Precious Pelt
Material · MaterialMonster1★Soft fur harvested off Pals. Merchants pay well for it.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Where to Find Precious Pelt
85 Pals drop Precious Pelt when defeated or captured, which is usually the faster route if you are already out hunting — the drop list below is sorted by how reliably each one gives it up.
If you would rather just buy it, the cheapest seller is Desert Shop at 5,000 Gold, and 3 other shops stock it too.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant | Desert Shop | 5,000 Gold |
| Merchant | Village Shop | 5,000 Gold |
| Merchant | Volcano Shop | 5,000 Gold |
| Merchant | Wander Shop | 5,000 Gold |
Using Precious Pelt Well
Nothing crafts with it — no recipe, schematic, structure or tech unlock consumes Precious Pelt, exactly like Precious Claw and Precious Plume. There is no build later on that will want it back, so a stack should never survive past your next merchant visit. Note that the shop rows on this page are what a merchant charges to sell you one, not what one buys back for, so hauling pelts between vendors is not an arbitrage.
The 6-8 tier is where a repeatable route lives: Foxcicle, Reindrix, Kitsun and Wumpo all have fixed overworld alpha points, so you can chain them and come back on the next respawn. Hartalis pays the same 6-8 but has no field location — it is a one-off raid summon, not a farm stop.
Below that, Kingpaca Cryst (5-7) and Kingpaca (3-5) also lack a fixed overworld alpha point, which leaves Sweepa at 5-7 as the best field alpha in that bracket, backed by Mammorest, Mammorest Cryst, Sibelyx and Wumpo Botan at 5-6.
You do not need late-game gear to start: the low alphas around the opening regions still pay out every time. Arsox gives a flat 3, Chillet and Katress 2-4, and Rooby, Nox, Herbil and Daedream 1-3. Four cheap alphas you can delete in one magazine beat one long fight against something that costs you a full loadout.
All 85 drop entries are boss-flagged kills, so the table is a list of alpha fights rather than a list of species. A wild Foxcicle or Reindrix you shoot in the overworld drops nothing, and catching one gives nothing either — only the alpha version of the Pal, whether that is the field boss on its fixed point or the boss at the bottom of a dungeon. With every rate sitting at a flat 100%, the only thing that changes between fights is how many pelts fall out.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Other Pal drops at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class: