Three Rayne Syndicate oil rigs sit off the coast of the Palpagos Islands, and they are the closest thing Palworld has to a raid: fortified platforms packed with dozens of armed Syndicate guards, anti-air cannons that shoot your mount out from under you, explosive barrels everywhere, and chests stuffed with Crude Oil , Gold Keys, Pal Souls, and schematics you cannot farm anywhere else. This guide covers all three rigs — the level 30 test rig, the level 55 rig, and the level 60 platform rig — with every guard, every companion Pal, every chest loot table, and the exact odds from the game files.

How oil rigs work

An oil rig is a permanent world location, not an instanced dungeon. You fly or swim out to it, fight your way across the deck, loot every chest you can find, and leave. Nothing is on a lockout timer and nothing is one-per-save: once you clear a rig, the game resets it — guards, chests and all — after 30 minutes of real time, so a rig is a repeatable farm rather than a one-off event.

A PIDF guard on the mainland will warn you about them if you talk to the right NPC: "See that huge structure towering over the ocean? That's a Syndicate oil rig. It's a dangerous place, so make sure to stay away from it." Ignore that advice — but bring the right gear.

The alarm and endless reinforcements

Most guards on a rig are fixed sentries that hold a post. A second group is flagged in the game data to start combat only when the rig alarm goes off — hit one guard loudly enough and a chunk of the platform mobilises at once. On top of that, the two larger rigs carry a separate class of reinforcement spawner that keeps producing replacement guards rather than a single fixed enemy: 18 of them on the level 55 rig and 6 on the level 60 platform rig. The level 30 test rig has none, which is a large part of why it is so much gentler.

The practical consequence: you cannot clear the level 55 rig by standing in one spot and out-damaging the spawns. Push forward, break the reinforcement points' line of sight, and loot as you go.

Anti-air guns and laser towers

Every rig is ringed with anti-air machine guns — 4,000 HP, 1,000 defense, 150 damage per shot, engaging anything within roughly 48 metres. They are destructible: walk up to one and the interact prompt literally reads "Destroy". Clearing the guns nearest your landing point before the fight properly starts is one of the biggest quality-of-life wins on a raid.

The two bigger rigs also mount laser towers, and these are a different problem: the game flags them to target flying targets only, with an engagement range of 200–500 metres on the level 55 rig. They turn slowly (3° per second in pitch), so a fast mount can outrun the tracking — but hovering over the deck to snipe from above is exactly what they exist to punish. The level 60 platform rig's towers are the upgraded variant: they start engaging from 100 metres out and track more than twice as fast.

Explosive barrels and gas tanks

Rigs are littered with red barrels and gas tanks — 47 barrels and 16 tanks on the level 55 rig alone. Each carries an explosion power of 10,000 with a 0.2 second fuse, and they chain. A single shot into a cluster next to a guard squad does more damage than most weapons in the game, and the tanks launch their blast upward, which makes them ideal for the raised walkways. They are just as lethal to you, so do not fight next to one.

Chests, keys, and the goal crate

Every rig has two kinds of container. Ordinary treasure chests are scattered across the decks and roll the rig's standard loot pool. Then there is the goal container — the final prize at the end of the platform, which on the level 60 rig is a crate you hack rather than unlock, confirmed with a "Hacking Complete" message. Goal containers roll a completely different, much richer pool than the regular chests, so never leave a rig without finding them.

Loot rolls one item per slot, and each slot has its own chance to fire at all. A slot listed below as "always rolls" gives you something every single time; the handful of low-chance slots are the jackpot slots. Guards themselves also drop keys: ordinary riflemen and shotgunners have a 1% chance at a Copper Key , the flamethrower, rocket and missile troopers drop a Silver Key at 1%, and every gatling-gun Syndicate Crusher has a 1% shot at a Gold Key . Guards drop gold at 40% (the Crushers at 100%) and Crude Oil at 15–60% depending on the rig and the guard.

All of these drop rates are the game's 1× base values. They scale with the "Amount of Dropped Items by Enemies" world setting exactly like any other enemy loot, so an Easy-preset or custom world will hand you noticeably more.

The three rigs at a glance

Coordinates are the in-game map readout — click any pair to open that rig, highlighted among the three, on our interactive world map. "Region level" is the danger rating the map shows for the area; the guard levels are what you actually fight.

Rayne Syndicate Test Drilling Rig

The smallest and by far the easiest of the three, and the one most players meet first. Its guards sit at levels 15–20 — genuinely mid-game enemies — and it has no respawning reinforcements at all, so it can be cleared methodically with a crossbow and a decent mount. The catch is that its loot pools are scaled to match: this is a Giga Sphere and Training Manual farm, not a schematic farm.

Who is defending it

Pals fighting alongside the guards

Syndicate guards on the rigs bring companion Pals into the fight. These are the species deployed here, at the levels the game assigns them:

• Grintale Lv 20
• Dumud Lv 20
• Digtoise Lv 19
• Leezpunk Lv 16
• Incineram Noct Lv 16
• Nitewing Lv 16
• Depresso Lv 16
• Arsox Lv 16
• Fuddler Lv 16

Treasure chest loot

The 10 ordinary chests on the deck roll this pool. Slot 1 is overwhelmingly Giga Spheres, but this is also the only oil rig chest pool that can drop an Ancient Technical Manual :

Supply chests loot

The rig's 2 supply chests roll a much better pool than the deck chests — including a slot that is nothing but Skill Fruits, 39 of them at even odds, which makes this little rig a surprisingly good early source of active skills:

Fishing off the rig

Each rig has its own rare fishing spot with a level 20–30 pool, on a one-hour respawn. What you can pull up here:

• Jelliette day only
• Jellroy night only
• Turtacle
• Celaray
• Croajiro
• Pengullet
• Fuack
• Kelpsea

See the fishing guide for how shadow sizes translate into Pal quality — the "Nushi" shadows in these rare pools are guaranteed to carry the top-tier fishing passives.

Rayne Syndicate Oil Rig

The rig most people mean when they say "the oil rig". Every guard here is level 55, there are 58 of them holding fixed posts plus 18 respawning reinforcements, and the deck bristles with 27 anti-air machine guns and 3 laser towers — the heaviest air defense of any rig. In exchange, its goal chests are the single best source of advanced weapon schematics in the game, and its regular chests can drop Large Pal Souls and Gold Keys.

Who is defending it

Reinforcement posts that keep producing guards while the alarm is up: Syndicate Gunner ×6, Syndicate Hunter ×4, Syndicate Cleaner ×4, Syndicate Elite ×2, Syndicate Grenadier ×1, Syndicate Interceptor ×1.

Pals fighting alongside the guards

Syndicate guards on the rigs bring companion Pals into the fight. These are the species deployed here, at the levels the game assigns them:

• Wixen Lv 55
• Jormuntide Ignis Lv 55
• Leezpunk Lv 55
• Leezpunk Ignis Lv 55
• Incineram Noct Lv 55
• Blazehowl Noct Lv 55
• Menasting Lv 55
• Vanwyrm Lv 55
• Ragnahawk Lv 55
• Pyrin Lv 55
• Relaxaurus Lux Lv 55
• Gobfin Lv 55
• Gobfin Ignis Lv 55
• Tombat Lv 55
• Robinquill Terra Lv 55
• Tocotoco Lv 55
• Dumud Lv 55
• Depresso Lv 55

Treasure chest loot

The 12 ordinary chests roll this pool. Slot 1 is the valuable one — a 27.9% shot at a Large Pal Soul and a 13.9% shot at a Gold Key — and the Plasteel gear schematics here are the practical way to kit out a level 50 character:

Supply chests loot

The 4 supply chests are the reason to raid this rig. Slot 1 is guaranteed to be an advanced weapon schematic — laser rifle, flamethrower, grenade launcher, gatling gun, or one of the two missile launchers — and it is the only loot table in the game that carries the base Multi Guided Missile Launcher schematic. Slot 3 pays out Ancient Civilization Cores over half the time:

The game's table also defines grade-specific variants of a fifth slot for these chests: 3–5 Training Manual (L) at grade 1, 1–2 large Lotuses at grade 2, and 3–5 Training Manual (XL) at grade 4.

Fishing off the rig

Each rig has its own rare fishing spot with a level 50–55 pool, on a one-hour respawn. What you can pull up here:

• Azurobe
• Penking
• Whalaska day only
• Azurobe Cryst

See the fishing guide for how shadow sizes translate into Pal quality — the "Nushi" shadows in these rare pools are guaranteed to carry the top-tier fishing passives.

Rayne Syndicate Platform Oil Rig

The endgame rig, tucked into the far corner of the map. Its 142 fixed guards are the largest garrison in the game and they come with weapons the other rigs never field — laser rifles, katanas and crossbows — backed by Xenovader and Helzephyr companions in the high 50s. Its goal crates are the only source in the game for the upper tiers of the Plasma Cannon schematic line, and its regular chests are the only oil rig pool that drops Giant Pal Souls .

Who is defending it

Reinforcement posts that keep producing guards while the alarm is up: Syndicate Laser Rifleman ×2, Syndicate Crossbowman ×1, Syndicate Swordsman ×1, Syndicate Gunner ×1, Syndicate Elite ×1.

Pals fighting alongside the guards

Syndicate guards on the rigs bring companion Pals into the fight. These are the species deployed here, at the levels the game assigns them:

• Xenovader Lv 56
• Leezpunk Lv 56
• Incineram Noct Lv 57
• Helzephyr Lv 57
• Knocklem Lv 58
• Cattiva Lv 57

Treasure chest loot

The 22 ordinary chests roll this pool, and it is the richest regular chest table in the game: a flat 10,000 gold on half of slot 2's rolls, a 31.1% shot at a Giant Pal Soul , Hexolite gear schematics, and a rare slot that hands out work suitability handbooks:

Goal crates loot

The 5 goal crates are hacked rather than unlocked, and they hold the best chest table in Palworld: guaranteed high-tier schematics for the endgame weapons, 150–300 Crude Oil in one hit, and a slot 3 that rolls Ancient Civilization Cores 44.1% of the time and otherwise hands you a schematic for gear you can only get here:

Fishing off the rig

Each rig has its own rare fishing spot with a level 58–62 pool, on a one-hour respawn. What you can pull up here:

• Ghangler Ignis
• Whalaska day only
• Azurobe Cryst

See the fishing guide for how shadow sizes translate into Pal quality — the "Nushi" shadows in these rare pools are guaranteed to carry the top-tier fishing passives.

The rig-exclusive Pals and their drops

Six Pal species have a dedicated oil rig variant in the game files, with drop tables rewritten for the raid. The most useful by far is Leezpunk, which drops a Copper Key on every single defeat — and there are a dozen of them on the level 60 platform rig, which makes that rig a better key farm than most chest routes.

These are combat variants, not new species — catching one gives you the ordinary Pal, so there is no Paldex entry to chase here.

What the loot is actually for

• Crude Oil is the headline reward and the reason the rigs exist. It refines into Plasteel (2 oil + 5 ore), and it is a direct ingredient in Flamethrower Fuel, Missile Ammo, Frag Grenade Mk2 and Wing Cells. A single goal crate on the level 60 rig pays 150–300 oil, which is more than a long mining trip.
• Weapon and armour schematics. The level 55 rig's goal chests are the game's main source of laser rifle, flamethrower, grenade launcher, gatling gun and guided missile launcher schematics; the level 60 rig's crates upgrade that to Plasma Cannons, Laser Gatling Guns and Advanced Bows at tier 2 and above. Regular chests carry the matching Plasteel and Hexolite armour lines.
• Pal Souls. Large Pal Souls at 27.9% from level 55 chests and Giant Pal Souls at 31.1% from level 60 chests. Giant Souls are the bottleneck in soul enhancement — 30 of the 52 souls needed to max a Pal — and rig chests are one of the few repeatable sources outside predator hunting.
• Gold Keys and Dog Coins. A Gold Key at 13.9–15.6% from the two bigger rigs' regular chests, and 15–20 Dog Coins per roll for the medal shop.
• Work suitability handbooks. The level 60 rig is the only oil rig that drops Applied Handbooks, which permanently add a work suitability to a Pal. They sit behind the rarest slots on the rig (0.92% on regular chests, 20% on the goal crates), so treat them as a bonus rather than a farm.
• Coralum Ore and Ancient Civilization Cores. 8–12 Coralum per level 55 chest and 15–20 per level 60 chest, plus 1–5 Ancient Civilization Cores from every goal container on the two big rigs. Cores are not rig-exclusive — expeditions and the Ancient Relic Recycler also produce them — but a goal-crate run is the fastest repeatable source that does not cost you relics.

Loot you can only get on an oil rig

Cross-referencing every loot table in the game against the rig pools, only three schematic lines are genuinely rig-exclusive — they appear in no other chest, dungeon, camp, treasure map or enemy drop table anywhere:

• The entire Multi Guided Missile Launcher line. The base schematic and tier 1 come only from the level 55 rig's supply chests; tiers 2–4 come from those chests or the level 60 rig's goal crates. There is no other way to get them.
• Plasma Cannon schematics 2, 3 and 4. Level 60 goal crates only. Tier 1 turns up in chests elsewhere in the world, but every upgrade above it is locked behind the platform rig.
• Lightweight Hexolite Armor Schematic 1. The level 60 rig's regular chests, and nowhere else — the rest of the Hexolite armour line is available from dark island chests and salvage.

Everything else on a rig — Laser Gatling Gun and Advanced Bow schematics, Giant Pal Souls, Ancient Civilization Cores, Applied Handbooks, Gold Keys — is farmable elsewhere too. The rigs are usually the faster source, not the only one.

How to raid a rig

• Do not hover. The laser towers exist specifically to shoot flying targets. Land early, on an outer corner of the platform, and fight on foot — or approach at sea level and climb.
• Kill the nearest anti-air guns first. They are destructible, 4,000 HP each, and clearing the two or three covering your landing zone makes the rest of the raid dramatically calmer — especially on the level 55 rig with its 27 guns.
• Shoot the barrels, not the guards. Explosive power 10,000 with a 0.2 second fuse and chain detonation. Every rig has 28–47 barrels and 8–28 gas tanks, and the Syndicate has helpfully parked most of them next to their own patrol routes.
• Bring a Dark- or Fire-resistant loadout for the level 55 rig. Its companion Pals skew heavily toward Fire and Dark — Jormuntide Ignis, Blazehowl Noct, Wixen, Ragnahawk, Incineram Noct — so resistance rings and a Water or Grass team pull their weight.
• Push, don't camp. Reinforcement posts keep producing guards. Clearing chests as you advance beats trying to wipe the deck first, because the deck does not stay wiped.
• Find the goal containers before you leave. They are a different loot table entirely — on every rig they are worth more than all the deck chests combined.
• Come back in 30 minutes. A cleared rig resets on a 1,800 second timer, so a rig run slots neatly between other activities. Pair it with a bounty circuit while you wait.