Palworld Pure Quartz: Mining Spots, Circuit Boards, and Every Recipe That Needs It

Pure Quartz is one of those late-game Palworld materials that quietly bottlenecks half of your endgame to-do list. You need it for Circuit Boards, and Circuit Boards feed into everything from refrigerators to the Jetragon's Missile Launcher. Grab a decent Pickaxe, pack warm clothes, and head north.

Where Pure Quartz Spawns

The nodes live in Palworld's snow biome, up in the northern stretch of the map. The most reliable concentrations are around:

• Unthawable Lake
• Absolute Zero
• Pristine Snow Field
• The area near the PAL Genetic Research Unit Tower entrance

These zones do not forgive bare arms. Equip cold-resistant armor before you set off, or bring a Fire-type Pal such as Arsox to keep the freezing debuff off your bar. Showing up underdressed is a fast way to feed your respawn timer.

How to Recognize a Quartz Node

Pure Quartz boulders are easy to confuse with regular Stone nodes at a glance. The giveaway is the shine: Quartz nodes catch the light with a noticeably brighter, glassier surface. If you are not sure, walk right up to it and check the prompt. A few seconds of squinting is cheaper than mining the wrong rock.

Mining Tips

Any Pickaxe will work, but harvest speed scales with tier, so do not bring the wooden one if you have already crafted Refined Ingot tools. For hands-free farming, deploy a Ground-type Pal like Digtoise at the node. It will grind the boulder down while you scout the next deposit, which turns a slog into actual production.

What Pure Quartz Is Used For

The headline recipe is the Circuit Board. You unlock it on the Technology Tree at Level 35, then craft each board with 4x Pure Quartz and 2x Polymer at a Production Assembly Line (or its tier II upgrade).

Circuit Boards are the actual gatekeeper for most of the electric and high-tech catalog. Pure Quartz also shows up directly in several research projects, so a healthy stockpile pays off twice.

Technologies That Require Circuit Boards

• Electric Cooler: 10x Ice Organ, 30x Ingot, 30x Refined Ingot, 10x Circuit Board
• Electric Furnace: 20x Carbon Fiber, 20x Polymer, 50x Refined Ingot, 10x Circuit Board
• Electric Heater: 10x Flame Organ, 30x Ingot, 30x Refined Ingot, 10x Circuit Board
• Electric Kitchen: 5x Flame Organ, 30x Refined Ingot, 20x Charcoal, 5x Circuit Board
• Electric Medicine Workbench: 20x Carbon Fiber, 40x Refined Ingot, 10x Circuit Board
• Electric Pylon: 30x Electric Organ, 100x Ingot, 20x Circuit Board
• Jetragon's Missile Launcher: 100x Leather, 140x Paldium Fragment, 200x Refined Ingot, 50x Circuit Board
• Large Ceiling Lamp: 50x Ingot, 5x Nail, 5x Circuit Board
• Large Mounted Lamp: 50x Ingot, 5x Nail, 5x Circuit Board
• Mounted Missile Launcher: 20x Nail, 50x Cement, 100x Refined Ingot, 20x Circuit Board
• Production Assembly Line II: 30x Nail, 100x Refined Ingot, 10x Circuit Board
• Refrigerator: 15x Ice Organ, 20x Polymer, 50x Refined Ingot, 5x Circuit Board
• Sphere Assembly Line II: 50x Paldium Fragment, 30x Nail, 100x Refined Ingot, 10x Circuit Board
• Weapon Assembly Line II: 30x Nail, 100x Refined Ingot, 10x Circuit Board

Research Projects That Burn Pure Quartz Directly

• Mining Task Lv. 5: 50x Plasteel, 200x Pure Quartz, 20x Ancient Civilization Parts, 35x Ancient Pal Manuscript
• Mastery of Expeditions Lv. 2: 50x Pal Metal Ingot, 150x Pure Quartz, 20x Ancient Civilization Parts, 20x Ancient Pal Manuscript
• Pals at Base Enhancement Lv. 1: 50x Pal Metal Ingot, 50x Pure Quartz, 10x Ancient Civilization Parts, 20x Ancient Pal Manuscript
• Crude Oil Extraction Efficiency Lv. 2: 100x Pal Metal Ingot, 100x Pure Quartz, 15x Ancient Civilization Parts, 25x Ancient Pal Manuscript
• Cooling Task Lv. 2: 80x Ice Organ, 50x Pure Quartz, 5x Ancient Civilization Parts, 10x Ancient Pal Manuscript
• Cooling Task Lv. 4: 200x Ice Organ, 150x Pure Quartz, 20x Ancient Civilization Parts, 35x Ancient Pal Manuscript
• Incubation Acceleration Lv. 2: 80x Ice Organ, 50x Pure Quartz, 5x Ancient Civilization Parts, 10x Ancient Pal Manuscript
• Incubation Acceleration Lv. 4: 200x Ice Organ, 150x Pure Quartz, 20x Ancient Civilization Parts, 35x Ancient Pal Manuscript
• Cooling Research Lv. 2: 80x Ice Organ, 50x Pure Quartz, 5x Ancient Civilization Parts, 5x Ancient Pal Manuscript
• Cooling Storage Lv. 3: 80x Ice Organ, 50x Pure Quartz, 5x Ancient Civilization Parts, 10x Ancient Pal Manuscript

Keep a running stack of at least 200 Pure Quartz in your base chest and you will rarely have to interrupt a building binge to fly back to the snow.