Best Kindling Pals in Palworld
Lights and keeps the fire going for cooking pots, furnaces and smelters. 44 of the 299 Pals can do this job, and the highest innate level among them is 8.
Why Kindling matters
Nothing gets cooked or smelted without it, and Cake for breeding runs through a cooking pot, so a base with no Kindling Pal quietly stalls.
Innate is not the same as final. The levels below are innate: what a Pal has before you touch it. Since the 1.0 release the ceiling is 10, and ranking a Pal up at a Pal Essence Condenser raises one of its work suitability levels, so a Pal that starts lower can be pushed past one that starts higher.
This job's name in the game data is Kindling.
A note on the count. This page counts all 299 entries in the breeding data, which is 85 variant forms and 11 collaboration Pals above the 287 entry Paldeck total Pocketpair publishes. Lists that count Paldeck slots instead will land a few below 44 for this job. Neither number is wrong; they are answers to different questions.
Only Renjishi starts at level 8. A higher level does not simply mean faster; it also decides whether a Pal can use the higher tier stations at all, so an underlevelled worker can leave a building idle rather than merely slow.
Worth checking the last column before you commit: 3 of these never appear in the wild, so they have to be bred or won from a fight. If you want one of those, run the pair through the breeding calculator first.
All 44 Kindling Pals, best first
| Pal | Level | Rarity | Wild level | Breeding routes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renjishi | 8 | 7 | 78 to 80 | 44 pairs |
| Flaracle | 7 | 7 | 65 to 80 | 285 pairs |
| Dupin | 7 | 7 | 55 to 74 | 75 pairs |
| Jormuntide Ignisvariant | 7 | 9 | 66 to 80 | one fixed pair |
| Eidrolon Ignisvariant | 6 | 8 | 75 to 77 | one fixed pair |
| Blazamut | 6 | 9 | 46 to 80 | 86 pairs |
| Faleris | 6 | 9 | 76 to 80 | two of its own kind only |
| Blazamut Ryuvariant | 6 | 10 | not in the wild | two of its own kind only |
| Ghangler Ignisvariant | 5 | 6 | not in the wild | one fixed pair |
| Reptyro | 5 | 6 | 36 to 50 | 358 pairs |
| Moldron | 5 | 7 | 32 to 80 | 171 pairs |
| Blazehowl | 5 | 7 | 30 to 80 | 228 pairs |
| Blazehowl Noctvariant | 5 | 8 | 34 to 80 | one fixed pair |
| Suzaku | 5 | 8 | 40 to 80 | 196 pairs |
| Whalaska Ignisvariant | 5 | 8 | 58 to 80 | one fixed pair |
| Knocklem Ignisvariant | 5 | 10 | 65 to 73 | one fixed pair |
| Chillet Ignisvariant | 4 | 5 | 30 to 80 | one fixed pair |
| Majex | 4 | 5 | 35 to 77 | 419 pairs |
| Loomen | 4 | 5 | 75 to 77 | 669 pairs |
| Wixen Noctvariant | 4 | 6 | 30 to 55 | one fixed pair |
| Pyrin | 4 | 6 | 29 to 80 | 224 pairs |
| Kitsun Noctvariant | 4 | 6 | 56 to 66 | one fixed pair |
| Pyrin Noctvariant | 4 | 7 | 32 to 80 | one fixed pair |
| Ragnahawk | 4 | 7 | 32 to 80 | 176 pairs |
| Petallia Ignisvariant | 4 | 9 | 71 to 73 | one fixed pair |
| Arsox | 3 | 4 | 1 to 34 | 167 pairs |
| Incineram | 3 | 4 | 30 to 44 | 249 pairs |
| Skutlass Ignisvariant | 3 | 5 | 40 to 44 | one fixed pair |
| Wixen | 3 | 6 | 20 to 38 | 214 pairs |
| Katress Ignisvariant | 3 | 6 | 30 to 52 | one fixed pair |
| Kitsun | 3 | 6 | 34 to 38 | 267 pairs |
| Sootseer | 3 | 7 | 45 to 67 | 325 pairs |
| Fuack Ignisvariant | 2 | 2 | 32 to 50 | one fixed pair |
| Gobfin Ignisvariant | 2 | 3 | 20 to 50 | one fixed pair |
| Leezpunk Ignisvariant | 2 | 3 | 28 to 40 | one fixed pair |
| Finsider Ignisvariant | 2 | 4 | not in the wild | one fixed pair |
| Vanwyrm | 2 | 5 | 20 to 63 | 1228 pairs |
| Bushi | 2 | 7 | 25 to 59 | 285 pairs |
| Bushi Noctvariant | 2 | 7 | 46 to 67 | one fixed pair |
| Flambelle | 1 | 1 | 1 to 50 | 101 pairs |
| Foxparks | 1 | 1 | 5 to 18 | 42 pairs |
| Tanzee Ignisvariant | 1 | 2 | 10 to 12 | one fixed pair |
| Rooby | 1 | 2 | 4 to 30 | 67 pairs |
| Kelpsea Ignisvariant | 1 | 2 | 20 to 38 | 206 pairs |