The Oil Rigs in Palworld: Six Tables, Three Rig Sizes, and One With No Tier 1
The oil rig is not one place and not one table. Palworld runs six oil rig loot tables across three rig sizes — Mini, standard and Large, each with an 01 and an 02 table — and they scale from 24 entries to 90. The standard rig's first table is the one most players meet, and it is the best source in the game for Plasteel armour and two mid-game firearms, dropping a Large Pal Soul at 27.886% and a Gold Key at 13.943%.
Six Tables, Three Rig Sizes
| Table | Entries | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Oilrig_Mini_01 | 24 | Early gear — Giga Sphere 2–5 at 70.201% |
| Oilrig_Mini_02 | 56 | The Mini rig's second table |
| Oilrig_01 | 44 | Plasteel and mid-game firearms |
| Oilrig_02 | 76 | Laser Rifle, Flamethrower, Grenade Launcher at 8% tier 1 |
| Oilrig_Large_01 | 48 | The Large rig's first table |
| Oilrig_Large_02 | 90 | Endgame weapons, starting at tier 2 |
The Mini rig is the friendliest table in the whole category. Oilrig_Mini_01 gives Giga Spheres 2–5 at 70.201% — better than two chests in three — alongside early schematics like the Feathered Hair Band and Pelt Armor. If you are not yet geared for a standard rig, the Mini is worth clearing on its own.
Oilrig_Large_02 breaks the usual pattern. Its endgame lines — Multi Guided Missile Launcher, Advanced Bow, Laser Gatling Gun — contain no tier 1 at all, starting at tier 2 at 14.75%, then tier 3 at 9% and tier 4 at 1.25%. That is the same tier-1-removed structure the treasure maps use, and it makes the Large rig's second table the most reachable tier-4 source of endgame weapon schematics in the game at 1.25% — against the standard rig's 0.033%.
Everything below describes Oilrig_01, the 44-entry standard table.
The Guaranteed Half
Four entries carry most of the table's practical value:
| Drop | Quantity | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Large Pal Soul | 1 | 27.886% |
| Gold Coin | 3,000 – 4,000 | 20.915% |
| Gold Key | 1 | 13.943% |
| High Grade Medical Supplies | 1 | 6.972% |
| High Quality Recovery Meds | 1 | 4.183% |
A Large Pal Soul at 27.886% is the standout. Large Pal Souls feed the Statue of Power and convert upward into Giant Pal Souls at the Crusher, and they are otherwise a Rampaging-Pal or high-tier-dungeon drop. Better than one rig chest in four gives you one outright.
The Gold Key at 13.943% matters because Gold Keys gate the highest-tier chests, and the only other reliable source covered in this series is Junk_Snow at 14.286% — so the rig sits essentially level with it, while paying far more alongside.
The Schematic Ladder
Every schematic on the rig follows the same four-tier decay, and the shape is worth internalising because it applies across Palworld's whole schematic economy:
| Tier | Assault Rifle | Pump-Action Shotgun | Plasteel Helmet | Plasteel Armor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4.183% | 4.183% | 3.486% | 3.486% |
| 2 | 0.837% | 0.837% | 0.697% | 0.697% |
| 3 | 0.167% | 0.167% | 0.139% | 0.139% |
| 4 | 0.033% | 0.033% | 0.028% | 0.028% |
Each tier is one fifth of the one above it. 4.183 → 0.837 → 0.167 → 0.033 is a clean ÷5 ladder, repeated for every schematic line on the table. That means a tier 4 schematic is about 127 times rarer than a tier 1, and it is the single clearest statement of why chasing tier 4 by farming is a poor plan.
The Heat Resistant and Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor lines sit a step lower again, starting at 2.091% and decaying on the same ratio to 0.017% at tier 4.
Why the Rig Specifically
What makes Oilrig_01 worth travelling to is concentration. In one 44-entry table you have:
- Assault Rifle — all four schematic tiers
- Pump-Action Shotgun — all four tiers
- Plasteel Helmet — all four tiers
- Plasteel Armor — all four tiers
- Heat Resistant Plasteel Armor — all four tiers
- Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor — all four tiers
That is six complete schematic lines covering the weapon and armour tier most players are working through simultaneously. Plasteel armour is the step before Pal Metal, and the Heat and Cold Resistant variants are what make the volcano and the ice fields survivable — so a rig run is directly enabling two biomes at once.
The two firearms are the pairing worth noting. Assault Rifle and Pump-Action Shotgun cover long and short range respectively, and both roll at the same 4.183% at tier 1, so a rig run advances both weapon slots at the same speed.
Reading the Rates Honestly
Adding the tier-1 entries across the six lines gives 19.5% per chest for some tier-1 schematic — Assault Rifle and Shotgun at 4.183% each, the two Plasteel pieces at 3.486% each, and the two resistant variants at 2.091% each. That is genuinely good: about one chest in five hands you a usable schematic.
Tier 4 is a different story. The six tier-4 entries total 0.156% per chest, which is about one chest in 641. Nobody should plan around that. The correct expectation for a rig run is: gold, a Gold Key, a decent chance at a Large Pal Soul, and a reasonable chance at a tier-1 or tier-2 schematic.
If you want high-tier schematics specifically, the honest answer in Palworld is that crafting up from a lower tier is almost always faster than farming for the higher one, and this table's ÷5 decay is the reason.
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Conclusion
Palworld runs six oil rig loot tables across three rig sizes — Mini, standard and Large, each with an 01 and an 02 — from 24 entries up to 90. Oilrig_Mini_01 is the gentle entry point at Giga Spheres 2–5 on a 70.201% roll, and Oilrig_Large_02 carries the endgame weapons with no tier 1 in the pool at all, starting at tier 2 at 14.75% and reaching tier 4 at 1.25% — making it the most reachable endgame tier-4 source in the game, forty times better than the standard rig's 0.033%. The standard Oilrig_01 table has 44 entries, and its four highest are Large Pal Soul at 27.886%, Gold Coin 3,000–4,000 at 20.915%, Gold Key at 13.943% and High Grade Medical Supplies at 6.972%. The soul rate is the standout — better than one chest in four for an item otherwise gated behind Rampaging Pals — and the Gold Key rate sits essentially level with Junk_Snow's 14.286%, the only comparable source. Its schematics are the reason to travel, though: six complete four-tier lines covering the Assault Rifle, Pump-Action Shotgun, Plasteel Helmet, Plasteel Armor, and the Heat and Cold Resistant Plasteel Armor variants, which is two weapon slots and two biomes' worth of survivability from one table. Every line decays on the same ÷5 ratio — 4.183 → 0.837 → 0.167 → 0.033 — making a tier 4 schematic about 127 times rarer than a tier 1. In aggregate that is 19.5% for some tier-1 schematic per chest against 0.156% for any tier 4 — one chest in 641 — which is why crafting upward beats farming downward.
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