Nobody needs to open five hundred chests to estimate a drop rate. The rates are in the game files. These 8 pages list them exactly: what each container can hold, how much of it, and the true chance on every line. Read off the lottery tables, not averaged from a few hundred openings.
What loot can you get in Palworld?
Palworld 1.0 draws container loot from 132 lottery pools holding 702 distinct items, split across the 8 container types below. The widest single pool set is field chests at 537 items.
Those 8 types are not one thing with the noun swapped. A supply drop lands on you, a treasure map is dug up, an expedition comes home on a timer, and each draws from its own pool with its own weights. Pick the one in front of you and the table on its page is the real per-container chance for every line in it.
How are Palworld loot chances calculated?
Every container rolls its item slots independently. A slot fires at its own percentage, then the items inside it split that roll by weight, so a line's real chance is the slot chance multiplied by its share of the weight.
That product is what every percentage on these 8 pages is. Raw weights are what the game files hold and what other lists reprint, and a weight of 300 means nothing on its own. The alternative to reading the tables is opening a few hundred containers and dividing, which is how the numbers elsewhere on this question were arrived at.
Which Palworld containers drop legendary schematics?
5 of the 8 container types in Palworld 1.0 hold legendary schematics, led by treasure maps with 75 of them in their pools.
The others are field chests with 70, syndicate camps with 65, supply drops with 45 and the oil rig with 35. The remaining 3 hold no schematic row of any tier, which is a question the community argues about and the pool records settle either way. Each page prints the chance per container for every tier, so a tier 1 roll is never mistaken for a tier 4 one.
What is the rarest loot drop in Palworld?
The thinnest line across all 8 container types is Applied Ranching Handbook I in the field chest loot pools, at about 0.01 percent per chest.
Odds that thin are a bonus rather than a plan. What actually pays a run is the guaranteed half of a table, and each page names how many of its lines come out of every single container. Both numbers are on the same page, which is the comparison the tier lists elsewhere cannot make.
Every Palworld loot table by container
All 8 container types in Palworld 1.0 are below with the number of loot pools behind each. Open one for its full table, pool by pool, with the chance and amount on every line.
6 loot pools
Oil Rig
the schematic odds, straight off the lottery tables
5 loot pools
Treasure Maps
what each map tier really pays
8 loot pools
Supply Drops
every falling crate, by region
22 loot pools
Dungeon Chests
elixir and technical-book chests
22 loot pools
Field Chests
the ordinary chests, region by region
15 loot pools
Elemental Chests
the fire, water and electric seals
36 loot pools
Syndicate Camps
camp chests and the boss chest
18 loot pools
Expeditions
per destination and difficulty