29 Pals produce something on a Ranch. Both databases agree on the list exactly, so the table below is the complete set — pick by output, then by the lowest Farming level and food cost that gives it to you.
Technology level 5, 2 Technology Points, built from 30 Wood, 20 Stone and 30 Fiber with 15,000 workload. Any Pal you assign needs Farming Lv1 or better.
All 29 Ranch Pals
| # | Pal | Produces | Farming Lv | Food |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Lamball | Wool | 1 | 1 |
| 003 | Chikipi | Egg | 1 | 1 |
| 006 | Vixy | Pal Sphere, Mega Sphere, Giga Sphere, Hyper Sphere, Arrow, Gold Coin ×10, Bone | 1 | 1 |
| 008 | Cremis | Wool | 2 | 1 |
| 016 | Depresso | Venom Gland | 1 | 1 |
| 020 | Melpaca | Wool | 2 | 2 |
| 025 | Flambelle | Flame Organ | 1 | 2 |
| 026 | Rooby | Flame Organ | 1 | 1 |
| 027 | Mau | Gold Coin ×10 | 1 | 1 |
| 027B | Mau Cryst | Ice Organ | 1 | 1 |
| 034 | Caprity | Red Berries | 1 | 2 |
| 034B | Caprity Noct | Venom Gland | 1 | 2 |
| 039 | Woolipop | Cotton Candy | 1 | 1 |
| 039B | Woolipop Terra | Caramel Cotton Candy | 1 | 1 |
| 040 | Mozzarina | Milk | 2 | 2 |
| 042 | Sparkit | Electric Organ | 1 | 1 |
| 043 | Kelpsea | Aquatic Pal Fluids | 1 | 1 |
| 043B | Kelpsea Ignis | Flame Organ | 1 | 1 |
| 057 | Cawgnito | Bone | 1 | 3 |
| 066 | Vaelet | Tomato, Wheat, Potato, Carrot, Onion and Lettuce Seeds | 2 | 5 |
| 067 | Beegarde | Honey | 3 | 3 |
| 075 | Surfent | Leather | 2 | 3 |
| 095 | Foxcicle | Ice Organ | 3 | 4 |
| 109 | Dumud | High Quality Pal Oil | 1 | 3 |
| 109B | Dumud Gild | High Quality Pal Oil (80%), Gold Coin ×100 (20%) | 4 | 3 |
| 116 | Sibelyx | High Quality Cloth | 3 | 5 |
| 116B | Sibelyx Primo | High Quality Cloth | 4 | 5 |
| 118 | Shroomer | Mushroom, Cavern Mushroom | 3 | 5 |
| 135 | Sootseer | Bone | 2 | 7 |
Best Ranch Pal by output
| You want | Take | Measurable reason |
|---|---|---|
| Spheres and general value | Vixy | Seven different outputs at Farming Lv1, food 1 — no other Pal comes close |
| Wool | Lamball | Same product as Cremis and Melpaca at Lv1 instead of Lv2, food 1 |
| Flame Organ | Rooby or Kelpsea Ignis | Both Lv1 food 1; Flambelle is the same level at double the food |
| Ice Organ | Mau Cryst | Lv1 food 1 against Foxcicle's Lv3 food 4 for the identical item |
| Venom Gland | Depresso | Lv1 food 1; Caprity Noct is the same level at food 2 |
| Bone | Cawgnito | Lv1 food 3 against Sootseer's Lv2 food 7 for the same item |
| High Quality Cloth | Sibelyx | Lv3 against Sibelyx Primo's Lv4, same product and food |
| HQ Pal Oil | Dumud | Lv1 and 100% oil; Dumud Gild diverts 20% of output to gold |
| Leather | Surfent | The only Leather producer in the game |
| Seeds | Vaelet | The only seed producer; six types, but food cost 5 |
| Gold | Mau | Gold Coin ×10 at Lv1 food 1; Dumud Gild pays ×100 but only 20% of the time |
Six items on this list have two or three producers, and in every single case the lower-level Pal is also the cheaper to feed. Mau Cryst over Foxcicle, Rooby over Flambelle, Cawgnito over Sootseer, Lamball over Melpaca. There is no case where the higher-level duplicate is better.
What a Ranch cannot make
Working through all 29 entries, no Ranch Pal produces: Ore, Coal, Sulfur, Paldium Fragment, Cloth (only High Quality Cloth), Polymer, ordinary Pal Oil, Berry Seeds, or any organ other than Electric, Ice and Flame. Mining materials come from nodes and quarry structures instead.
Production rate
A widely repeated figure holds that a Pal assigned to a Ranch produces roughly every 50 seconds, with each level giving a chance to produce more. That figure is from before version 1.0, and 1.0's patch notes state the default ranch production interval was adjusted. No replacement figure has been published on either database, so every items-per-hour number in circulation is unverified.
Per-Pal output quantities are also unpublished. Dumud Gild's 80/20 split is the only probability breakdown either database gives for any Ranch Pal.
Region and collab coverage
The list includes later-era Pals — Woolipop Terra, Dumud Gild, Sibelyx Primo, Shroomer and Sootseer. Of the Pals added in the Tides of Terraria collaboration, Dumud Gild is the only one with Farming suitability, which matches both databases' Farming tables containing no other collab entries.
What to do next
- Build one Ranch at Tech 5 and start with Vixy — it pays for its own Spheres.
- Add Surfent for Leather, the only passive source in the game.
- Feed the whole thing from a Berry Plantation before scaling past four Pals — see the seeds guide.