Best Pals for Mining in Palworld 1.0

If you want to make the very best stuff in the game, you'll need access to a rich seam of resources, some of which need to be dug up. You could go in with a pickaxe and do it yourself, but getting your Pals to do the hard work is far more efficient while you're off adventuring.

There are several considerations when mining in Palworld, not least of which is where to move your Palworld base to have the most efficient Palworld Ore farm. But once you've chosen your location, you need to know which of your captured friends are the best for the job, so here is a list of the best Palworld mining Pals.

The best Pal for mining in Palworld is Aegidron; it also only has mining as a work suitability, so it will focus solely on rock and ore.

You can find Aegidron in the World Tree - it is a boss on the western edge of the map. This is an endgame fight, so make sure your team is up to scratch. Once you have an Aegidron deployed in your base, though, you won't have to worry about mining again.

Best focused Mining Pal

Our pick for this is Digtoise, as it's fairly easy to find not long after you begin your journey, and it will last you until you reach the World Tree. You can put it to work, spinning around with its spiny shell, and it'll unearth tons of minerals for your other Pals to take away.

Best multitasking Mining Pal

The best multitasking Pal is a relatively surprising one: Quivern. Not only does it have Mining, but it also has Gathering, Transporting, and Handiwork. It's almost the complete package for a self-sustaining base, so gathering a few of them is worth it to help the work go quicker.

Best early game Mining Pal

Luckily, the best early-game Mining Pal is among the first you'll meet. Cattiva can do most of the hard work, from Mining and transporting the stones they gather to nearby chests to helping build new facilities and picking plants once ready.

Once you've put the best Palworld mining Pals to work, it's time to look into catching some Pals to support them, whether it's the best Palworld Kindling Pals to fire up your furnaces and refine your minerals or the best Palworld medicine production Pals to craft healing items in case your miners get injured.