Swee Hair is a common crafting material that drops from the Ice-type Pal Swee at a 50% rate (×1 per drop), and it’s used to craft the Swee Cap and several base research upgrades; the Burden Remedy, despite common belief, does not use it.
Swee Hair is one of those early materials you barely notice until a recipe suddenly asks for a stack of it. It comes off a single Pal — the fluffy little Ice-type Swee — and feeds the Swee Cap and a handful of base research projects, though not the Burden Remedy, which is crafted from other materials despite what some guides claim. Because it only drops half the time and one at a time, the trick isn’t finding it, it’s farming it efficiently.
Swee Hair at a glance
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Common |
| Type | Material / Monster Drop |
| Dropped by | Swee |
| Drop rate | 50% (×1 per drop) |
| Weight | 0.2 |
| Max stack | 9,999 |
In-game, the item reads: “Hair dropped from a Swee. Fluffy and soft, it is used to make clothing.” That description is the whole pitch — it’s a Common clothing material with no exotic source, no crafting recipe of its own, and a generous max stack so you can hoard it without eating inventory weight.
Its sell and buy value is the one number worth a caveat: figures across the game files and community listings run anywhere from the low double digits up into the hundreds, so don’t treat any single price as gospel. The one price you can count on is the 500 Gold a roaming merchant charges when it happens to stock the material.
How to obtain Swee Hair
There are two ways to get it, and one is far more reliable than the other. Fighting Swee is your bread and butter; the merchant is a lucky bonus when your route crosses one.
Defeat or capture Swee
Every Swee has a 50% chance to drop ×1 Swee Hair, and killing or capturing both roll the same drop — capturing just lets the same Pal keep paying out later.
Buy from a roaming merchant
A Wandering Caravan merchant will occasionally sell Swee Hair for 500 Gold each, but stock and spawns are inconsistent — treat it as a backup, never your main supply.
Where to find and farm Swee
Swee is an Ice-type, No. 35 in the Paldeck, and it sits at D-tier for combat — which is exactly what you want in a farm target. It spawns wild in the Grass Biome northwest and up in the Snowy Mountain biome, wandering in the open where it’s easy to spot and easier to knock over.
Run a loop between multiple Swee spawns rather than farming one — with a 50% single drop, more encounters per minute beats waiting on any one Pal to cooperate.
What Swee Hair is used for
| Recipe / use | Swee Hair needed |
|---|---|
| Swee Cap (base schematic) | 5 |
| Burden Remedy | None — uses Carrying Lotus and Predator Core |
| Cooling Lv3 (research) | None — does not use Swee Hair |
| Pals at Base Enhancement Lv1 (research) | None — does not use Swee Hair |
Key For a Common material, Swee Hair pulls real weight in the mid-game. Its headline use is the Swee Cap, a head-slot armor piece; the Burden Remedy, despite common belief, is crafted from Carrying Lotus and Predator Core rather than Swee Hair. Where it gets hungry is on the workbench: the Swee Cap scales with its schematic rarity, so a better blueprint demands more hair — the base recipe wants 5, and higher schematic tiers climb to 10, then 15, and up to 22 for the top blueprint.
The other big sink is base Lab research. Several projects list Swee Hair alongside Ice Organ and Ancient Pal materials — though the Cooling upgrades and Pals at Base Enhancement perks are not among them, contrary to some guides. Those are one-time costs that permanently buff your base Pals, so once you’ve paid them the demand stops. Between the armor tiers and the research bill, it’s worth keeping a modest stash rather than farming from zero every time a recipe unlocks.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can you farm Swee Hair passively by putting Swee on a Ranch?
No. Despite the fluffy description, Swee isn’t a Ranch producer — parking one on a Ranch yields nothing. Swee Hair only comes from defeating or capturing Swee and, occasionally, from a roaming merchant. Any claim that a Ranch drops it is a common assumption that the live game doesn’t back up.
Is the blue-ponytail “hair” reward from the level-80 hard-mode towers the same as Swee Hair?
No, and it’s an easy mix-up. The blue ponytail earned for beating the level-80 hard-mode tower bosses is a cosmetic hairstyle for your character — a separate item entirely. Swee Hair is a crafting material off a Pal; the two share a word and nothing else, so don’t go tower-hunting expecting to stock your workbench.
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