Circuit Board and Computer are the two steps in the middle of Palworld's electronics chain — the ones nobody thinks about until an ancient-tier weapon refuses to craft. Between them they gate incubators, electric kitchens, lighting, weapon benches and, at the far end, the AI Core that appears in nearly every endgame recipe. Here is the full chain, both recipes, and how much raw material it really takes.

 

Circuit Board

 

Circuit Board is an Uncommon-rarity material, weight 2, stackable to 9,999, with a sell value of 2,500 Gold Coins.

 

Its description names the station outright: "Required to create precision equipment. Can be made with a Production Assembly Line."

 

Input	Amount
Pure Quartz	2
Polymer	1
Technology Level	35
Craft time	300 seconds

 

Stations: Production Assembly Line, Production Assembly Line II, Advanced Workshop, or Ancient Workbench.

 

Five minutes per board is slow enough that you should queue these in bulk rather than crafting on demand.

 

Computer

 

 

Input	Amount
Circuit Board	2
Plasteel	3
Bio Battery	2
Carbon Fiber	2
Technology Level	50
Craft time	2,500 seconds

 

    2,500 seconds is roughly 42 minutes per Computer. That is one of the longest craft times in the game, and it is the single strongest argument for running a dedicated server — a queue of Computers is exactly the kind of thing that should be finishing while you are not at the keyboard.

 

    Both Bio Battery (Technology Level 44) and Carbon Fiber (Technology Level 35) unlock well before the Computer itself, so take them on the way past rather than backtracking.

 

The Full Chain

 

 

1. Pure Quartz — mined from snowy-field deposits (Mining Lv3, 30-minute respawn), dropped by Pierdon Cryst at 4 – 5 with a 100% rate, or 20 – 40 per Snow expedition.
2. Circuit Board — Pure Quartz x2 + Polymer x1, Technology Level 35.
3. Computer — Circuit Board x2 + Plasteel x3 + Bio Battery x2 + Carbon Fiber x2, Technology Level 50.
4. AI Core — Technology Level 67, built from Computers, Soralite Ingots, Thermal Cores and an Ancient Civilization Core.

 

    One Computer costs a minimum of 4 Pure Quartz. And since ancient-tier weapons want AI Core in quantities like x8 for the Plasma Rifle and x10 for the Beam Launcher, the quartz requirement compounds fast. If your Beam Launcher build is stalled, the actual bottleneck may be four steps upstream in a snowy field.

 

What They Build

 

 

Circuit Boards appear across your base infrastructure:

 

• Egg incubators — which matters more than it sounds, since breeding is how you get good passives
• Electric equipment — heaters, coolers, electric kitchens
• Lighting systems
• Weapon and medicine workbenches
• Research upgrades for electricity generation and power management

 

Computers function as an intermediate crafting material, with their most important role being the AI Core chain.

 

    Note the incubator line. Palworld 1.0's breeding system is the only route to mutation-exclusive passives like Idiosyncratic (Defense +25%, immunity to Poison and Burn) and Immortality (Attack +15%, Life Steal +5%, +100% regeneration). Circuit Boards are, indirectly, how you get those.

 

Practical tips

• Queue in bulk. 300 seconds per board and 2,500 per Computer means on-demand crafting will always leave you waiting.
• One Computer = 4 Pure Quartz minimum. Trace stalled ancient recipes back up the chain before assuming you need a boss drop.
• Take Carbon Fiber (Tech 35) and Bio Battery (Tech 44) as you pass them — both feed the Computer and a dozen other recipes.
• Circuit Boards sell for 2,500 Gold Coins, making surplus a solid income stream.
• Build egg incubators early. Breeding is the only source of mutation-exclusive passives.

 

Running your own Palworld 1.0 server

 

    A 42-minute craft time is the clearest possible case for a persistent world. On a dedicated Palworld 1.0 server your Production Assembly Lines keep working through a Computer queue while you are offline, so an ancient-tier weapon becomes craftable overnight rather than after an evening of waiting. Full crossplay lets a group split the chain — one player mining quartz, another running the workshop — and one-click backups and automatic updates protect infrastructure that takes real time to set up.

 

Conclusion

 

    Circuit Board is Pure Quartz x2 + Polymer x1 at Technology Level 35, and Computer is Circuit Board x2 + Plasteel x3 + Bio Battery x2 + Carbon Fiber x2 at Technology Level 50. Together they form the middle of the chain that runs from snowy-field Pure Quartz all the way to AI Core, the component in nearly every ancient-tier weapon and armor recipe. Budget 4 Pure Quartz per Computer, queue both in bulk given the 300-second and 2,500-second craft times, and remember Circuit Boards also build the egg incubators that make mutation breeding possible.

 

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