Palworld: How to Get and Use Ancient Pal Manuscripts

Karan |  Published: December 25, 2024
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Ancient Pal Manuscripts are some of the most valuable items you can get your hands on in Palworld. These rare materials, written on Pal hide, are essential for upgrading your base operations and making your Pals more efficient at their jobs. Let’s break down everything you need to know about getting and using these important items.

How to Get Ancient Pal Manuscripts in Palworld?

There are several ways to obtain Ancient Pal Manuscripts, with some methods being more reliable than others:

Bounty Hunting

The most straightforward way to get Ancient Pal Manuscripts is through bounty hunting. When you turn in Successful Bounty Tokens to Vigilante Bounty Officers in towns like Fisherman’s Point or Small Settlement, you’ll receive three manuscripts for each token. This makes bounty hunting one of the most reliable ways to farm these items.

Pal Expeditions

pal expeditions in Palworld
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Another excellent source of manuscripts is through Pal Expeditions. Each expedition destination offers different amounts:

  • Cave in the Grassland: 5-7 manuscripts
  • Forest’s Secret Realm: 7-10 manuscripts
  • Volcanic Inferno Cave: 10-13 manuscripts
  • Hidden Ruins of the Desert: 13-15 manuscripts
  • Spirit Blossom Cave: 17-20 manuscripts
  • Dark Cave of Feybreak: 20-22 manuscripts

The higher-level expedition areas give more manuscripts, but they also require stronger Pals and specific element types to complete.

How to Use Ancient Pal Manuscripts in Palworld?

To make use of your manuscripts, you first need to build the Pal Labor Research Laboratory. This structure becomes available at level 20 in your Tech Tree. Here’s what you need to build it:

  • Ingot: 10
  • Paldium Fragment: 5

Once built, the Research Laboratory lets you upgrade various aspects of your Pals’ work abilities. Each upgrade requires different amounts of manuscripts along with other materials.

using Pal Labor Research Laboratory in Palworld
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Some research upgrades are more valuable than others early on. Here are the ones you should focus on first:

  • Kindling: Improves cooking and heating efficiency
  • Mining: Speeds up resource gathering
  • Handiwork: Makes crafting faster

Each upgrade level requires increasingly more manuscripts and additional rare materials, so plan your research path carefully.

Remember that manuscripts have a weight of 0.1 each and can stack up to 9,999 units, so storage space shouldn’t be an issue when collecting them.

Ancient Pal Manuscripts might seem confusing at first, but they’re a key part of improving your base operations. Take time to collect them whenever possible, and you’ll see significant improvements in how efficiently your Pals work. Focus on the upgrades that matter most to your playstyle, and you’ll get the most value out of these rare items.

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Kanu is a veteran gaming journalist and industry insider whose work has appeared in prominent outlets including Dexerto and PCInvasion. Drawing from his experience across multiple gaming genres, he brings deep, firsthand knowledge to his coverage of the gaming and entertainment landscape.