Palworld's Expedition Tables: Hard Boxes Are Nine Entries, and Every One Is Guaranteed
Palworld runs eighteen expedition loot tables, and the difference between the normal and Hard versions is not a better roll — it is no roll at all. A normal expedition returns an 11-to-14 entry table with some items on a 50% chance. Every Hard expedition returns a 9-entry table where all nine entries drop at 100%.
Normal Against Hard
Expedition_Grass (11 entries) — the normal version:
| Drop | Quantity | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Pal Manuscript | 5–7 | 100% |
| Pal Sphere | 5–10 | 100% |
| Mega Sphere | 3–7 | 100% |
| Ore | 30–50 | 100% |
| Paldium Fragment | 10–30 | 100% |
| Small Pal Soul | 3–5 | 100% |
| Ancient Civilization Parts | 1–2 | 100% |
| Chikipi Poultry | 3–8 | 50% |
| Lamball Mutton | 3–8 | 50% |
| Mushroom | 3–10 | 50% |
| Cavern Mushroom | 2–5 | 50% |
Expedition_Grass_Hard (9 entries) — every entry guaranteed:
| Drop | Quantity | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Pal Manuscript | 25–30 | 100% |
| Sol Sphere | 10–20 | 100% |
| Bellanoir's Slab Fragment | 1–2 | 100% |
| Aquatic Pal Fluids | 10–20 | 100% |
| Leather | 10–20 | 100% |
| Ore | 10–20 | 100% |
| Chikipi Poultry | 10–20 | 100% |
| Lamball Mutton | 10–20 | 100% |
| Kinship Peach | 1 | 100% |
The normal table has four entries on a coin flip. The Hard table has none. Every Hard expedition, in every region, is a nine-entry box where you know exactly what is coming out.
The Quantities Jump Too
The Hard version does not just remove the rolls — it multiplies the amounts:
| Item | Normal Grass | Grass Hard |
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Pal Manuscript | 5–7 | 25–30 |
| Chikipi Poultry | 3–8 at 50% | 10–20 at 100% |
| Lamball Mutton | 3–8 at 50% | 10–20 at 100% |
Ancient Pal Manuscripts go from 5–7 to 25–30 — roughly a five-fold increase on the guaranteed item that gates Training Manual crafting. Since an XL manual costs 500 Manuscripts and an L costs 100, a Hard expedition is worth about a quarter of an L manual on its own, every time.
And the food entries move from a 50% roll to a guaranteed 10–20, which is a bigger practical swing than the headline numbers suggest.
Two Items Only Hard Boxes Give
Two entries appear in the Hard table and not the normal one, and both matter:
Bellanoir's Slab Fragment at 1–2, guaranteed. These are the raid-summoning components, and a Hard expedition hands over one or two every single time. That converts raid access from a hunt into a schedule.
Kinship Peach at 1, guaranteed. Kinship Peaches raise a Pal's trust, and ten of them max a Pal out. So ten Hard expeditions equal one fully trusted Pal, with no other input required.
Sol Spheres at 10–20, guaranteed is the third: a high-tier sphere in bulk, from a base facility that runs while you are doing something else.
The World Tree Expeditions Are Bigger
The pattern breaks at the top. Expedition_WorldTree runs 61 entries and Expedition_WorldTree_Hard runs 49 — five to six times the size of any other expedition table.
Expedition_WorldTree (61 entries):
| Drop | Quantity | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Ancient Sphere | 5–10 | 100% |
| Paloxite | 15–30 | 100% |
| Giant Pal Soul | 8–12 | 100% |
| Decayed Ancient Relic | 1–3 | 51.613% |
| Dormant Ancient Relic | 1–3 | 25.806% |
| Gorgeous Ancient Relic | 1–3 | 12.903% |
| Glowing Ancient Relic | 1–3 | 6.452% |
| Glistening Ancient Relic | 1–3 | 3.226% |
Giant Pal Soul 8–12 at 100% is the number to notice. Giant Pal Souls otherwise come from Rampaging Pals at 1–2 each, so a single World Tree expedition is worth roughly six to twelve Rampaging Pal kills — and it happens passively.
The relic ladder halves cleanly — 51.613, 25.806, 12.903, 6.452, 3.226 — with every tier dropping 1–3, so a lucky roll at the top is worth the same count as a common one at the bottom.
Expedition_WorldTree_Hard (49 entries) drops the low tiers entirely and doubles the entries: Gorgeous Ancient Relic 2–4 at 57.143%, Glowing 2–4 at 28.571%, Glistening 2–4 at 14.286% — and each of those three appears twice in the table, so the effective chances are doubled again.
What to Send Expeditions On
- Run Hard expeditions by default. Nine entries, all guaranteed, with roughly five times the Ancient Pal Manuscripts and Kinship Peaches and Bellanoir's Slab Fragments the normal boxes never give.
- Ten Hard expeditions max one Pal's trust, one Kinship Peach at a time.
- Run World Tree expeditions for Giant Pal Souls — 8–12 guaranteed against a Rampaging Pal's 1–2.
- Run World Tree Hard for high relics — it removes Decayed and Dormant from the pool entirely and pays Gorgeous at 57.143%, doubled.
- Normal expeditions are for early material bulk — 30–50 Ore and 10–30 Paldium at 100% is genuinely useful before you have mining sites.
Running your own Palworld 1.0 server
Expeditions run on a timer whether or not you are logged in, which makes them the clearest argument for a world that never stops. A gamever Palworld server keeps it persistent with full crossplay, automatic updates and one-click backups.
Conclusion
Palworld runs eighteen expedition loot tables, and the normal-to-Hard difference is structural rather than incremental: a normal box like Expedition_Grass has 11 entries with four on a 50% roll, while every Hard box is 9 entries with all nine at 100%. The quantities jump alongside — Ancient Pal Manuscripts go from 5–7 to 25–30, roughly five-fold, on the material that gates Training Manual crafting at 100 per L and 500 per XL. Two items appear only in Hard boxes, both guaranteed: Bellanoir's Slab Fragment at 1–2, turning raid access into a schedule, and a Kinship Peach, of which ten max a Pal's trust — so ten Hard expeditions equal one fully trusted Pal. The World Tree tables break the size pattern at 61 and 49 entries, paying Ancient Sphere 5–10, Paloxite 15–30 and Giant Pal Soul 8–12 all at 100% — that last being worth six to twelve Rampaging Pal kills — over a relic ladder that halves cleanly from 51.613%, while the Hard version drops the low tiers and pays Gorgeous at 57.143%, listed twice.
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