When I first spawned into Palworld, I spent my first two hours running from Chillet to Foxparks, collecting berries and stone without a care in the world. That all changed when I wandered too close to the northern snow zone, my health started dropping out of nowhere, and the game told me I needed cold-resistant armor to stay alive. I opened my crafting menu and realized I had no idea how to get cloth in Palworld, the core material for every early-game warm clothing set. If you’re stuck in the same spot, this guide breaks down every method to get cloth, no matter your playstyle or how far you’ve progressed.
How to Get Cloth in Palworld Using Wool: The Most Reliable Method
The standard way to make cloth is by crafting it from wool, and it’s far easier to pull off than most new players think. You only need 2 pieces of wool to craft 1 cloth at any primitive workbench, so you don’t need high-level crafting stations to get started. You can get wool either by defeating wool-producing Pals or by raising them in a ranch on your base.
Lamball is the best source of wool for early-game players, bar none. Lamball spawns in every starting grassland zone, no advanced exploration required, so you can find them within five minutes of spawning into a new world. If you kill a Lamball, you’ll get 1 to 2 wool per kill, which is fine if you just need 2 or 3 cloth right away. But if you need a steady supply, you’re way better off catching a few Lamballs and assigning them to a ranch. Each Lamball in a ranch will produce 3 to 4 wool per in-game day, no work required from you beyond keeping their food trough full.
Once you progress to mid-game and unlock access to the forest biomes, you can swap Lamballs for Woolipops. These fluffy sheep Pals produce 3 times more wool per day than Lamballs, so you only need 2 Woolipops to get the same output as 6 Lamballs. That means you can save space on your base for other structures while still getting all the wool you need for cloth.
Alternative Ways to Farm Cloth Without Raising Pals
If you don’t want to mess with base building and ranching early on, you don’t have to. There are plenty of ways to get cloth just by exploring the world, and you can often get enough for your first armor set before you even build your first workbench.
The easiest looting source is small bandit camps scattered across the starting zone. Most small camps have 2 to 3 storage boxes, and you can usually find 1 to 2 cloth per box. You can get up to 5 cloth per raided small bandit camp if you loot all storage boxes, and you’ll also get extra items like arrows and berries as a bonus. You don’t even have to fight the bandits if you don’t want to; just sneak in, grab the items from the boxes, and run away before they spot you.
You can also find cloth in random chests across the world, especially in abandoned villages and old ruins. Broken tents and cloth furniture in these abandoned areas will also drop cloth when you hit them with any tool. Cloth from looting is perfect for players who prefer exploration over base building early on, as you don’t have to spend any resources on ranches or workbenches to get it. If you end up with extra resources like berry seeds or extra Pals, you can also trade them with wandering merchants for cloth when they visit your base.
If you’re looking to farm looted cloth as fast as possible, follow these simple tips:
Build an Auto Cloth Farm for Unlimited Supply
Once you have a stable base set up, you’ll want to build an auto cloth farm so you never run out of the material again. It’s one of the most useful low-effort farms you can build in Palworld, and it only takes a few basic materials to set up.
To build a basic auto cloth farm, you’ll need a level 2 ranch, a primitive workbench, a storage chest, and at least 3 Lamballs (or 2 Woolipops for higher output). Place the ranch, workbench, and storage chest right next to each other to cut down on travel time for your Pals. Assign your wool-producing Pals to the ranch, assign a Pal with the transporting work suitability to move wool from the ranch to the storage chest, and assign a Pal with the crafting work suitability to turn wool into cloth at the workbench. A fully optimized auto cloth farm can produce 50+ cloth per in-game day with zero manual input, so you can spend your time exploring or fighting bosses instead of farming materials.
There are a few small things you can do to make your farm run smoother. Don’t forget to keep the ranch’s food trough full of berries or fodder, or your wool-producing Pals will stop working and might even run away. If you notice your Pals are taking too long to move wool between the ranch and the workbench, move the structures closer together or assign a second Pal with transporting suitability to speed up the process.
Top Uses for Cloth That Make Farming It Worth Your Time
A lot of new players skip farming cloth early on because they don’t realize how useful it is for almost every part of the game. It’s not just for making armor; you’ll need it for dozens of essential crafts as you progress.
Cloth is required for every cold-resistant armor set, making it non-negotiable for exploring snow biomes. You can’t get access to late-game Pals like Frostallion or high-tier mining nodes in the snow zone without cold-resistant armor, so you’ll need a steady supply of cloth if you want to progress past the early game. Cloth is also used to make beds for you and your Pals; beds let you skip the night quickly, and Pals sleep in beds to restore their sanity and work efficiency. If you like to explore far from your base, you’ll also need cloth to make portable tents, which let you save your progress and heal up without traveling all the way back home.
Later in the game, you’ll need cloth for more advanced crafts like Pal saddles, high-tier furniture, and even healing items like bandages. It’s one of the few materials that stays useful from the first hour of gameplay all the way to the endgame, so building a steady supply early will save you a lot of headaches later on.
At the end of the day, how you choose to get cloth depends entirely on what you enjoy doing in Palworld. If you love building bases, an auto wool ranch will give you all the cloth you’ll ever need with almost no effort. If you’d rather run around exploring and fighting, looting bandit camps and abandoned villages will give you more than enough cloth to get by. No matter what playstyle you prefer, knowing how to get cloth in Palworld will let you unlock new areas, craft better gear, and get way more out of your time in the game.