Palworld leather is a very important crafting ingredient, while it can be produced in your base, you need a very specific pal and a lot of time. So, generally, you need to head out and fight various other pals - those that have a leathery hide - to get a chance they'll drop the material along the way, both from catching and defeating them.
But there are other ways to obtain leather in Palworld, as well, so I'll list every way to get it and the best way to farm it right here.
How to obtain leather in Palworld
There are a few ways you can obtain leather in Palworld, they are:
- Catch specific Pals
- Defeat specific Pals
- Use the Butcher skill
- Buy it from a merchant
- Surfent drops leather when placed in a ranch
You'll get the most leather from catching Pals, so that's your best bet, but this does mean that obtaining lots of the material is much slower than, say Palworld wool, which you can produce in your base.
These are just some of the best Pals to capture for leather:
- Chillet
- Chillet Ignis
- Direhowl
- Eikthyrdeer
- Fenglope
- Foxcicle
- Foxparks
- Fuack
- Fuddler
- Galeclaw
- Gorirat
- Grizzbolt
- Incineram
- Incineram Noct
- Katress
- Kikit
- Kitsun
- Mammorest
- Mammorest Cryst
- Melpaca
- Mossanda
- Mossanda Lux
- Nitewing
- Nox
- Pyrin
- Pyrin Noct
- Reindrix
- Ribbuny
- Rooby
- Rushoar
- Tombat
- Univolt
- Verdash
- Vixy
- Yakumo
A lot of these Pals can be found very easily in the starting area, just simply by heading down the path to the Northwest of where you begin at the Plateau of Beginnings. The blue duck Fuack is a particularly good one to focus on, as it also drops Palworld Pal Fluids when defeated, another useful resource used to make relaxing spas for your Pals at the base.
Catching a Surfent and placing them in a ranch will cause them to drop leather, but it seems a bit glitchy. While I've got leather this way myself, there are plenty of community chats where people are seeing nothing appear.
If you're running short and need some desperately, you can also buy leather from Wandering Merchants and some settlements, but this will set you back 150 Gold a piece. For the best way to farm the most leather, fast, read on.
How to farm leather
Based on the likelihood of obtaining leather from the methods above, the best way to farm the most leather is to capture any of the Pals from the list above, and then use the Butcher skill on them to obtain a further guaranteed leather drop. this will provide more leather than simply defeating them in the first place - though this is an option if you're running out of Palworld Pal Spheres.
To use the Butcher skill, you must have unlocked the Meat Cleaver. To use it, add the Pal to your party, summon them, and then chose the Butcher option. It's not nice, but that's the farming life, I'm afraid.
Once you have a certain amount of leather, you can use it to make all sorts of things, including armor, feedbags, and saddles you can use to ride certain Pals, like special Palworld Flying Mounts.
© GamesRadar+. Not to be reproduced without permission.
