How to Get the Musket in Palworld
The Musket is Palworld's old-fashioned, single-shot rifle — paldb.cc's own item page describes it as a "Simple, old fashioned gun. Fires a single, powerful shot at the expense of a long reload time." It hits hard for a Technology-tree firearm, but getting one built (and getting a good one) means clearing a Tech Level gate, gathering a specific set of materials at the Weapon Workbench, and — if you want anything above the base rarity — either farming a schematic drop or finding a merchant selling one outright. Here's every step, with the numbers behind each one.
Unlocking the Musket at Tech Level 21
The Musket unlocks in the Technology tab at Tech Level 21, according to paldb.cc, at a cost of 3 technology points per palworld.wiki.gg's listing. Until your character hits that level, the recipe simply isn't selectable at the Weapon Workbench — there's no alternate unlock path documented in either source.
Once unlocked, the Musket fires Coarse Ammo — that ammo type is documented on palworld.wiki.gg specifically (not on paldb.cc's own page), so it's worth flagging as a single-source detail rather than something both references agree on. Neither source lists an exact rate-of-fire or reload-time figure for the Musket beyond the item description's "long reload time" phrasing, so treat precise rounds-per-minute or reload-second numbers as undocumented — don't trust a number you see quoted elsewhere without checking it against paldb.cc or wiki.gg directly.
Crafting the Base Musket at the Weapon Workbench
With the tech unlocked, build the Musket at a Weapon Workbench (per palworld.wiki.gg). The Common-rarity recipe, per paldb.cc, calls for:
- 25 Ingot
- 5 High Quality Pal Oil
- 3 Wooden Board
The build itself takes 350 Work Points to complete — assign Pals with high Handiwork stats to the Workbench to bring that down faster, the same as any other crafting station. Building a Common Musket this way also costs 9,940 Gold Coins, per paldb.cc's crafting-cost figure for that rarity — that's a coin cost on top of the material list above, not a substitute for it.
Attack, Durability, and Crafting Cost Across Rarities
The Musket scales across five rarity tiers. Per paldb.cc, here's the full attack, durability, and crafting-gold breakdown:
| Rarity | Attack | Durability | Craft Gold Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common | 1,000 | 200 | 9,940 |
| Uncommon | 1,400 | 400 | 12,020 |
| Rare | 1,600 | 500 | 14,420 |
| Epic | 1,800 | 600 | 18,020 |
| Legendary | 2,000 | 800 | 22,270 |
Do the math and a Legendary Musket hits for exactly twice the Common tier's attack (2,000 ÷ 1,000 = 2) and survives four times as many hits before breaking (800 ÷ 200 = 4) — while costing 22,270 − 9,940 = 12,330 more Gold Coins to build. The Musket also carries a magazine size of 1 and a weight of 20, both per paldb.cc, regardless of rarity.
Separately, palworld.wiki.gg lists a flat sell price of 3,760 Gold Coins for the Musket. That's a different field from the craft-gold cost table above — a sale value, not a build cost — and wiki.gg doesn't break the sell price out by rarity the way paldb.cc does for crafting cost, so it's undocumented whether 3,760 applies to every tier or specifically the Common one.
Getting Higher-Rarity Schematics (and Buying a Musket Outright)
The base recipe only gets you a Common Musket. Anything higher requires the matching schematic, per paldb.cc's tier list:
- Uncommon — Musket Schematic 1
- Rare — Musket Schematic 2
- Epic — Musket Schematic 3
- Legendary — Musket Schematic 4
For the Legendary schematic specifically, palworld.wiki.gg documents a source: Quivern, an Alpha Pal, drops the Musket schematic at a 3% drop rate. That's the only sourced drop location for the top-tier schematic — expect repeat kills if you're farming it. Paldb.cc's notes also flag that higher-rarity tiers need larger material quantities and additionally require Ancient Civilization Parts, though the exact per-tier quantities aren't listed on that page — treat that as an undocumented gap, not a zero.
If you'd rather skip the grind entirely, palworld.wiki.gg lists the Duneshelter Green Shirt Merchant as selling completed Muskets outright for 37,600 Gold Coins — a straightforward, if expensive, shortcut past the schematic-drop RNG.
Quick tips: Hit Tech Level 21 before you go shopping for materials — the recipe won't appear at the Weapon Workbench before then. Stockpile High Quality Pal Oil ahead of time; it's the ingredient most likely to bottleneck a Common-rarity build. If you're farming the Legendary schematic off Quivern, budget for multiple Alpha fights at that 3% rate rather than expecting a first-kill drop. And if your base economy is flush with Gold Coins, the Duneshelter merchant's 37,600-coin Musket is a legitimate way to skip crafting altogether.
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Conclusion
The Musket is a straightforward build once you clear the Tech Level 21 gate: 25 Ingot, 5 High Quality Pal Oil, and 3 Wooden Board at the Weapon Workbench gets you the Common tier, and the rarity ladder above it scales cleanly — double the attack and quadruple the durability from Common to Legendary, computed directly off paldb.cc's own figures. Whether you get there by schematic drops off Quivern, by grinding Ancient Civilization Parts for the higher tiers, or by just paying the Duneshelter merchant's 37,600 Gold Coins, the numbers above are exactly what both primary sources document — nothing more, nothing guessed.