Palworld Nightstar Sand Guide: Night Spawns, Best Spots, and Every Recipe

Since Pocketpair dropped the Feybreak update for Palworld, trainers have a new island to comb through and a longer materials list to chase. Among the more particular drops on that list sits Nightstar Sand, a resource that refuses to show up during business hours. This guide covers where it spawns, the best coordinates for a heavy farming run, and every recipe that demands it.

Where Nightstar Sand Comes From

Nightstar Sand can technically appear anywhere across Palworld's sandy biomes, but the catch is right there in the name. You will not see a single grain while the sun is up. Wait for the night cycle, then head to any desert or dune zone and scan the ground for glowing spots. Interacting with one drops the material straight into your inventory.

Feybreak Island carries the highest spawn density, so if you have it unlocked, that is the smart starting point. After you clear out a node, the spawn refreshes the next night, which makes a steady route possible if you keep your nightly routine.

Best Farming Coordinates

You can wander the deserts hoping for the best, or you can just go straight to the spots where Nightstar Sand shows up most consistently. The following coordinates cover the most reliable nodes on the Feybreak map and the older biomes:

• Scorched Ashlands: -209267, -517354, -1411
• Withered Shores: -163365, -596805, -1483
• Loess Plains: -258764, -797450, -1869
• Deserted Ash Plateau: -477567, -568835, -2017
• Deep Sand Dunes: 363783, 193650, 2790 (first node), 341006, 107902, 11243 (second node), 303787, 98583, 16750 (third node)
• Duneshelter: 292527, 59553, 1506
• Sand Dunes Entrance: 352982, -19111, -248
• PIDF Tower: 415522, 31866, 15788

Run them as a loop and you will hit a respawn cycle by the time you finish.

What You Can Craft With It

Nightstar Sand feeds into mid and late game gear: detection tools, mobility upgrades, and the high tier weapons. Costs scale up fast at higher rarities, so plan your nightly farms around what you actually want to build instead of grabbing a stack and hoping for the best.

Every recipe that pulls Nightstar Sand as an ingredient:

• Metal Detector: 30x Plasteel, 100x Paldium Fragment, 30x Circuit Board, 20x Nightstar Sand
• Beam Sword: 100x Paldium Fragment, 5x Ancient Civilization Parts, 30x Hexolite, 20x Nightstar Sand
• Advanced Bow: 40x Hexolite, 100x Carbon Fiber, 20x Nightstar Sand
• Advanced Bow (Uncommon): 80x Hexolite, 200x Carbon Fiber, 40x Nightstar Sand
• Advanced Bow (Rare): 120x Hexolite, 300x Carbon Fiber, 60x Nightstar Sand
• Advanced Bow (Epic): 180x Hexolite, 450x Carbon Fiber, 90x Nightstar Sand
• Advanced Bow (Legendary): 270x Hexolite, 675x Carbon Fiber, 135x Nightstar Sand
• Anti-Gravity Belt: 30x Ingot, 30x Paldium Fragment, 10x Nightstar Sand
• Double Jump Boots: 30x Refined Ingot, 50x Paldium Fragment, 20x Nightstar Sand
• Triple Jump Boots: 30x Hexolite, 150x Paldium Fragment, 50x Nightstar Sand, 50x Dark Fragment
• Air Dash Boots: 30x Refined Ingot, 50x Paldium Fragment, 20x Nightstar Sand
• Double Air Dash Boots: 30x Plasteel, 100x Paldium Fragment, 30x Nightstar Sand, 30x Dark Fragment
• Triple Air Dash Boots: 30x Coralum Ingot, 150x Paldium Fragment, 40x Nightstar Sand, 50x Dark Fragment

Stockpile early. The Legendary Bow alone eats 135 per craft, and those boots add up.