Upgrading a Pal at the Statue of Power is the single biggest permanent stat boost in Palworld 1.0 — bigger than condensing, bigger than stat fruits, and it stacks with both. Spend Pal Souls here and one Pal can hit +60% HP, Attack, Defense, or Work Speed. This guide covers exactly how many souls each upgrade costs, where to farm them, and the one setting most players get wrong.
Quick answer: The Statue of Power upgrades a Pal's HP, Attack, Defense, or Work Speed by +3% per rank, up to rank 20 = +60% each. Maxing one stat costs 52 Pal Souls (10 Small, 6 Medium, 6 Large, 30 Giant); maxing all four costs 208 souls. It does not affect movement speed. Upgrades are fully refundable for Gold Coins at any time, so you can freely move investment between Pals.
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What does the Statue of Power do in Palworld?
The Statue of Power is a craftable base structure that spends Pal Souls to permanently raise a captured Pal's core stats. There are four upgradeable tracks per Pal:
- HP — total health
- Attack — melee and Pal-skill damage
- Defense — damage reduction
- Work Speed — how fast the Pal performs base tasks (crafting, mining, watering, etc.)
Each track has 20 ranks, and each rank adds +3%, for a hard ceiling of +60% per stat. That is a flat multiplier on top of the Pal's base stats, its condensing star bonus, IVs, and any Souls already invested — every layer multiplies, which is why endgame Pals feel exponentially stronger than a fresh catch.
The single most common misconception: many older guides claim the Statue also boosts movement speed. It does not. In Early Access the statue capped at +30% over 10 ranks and only touched HP/Attack/Defense; the 1.0 rework doubled the ceiling to +60% over 20 ranks and added Work Speed — but movement speed was never on the list. If a Pal feels slow, that is fixed with Pal gear and passive skills, not the Statue of Power.
The Work Speed track is the quietly underrated one. A base worker with +60% Work Speed finishes crafting, ore-mining, and watering jobs dramatically faster than an un-upgraded copy of the same Pal, which is why serious base builders pour souls into their key workers before touching combat Pals at all. If your production lines are backing up, a soul-maxed base-worker Pal on the right work suitability is often a bigger throughput win than adding more Pals to the base.
How much does each Pal Souls upgrade cost?
Costs escalate with rank. You spend cheaper souls early and rarer souls at the top of the track. To take one stat from rank 0 to rank 20, the total is:
- 10 Small Pal Souls (early ranks)
- 6 Medium Pal Souls (mid ranks)
- 6 Large Pal Souls (upper-mid ranks)
- 30 Giant Pal Souls (final ranks)
That is 52 Pal Souls for one stat, or 208 souls to max all four stats on a single Pal. Giant Souls are by far the bottleneck — you need 30 of them per stat, 120 to fully max a Pal — so the entire economy of this system is really a Giant Soul farm.
"The Statue of Power in the full release lets you push a single stat to +60%, but the back half of every track is gated almost entirely behind Giant Pal Souls — that is the real endgame grind." — Palworld community stat breakdown, Palpedia
Where to farm Pal Souls in Palworld
Small and Medium Souls
Small Pal Souls are the easiest: they spawn as glowing ground pickups scattered across the low-level regions (roughly the Level 1–30 map areas), and they also drop from weaker wild Pals. Run a loop through early zones like the starting plateau and the Bamboo Groves and you will fill your Small requirement quickly. Medium Souls appear in the mid-tier regions and from mid-level Pals as you push into higher-level territory.
Because Small Souls only need 10 per stat, most players finish that requirement almost by accident while exploring early. The smarter move is to grab them on the same routes you already run for other early materials — pair a soul sweep with a stat-fruit run so a single loop feeds two upgrade systems at once. Don't go out of your way for Small Souls specifically; they are never the thing holding your build back.
Large Souls
Large Pal Souls come from higher-level regions and tougher wild Pals — the same zones you clear while chasing effigies and stat fruits. If you are already running an endgame XP loop, you will passively accumulate Large Souls along the way.
Giant Souls — the real bottleneck
Giant Pal Souls are the gatekeeper for every maxed stat, and there are two reliable sources:
- Predator Pals. These rare, buffed field spawns drop Giant Souls when defeated. They are inconsistent, but each kill is worth several souls.
- Breed-and-butcher (the scalable method). Certain Pals drop Giant Souls when disassembled. Breed Aegidron, Silvance, or Dandilord in quantity, then process them at the Pal Disassembly Conveyor to convert each into Giant Souls. Feed the breeding farm with Vegetable Cake to mass-produce eggs, and you have a repeatable Giant Soul factory instead of relying on RNG predator spawns. Aegidron is doubly useful here because it also drops Thermal Cores.
This is the point where a soul farm ties directly into your breeding setup — see the Palworld Breeding Guide for the mutation and passive-skill combos that make a dedicated Giant Soul breeder efficient.
The math is worth internalizing before you commit: fully maxing all four stats on one Pal needs 120 Giant Souls. A single breeding pair producing eggs on Vegetable Cake turns that from a multi-day predator hunt into a background process — you set the ranch running, come back after your normal endgame loop, and disassemble the batch. This is exactly why the breeding farm and the soul farm are the same project for most players, and why nobody hand-farms 120 Giant Souls per Pal one predator at a time.
Statue of Power vs Condensing vs Stat Fruits — which first?
Three systems raise a Pal's stats, and they all stack multiplicatively, so the question is order of investment, not either/or:
- Statue of Power (Pal Souls): up to +60% per stat, respec-able for free. Lowest risk — you can move it later.
- Condensing: permanent star bonus (up to 4 stars), but it consumes duplicate Pals and cannot be undone. Highest commitment.
- Stat Fruits: Life/Power/Stout fruit permanently add to a single stat, also irreversible.
Recommended order: pour Souls in first because you can refund them if your endgame Pal choice changes. Lock in Condensing and Stat Fruits only on a Pal you are certain about — usually a maxed combat carry (best combat Pals) or a dedicated Work Speed base worker (best base Pals).
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Can you refund Pal Souls in Palworld?
Yes — and this is what makes the Statue of Power the safest upgrade in the game. At any time you can reset a Pal's Souls and get Gold Coins back (souls themselves are not returned, but the Gold refund scales with how far you pushed the track):
- Reset at rank 1 → ~100 Gold Coins
- Reset at rank 10 → ~3,000 Gold Coins
- Reset at rank 20 → ~30,000 Gold Coins
Because a full reset hands back tens of thousands of Gold, you can safely dump every soul you find into your current best Pal and reallocate later when you catch or breed an upgrade. There is no reason to hoard souls waiting for the "perfect" Pal.
Statue of Power for players: don't confuse it with Effigies
There is a second use of the Statue of Power that trips people up. Alongside the Pal-stat upgrades, the structure has a player-side track fed by Effigies, not Pal Souls:
- Lifmunk Effigies → raise your capture rate on wild Pals
- Relaxaurus Effigies → raise player EXP gain (up to +50%)
These are entirely separate from the soul upgrades and use their own collectible currency. If you are still leveling, grab these early — the EXP boost compounds with every other XP source. See all effigy locations for the fastest collection route.
Fastest way to power up a Pal in 1.0
Putting it together, the efficient path to a maxed Pal looks like this:
- Level the Pal to cap (80) using your normal XP loop — Statue bonuses are percentages, so they are worth more on a high-base Pal. (How to level Pals fast)
- Dump Small/Medium/Large Souls into your priority stat as you pick them up — HP and Attack for a combat carry, Work Speed for a base worker.
- Set up a Giant Soul breeding farm (Aegidron/Silvance/Dandilord + Pal Disassembly Conveyor) to grind out the 30-per-stat Giant requirement.
- Finish with Condensing and Stat Fruits once you are certain this is your keeper Pal.
That is a fully min-maxed Pal — and because souls are refundable, none of the early investment is wasted if your roster changes.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the max Statue of Power upgrade in Palworld? Each stat (HP, Attack, Defense, Work Speed) can be raised to rank 20, giving +60% per stat. That is the hard ceiling in 1.0, doubled from the +30% cap that existed in Early Access.
Does the Statue of Power increase movement speed? No. It only affects HP, Attack, Defense, and Work Speed. Movement speed is improved through Pal gear and passive skills instead.
How many Pal Souls do I need to max a Pal? Maxing one stat costs 52 souls (10 Small, 6 Medium, 6 Large, 30 Giant). Maxing all four stats costs 208 souls, including 120 Giant Pal Souls.
Where do I get Giant Pal Souls? From Predator Pals (rare field spawns) and by breeding Aegidron, Silvance, or Dandilord and disassembling them at the Pal Disassembly Conveyor — the scalable method.
Can I refund Pal Souls? Yes. Resetting a Pal's upgrades returns Gold Coins (about 100 at rank 1, 3,000 at rank 10, and 30,000 at rank 20), so you can safely reallocate souls between Pals at any time.
Is the Statue of Power better than condensing? They stack, so use both — but invest in the Statue first because it is refundable, while condensing permanently consumes duplicate Pals and cannot be undone.
