Palworld 1.0 · 109 pals ranked

Best Handiwork Pals.

Solenne leads at Handiwork 8, catchable at level 76-78.

109 pals carry Handiwork top rank 8 1 at top rank 103 catchable

Solenne tops all 109 Handiwork pals in Palworld 1.0 at Handiwork 8, and you catch it rather than breed it. The level band is the problem. It spawns at 76-78, so for most of a playthrough it is a poster on the wall. Mossanda Lux does the job from level 15, at Handiwork 3. That is a 5-rank gap, so whatever you staff now is a placeholder. Your best Handiwork pal is on the night shift either way, because Solenne is nocturnal and keeps working while the day crew sleeps.

Handiwork drives every crafting bench, which makes it the most-used suitability in the game. Almost everything you build queues through it. A base with high Handiwork finishes queues while you are out; one without it never catches up.

What is the best Handiwork pal in Palworld?

Solenne is the best Handiwork pal in Palworld 1.0 at Handiwork 8, the highest Handiwork rank in the game.

Nothing else in the roster of 299 reaches Handiwork 8. Solenne is catchable in the wild at level 76-78, so owning one takes no breeding chain at all.

The 10 best Handiwork pals, ranked

These ten are ordered by Handiwork level first and then by how early one spawns, so the top of the list is reachable rather than only correct.

109 pals carry Handiwork, which makes this a filtering problem rather than a hunt. The ten below are the page, and the full grid further down is reference.

  1. Solenne 8 Gathering 4, Transporting 2 · wild Lv 76–78 · catch or breed Route →
  2. Selyne 7 Medicine Production 6, Transporting 3 · wild Lv 76–80 · catch only Route →
  3. Sekhmet 6 Mining 3, Transporting 2 · wild Lv 37–80 · catch or breed Route →
  4. Splatterina 6 Medicine Production 5, Lumbering 3 · wild Lv 52–80 · catch or breed Route →
  5. Anubis 6 Mining 6, Transporting 4 · wild Lv 55–80 · catch or breed Route →
  6. Lapure 6 Gathering 5 · wild Lv 65–69 · catch or breed Route →
  7. Flaracle 6 Kindling 7, Transporting 2 · wild Lv 65–80 · catch or breed Route →
  8. Wistella 6 Medicine Production 6, Transporting 1 · wild Lv 66–78 · catch or breed Route →
  9. Venusa 6 Gathering 6, Medicine Production 5 · wild Lv 75–77 · catch or breed Route →
  10. Renjishi 6 Kindling 8, Gathering 5 · wild Lv 78–80 · catch or breed Route →

Breed for Handiwork before anything else. It is the one job whose queue never empties, so every point of rank pays all day.

The best Handiwork pal you can catch early

Mossanda Lux is the best Handiwork pal catchable before level 20, at Handiwork 3 from level 15.

The next rung up is Solenne at Handiwork 8, which spawns from level 76. Take that as the swap and Solenne as the ceiling.

10 of these ten also carry a second suitability at rank 3 or better, Solenne, Selyne, Sekhmet among them. A slot filled by a pal that covers two jobs is a slot you do not have to fill twice.

Passives are inheritable, so a bred worker beats a caught one of the same species. Read the passive inheritance odds per egg, then let the planner route to any pal on this page from the box you already own. Solenne is nocturnal, so see which nocturnal pals work the night shift.

What Handiwork level actually does

A higher Handiwork rank makes a pal finish Handiwork work faster rather than take on more of it at once.

Ranks run from 1 to 8 in the Palworld 1.0 data and Handiwork uses the whole scale, which is why one rank-8 worker on a station that draws a single pal at a time beats three rank-2 ones.

Handiwork is the station that never runs out of work, so a work-speed passive compounds all day rather than saving a few seconds. If you breed one passive onto one job, breed Artisan onto this one.

All 109 Handiwork pals by level

All 109 Handiwork pals in Palworld 1.0 are grouped below by rank, from Handiwork 8 down to Handiwork 1. 103 of them are catchable in the wild.

Handiwork 8, the highest Handiwork rank in the game

One pal, and it is catchable.

Handiwork 7

One pal, and it is catchable.

Handiwork 6

11 pals at this rank, 8 catchable in the wild.

Handiwork 5

8 pals at this rank, 6 catchable in the wild.

Handiwork 4

12 pals, every one of them catchable.

Handiwork 3

25 pals, every one of them catchable.

Handiwork 2

29 pals at this rank, 28 catchable in the wild.

Handiwork 1

22 pals, every one of them catchable.

The other stations

Frequently asked

What is the best Handiwork pal in Palworld?
Solenne is the best Handiwork pal in Palworld 1.0, at Handiwork 8, the highest Handiwork rank of the 109 pals that have it. It is catchable in the wild from level 76, and nothing else in the game reaches Handiwork 8. Mossanda Lux is the best one you can catch early.
How many pals have Handiwork in Palworld?
109 of the 299 pals in Palworld 1.0 have any Handiwork at all, and only one reaches rank 8. 103 of the 109 are catchable in the wild, and the rest have to be bred. Every one has a breeding route on its own page.
How do work suitability levels work in Palworld?
A higher work suitability rank makes a pal finish that job faster. Ranks run from 1 to 8 in the game data, and several stations draw from one pal at a time, so one rank-8 worker beats three rank-2 ones. Handiwork runs from 1 to 8 across 109 pals.
What is the best early game Handiwork pal?
Mossanda Lux at Handiwork 3, catchable from level 15. Solenne does not spawn until level 76, so Mossanda Lux is what staffs the crafting bench for most of a playthrough. 103 of the 109 Handiwork pals are catchable, so there are rungs between the two.

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