Palworld 1.0.3 Update Guide — Stat Fruit Rework, Jetragon Level 70 & Everything New (2026)

You log in after the 1.0.3 patch on August 12, 2026. Your plan was simple: run a few Moonlord raids tonight, stock up on Stat Fruits, and finish maxing your Jetragon’s stats. You queue the raid, clear it, open the loot window — and there’s no fruit.

Not bad luck. Not a nerf to drop rates. The drop is just gone.

That’s the real story of Palworld 1.0.3. On the surface it looks like a small bug-fix patch. Underneath, the entire Stat Fruit economy got rewired, Jetragon moved down nine levels, and a handful of items you ignored became worth a second look. This guide walks you through every change that actually matters, with the mistakes players are already making — and how to avoid them.

Here’s the whole patch at a glance:

The Stat Fruit Rework: The Real Story of 1.0.3

If you only read one section, make it this one. Stat Fruits (Life Fruit, Power Fruit, Stout Fruit) are the items that permanently boost a Pal’s HP, attack, and defense. They were one of the main reasons to run Moonlord raids at all.

That reason is gone.

What Changed: Moonlord Stops Dropping Stat Fruits

Before 1.0.3, Moonlord raids were the go-to source for Stat Fruits. You’d clear the raid, get your fruit, and feed it to whatever Pal you were building. Simple loop. Thousands of players built their endgame Pals that way.

After 1.0.3, Moonlord raids no longer drop Stat Fruits. Full stop. The fruit didn’t get rarer, and it didn’t move to a higher raid tier — the drop was removed from the Moonlord loot table entirely.

If you’re still farming Moonlord for fruit, stop. You’re spending real hours for loot that can’t drop anymore. We’ll get to what Moonlord is still good for in a moment.

The New Loop: Successful Bounty Tokens

Stat Fruits now come from a completely different system: Successful Bounty Tokens.

Here’s the loop, step by step:

1. Go to the Faybreak Isles and find a bounty target.
2. Catch the target.
3. Butcher it with the Meat Cleaver.
4. Collect the Successful Bounty Tokens it drops.
5. Take the tokens to a Bounty Officer and trade them for Stat Fruits or Ripe Starfruit.

Two Pals make this dramatically faster, and they’re the ones the community has settled on for the grind:

• Yakumo — its partner skill makes catching easier and carries Yakumo’s passives onto the Pals you catch. Useful when you’re catching bounty targets over and over.
• Splatterina — the butchering specialist. Its partner skill boosts what you get when you butcher a Pal, which is exactly what this loop is built around.

So the full setup is: Yakumo in your party to catch the target cleanly, then Splatterina (or a party built around it) when you pull out the Meat Cleaver. Catch, butcher, collect, repeat.

Bounty Officers: Where Tokens Become Fruit

The Successful Bounty Tokens don’t do anything on their own. You spend them at Bounty Officers, the NPCs who hand out bounty quests in the first place.

Trade them for:

• Stat Fruits — Life, Power, and Stout Fruit, the same permanent stat boosters you used to get from Moonlord.
• Ripe Starfruit — the other reward on the menu, which feeds into the newer fruit economy (more on that below).

This is a cleaner loop than the old Moonlord grind in one specific way: it’s targetable. You’re not rolling a whole raid loot table and hoping for the fruit you need. You earn a token, then you choose exactly which Stat Fruit to spend it on. If your Pal needs attack, you buy Power Fruit. If it needs HP, you buy Life Fruit.

The Earlier Change You Might Have Missed

One reason this patch confused a lot of players: 1.0.3 is actually the second time Stat Fruits got moved around.

Before this patch, Pocketpair had already introduced new Stat Fruit and Starfruit, tied to a Bounty Tokens + Fruit Tokens exchange system. That was the first step away from Moonlord-only fruit. The 1.0.3 patch doubles down on that direction by removing the Moonlord drop entirely and pushing everything through Successful Bounty Tokens.

If you skipped that earlier update, you’re now two steps behind. You thought Moonlord was still the source. It isn’t. You thought Bounty Tokens were a side feature. They’re now the main feature.

Should You Spend Tokens on Stat Fruit or Ripe Starfruit?

This is the one real decision in the new system, and it’s not as obvious as it looks.

Stat Fruit gives you immediate, permanent stat boosts on the Pal in front of you. It’s the safe, always-useful choice. Every Pal benefits from more HP, attack, or defense, and you can see the number go up the second you feed it.

Ripe Starfruit feeds the newer fruit economy — the path that leads toward the new Stat Fruit variants introduced in the earlier update. It’s the forward-looking choice, but it’s only worth it if you’re already engaged with that newer system.

Here’s the framework that’s served most players well:

• You’re building a specific Pal right now → spend on the Stat Fruit you need. Don’t overthink it.
• You’re already set on stats and looking ahead → hold tokens for Ripe Starfruit and work the newer fruit chain.
• You don’t know what the new Starfruit chain even is → spend on Stat Fruit. Don’t stockpile tokens for a system you haven’t set up yet.

The counterintuitive part: don’t hoard tokens “just in case.” Tokens are farmable and the loop is repeatable. There’s no scarcity that rewards sitting on a full inventory. Spend them on the thing that improves your roster today, and go farm more when you need the other.

翻车复盘: The Moonlord Trap

The most common mistake this patch is a time sink, not a build error.

The mistake: You keep running Moonlord raids because “that’s where Stat Fruits come from.” You clear three, four, five raids, see no fruit, and assume you’re just getting unlucky with drop rates.

The actual reason: The drop was removed. You’re not unlucky. You’re farming a loot table that no longer contains the item you want.

The recovery: Stop raiding for fruit. Switch to the Faybreak bounty loop — catch, Meat Cleaver, tokens, Bounty Officer. If you were mid-grind on a Pal’s stats when the patch hit, the bounty loop is now the fastest way back on track. Moonlord is still worth running for its other rewards, but not for fruit. Treat it as a raid-boss fight for raid rewards, not as a Stat Fruit farm. (If you’re refreshing your raid strategy anyway, our raid bosses guide breaks down the current bosses.)

Jetragon Unlocks at Level 70 Now

This is the single most welcome change in the patch for anyone who was stuck in the endgame grind.

What Actually Changed

Two things moved:

• Jetragon-related technology dropped from Level 79 to Level 70.
• Jetragon’s mount equipment got cheaper.

Before 1.0.3, Jetragon was gated behind Level 79. That meant the gap between Level 70 and 79 was a dead zone for anyone who wanted the best flying mount in the game — you’d see Jetragon in videos, know it existed, and have to grind nine more levels before you could even unlock the tech.

Now the moment you hit 70, Jetragon’s technology opens up.

The 70-Level Windfall

Here’s the scene: you’re Level 70, mid-grind, and you’ve been assuming Jetragon is still three weeks of leveling away. You open the technology tree after the patch, scroll to Jetragon, and it’s there. Unlocked. Your flying speed just went from “fine” to “the fastest mount in the game” about 40% faster than anything else you own.

That nine-level gap is gone. If you had been hoarding Ancient Technology Points for the Level 79 unlock, you now have more freedom than you expected — and possibly a few points you can reallocate. Our technology and progression guide covers how to plan those points so you don’t waste them.

翻车: Already Spent Your Ancient Technology Points

Here’s the trap that’s catching players who were already deep into the 70s when the patch dropped.

The mistake: You spent Ancient Technology Points on whatever you could afford at Level 73 or 75, assuming you had more levels to grind before Jetragon mattered. Now Jetragon is available at 70 — and you’re short on points because you dumped them into tech you barely use.

The actual reason: Ancient Technology Points are a limited resource. The patch made Jetragon available sooner, which means your points need to cover it sooner.

The recovery: Audit your unlocked Ancient Technology. If you bought something situational you haven’t used in ten hours, that’s a candidate to stop sinking further points into. Prioritize Jetragon’s unlock and its mount equipment now that they’re cheaper. The cheaper equipment is real savings — don’t spend the patch’s discount on other tech first.

What To Do First At 70

You’re at 70. Jetragon is unlocked. What’s the order of operations?

• Unlock Jetragon’s technology first. Everything else is secondary. It’s the best flying mount in the game, and the patch just handed it to you early.
• Build the cheaper mount equipment next. The cost drop means you can afford the saddle/gear faster than before.
• Catch or breed your Jetragon. It’s still a tough catch near Mount Obsidian, and you’ll want a good one — if you’re weighing it against Shadowbeak, our Jetragon vs Shadowbeak comparison walks through which to grab first.

The one thing not to do: treat Level 70 as a reason to slow down. Jetragon is a huge power spike, but the rest of your progression still runs through the 70s. Unlock it, gear it, then keep leveling.

Everything Else in 1.0.3

The Stat Fruit rework and Jetragon change are the headline. But the patch also touched a handful of smaller things that add up.

Aquatic Construction Kit: Level 66 Down to 23

The Aquatic Construction Kit got the most dramatic single-number change in the patch. Its level requirement dropped from 66 to 23, and its Ancient Technology Point cost fell from 4 to 1.

This matters more than it looks. At Level 23, underwater building is no longer an endgame-only feature. If you want to build over water early — or just experiment with aquatic bases without committing four Ancient Technology Points — that door is now open almost immediately. For one point, it’s a low-cost unlock.

World Tree Holy Water Rework

World Tree Holy Water got a full rework across four axes:

• Weight: 1 → 0.1 — you can carry ten of them for what one used to cost.
• Longer duration — the effect now lasts longer than before.
• More ways to get it — expeditions, fishing, World Tree Pals, and Teafant Springs are all now sources.

The weight change is the quiet winner here. Holy Water is the kind of item that used to sit in your inventory weighing you down. At 0.1, you can actually keep a stack without it wrecking your carry weight.

Fiber, Oil Extractors, and Resource Tweaks

A few resource changes slipped in alongside the bigger items:

• Fiber from trees doubled — farming fiber just got faster.
• Oil extractors are cheaper and faster — lower cost, better output.

Neither is headline-grabbing, but both quietly speed up mid-to-late-game base upkeep. If you run a fiber-hungry or oil-hungry base, this patch shaves real minutes off your maintenance loops.

Server Settings, Bug Fixes, and Exploit Removals

The patch also shipped a long list of fixes and cleanups:

• New server setting — you can now stop enemy camps from respawning near your home base.
• Bug fixes — PS5 and Xbox crashes, a Sunreach progression blocker, World Tree lag, Pal behavior, raid battle issues, building placement, and a batch of UI, sound, and map problems all got addressed.
• Exploits removed — the item duplication exploit and the Sphere Launcher timing exploit are both gone.

The exploit removals are worth flagging if you were using either one. They’re patched out, so any setup that relied on duplicating items or abusing Sphere Launcher timing no longer works.

Snock Lux Is Now Snock Terra

Finally, one hidden change: Snock Lux has been renamed to Snock Terra.

It’s a small rename, but it’ll trip you up if you search for “Snock Lux” and find nothing. Same Pal, new name.

What’s Coming: Palworld v1.1 Kickoff

The day after this patch — August 13, 2026 — Pocketpair officially announced “Palworld v1.1 Kickoff.” It’s the first major content update since the 1.0 launch on July 10, which brought 72 Pals, the Sunreach region, and the World Tree.

That’s the background worth knowing: 1.0.3 is a bridge patch. It’s the cleanup and economy rework that happens before the next big content drop. If you’re deciding how much to grind right now, keep that in mind — the Stat Fruit and Jetragon changes are the stuff that’ll matter while you wait for v1.1.

The Bottom Line

Palworld 1.0.3 looks small and isn’t. Two things you should do today:

1. Stop farming Moonlord for Stat Fruits. Switch to the Faybreak bounty loop — catch, Meat Cleaver, Successful Bounty Tokens, Bounty Officer. Yakumo and Splatterina make it faster.
2. Hit 70 and unlock Jetragon. The Level 79 gate is gone, and the mount equipment is cheaper.

Everything else — the Aquatic Construction Kit drop, the Holy Water rework, the fiber and oil tweaks, the exploit removals, the Snock Terra rename — is noise by comparison, but it’s noise that adds up in your favor.

The one risk to watch: don’t keep grinding the old way out of habit. The Moonlord trap is the easiest time-waster in this patch. Now that you know the fruit moved, you can skip straight to the loop that actually works.

Related Guides

• Palworld Skill Fruit Complete Guide — everything on skill and stat fruits, and how to feed them
• Palworld Technology & Progression Guide — how to plan your leveling and Ancient Technology Points
• Palworld Raid Bosses Guide — what Moonlord and the current raids are actually good for
• Palworld Jetragon vs Shadowbeak — which legendary to chase after you hit 70