Palworld 1.0 Awakening Crystals: How to Awaken Your Pals

Introduced with 1.0, Awakening Crystals power Palworld's Awakening system, and they're one of the best ways to strengthen your Pals in the late game. Awakening a companion grants it a major stat bonus and a distinctive glowing aura. Here's how to craft these crystals, get them, and awaken your best Pals.

What is Awakening?

Awakening involves using an Awakening Crystal on a Pal to permanently boost its combat stats. The key rule: each crystal is tied to an element, and it can only be used on a Pal of the same type. So a Fire crystal will only awaken a Fire-type Pal, and so on.

There are nine elements in total: Water, Electric, Ground, Grass, Fire, Ice, Dragon, Dark, and Neutral. It's up to you to craft the crystal matching the Pal you want to power up.

How to Craft an Awakening Crystal

Awakening Crystals are crafted at the Ancient Workbench, unlocked at level 67. The recipe is the same for every element:

• 50 Radiant Gems of the desired element
• 10 World Tree's Holy Water

This is therefore a late-game item, since it requires already having access to the World Tree and its advanced workbench.

The Nine Radiant Gems

Each crystal requires the Gem matching its element. Note that the game doesn't name them in a fully consistent way:

Where to Get the Gems and Holy Water

Both resources are gathered in the same place: the World Tree region. By capturing or defeating the Pals that live there, you'll collect both Radiant Gems and World Tree's Holy Water.

Since you need 50 Gems of the right element per crystal, plan for long farming sessions targeting the Pals of the type you're after. This is the most time-consuming part of the process, so focus your efforts on the elements of your priority combat Pals rather than spreading your farming too thin.

How to Awaken a Pal

Once the crystal is crafted, the process is simple: place the target Pal in your active party, open your inventory, and use the Awakening Crystal on it. The Pal immediately receives its stat bonus and displays its new glowing aura. This is done Pal by Pal, crystal by crystal.

Our Tips

Since awakening is costly - 50 Gems and 10 Holy Water for a single Pal - it's better not to apply it randomly. Save your first crystals for your strongest late-game combat Pals, the ones you plan to keep long-term: they'll get the most value out of the stat bonus.

Also remember to group your farming by element. Since a Gem is specific to one type, targeting Pals of the same element during your trips to the World Tree keeps you from stockpiling Gems you can't use.

Note

Always keep a reserve of World Tree's Holy Water: it's used in a huge number of late-game recipes besides Awakening Crystals, and it would be a shame to run out at the wrong moment.

With a bit of method and plenty of elbow grease, Awakening will turn your best companions into true war machines - an essential investment for tackling Palworld's most demanding content.