Best Way to Farm Ancient Civilization Core in Palworld

Ancient Civilization Core has always been the late-game bottleneck in Palworld, and the 1.0 update finally gives high-level players a repeatable way to mass-produce it. Instead of grinding a single raid over and over, you now farm Enchanted Relics off any creature in the World Tree biome and convert them into Cores at a dedicated station. This guide covers the new method start to finish, plus the older sources you should still lean on until the station is built.

Quick verdict on the fastest 1.0 Core farm

If you are level 70 or higher and have reached the World Tree biome, the relic-processing route is the strongest endgame farm right now. You collect Enchanted Relics from Pals in the biome, drop them into a station you unlock at level 74, add water, and the station turns each batch into Ancient Civilization Cores along with schematics, implants and other rare materials.

Lower-level players can’t touch this yet, and that’s fine. Until you can afford the station, the reliable path is still the Expedition Station — running expeditions like the Sun Tower and other Core-yielding routes will trickle in enough Cores to keep you progressing. Think of the World Tree farm as the graduation reward: it’s expensive to set up, but once it’s running it outpaces everything else. It’s also worth knowing that the broader community rotation of oil rig, raids and expeditions remains competitive for sustained income, so the two approaches complement each other rather than replace one another outright.

What you need before building the relic station

This farm has a real barrier to entry, and most of it is level- and material-gated rather than skill-gated. You need to already be deep enough into the game to reach the World Tree and to have banked some Cores from expeditions, because the station itself demands them to craft. Here’s the short list of what has to be in place before the loop works.

The awkward part is the chicken-and-egg setup: you have to farm some Cores the slow way before you can build the machine that farms them the fast way. That’s the whole reason this is an endgame method and not a starter one. Once the station exists, though, the Cores you sink into it come back many times over.

How to farm Ancient Civilization Cores in the World Tree

Once your station is built, the loop is short — gather relics from the biome, feed them in with water, and collect the Cores.

Head into the World Tree biome

Travel anywhere inside the World Tree biome; your exact spot doesn’t matter as long as you’re within it.

Defeat or catch the local Pals

Kill or capture any creature in the biome to roll a random Enchanted Relic drop — it isn’t tied to one specific Pal.

Load the relics into the station

Place your Enchanted Relics, including dormant ones, into the level 74 processing station.

Add one liter of water

Pour a single liter of water into the station so it has the resource it needs to run.

Activate the station

Switch it on to start converting the relics into materials.

Wait for processing

Give it a few seconds to work through the batch until the power cuts off on its own.

Collect your Cores and extras

Grab the Ancient Civilization Cores along with the schematics, implants and other rare materials it produced.

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Backup Core sources while the station is offline

Before you have the World Tree station — or when your relic supply and timers are down — this rotation keeps Cores flowing. The idea is to chain sources rather than camp one: run the level 55 oil rig on its roughly 30-minute cooldown, cycle Bellanoir and Bellanoir Libero raids through the Summoning Altar, and rotate the Spirit Blossom Café and Dark Cave of Feybreak expeditions, leaning on Feybreak for its higher reported yield. Community numbers put oil rig runs around one to five Cores each and expeditions at one to three, though 1.0 hasn’t officially re-tuned those figures, so expect some variance.

When everything is on cooldown, tower-boss clears and end-chest dungeon runs backfill your stock with Cores and Ancient Civilization Parts. Keep your Expedition Station upgraded too — it always returns at least one item even at low power, so no run is wasted.

Mistakes that stall your Core farming

The single biggest trap is mixing up Ancient Civilization Core with Ancient Civilization Parts. Parts drop far more widely — towers, alpha Pals, Lucky Pals — while Cores are gated behind raids, expeditions and now the World Tree station. If a source feels easy, you’re probably farming Parts, not Cores.

The other common error is over-committing to one source. Grinding Bellanoir alone and ignoring the oil rig and expeditions dramatically slows your income; the backup loop above works precisely because it’s a rotation. Don’t expect the new station method to be available at low level either — without the World Tree, level 74 and starter Cores, it simply isn’t an option yet, and expeditions remain your bridge.

Finally, steer clear of shortcuts that won’t last. Mods that advertise “craftable” Cores are user creations, not official content, and duplication tricks built on butcher machines or egg incubators are unstable and prime targets for patching. Farm the real sources and your stockpile survives updates.

What Ancient Civilization Cores are used for

Ancient Civilization Core is a late-game Ancient Technology material — a Legendary-rarity item that high-end gear leans on heavily. You’ll pour large quantities into weapons like the Beam Launcher and Plasma Rifle, which is exactly why a repeatable farm matters so much once you’re chasing endgame loadouts.