


Celesdir Noct tops all 64 Lumbering pals in Palworld 1.0 at Lumbering 8, and you catch it rather than breed it. The level band is the problem. It spawns at 79, so for most of a playthrough it is a poster on the wall. An alpha Celesdir Noct stands at level 79, which beats waiting on a spawn. Dinossom Lux does the job from level 15, at Lumbering 4. That is a 4-rank gap, so whatever you staff now is a placeholder. Your best Lumbering pal is on the night shift either way, because Celesdir Noct is nocturnal and keeps working while the day crew sleeps.
Lumbering fells trees for wood, which every early structure, arrow and campfire consumes. Demand never really drops. It just gets buried under other needs.
What is the best Lumbering pal in Palworld?
Celesdir Noct is the best Lumbering pal in Palworld 1.0 at Lumbering 8, the highest Lumbering rank in the game.
Nothing else in the roster of 299 reaches Lumbering 8. Celesdir Noct is catchable in the wild at level 79, so owning one takes no breeding chain at all.
The 10 best Lumbering pals, ranked
These ten are ordered by Lumbering level first and then by how early one spawns, so the top of the list is reachable rather than only correct.
64 pals carry Lumbering, and these ten are the ones worth a base slot before you start reading the grid further down.
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Celesdir Noct
8
Gathering 4 · wild Lv 79–79 · catch or breed
Route →
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Celesdir
7
Gathering 4 · wild Lv 54–80 · catch or breed
Route →
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Hartalis
7
Gathering 7 · never in the wild · two of itself only
Route →
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Cryolinx Terra
6
Mining 5, Transporting 4 · wild Lv 56–64 · catch or breed
Route →
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Silvegis
6
wild Lv 59–80 · catch or breed
Route →
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Paladius
6
Mining 6 · wild Lv 60–60 · catch only
Route →
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Necromus
6
Mining 6 · wild Lv 60–60 · catch only
Route →
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Bastigor
6
Cooling 8, Mining 5 · wild Lv 75–80 · catch only
Route →
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Mammorest Cryst
5
Cooling 5, Mining 4 · wild Lv 36–80 · catch or breed
Route →
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Wumpo Botan
5
Transporting 6, Planting 3 · wild Lv 38–80 · catch or breed
Route →
Pair a lumberer with a transporter. Felled wood sits on the ground until something carries it, and a base that looks short on wood is often short on legs.
The best Lumbering pal you can catch early
Dinossom Lux is the best Lumbering pal catchable before level 20, at Lumbering 4 from level 15.
The next rung up is Celesdir Noct at Lumbering 8, which spawns from level 79. Take that as the swap and Celesdir Noct as the ceiling.
9 of these ten also carry a second suitability at rank 3 or better, Celesdir Noct, Celesdir, Hartalis 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. Celesdir Noct is nocturnal, so see which nocturnal pals work the night shift.
What Lumbering level actually does
A higher Lumbering rank makes a pal finish Lumbering work faster rather than take on more of it at once.
Ranks run from 1 to 8 in the Palworld 1.0 data and Lumbering 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.
Speeding up the lumberer without a transporter to match just grows the pile on the floor. Passives here are worth breeding for second, after the legs that clear it.
All 64 Lumbering pals by level
All 64 Lumbering pals in Palworld 1.0 are grouped below by rank, from Lumbering 8 down to Lumbering 1. 63 of them are catchable in the wild.
Lumbering 8, the highest Lumbering rank in the game
One pal, and it is catchable.
Lumbering 7
2 pals at this rank, 1 catchable in the wild.
Lumbering 6
5 pals, every one of them catchable.
Lumbering 5
6 pals, every one of them catchable.
Lumbering 4
10 pals, every one of them catchable.
Lumbering 3
22 pals, every one of them catchable.
Univolt Cryst
#54B
Ice
Elphidran
#63
Dragon
Elphidran Aqua
#63B
DragonWater
Elizabee
#68
Grass
Gorirat
#74
Neutral
Elgrove
#81
Grass
Elgrove Cryst
#81B
Ice
Fenglope
#83
Neutral
Dinossom
#84
GrassDragon
Bushi
#85
Fire
Pyrin Noct
#93B
FireDark
Menasting
#99
DarkGround
Menasting Terra
#99B
Ground
Reindrix
#101
Ice
Blazehowl
#112
Fire
Blazehowl Noct
#112B
FireDark
Skutlass Ignis
#128B
WaterFire
Xenovader
#145
Dark
Verdash
#152
Grass
Splatterina
#153
Dark
Dogen
#155
Neutral
Grizzbolt
#185
Electric
Lumbering 2
11 pals, every one of them catchable.
Lumbering 1
7 pals, every one of them catchable.
The other stations
Frequently asked
- What is the best Lumbering pal in Palworld?
- Celesdir Noct is the best Lumbering pal in Palworld 1.0, at Lumbering 8, the highest Lumbering rank of the 64 pals that have it. It is catchable in the wild from level 79, and nothing else in the game reaches Lumbering 8. Dinossom Lux is the best one you can catch early.
- How many pals have Lumbering in Palworld?
- 64 of the 299 pals in Palworld 1.0 have any Lumbering at all, and only one reaches rank 8. 63 of the 64 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. Lumbering runs from 1 to 8 across 64 pals.
- What is the best early game Lumbering pal?
- Dinossom Lux at Lumbering 4, catchable from level 15. Celesdir Noct does not spawn until level 79, so Dinossom Lux is what staffs the logging site for most of a playthrough. 63 of the 64 Lumbering pals are catchable, so there are rungs between the two.
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