Legendary Merchant Guide & FAQ
Every Palworld merchant type, where the Black Marketeer and travelling traders spawn, and what is worth buying.
Updated for the current Palworld patch
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Every merchant type in Palworld and what they sell
Palworld has four merchant types: the Wandering Merchant selling materials and ammo, the Pal Merchant selling captured Pals, the Black Marketeer selling rare Pals and buying humans, and the Medicine Merchant selling recovery items.
- ✓Wandering Merchant
- ✓Pal Merchant
- ✓Black Marketeer
Where to find the Black Marketeer
The Black Marketeer appears at three reliable points: the Duneshelter settlement in the desert, the Free Pal Alliance tower outskirts, and the Small Settlement in the Windswept Hills — all reachable by fast travel and all restocking on the same timer.
- ✓Duneshelter
- ✓Small Settlement
- ✓Sakurajima port
What is actually worth buying from merchants
The best merchant purchases in Palworld are ammunition, cake ingredients, Medical Supplies and cheap Handiwork Pals — buying ore or wood is a trap because a properly staffed base out-produces any merchant stock for free.
- ✓Ammunition
- ✓Cake ingredients
- ✓Medical supplies
How to earn gold fast for merchant runs
The fastest merchant gold in Palworld comes from selling bred Pals with rare passives, mass-producing Cakes or Arrows for bulk sale, and looting Syndicate camps — a mature breeding base clears 100,000 gold an hour.
- ✓Sell bred Pals
- ✓Bulk crafting
- ✓Syndicate camps
Legendary merchant FAQ
Merchants in Palworld restock roughly every 30 real-time minutes, the Black Marketeer is the only vendor that sells rare Pals and buys humans, and killing a merchant removes them for about one in-game day before they respawn.
- ✓Do merchants respawn after death?
- ✓Can merchants be captured?
- ✓Is there a legendary schematic merchant?
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