Rayhound Cryst is the frost-touched cousin of the classic lightning hound — a pure Ice Pal (Paldeck #98B) that prowls Palworld 1.0's snow-dusted highlands and the towering World Tree region added in the July 2026 launch. It rides like its base form, hits like a blizzard, and doubles as a mobile Cooling unit for your base. Here's exactly where to find it, how to catch it, and what it brings to your team.

 

Rayhound Cryst at a Glance

 

Element	Ice
Paldeck #	#98B
Partner Skill	Snow Shepherd (rideable + double jump; +15~30% Defense to Ice Pals in party, does not stack)
Work Suitability	Cooling Lv3
Notable Drops	Ice Organ, World Tree Holy Water, Water Radiant Gem, Ancient Relics

 

Where to Find Rayhound Cryst

 

 

Rayhound Cryst spawns in two very different level bands, so you can hunt it early or late:

 

• World Tree area (worldtree_9_07_I) — high-level packs at Lv. 75-77. This is the toughest and most reliable place to farm mature specimens.
• Snowy / orange highland regions — snow_orange_F at Lv. 35-37 and snow_orange_H at Lv. 36-38. These lower-level pockets are the friendliest place to grab your first one.

 

    No explicit (x, y) map coordinates are documented for this variant yet, and there's no dedicated Alpha or boss version of Rayhound Cryst on record — the documented level range is simply 35-77 across its spawn zones.

 

Breeding: you don't have to rely on wild spawns. Rayhound Cryst is a documented breeding result:

 

Rayhound + Foxcicle = Rayhound Cryst

 

Pair a Rayhound with a Foxcicle at a Breeding Farm and hatch the egg for a guaranteed one.

How to Catch Rayhound Cryst

 

Ice Pals are weak to Fire, so the whole fight leans on a solid fire team.

 

1. Bring a Fire counter-team. Lead with strong Fire-element attackers (and Fire-type weapons) to exploit Rayhound Cryst's Ice weakness and shred its HP quickly.
2. Whittle it down, don't delete it. Capture rate scales with how low its health is — bring the target to a thin sliver of HP without knocking it out. Status effects help stall it.
3. Use high-tier spheres. At the World Tree level band (75-77) you'll want Ultra or Legendary Spheres; the Lv. 35-38 highland spawns are catchable with Mega/Giga Spheres.
4. Throw from behind. A back-throw grants a capture-rate bonus, so circle around the Pal before you lob the sphere.
5. Chain your throws. Repeat until it's caught — consecutive captures of the same species also raise your odds over time.

 

Skills & Stats

 

 

    Partner Skill — Snow Shepherd: Can be ridden, and can perform a double jump while mounted — a genuinely useful traversal trick for the vertical Sunreach Sky Islands and World Tree terrain. While it's in your party, it also boosts the Defense of all your Ice Pals by 15~30% (does not stack), making it a strong anchor for a mono-Ice squad.

 

Signature Skills:

 

• Diamond Rain (Power 600)
• Blizzard Spike (Power 450)
• Icicle Line (Power 300)
• Frostcall — Exclusive (Power 300)
• Crystal Breath (Power 160)

 

    Frostcall is Rayhound Cryst's exclusive active skill, so this variant is your only source for it. Its portrait, fittingly, reuses the base ThunderDog texture with an _Ice suffix.

 

 

Level 80 stats:

 

• HP: 4,500-5,580
• Attack: 730-919
• Defense: 530-674

 

Work Suitability: Cooling Lv3 — drop it in your base to run refrigerators and stabilize food storage when you're not riding it.

 

Practical tips

• Slot Frostcall and Diamond Rain together for a high-burst Ice loadout — nothing else gives you Frostcall.
• Keep it in your active party even when you're fielding another Ice Pal; the Snow Shepherd Defense aura applies team-wide.
• Farm the Lv. 35-38 snow_orange spawns first for an easy catch, then breed Rayhound + Foxcicle for perfect passives.
• Its Cooling Lv3 makes it a rare Pal that pulls double duty as both a mount and a base cooler.

 

Running your own Palworld 1.0 server

 

    The fastest way to farm World Tree spawns and breed a perfect Rayhound Cryst with friends is on a dedicated Palworld 1.0 server that stays online 24/7. A hosted server keeps your world running even when you're offline, supports full crossplay so everyone can join regardless of platform, and gives you one-click backups and updates so a bad breeding session or a new patch never wipes your progress.

 

Conclusion

 

    Rayhound Cryst is one of Palworld 1.0's standout Ice Pals: a rideable, double-jumping mount that buffs your whole Ice roster, hits hard with Diamond Rain and the exclusive Frostcall, and cools your base on the side. Catch one cheap in the snowy highlands or breed it from Rayhound and Foxcicle, and you've got a workhorse that earns its party slot.

 

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