How to Use the Monitoring Stand and All Upgrades
How the Monitoring Stand works in Palworld — issuing work orders, allowing or banning specific jobs, plus the High Quality and Ancient upgrades that cut SAN drain, with build costs for all three tiers.
The Monitoring Stand is the structure that turns your base from a free-for-all into an organized workforce: station a Pal at it and you can issue work orders across the whole base — including allowing or outright banning specific kinds of work for individual Pals. It unlocks early, and its two upgrades ease the biggest cost of pushing your Pals hard: SAN drain. Here's each tier, what it adds, and what it costs.
All Three Monitoring Stands
The three tiers arrive at very different points in the game — Tech 7, 28, and 71 — and each solves the problem of its era: the base stand gives you control at all, the High Quality version blunts the SAN drain of a busy mid-game base, and the Ancient stand exists so a max-output endgame base can run hard without a mutiny.
| Structure | Unlock | Build Cost | What It Adds |
|---|---|---|---|
 Monitoring Stand | Tech Lv 7 | 30× Wood, 10× Stone | Issue work orders — allow or prohibit individual kinds of work per Pal |
 High Quality Monitoring Stand | Tech Lv 28 | 100× Ingot, 30× Cement | Lowers the SAN cost of working Pals and improves conditions, so they're less likely to get dissatisfied |
| Ancient Monitoring Stand | Tech Lv 71 | 100× Soralite Ingot, 5× Ancient Civilization Core | Red Paldium holographic interface — commands the entire base and keeps Pals calm even in harsh working conditions |
How Work Orders Work
Interact with the stand and you get per-Pal control over the base workflow: you can steer a Pal toward the jobs you actually want done and ban the ones you don't — no more watching your best miner wander off to water crops. It's the fix for Pals ping-ponging between tasks. Pair it with the right workers and the base runs itself; the Best Pals for every base job rankings tell you exactly who to assign where.
Is the Ancient Upgrade Worth It?
The Ancient Monitoring Stand lands at Tech Lv 71, right alongside other Soralite-hungry endgame projects like the Ancient Relic Recycler. Five Ancient Civilization Cores is a modest ask at that stage, and the payoff — a whole base of calm Pals under harsh workloads — is one of the better quality-of-life buys in the late game. If you're running a max-output production base, build it.