During your time playingPalworld, you’ll often find yourself needing various materials for building, crafting recipes, or creating necessary items. These materials are spread across the map, and the game doesn’t provide clear guidance on how or where to find them.

As your character levels up and technology advances, you’ll eventually need to locateCoal. Unlike wood and stone that you’re able to easily gather almost anywhere, coal is initially found in certain location in the open world. This guide aims to help you find coal in Palworld.

Player standing next to a big chunk of coal Palworld

Palworld is in Early Access, meaning that the details below are liable to change over the course of development.

How To Get Coal

Before you go searching for coal in Palworld, make sure you have a few things ready before you reach its location. First, you need to crafta Tropical Outfit, which you may unlock t it atlevel 9 from the Technology menu.

This armor is important because the coal location is in the desert, and it’s hot there, so thisoutfit will help you handle the heat.

Player about to craft the Tropical Outfit Palworld

The second thing you need is a good pickaxe, anda Metal pickaxeshould be sufficient. With these two items, you’ll be all set to mine some coal.

However, similar to stone, coal is heavy, somake sure you have enough space in your inventory.

A circle on the map showing the location of Coal in Palworld

It’s also a good idea tohave a mountwith you since the journey is a bit long, and having a mount makes it easier, especially because there are high-level enemies in that area that you can avoid.

Now that you have everything you need, headnorthwest from the starting pointof the game until you reacha desert biome. That’s where you’ll find the coal.

The coordinates are -158, -91, and there’san Anubis boss fight nearbyto confirm that you’re on the right track.

Once you’re in the desert, look around forblack chunks of stonescattered around because that is where you will get coal from, but be careful of the enemies nearby.