Effigies are Palworld's permanent player upgrades: small glowing statues you collect in the world and offer at the Statue of Power to enhance your character. The original green Lifmunk Effigy raises Capture Power, and the Tides of Terraria update added twelve Pal Effigies — one per species — each feeding its own stat, from swim speed to sphere homing to a hidden luck stat for wild passives. This guide covers every effigy type, the exact rank tables and costs from the game files, how many of each exist in the world, and where to find them.

Not to be confused with Ancient Relics — the World Tree items you feed into the Ancient Relic Recycler. Those are a different system entirely; see the Ancient Relics guide.

Every effigy at a glance

Thirteen effigy types, thirteen separate enhancement tracks. Each effigy is a statuette of its namesake Pal; what it enhances, straight from the game's own Statue of Power text:

"To max" is the total number of that effigy needed to reach the final rank. "In the world" counts every pickup placed in the game's maps — see them all on the interactive map.

The Statue of Power

Every effigy is spent at the Statue of Power , unlocked at technology level 9 for 2 technology points and built from 20 Stone and 10 Paldium Fragments (it must be placed within a base). The same statue also handles Pal enhancement with Pal Souls — effigies feed the player side of its menu. Enhancements are per-character, and the statue lets you reset an enhancement track for a token gold cost.

Lifmunk Effigies: Capture Power

The classic green effigy, modeled after Lifmunk . Offering them raises Capture Power — your base catch rate with every sphere — across 15 ranks. Costs escalate: 1 effigy for rank 1 up to 7 for rank 7, then a flat 9 per rank to rank 15, for 100 effigies total. With 155 placed across the world (140 in the overworld, 15 inside the World Tree), you can miss a third of them and still max the track.

Unlike every other effigy track, the game files don't expose Capture Power's per-rank percentage — the data table drives only the costs, and the actual capture-rate multiplier is computed in the game's code. In-game you only ever see the rank gauge.

The eight 20-rank Pal Effigies

Eight of the Tides of Terraria effigies work identically: 1 effigy per rank, 20 ranks, with the effect growing in equal steps to its cap. Each has exactly 30 pickups in the world, so you need two of every three to max the stat:

The three movement stats — Swimming Ability, Flight Capacity, and Climbing Proficiency — do double duty: each raises speed and cuts stamina drain for its activity, so they're worth far more than the raw percentage suggests. Endurance (Cattiva's stat) is specifically sprint stamina while mounted.

The three rare effigies — only 4 each

Three effigies have just 4 ranks and exactly 4 copies in the entire world — no spares. Every one you find matters, and their effects are the strongest in the system:

• Sphere Tracking ( Lunaris ) makes thrown spheres home in on their target — at rank 4 a sloppy throw still connects.
• EXP Gain ( Relaxaurus ) is a straight +50% experience at rank 4 — four pickups for a permanent leveling boost.
• Rainbow Fortune ( Yakumo ) quietly improves the passive skills wild Pals spawn with — small numbers, but it applies to every wild Pal you ever catch.

Mimog Effigies: Movement Speed

The Mimog Effigy is the odd one out: it is never found in the world. Instead, one "suddenly comes into your possession" each time you complete a species' capture bonus — the same capture counter that grants bonus EXP for catching multiples of the same Pal. It feeds the longest track in the game: Movement Speed, 92 ranks, +0.5% per rank up to +45% at rank 90, then +46% at rank 91 and a final jump to +50% at rank 92. Rank 1 costs a single effigy, ranks 2–79 cost 3 each, and ranks 80–92 cost 4 — 287 Mimog Effigies to finish, which means completing capture bonuses across essentially the whole Paldeck.

Where to find every effigy

Lifmunk Effigies are scattered across every region of the game, but each Pal Effigy species concentrates in its own part of the map — roughly matching where its namesake Pal lives. Every placement is plotted on the interactive world map (toggle the effigy layers in the sidebar):

What to enhance first

• Grab the three rare effigies whenever you're nearby. Twelve total pickups buy sphere homing, +50% EXP, and better wild passives permanently — by far the best value in the system.
• Offer Lifmunk Effigies as you find them. Capture Power applies to every throw, and with 155 in the world against 100 needed, there's no reason to hoard.
• Climbing and gliding pay off early. Tanzee (Feybreak) and Herbil (Sakurajima) effigies cut stamina drain on the two traversal modes you use most before flying mounts take over.
• Movement Speed maxes itself over time. Mimog Effigies arrive automatically as you fill the Paldeck — just remember to actually spend them at the statue. Catching ten of everything you meet keeps them flowing (and stacks with the capture bonus EXP).
• Hunting effigies means catching Pals anyway — plan long captures around the passives worth keeping, since Rainbow Fortune makes wild catches roll better ones.