Palworld 1.0 · 44 pals ranked

Best Kindling Pals.

Renjishi leads at Kindling 8, catchable at level 78-80.

Top rank Renjishi in Palworld #1 Renjishi Kindling 8 Wild Lv 78–80 Dupin in Palworld #2 Dupin Kindling 7 Wild Lv 55–74 Flaracle in Palworld #3 Flaracle Kindling 7 Wild Lv 65–80
44 pals carry Kindling top rank 8 1 at top rank 41 catchable

Renjishi tops all 44 Kindling pals in Palworld 1.0 at Kindling 8, and you catch it rather than breed it. The level band is the problem. It spawns at 78-80, so for most of a playthrough it is a poster on the wall. An alpha Renjishi stands at level 78, which beats waiting on a spawn. Arsox does the job from level 1, at Kindling 3. That is a 5-rank gap, so whatever you staff now is a placeholder.

Kindling runs the furnace and every cooking station, and the furnace draws from one pal at a time. A single high-rank kindler beats three low ones. Smelting ore gates every metal recipe, which is why this is the first bottleneck most bases hit.

What is the best Kindling pal in Palworld?

Renjishi is the best Kindling pal in Palworld 1.0 at Kindling 8, the highest Kindling rank in the game.

Nothing else in the roster of 299 reaches Kindling 8. Renjishi is catchable in the wild at level 78-80, so owning one takes no breeding chain at all.

The 10 best Kindling pals, ranked

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

44 pals carry Kindling, and these ten are the ones worth a base slot before you start reading the grid further down.

  1. Renjishi 8 Handiwork 6, Gathering 5 · wild Lv 78–80 · catch or breed Route →
  2. Dupin 7 Handiwork 5, Medicine Production 4 · wild Lv 55–74 · catch or breed Route →
  3. Flaracle 7 Handiwork 6, Transporting 2 · wild Lv 65–80 · catch or breed Route →
  4. Jormuntide Ignis 7 wild Lv 66–80 · catch or breed Route →
  5. Blazamut 6 Mining 7 · wild Lv 46–80 · catch or breed Route →
  6. Eidrolon Ignis 6 Transporting 6 · wild Lv 75–77 · catch or breed Route →
  7. Faleris 6 Transporting 3 · wild Lv 76–80 · catch only Route →
  8. Blazamut Ryu 6 Mining 7 · never in the wild · two of itself only Route →
  9. Blazehowl 5 Lumbering 3 · wild Lv 30–80 · catch or breed Route →
  10. Moldron 5 Mining 5 · wild Lv 32–80 · catch or breed Route →

Put the best kindler you own on the furnace and leave it there. A second one does nothing while the first is still working.

The best Kindling pal you can catch early

Arsox is the best Kindling pal catchable before level 20, at Kindling 3 from level 1.

The next rung up is Renjishi at Kindling 8, which spawns from level 78. Take that as the swap and Renjishi as the ceiling.

9 of these ten also carry a second suitability at rank 3 or better, Renjishi, Dupin, Flaracle 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.

What Kindling level actually does

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

Ranks run from 1 to 8 in the Palworld 1.0 data and Kindling 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.

Because the furnace pulls from one pal at a time, a work-speed passive on that pal is the whole upgrade. Artisan on your kindler is worth more than a second kindler.

All 44 Kindling pals by level

All 44 Kindling pals in Palworld 1.0 are grouped below by rank, from Kindling 8 down to Kindling 1. 41 of them are catchable in the wild.

The other stations

Watering Planting Generate Electricity Handiwork Gathering Lumbering Mining Medicine Production Cooling Transporting Farming

Frequently asked

What is the best Kindling pal in Palworld?
Renjishi is the best Kindling pal in Palworld 1.0, at Kindling 8, the highest Kindling rank of the 44 pals that have it. It is catchable in the wild from level 78, and nothing else in the game reaches Kindling 8. Arsox is the best one you can catch early.
How many pals have Kindling in Palworld?
44 of the 299 pals in Palworld 1.0 have any Kindling at all, and only one reaches rank 8. 41 of the 44 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. Kindling runs from 1 to 8 across 44 pals.
What is the best early game Kindling pal?
Arsox at Kindling 3, catchable from level 1. Renjishi does not spawn until level 78, so Arsox is what staffs the furnace for most of a playthrough. 41 of the 44 Kindling pals are catchable, so there are rungs between the two.

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