Illuminating the Shadows: Mastering Palworld's Night with the Hip Lantern – Crafting Guide and Game-Changing Benefits!

In Palworld, a diverse range of items serves multiple crafting purposes, from constructing facilities and base objects to crafting weapons, Pal Gear, and essential exploration items like armor and travel accessories. One particularly valuable accessory is the Hip Lantern, renowned for its utility. Emitting light in a sphere around your character, the Hip Lantern eliminates the need for carrying a torch, making it an indispensable tool for traversing dark areas, dungeons, or nighttime locations.

Navigating Palworld at night can be challenging due to limited visibility, necessitating the use of a torch to explore islands, gather materials, or hunt down specific Pals. The Hip Lantern addresses this inconvenience by permanently attaching a light to your character's hip, allowing you to free up valuable equipped item slots. Therefore, acquiring the Hip Lantern early in your playthrough can significantly enhance your gaming experience.

Unlocking the Hip Lantern in Palworld:

Nighttime in Palworld not only poses challenges due to obscured vision but also introduces threats such as Coldness, especially without proper armor. The Hip Lantern proves to be a crucial Key Item in alleviating these issues. To unlock the Hip Lantern recipe, invest Technology Points at player level 22. However, unlike standard level-up recipes, the Hip Lantern requires Ancient Technology Points, obtained by capturing or defeating bosses or Rayne Syndicate Towers across the map.

Building & Using the Hip Lantern in Palworld:

Once you've unlocked the Hip Lantern recipe, craft it at a High-Quality Workbench using the following materials:

• Ingot x 20
• Wood x 10
• Flame Organ x 10
• Ancient Civilization Parts x 10

Source Ingot and Wood from natural materials, obtain Flame Organs by defeating Fire Type Pals, and collect Ancient Civilization Parts by taking down bosses like Alpha Pals. While the crafting process may involve a slight grind, the benefits of the Hip Lantern outweigh the effort.

After crafting, pick up the Hip Lantern from the Workbench, and it will automatically become a Key Item worn on your character's hip. This light source eliminates the need for a torch, allowing you to explore the darkness with ease. This also opens up an extra equipped item slot for additional tools or weapons, such as the Grappling Gun.

Additional Benefits of the Hip Lantern:

Beyond replacing the torch, the Hip Lantern provides a larger surface of light, remains active during gliding, holding weapons or tools, and riding Pal Mounts, facilitating exploration around islands. Hunting nocturnal Pals becomes more successful, and you can efficiently continue working around your base and traveling without needing to rest in a bed, doubling your productivity in Palworld's day-night cycle.