How to breed Bushi Noct in Palworld

There are 138 parent pairs that hatch Bushi Noct in Palworld 1.0, 2 of them special recipes and the rest ordinary maths: Bushi Noct sits at breeding power 840, so any two parents whose powers average out to that number hatch Bushi Noct. All of them are read straight from the 1.0 game files, not copied from an Early Access spreadsheet, and the table below sorts them by how easy the parents are to get. The most reachable is Wumpo + Bushi Noct; the calculator above already has Bushi Noct selected if you want to filter by a parent you own.

Every pair that produces Bushi Noct (138)

Special recipes first (they win over the maths every time), then ordinary pairs sorted so the ones with the commonest parents come first. Hover a name for its stat card; click it for that Pal's own breeding page.

How the maths gets to Bushi Noct

Every Pal has a hidden breeding power; Bushi Noct sits at 840. When two parents breed, the game adds their two numbers, halves the total rounding up, and hatches whichever Pal is nearest that result. So any pair whose numbers average out to 840 (or nearer to 840 than to any other Pal) gives Bushi Noct: that is why so many different pairs land on the same egg, and why the pairs above cluster around parents whose powers straddle 840.

Worked examples from the table: Wumpo (830) + Bushi Noct (840) → 835; Wumpo (830) + Prixter Lux (850) → 840. When two Pals sit at exactly the same distance from the average, a fixed priority order decides, which is why a few pairs that look like they should tie do not.

Bushi Noct + Bushi Noct always hatches Bushi Noct: breeding two of the same species is how you farm passives once you have a pair.

What Bushi Noct breeds into

Bushi Noct as a parent, with a few common partners. The forward tab of the calculator does this for any pair.

Where to catch Bushi Noct

Every Bushi Noct spawn point, with the level range you meet it at. Click a point for coordinates; the full map has every other Pal, alpha and resource.

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Frequently asked questions

Every Palworld breeding page, A to Z →