Digtoise, a Ground-type pal in Palworld, Paldex number 107

How to breed Digtoise.

Rarity 5 · 50% ♂ · wild Lv 17-44 276 parent pairs Born with Hard Skin

The easiest pair that hatches Digtoise

Vanwyrm and Mossanda Lux is the cheapest pair that hatches Digtoise in Palworld 1.0, out of 276 pairs that work. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 20.

both catchable in the wild · found from about level 20. Parents must be opposite genders.

The lineageread left to right
Pairs that make Digtoise
Vanwyrm × Mossanda Lux both catchable in the wild · found from about level 20
Vaelet × Dumud Gild both catchable in the wild · found from about level 25
Digtoise Digtoise

Easiest pair first · rarest child first. Every parent pair is in the list below.

Gender odds on the Vanwyrm and Mossanda Lux pair

Both Vanwyrm and Mossanda Lux hatch 50/50 male, so every one you catch is a coin flip and two of each covers it. Digtoise comes out 50/50 too. Two of the same gender produces nothing at all, however right the pair is.

Weak to

Grass

Deals double to

Electric

Paldex entry

“A Digtoise possessing the strongest shell and the only drill capable of piercing it, ponders the contradictions of the world in the popular children's tale, |Digtoise's Fable|.”

Digtoise is a Ground-type pal with 276 parent pairs in Palworld 1.0, and not one of them is a special one-off recipe. Wild ones sit at level 17-44. Shortest chain from a starter box: 4 steps. Best jobs: Mining 4.

Breed rank1550
Rarity5/20
SizeM
Activeday
Wild level17-44
Passive slots3/4
Gender 50% ♂ · 50% ♀
Always born with Hard Skin

Partner skill

Drill Crusher. When activated, enters the Shell Spin state. Follows the player while spinning, increasing ore mining efficiency by 800%.

Rank 1 → 5: 800 · 1000 · 1200 · 1500 · 2000

Work suitability

Stats

HP 80 weak
Attack 95 average
Defense 120 elite
Stamina 100 weak
Run speed 300 weak
Ride speed 420 weak
Transport 190 weak

Scaled across all 299 pals. Digtoise is top of the roster on at least one bar.

Trust scaling

HP+5
Attack+2.7
Defense+1.7

Stat gain per trust rank, straight from the game's own parameter table. Read it as what Digtoise is worth after you have actually used it.

Drops

Per kill or capture. Each item links to every pal that drops it.

The 120 easiest of 276 parent pairs for Digtoise

Every pair that produces Digtoise averages to its breed rank of 1550, and 276 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. Some are two wild catches. The rest need a breed first.

The list stops at 120. Open the planner to filter the other 156 against the pals you already own.

Why an older Digtoise combo list won't work

Pre-1.0 guides name a recipe. The 1.0 table works on averages: a pair produces Digtoise when the two parents' breed ranks average to its 1550. 276 different pairs hit that average, which is why a page showing five or six rows is quoting a sample rather than an answer.

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 Digtoise

4 breeding steps from a starter box reach Digtoise, beginning with Arsox and Chillet. Every egg after that becomes a parent in the next step.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4

Measured from an early-game box. Anything you already own further along cuts steps off, so load your save and it routes from there.

Digtoise passive skill odds per egg

Digtoise hatches with Hard Skin already fixed, so only 3 of its four passive slots are ever in play. A parent pool of exactly those 3 lands all of them 30% of the time per egg. Four inherited passive skills is impossible for it, not merely unlikely.

You wantParent poolPer eggEggs for 90%
3 specific passives3 30.0%7
3 specific passives4 7.5%30
3 specific passives5 3.0%76
2 specific passives2 60.0%3
2 specific passives4 20.0%11

With 3 slots to play with, a junk passive on a parent is a cap rather than a delay. 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 passive inheritance odds with a fixed passive skill, and the planner ranks the pairs in your own box by them.

Is Digtoise worth breeding, or should you catch one?

Catch one. Digtoise spawns from level 17, well short of the 4-step chain it takes to make one. The shortest chain from a starter box runs 4 steps, and the cheapest pair still needs a level 20 catch. With 276 pairs on the list, one half of one of them is probably in your box already.

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 Digtoise in the wild

Digtoise spawns in Desiccated Dunes and 8 other areas, at level 33-39. Another 114 of its spawn points sit outside every named region.

day 657 spawn points
RegionLevelSpawn points
Desiccated Dunes33-39312
Twilight Dunes33-3779
Isle of the Glacial Core33-4448
Scars of War33-3839
Wildlife Sanctuary 334-3826
Frostbound Mountains33-3926
Oasis Isle34-387
Scouring Islet35-405
Deep Bamboo Thicket33-371

Digtoise work suitability and drops

Digtoise has Mining 4 in Palworld 1.0, and drops Ancient Civilization Parts and High Quality Pal Oil when killed or caught. Those levels and the drop rows come from our own export of the game's tables.

What Digtoise is actually for once it hatches

Mining 4 is the job to put it on, mid-table out of a ceiling of 8. See best Mining pals for what beats it.

Digtoise active skills and partner skill

Digtoise learns 8 active skills as it levels, the last at level 70. Its partner skill is Drill Crusher. That learnset is our own export of the game's level table, cooldowns and all.

What Digtoise breeds into as a parent

Paired with other species, Digtoise produces 96 different children, the rarest of them Warsect Terra and Kingpaca. A parent that wide is worth a farm slot on its own.

Digtoise breeding FAQ

Can you breed Digtoise in Palworld?
Yes. 276 pairs produce Digtoise 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 Vanwyrm and Mossanda Lux, and the egg then needs an egg incubator to hatch.
What two Pals make Digtoise in Palworld?
Vanwyrm and Mossanda Lux, opposite genders. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 20, which makes it the cheapest of the 276 pairs that produce Digtoise. Every other pair is listed on this page. Both parents average to its breed rank of 1550.
Can you catch Digtoise in the wild in Palworld 1.0?
Yes, at level 17-44. Its spawn points fall inside 9 named regions, the densest Desiccated Dunes, where they run level 33-39. There is no alpha Digtoise, so field spawns are the only source of one. The map on this page marks 657 spawn points for it in total.
Are these Digtoise 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 276 of Digtoise's pairs are in the list, with the easiest 120 shown. Panthalus and Panthalus is the usual tell of a stale list, and the game's tables rule it out.
Can Digtoise be bred in the early game?
The cheapest pair needs a level 20 catch, so yes, comfortably. From a starter box the chain runs 4 steps, opening with Arsox and Chillet. Anything you already own further along shortens it, which is the part loading your own save changes.
Can Digtoise inherit all four passive skills from one egg?
No. Digtoise is born with Hard Skin already fixed, which leaves 3 of its four passive slots for inherited ones. The most you can inherit onto it is 3, and with a clean pool of exactly those 3 that is 30% per egg.

Route this pair from your own save

Pal Hatchery reads your Level.sav in your browser and tells you which half of the Vanwyrm and Mossanda Lux pair you already own. It reads genders, levels and passive skills off the save, then routes from there. Nothing is uploaded.

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