You’ll dig sulfur out of chunky yellow boulders, with the best clusters sitting around Mount Obsidian, the desert biome, and the Eternal Pyre Tower area. It barely matters in the opening hours, but the moment you start crafting firearms, your stockpile disappears fast to keep Gunpowder and ammo flowing. Here’s where to hunt for it and how to keep production running without babysitting it.
Where to Find Sulfur in Palworld
These yellow-tinted boulders are noticeably harder to come across than Stone or Ore, so casual mining won’t cut it once you need serious quantities. You’ll mostly track them down in volcanic terrain, desert stretches, and inside a few dungeons.
The most reliable regions include:
- Mount Obsidian and the lava-pool clusters on its west side
- Anubis Dunes in the desert biome, with several nodes clustered close together
- The bamboo grove just west of the desert
- Around the Eternal Pyre Tower Entrance fast travel point
- South of Cinnamoth Forest, though nodes here are sparser and mixed in with ore
The lava-pool area on Mount Obsidian’s west side is your best bet for a single trip, since a dense group of easily reachable nodes sits there with extras dotted around the wider area. If those enemy Pals near the volcano feel like too much too soon, the desert and bamboo grove clusters cover you just as well while you level up.
What Is Sulfur Used For in Palworld
Sulfur exists mainly to make Gunpowder, crafted by pairing 1 Sulfur with 2 Charcoal at a High-Quality Workbench or better. Gunpowder then feeds into almost every ammo recipe in the game.
As your tech tree fills out, you’ll keep needing sulfur to produce ammunition for:
- Assault Rifles
- Rocket Launchers
- Shotguns
- Handguns
- Other firearms further down the tree
Once firearms become part of how you play, sulfur turns from a nice-to-have into something you’re constantly restocking.
Best Tools for Mining Sulfur
You can technically swing at these boulders with any pickaxe, and Pals will pitch in regardless of their mining skill level, but a Metal Pickaxe or better cuts your mining time down noticeably.
Before heading out, boost your carry weight so you’re not making repeat trips back to base. Bringing a Pal like Cattiva along adds to your carrying capacity, which pays off when you’re hauling a full load back from a node cluster far from home.
How to Farm Sulfur Automatically with Mining Pals
Swinging a pickaxe by hand is fine when you’re just starting out, but it turns into a chore once ammo becomes something you’re crafting regularly. Setting up a base near a sulfur-rich area and staffing it with Mining Pals solves that.
Place a base close enough to sulfur boulders, and your assigned Mining Pals will start harvesting them on their own within the base’s range, no need to point them at individual rocks. Pals with higher Mining stats clear boulders faster, so it’s worth catching or breeding stronger ones if this is going to be a long-term setup.
A working sulfur base typically needs:
- Mining Pals to break down the boulders
- A Palbox to anchor the base
- Storage Chests to hold the stockpile
- Transporting Pals, or a Pal with both gathering and transporting skills, to move sulfur into storage
- Walls around the base if wild Pals spawn nearby, so your workers can operate without interruptions
Lava-adjacent bases on Mount Obsidian work better with Fire element Pals in the roster. Pals without Fire typing get hurt by nearby lava, and that ends up dragging down how much your base actually produces.
How to Unlock the Sulfur Quarry
At level 46, you can unlock a placeable Sulfur Quarry for 5 ancient technology points. It’s a standalone facility that puts a skilled mining Pal to work digging sulfur on its own, so you no longer need to maintain a separate mining base just for this resource.
It’s not a cheap unlock. Placing one costs 70 Stone, 30 Paldium Fragments, 10 Ancient Civilization Parts, and 100 Sulfur, so you’ll want a solid sulfur income going before you can afford to build it. Once it’s running, you get a continuous supply that never runs dry, no further manual mining required. Play Now!
Frequently Asked Questions
Which regions have the most Sulfur in Palworld?
Mount Obsidian, the Anubis Dunes in the desert biome, the nearby bamboo grove, and the area around the Eternal Pyre Tower Entrance all have reliable sulfur clusters.
Does mining Sulfur require a specific pickaxe?
No specific pickaxe is required, though a Metal Pickaxe or stronger clears boulders faster than the basic tool.
Will my Pals harvest Sulfur without me doing anything?
Yes, as long as you’ve assigned Mining Pals to a base built close to sulfur boulders. They’ll work the nodes within the base’s range on their own.
Why does Sulfur matter later in the game?
It’s the key ingredient in Gunpowder, and without Gunpowder you can’t keep your firearms stocked with ammo as you move into guns, shotguns, and heavier weapons.
Can I stop mining Sulfur manually at some point?
Yes. Unlocking the Sulfur Quarry at level 46 gives you a facility that produces sulfur automatically once a mining Pal is assigned to it, so manual boulder mining becomes optional.
