is 10% per egg, about 22 eggs for a 90% shot.
Route this pair from your own save
Pal Hatchery reads your Level.sav in your browser and tells you which half of the Croajiro and Bushi Noct pair you already own.
It reads genders, levels and passive skills off the save, then routes from there. Nothing is uploaded.



