Its body becomes a blade upon death, to be taken up by the next generation. If the Bushi who inherits it has a weak heart, the voices of the dead will drive it mad. The madness turns it into Bushi Noct that endlessly wanders.
Bushi Noct is a glass cannon in Palworld terms — 130 attack is well clear of the Paldex average, but 80 base HP and 80 defense leave very little margin, so it wants to be swapped in for burst rather than left out to trade. Its damage is ranged-weighted — 130 ranged attack against 100 melee — so Bushi Noct hits hardest when it can keep its distance and let its own moves do the work. Its defining number is Ranged Attack at 130: that is the top 5% of the entire Paldex, and it is the reason to build around Bushi Noct at all.
Bushi Noct carries both Fire and Dark, which widens the matchup in both directions: it is hit harder by Water and Dragon damage, and hits harder against Neutral, Ice and Grass in return.
Bushi Noct is a flexible base worker with 5 of the game's 12 work suitabilities. Lumbering at level 5 leads the sheet, with Kindling, Handiwork and Transporting behind it. That ranks Bushi Noct #9 of the 63 Pals that can do Lumbering — comfortably worth a slot even once your Paldex fills out.
| Lv | Move | Element | Power | Cooldown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spirit Fire | Fire | 80 | 4s |
| 7 | Umbral Surge | Dark | 60 | 4s |
| 15 | Dark Cannon | Dark | 70 | 4s |
| 18 | Iaigiri | Fire | 160 | 8s |
| 22 | Dark Arrow | Dark | 120 | 8s |
| 30 | Spirit Flame | Dark | 200 | 12s |
| 40 | Flame Wall | Fire | 250 | 12s |
| 50 | Apocalypse | Dark | 400 | 20s |
| 70 | Dark Whisp | Dark | 600 | 30s |
Any of the 2 parent pairs below hatches into Bushi Noct. Hand-authored unique recipes come first, followed by the cheapest formula pairs.
Bushi Noct is found on the Palpagos Islands map, where the game data places 2023 separate spawn points for it. Every one of them sits on Feybreak Island, so that is the only biome worth searching for a wild Bushi Noct. They are scattered rather than clustered, though the south-west of the map around X -676k, Y -296k is still the busiest patch.
Wild Bushi Noct spawn between level 46 and level 67, so the ones you meet late in a run hit noticeably harder than the first you catch. Night changes the picture: Bushi Noct uses a different set of spawn points after dark, which the Night view above plots separately. Beyond open-world spawns, Bushi Noct also turns up in dungeons.

Bushi Noct is a Fire / Dark Pal of the Humanoid genus and Medium size. Its standout stat is Ranged Attack at 130, putting it in the 95th percentile of all Pals. Bushi Noct works best at Lumbering level 5, ranking #9 of 63 Pals with that job. It can be bred from 2 different parent pairs. Defeating or capturing it yields Flame Organ, Ingot, Medium Pal Soul. It appears at 2023 spawn locations between levels 46 and 67, most of them on Feybreak Island.
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Bushi Noct's strongest stat is Ranged Attack, in the 95th percentile of all Pals, and its best job is Lumbering.
Bushi Noct has Lumbering at level 5, which ranks #9 of 63 Pals that can do that job.
Bushi Noct can be bred from 2 parent combinations. The cheapest is Bushi Noct + Bushi Noct.
Bushi Noct appears at 2023 spawn locations on Palpagos Islands, at levels 46 to 67. The densest concentration is on Feybreak Island — the habitat map above plots every one of them.
Bushi Noct drops Flame Organ, Ingot, Medium Pal Soul.
Bushi Noct has a ride sprint speed of 900, in the 63th percentile of all Pals.