The easiest pair that hatches Mau Cryst
Mau and Pengullet is the cheapest pair that hatches Mau Cryst in Palworld 1.0, out of 2 pairs that work. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 5.
both catchable in the wild · found from about level 5. Parents must be opposite genders.
Mau Cryst
Easiest pair first · rarest child first. Every parent pair is in the list below.
Gender odds on the Mau and Pengullet pair
Both Mau and Pengullet hatch 50/50 male, so every one you catch is a coin flip and two of each covers it. Mau Cryst 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
“Its crystalline tail is beautiful, but shatters when this Pal dies. Some believe it is good luck to raise them, so Mau Cryst in captivity are treated with great care.”
Mau Cryst is an Ice-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 1-45. It is an early-game catch, so nothing needs breeding. Best jobs: Cooling 1, Farming 1.
Partner skill
Icy Whispers. Sometimes drops Ice Organ when assigned to Ranch.
Work suitability
1
1Stats
Scaled across all 299 pals. Mau Cryst is not a fighter. Cooling 1 is what you keep it for.
Trust scaling
Stat gain per trust rank, straight from the game's own parameter table. Read it as what Mau Cryst is worth after you have actually used it.
Drops
- Ancient Civilization Parts ×2-3 · alpha
- Ice Organ ×1-2
- Precious Claw ×2-3 · alpha
- Sapphire ×1 · 1%
Per kill or capture. Each item links to every pal that drops it.
All 2 parent combinations for Mau Cryst
Every pair that produces Mau Cryst averages to its breed rank of 2750, 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.
Why an older Mau Cryst combo list won't work
Pre-1.0 guides name a recipe. The 1.0 table works on averages: a pair produces Mau Cryst when the two parents' breed ranks average to its 2750. Only 2 pairs hit that average, so a stale list has a real chance of naming one that never worked. Mau Cryst 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 Mau Cryst
Mau Cryst is one of the pals a starter box already holds, catchable at level 1-45, so there is no chain to build. It is one of the 59 species every route on this site is measured from.
Mau Cryst passive skill odds per egg
A clean four-passive pool across both parents gives 10.0% per Mau Cryst 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 Mau Cryst worth breeding, or should you catch one?
Catch one, and early. Mau Cryst shows up from level 1, so you will meet one long before a pair is worth assembling. You almost certainly own one already. 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 Mau Cryst in the wild
Mau Cryst carries a wild level band of 1-45 in Palworld 1.0, and no named region on the map has a spawn point attributed to it. There is no alpha to fall back on either. Treat the band as the level to be at, not as a place to camp.
Mau Cryst work suitability and drops
Mau Cryst has Cooling 1 and Farming 1 in Palworld 1.0, and drops Ancient Civilization Parts and Ice Organ when killed or caught. Those levels and the drop rows come from our own export of the game's tables.
What Mau Cryst is actually for once it hatches
Cooling 1 is the best it does, which is base filler out of a ceiling of 8. Check best Cooling pals for anything that does it properly. Attack 65 beats only 3% of the roster, so it is filler on both counts.
Mau Cryst active skills and partner skill
Mau Cryst learns 8 active skills as it levels, the last at level 70. Its partner skill is Icy Whispers. That learnset is our own export of the game's level table, cooldowns and all.
- Lv 1 Ice Ice Missile 40 2s
- Lv 7 Neutral Air Cannon 40 2s
- Lv 15 Ground Bog Blast 40 2s
- Lv 22 Ice Icicle Cutter 80 4s
- Lv 30 Ice Iceberg 120 8s
- Lv 40 Ice Crystal Breath 160 8s
- Lv 50 Ice Blizzard Spike 450 20s
- Lv 70 Ice Diamond Rain 600 30s
What Mau Cryst breeds into as a parent
Paired with other species, Mau Cryst produces 105 different children, the rarest of them Kingpaca and Vaelet. A parent that wide is worth a farm slot on its own.
Other Ice-type breeding targets
Mau Cryst sits at breed rank 2750. The nearest Ice-type targets to it are Swee at 2840 and Jolthog Cryst at 2850, then 6 more. Breed rank is the number a pair has to average to, so a pair that overshoots Mau Cryst usually lands on one of these instead.
Mau Cryst breeding FAQ
- Can you breed Mau Cryst in Palworld?
- Yes. 2 pairs produce Mau Cryst 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 Mau and Pengullet, and the egg then needs an egg incubator to hatch.
- What two Pals make Mau Cryst in Palworld?
- Mau and Pengullet, opposite genders. Both are catchable in the wild from about level 5, which makes it the cheapest of the 2 pairs that produce Mau Cryst. Every other pair is listed on this page. Both parents average to its breed rank of 2750.
- Can you catch Mau Cryst in the wild in Palworld 1.0?
- Yes, at level 1-45. Its spawn points do not fall inside any named region on the map. There is no alpha Mau Cryst to fall back on either, so the 2 pairs on this page are the dependable alternative. It is active in daylight.
- Are these Mau Cryst 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 Mau Cryst'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 Mau Cryst be bred in the early game?
- Yes. Mau Cryst is one of the pals a starter box already holds, catchable at level 1-45, so nothing has to be bred first. Any pair you build from it is about rolling passive skills rather than about getting hold of the species.
- Can Mau Cryst inherit all four passive skills from one egg?
- Only if both parents' combined pool is exactly those four. Mau Cryst is born with no fixed passive, so all four slots are open, and a pair like Mau and Pengullet 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 Mau and Pengullet pair you already own.
It reads genders, levels and passive skills off the save, then routes from there. Nothing is uploaded.