In Palworld, some of your most valuable Pals are the ones that set things on fire. They’re useful in a fight, but more importantly, there are a few things around your base that only Fire Pals can handle. Here’s what you could stand to know about the Kindling ability.
Burning Season: Kindling Pals in Palworld
Note: As with every Palworld guide around now, we're playing the Early Access version (0.1.1.4 on Xbox). Many of these details are subject to change as Palworld continues to evolve.
Kindling is one of the most crucial Pal skills in Palworld, primarily because it’s needed to smelt Ore. Your supply of Ingots becomes a crucial bottleneck once you're around level 25, and Ingots can't made at all without a Primitive Furnace and a Pal with Kindling.
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Fortunately, Kindling Pals are easy to find. Your first is likely going to be Foxparks, which can be found just to the north of your starting point at the Plateau of Beginnings. They glow brightly under all circumstances and go to sleep at night, which lets you sneak up on them one at a time. That makes Foxparks an easy catch, even early in the game.
When stationed at your base, Kindling Pals can ignite torches and fireplaces, cook food at Campfires and Cooking Pots, and fuel Furnaces to smelt Ore into Ingots, Refined Ingots, and Pal Metal Ingots. The higher their Kindling skill, the faster they work.
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If you manually start a cooking project, a single Kindling Pal may come over and help you by speeding up the process. Alternatively, if you start cooking something and walk away, Kindling Pals can walk over and continue it on your behalf. It’s actually a decent experience farm early in the game to fill your base with level 1 Pals, then start a big cooking project (i.e. ~500 Baked Berries) and let a Kindling Pal work on it without you. Since any Pal stationed at a camp receives 1-2 EXP for anything that's completed or crafted there, this is an easy, relatively fast way to bring some newbie Pals up to level 10-12.
As you get further into Palworld, you can generally be assured that any Pal you find that’s on some amount of fire has some level of Kindling skill. The bigger the Pal, the better their Kindling, which also means they need more food, take up more space, and get caught on low ceilings more easily.
Level 4 Kindling Pals
- Jormuntide Ignis
Level 3 Kindling Pals
- Blazehowl
- Blazehowl Noct
- Blazemut
- Faleris
- Ragnahawk
- Reptyro
- Suzaku
Level 2 Kindling Pals
- Arsox
- Boltmane
- Bushi
- Gobfin Ignis
- Kitsun
- Pyrin
- Pyrin Noct
Level 1 Kindling Pals
- Incineram
- Foxparks
- Leezpunk Ignis
- Vanwyrm
- Kelpsea Ignis
- Flambelle
- Rooby
The Best Kindling Pals in Palworld
Given the relative importance of Kindling in Palworld, it’s valuable to stock your base with Pals that only provide Kindling. This means they won’t get distracted with other tasks and will focus exclusively on cooking and smelting.
In the early game, you’re stuck working with Foxparks or Rooby unless you get a lucky hatch out of an egg. Either are fine. The only advantage to Rooby is that Rooby gets more consistently destructive skills by default than Foxparks, which can be useful for base defense. It can also burn your wooden buildings down, so you know. Pros and cons.
For my money, the best all-around Pal for early to mid-game Kindling is Bushi, who you can catch in the Sealed Realm of the Swordmaster once you’re around level 20. Bushi has a manageable Food requirement of 4, Kindling at level 2, and a few other useful skills like Handiwork. You do have to be careful about your base location and construction if you want your Bushi to focus on Kindling, however, as Bushis also have Lumbering at level 3. They'll often focus entirely on chopping trees and not on the smelting you want them to do.
At time of writing, Jormuntide Ignis is the only level-4 Kindling Pal in Palworld, which makes them the best option for endgame production. They spawn during the day on Wildlife Sanctuary No. 2 on the west edge of the island, and do so at level ~40, which makes them a challenging catch under the best of circumstances. They can also hatch out of Huge Dragon Eggs, if you're lucky enough to find one.
Jormuntide Ignises (Ignii?) have a Food rating of 7, which makes them a difficult Pal to manage until and unless you’ve got decent supply lines. They’re the best Pal for all your Kindling needs, but like most other high-end Pals, you need to put some work in before you assign them to a base. Otherwise, they’ll eat you out of house and home.
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You can work around this a little if you add a Jormuntide Ignis (or similar high-Food, high-Kindling Pal, i.e. Suzaku) to your team, then directly deploy them in your base to do whatever job needs doing. They'll do it until they get hungry, at which point you can feed them manually without having to worry about the impact on your Feed Box.
