How to Get AI Core in Palworld

AI Core is one of the brand-new items added in the Palworld 1.0 update, and it trips a lot of players up because it does not behave like the endgame materials they are used to hunting. It is not a boss drop, it is not lying in a chest somewhere on the map, and there is no Pal you can catch that hands one over. It is a late-game Technology unlock that you then craft yourself. Once you know that, the whole process is short.

AI Core is a Level 67 Technology unlock

The short version: AI Core sits in the Technology menu at Level 67, which is just past the old level cap, and it costs 4 Technology Points to unlock. After you spend those points, the recipe becomes available and you build the item at the Advanced Workshop — the upgraded workbench tier, not a basic bench. It is a crafting material, so unlocking the technology is only half the job; you still have to make the thing.

A few early guides mention Ancient Technology Points in the same breath, but the reliable figure for AI Core itself is 4 regular Technology Points — budget those before you spend everything on nearby unlocks like the Ancient Workbench or Mechanical Bow.

How to craft AI Core in Palworld 1.0

Once you are at Level 67, unlocking and crafting AI Core takes just a few menu steps at the Advanced Workshop.

Open the Technology menu

Bring up the Technology screen where every 1.0 unlock lives.

Unlock the AI Core recipe

Find AI Core in the Level 67 row and spend 4 Technology Points to unlock its recipe.

Go to the Advanced Workshop

AI Core is crafted at the Advanced Workshop station, so head to one you have built.

Open the Materials category

Inside the workshop menu, switch to the Materials tab to find AI Core.

Craft the AI Core

Build it from the materials list — it is an expensive endgame craft, so come stocked.

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What to line up before crafting AI Core

Because AI Core is an endgame craft, the friction is mostly in the prerequisites rather than the crafting itself. You need the 1.0 update installed, you need to be at Level 67, and you need both an Advanced Workshop and a healthy stock of late-game materials on hand. The exact ingredient names and counts are still shifting between early 1.0 resource lists — think refined ingots and other high-tier components — so treat any specific recipe you see as provisional and just come to the workshop over-supplied.

Where AI Core gets used

AI Core is an endgame crafting component, so its whole job is feeding into the top-tier gear that arrived with 1.0. It shows up in the recipes for new items like the Wing Pack glider, several high-tier sword variants, and the new ancient armor sets. Multiple pieces of gear tend to want more than one AI Core, which is why it earns that “very expensive to make” reputation — the exact quantity each blueprint asks for is not locked down yet, so plan to craft a batch rather than a single core.

Mistakes that send players farming the wrong thing

The biggest time-sink is treating AI Core like a drop. Do not grind random bosses hoping it falls — it does not, and there is no guaranteed boss reward tied to it. Along the same lines, there is no Pal named AI Core to catch and no map location to loot it from; it only exists as a Technology unlock you craft.

The other common slip is the station. AI Core will not appear at a Primitive or standard Workbench — it has to be the Advanced Workshop. And do not confuse it with the game’s other late-game “core”-sounding items: it is not the Predator Core that certain bosses drop, and it is not an Ancient Civilization Core or an Ancient Technology unlock like the Aquatic Construction Kit. Chasing any of those puts you on a completely different farming loop.

Where to go after unlocking AI Core

If you are still short of the requirement, the immediate goal is closing the gap from Level 65 to 67 and getting your Advanced Workshop unlocked and built. From there, the natural next steps are the broader 1.0 endgame: pushing into new regions like Sunreach — the floating islands above Palpagos with their own bosses and special ores — and the deeper World Tree areas to farm the refined materials that top-tier crafting keeps demanding. None of those places hand you an AI Core directly, but they are where the resources that feed it live.