Palworld Melee Weapons: Official Names List

27 August 2026 · 7 min read

GameMapa editorial · how we check facts
Checked: Claude (AI) — fact-checked against the Ukrainian original; not proofread by a native speaker

Palworld’s melee weapon list reads almost like a system: the name nearly always tells you what the item is made of, whether it’s an upgraded version, and whether it’s a named weapon. Below is the complete set of names from the official source, plus a breakdown of how to tell them apart without checking a single fan-made table.

Where this list comes from

The names come from Pocketpair’s official documentation for the Palworld dedicated server — specifically the technologyids page, where every technology has a corresponding internal identifier. The documentation itself is called the “Palworld Server Guide”, it has a version switcher, and at the time this list was compiled the current documentation version is 1.0.3.

That matters for what you should expect. The server documentation exists for administrators: it gives a naming scheme, not stats. There’s no damage, no weight, no recipes, no unlock levels, no crafting time. So none of that appears here either — we don’t add numbers that aren’t in the source.

Palworld is developed and published by the Japanese studio Pocketpair: its Steam store page lists it as both Developer and Publisher. In other words, this is a primary source — the publisher describing its own game, not a retelling of a retelling.

If you’re curious how the technology tree works overall, there’s a separate guide on technology and points.

The full list of names

These are the in-game names exactly as they appear in the source — that’s what you’ll be looking for in the interface.

How to read the names

Material in the name

The simplest clue. Wooden Club is a wooden club, material right there in the name. Metal Bat is a metal bat. Primitive Sword means the roughest version of a blade. Metal Spear is a metal spear.

The word Pal Metal in Pal Metal Axe and Pal Metal Pickaxe is its own distinct material, not just “metal” repeated. It sets this pair apart from the rest of the list: both items are tool-shaped (an axe and a pickaxe), yet they sit among the melee weapons.

The upgraded version

Two words do the work here:

• Refined — a cleaned-up, improved version. The pair Metal Spear → Refined Metal Spear reads unambiguously: same weapon, higher tier.
• Enhanced — a strengthened version. Lily’s Spear → Enhanced Lily’s Spear works the same way.

The identifiers back this up: Spear_2 and Spear_3 differ only by the trailing digit, and so do Spear_ForestBoss and Spear_ForestBoss2. The game itself treats them as sequential versions of one item.

Named weapons

Lily’s Spear is the only name on the list built as someone’s possessive name. Its identifier is Spear_ForestBoss, meaning the item is internally tied to a forest boss. Which boss that is and how you actually get the weapon isn’t covered by the server documentation — it contains nothing beyond the name and the identifier. There’s a separate guide on boss content: tower bosses.

Meowmere is also a standalone name rather than a descriptive one. Its identifier, YakushimaBlade, has nothing in common with the display name. That’s normal for Palworld — the internal string and the interface name live separate lives. We won’t explain the mismatch, because the source doesn’t either.

Name doesn’t equal identifier

If you administer a server and work directly with identifiers, this is the main trap. Straight from the list:

• Sword has the identifier Battle_MeleeWeapon_Sword, while Primitive Sword is BronzeSword. The word “primitive” isn’t in the identifier at all — “bronze” is.
• Bat is Battle_MeleeWeapon_Bat2, while Wooden Club is Battle_MeleeWeapon_Bat. So “Bat” without a digit belongs to the club, not the bat.
• Metal Bat breaks the pattern entirely, with the short identifier Bat3.
• Stun Baton is ElecBaton, Meat Cleaver is MeatCutterKnife, Laser Sword is SkyBeamSword.

The practical takeaway: hunting for an item by its English name inside a list of identifiers is unreliable. Cross-check against the table above. That applies to running your own dedicated server too.

About Mega, Giga, Hyper, and Ultra

These booster prefixes show up often enough in item naming that it’s worth checking deliberately. In this melee weapon list, none of them appear. No Mega, no Giga, no Hyper, no Ultra.

There are also no “cold” or “heat-resistant” variants — nothing like Cold or Heat shows up in any melee weapon name. If you’re after a weapon suited to a specific climate, this list gives you no way to spot it — temperature markers simply aren’t part of these names. Gear built around temperature is worth looking for elsewhere — the armour list, for instance.

So the entire grading system here rests on two words — Refined and Enhanced — plus the material named outright.

Can you work out the order from this

The honest answer: there’s no order in this source. The technologyids page has no unlock levels, no sequence, no tie to progression. All you can do is read the logic of the names themselves — and that’s exactly what it is, a reading, not a confirmed order:

1. Within the “club–bat” group, names move from wood to metal: Wooden Club, Bat, Metal Bat.
2. Within the swords, the primitive version is literally named primitive: Primitive Sword and Sword.
3. Within the spears, the upgraded version is literally named upgraded: Metal Spear and Refined Metal Spear, Lily’s Spear and Enhanced Lily’s Spear.
4. Beam Sword and Laser Sword sound more advanced than Primitive Sword — but that’s an impression from the wording, not a fact from the documentation.

Where Katana, Meat Cleaver, Stun Baton, Meowmere, Pal Metal Axe, and Pal Metal Pickaxe fit into that picture can’t be worked out from the names at all.

What we don’t claim

⚠️ For every item on this list, we know exactly two things: the in-game name and the internal identifier. So we’re not writing:

• how much damage any of these weapons deals;
• what it’s crafted from or how much of it is needed;
• what level it unlocks at or what it costs;
• how much it weighs or how long it takes to make;
• which one is “best” or what an optimal build looks like.

That data isn’t in our source, and we’re not going to pull it from fan-made tables. We’re also not claiming this list of names is permanent: the documentation has a version switcher, and the technology page can change alongside the game.

In short

Pocketpair’s official server documentation gives a complete list of Palworld melee weapon names together with identifiers — and the names alone reveal material (Wooden, Metal, Pal Metal), upgrade tier (Refined, Enhanced), and named weapons (Lily’s Spear, Meowmere). Stats, recipes, and acquisition order aren’t in this source, so there’s no way to work them out from it.