Palworld Ancient Ruins — the 1.0 puzzle towers

The loop is the same every time, even when the minigame changes:

• Find the tower. Tall stone spires, sealed shut, visible from a long way off. They're all over the map, and Pocketpair deliberately didn't publish a list. Not to be confused with Watchtowers, the other new 1.0 tower type that reveals map area and becomes a fast-travel point. If it unseals after a fight or a minigame, it's an Ancient Ruin.
• Break the Sealing Stones. Glowing stones around the tower's base. Smash them with your weapon and the barrier on the door drops.
• Clear what's inside. Usually a terminal minigame, sometimes just a Pal that wants you dead. All three variants we've hit are below.
• Get paid. The circuit walls light up, and the pedestal offers a pickup: your rewards, plus a tablet that advances the tower quest chain.

Guides currently only describe the grid puzzle. We've personally hit three different setups inside these towers, so consider this the fuller field picture, and expect us to add more if 1.0 is holding out on us.

• 1. The power-routing grid (most common). The terminal's own instruction: "Send power from the source through all panels to the core panel to unlock the door!" Drag from the glowing source panel to the core panel in one continuous route that covers every panel, without crossing your own line. Press R to reset if you paint yourself into a corner — a botched drag costs nothing. Simple so far, no fail-state pressure.
• 2. The spin-lock. A rotating ring mechanism; click at the moment the colors line up. Miss and it spins again, so it costs you seconds, not progress.
• 3. The ambush. No terminal at all. A Pal spawns and the "puzzle" is killing it. Clear the fight and the reward pedestal is yours.

• A schematic — or a skill handbook — per clear. The reward at a given ruin is fixed, so a good one is worth remembering. Our five receipted clears paid a Defense Pendant Schematic, a Metal Bat Schematic 3, a Refined Metal Helm Schematic, a Thermal Undershirt Schematic, and an Applied Lumbering Handbook I (so the pool isn't schematics-only). Early reports say higher-tier ruins hold rarer rewards; we haven't verified a tier system ourselves yet.
• Dog Coins. The datamined range is 20 to 50 per site, in steps of 5, and it genuinely varies by site — our five receipted clears paid 30, 30, 30, 20 and 35.
• Exploration EXP on the pickup, same as effigies and journals — it grows with your level and varies by site: our clears paid +2,178 and +2,298 at Lv 34–35, then +10,998 and +14,523 at Lv 53. Enough to level you mid-run.
• A quest tablet. The pedestal pickup doubles as the clue for the tower quest chain (below).

The ruins aren't just scattered loot. They ride a quest chain called "Thou Shalt Not Harm Pals", whose objective is literally "Search for clues about the next tower". The tablet you pick up in a solved chamber is the clue: each clear points you toward the next tower. So if you're chain-hunting, follow the quest instead of wandering; it does the routing for you.

Locations are fixed, and there's no official list; the whole community is mapping them right now. We only post coordinates we've stood at in-game. This table grows as we play.

Still open: the total number of ruins across the map (Pocketpair didn't publish one). The reset question is answered — they don't (see above). Coordinates land here as we field-verify them.