How to Get Clock Set: Level 22 and Both Clocks

The Clock Set is a one-point technology at level 22 that adds two decorative timepieces to your build menu — the Wall Clock and the Antique Grandfather Clock. This guide covers the unlock level, both recipes, the full 30 Wood, 10 Ingot and 3 Paldium Fragment bill, and the 20 Ore you have to swing a pickaxe at before any of it happens. One thing to get out of the way first: neither clock actually tells the time. The game describes both of them as broken, so this is decoration and nothing else.

Clock Set at a Glance

Forty-three items for two pieces. That puts the Clock Set in the middle of the two-piece furniture sets — cheaper than the level 17 Piano Furniture Set at 70 items and the level 8 Fireplace Set at 90, more expensive than the level 12 Tidy Table Set at 40. What makes it awkward is not the total but the mix. Ten Ingot means a furnace and twenty Ore, and the Paldium Fragment requirement is genuinely rare on furniture: only six decorative pieces in the entire game ask for Paldium, and the Wall Clock demands more of it than any of them.

How to Unlock the Clock Set

Reach character level 22, open the Palworld Technology Tree and spend one normal point. Nothing gates it — no parent technology, no schematic, no boss fight. The competition on the row is what should worry you, because level 22 asks for 15 points across nine unlocks and you will not have 15 spare. The Pal Expedition Station at 2 points is the row's standout since it turns idle Pals into a passive item stream, and the Homeward Thundercloud at 2 points ends the long walk home every single time you overfill your bags. The Clock Set is the cheapest thing on the row alongside High Quality Bait and the Metal Chair and Desk Set, and it is the least urgent of the three. Points are refundable at a Statue of Power, and how to get more technology points covers where the rest of them come from.

Level 22 technology	Points	What you get
Clock Set	1	Both decorative clocks
Pal Expedition Station	2	Send base Pals out to fight and gather on a timer
Homeward Thundercloud	2	Teleports you to the nearest base — not usable inside dungeons
Stun Baton	2	Melee shock weapon that makes Pals easier to capture
Flea Market (Pals)	2	Sell Pals to other players from your base
Flea Market (Items)	2	Sell items to other players from your base
Vanwyrm Cryst Saddle	2	Mount for Vanwyrm Cryst
Metal Chair and Desk Set	1	Four iron furniture pieces for 26 Ingot
High Quality Bait	1	Better bite rates than Simple Bait

Both Clock Set Recipes

The two clocks barely resemble each other on the bill. The Antique Grandfather Clock is the bulky one at 35 items, and 30 of those are Wood — the cheapest material in the game at 12 Gold a log, and the one your base is already producing on its own. The Wall Clock is eight items total, which sounds trivial until you notice three of them are Paldium Fragment. Build the grandfather clock first: at level 22 you almost certainly have a Logging Site running and 30 Wood is a rounding error, while the Paldium may need a trip. Both pieces split the Ingot cost evenly at 5 apiece, so there is no way to dodge the furnace by building only one.

Piece	Materials	Items	What it is
Antique Grandfather Clock	30 Wood, 5 Ingot	35	Tall floor-standing clock — the set's centrepiece and the cheap one to actually build, since Wood is the material you have most of
Wall Clock	5 Ingot, 3 Paldium Fragment	8	Round wall-mounted clock — only eight items, but the 3 Paldium is the single largest Paldium ask on any furniture piece in the game

Total Material Cost for Both Clocks

The headline is 30 Wood, 10 Ingot and 3 Paldium Fragment, but Ingot is smelted, not found, and every one of them eats 2 Ore. So the number to plan around is 20 Ore, and that is the entire project — the Wood is automated by now and three Paldium is one node. Buying the raw materials outright runs about 2,570 Gold: 360 for the Wood at 12 apiece, 2,000 for the Ore at 100, and 210 for the Paldium at 70. No merchant sells finished Ingot, so the furnace step happens either way. Do not buy the Ore. Twenty is one short mining trip.

Material	Qty needed	Weight	Where it comes from
Wood	30	90.0	Chopped from trees at 4,654 lumber nodes, produced hands-free by a Logging Site from level 7, or 12 Gold each from a Wandering Trader
Ingot	10	50.0	Smelted 2 Ore at a time in a Primitive Furnace, unlocked at level 10 for 3 points. Not sold by any merchant
Ore	20 (for the Ingot)	160.0	Mined at 1,632 copper ore nodes, dropped at 100% by 8 different Pals, or 100 Gold each from a Wandering Trader
Paldium Fragment	3	3.0	Mined at 711 paldium ore nodes, dropped 2-3 at a time at 100% by Lunaris, or 70 Gold each at a Wandering Merchant

Ingot: 10 of Them, and 20 Ore Behind Them

Here is the timing problem nobody warns you about: the Clock Set unlocks at 22, and the Ore Mining Site does not unlock until 24. For two levels there is no way to automate Ore at all, so those 20 Ore come off your own pickaxe or off dead Pals. The node route is the fast one — 1,632 copper ore nodes are on the map and a single node yields multiple Ore per break, so one loop of a cave or a mountainside clears the whole requirement. If you would rather fight for it, Pierdon is the best rate in the game at 4 to 5 Ore per kill, but it sits at only 16 spawn points and the alpha is level 50, so it is not a level 22 errand. Digtoise is the sane pick: 2 to 3 Ore at 100%, 660 spawn points, and once you catch one it doubles as a rank 4 mining worker for the Ore Mining Site you are about to unlock.

Ore source	Drop	Map pins	Also worth knowing	Mining rank
Pierdon	4-5 at 100%	16 spawn points	Best Ore-per-kill of any Pal, but the rarest spawn on this list and its alpha is level 50	Not a mining worker
Digtoise	2-3 at 100%	660 spawn points	The one to actually catch — most common Ore dropper and a strong base miner	Rank 4
Surfent Terra	2-3 at 100%	590 spawn points	Its boss version drops the same 2-3, so an alpha encounter is not a bonus here	Not a mining worker
Cryolinx Terra	2-3 at 100%	156 spawn points	Rank 5 mining and rank 6 lumbering in one Pal — it covers both halves of this set	Rank 5
Gorirat Terra	2-3 at 100%	67 spawn points	Rank 3 mining and rank 3 transporting, so it hauls its own output to the chest	Rank 3
Knocklem	2-3 at 100%	33 spawn points	Rank 7 mining, the highest you can realistically field — a much later catch than level 22	Rank 7

Wood: 30 for the Grandfather Clock

This is the part you should not have to think about. Lumber is the most abundant resource on the map at 4,654 nodes, the Logging Site unlocks all the way back at level 7 for 2 points, and by level 22 a base with any lumbering Pal on it is producing more Wood than you spend. If you somehow are not set up, Mammorest is the heavy option at rank 4 lumbering across 484 spawn points, and Eikthyrdeer is the easy one at rank 2 across 227 points with a mount attached. Thirty Wood is roughly a minute of a single logging Pal's output, so the honest advice is: park a lumberjack, do the Ore run, and the Wood will be waiting.

Lumbering Pal	Lumbering rank	Map pins	Why bring it
Mammorest	Rank 4	484 spawn points	The strongest lumberjack you can catch at this stage, and rank 4 mining on top — it feeds both materials this set needs
Mossanda	Rank 4	52 spawn points	Same lumbering rank with rank 4 transporting, so it moves its own logs into storage
Eikthyrdeer	Rank 2	227 spawn points	The early answer — common, easy to catch, and a mount that lets you double-jump
Arsox	Rank 2	108 spawn points	Rank 2 lumbering plus rank 3 kindling, which is what lights the furnace smelting your Ingot

Paldium Fragment: Only 3, But It Is the Rarest Furniture Material

Three Paldium Fragment is not a lot in isolation, but it is unusual for furniture. Across all 157 decorative structures in the game, exactly six ask for Paldium at all, and the Wall Clock's 3 is the biggest single request among them — more than the Antique Washstand, more than either of the Antique Mirror Set wall mirrors. The blue paldium ore nodes are the normal source and there are 711 of them, clustered near water and along shorelines, and one node covers the whole requirement. Lunaris also drops 2 to 3 at 100%, though at 63 spawn points and a wild level range of 25 to 49 that is a fight you take on the way to something else, not a farm. If you are sitting on spare Ancient Spheres, one of them breaks down into 30 Paldium Fragment, which is ten Wall Clocks' worth.

Furniture piece using Paldium	Level	Paldium needed	Rest of the recipe
Wall Clock	22	3	5 Ingot — the only one on this list with no Wood or Stone in it
Antique Oval Mirror	16	2	10 Wood, 10 Stone
Antique Wall Mirror	16	2	10 Wood, 10 Stone
Antique Washstand	18	2	30 Wood, 10 Stone, 1 Cloth
Antique Mirror	16	1	10 Wood, 8 Stone
Bonsai	55	1	10 Hardwood

Is the Clock Set Worth a Technology Point?

Yes, but as a later pick-up rather than a level 22 purchase. Judged against the other furniture sets in its level band, the Clock Set is reasonable value: 43 items for two pieces sits well under the 157 items the level 23 Storage Container Set wants, and its 10 Ingot is a fraction of the 100 the level 17 Metal Shelf Set burns or the 120 the Storage Container Set demands. The real competition is one row over — the Metal Chair and Desk Set is the same 1 point at the same level and hands you four pieces for 28 items, so if you can only buy one decorative set at 22, that one wins on volume. Buy the Clock Set once the expedition station and the thundercloud are paid for, build the grandfather clock from base stock immediately, and let the wall clock wait until a mining trip brings the Paldium home.

Summary

One normal technology point at level 22 buys both clocks, and the whole set costs 30 Wood, 10 Ingot and 3 Paldium Fragment — which unwinds to 30 Wood, 20 Ore and 3 Paldium once you account for the furnace. Let a logging Pal handle the Wood, mine the 20 Ore by hand since the Ore Mining Site is still two levels away at 24, and grab the Paldium from a shoreline node on the same trip. Build the Antique Grandfather Clock the moment you unlock it and save the Wall Clock for after the mining run. Neither one tells the time — that is the joke the game is making, not a bug.

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