By Palworld Gaming Team · Updated 10 October 2026 · Palworld 1.0
Quick answer: Shadowbeak cannot be bred from other Pals in Palworld 1.0 — our check of the full 1.0 combination table (all 299 breedable Pals, PalCalc game-file data) found that only Shadowbeak + Shadowbeak hatches one. The Early Access recipe Kitsun + Astegon now produces Relaxaurus. Catch yours wild in the No. 3 Wildlife Sanctuary (northeast corner, roughly 648, 625), then breed a male and a female together for passives.
No — Shadowbeak is one of the Pals 1.0 locked down. We searched the entire Palworld 1.0 breeding table (all 44,850 possible parent pairings, from the PalCalc game-file dataset): 1 pairing produces Shadowbeak, and it is Shadowbeak + Shadowbeak itself. That puts it in the same class as Jetragon, Frostallion and Orserk — Pals that only hatch from their own kind.
The recipe everyone remembers is dead. Kitsun + Astegon, the widely listed Early Access path to Shadowbeak (Charlie Intel's list is typical), now hatches Relaxaurus in the 1.0 data. The 1.0 rewrite of the combination table (10 July 2026) retired every cross-species Shadowbeak recipe, so treat any breeding video or list dated before July 2026 as expired and verify any new pair in the breeding calculator before spending Cake.
There is one egg-related shortcut: Shadowbeak can hatch from Huge Dark Eggs, but that pool is shared with Menasting, Necromus, Selyne, Bellanoir and several others (per DeltiasGaming's Shadowbeak guide) — a lottery ticket, not a plan. The deterministic route is catching a wild pair and true-breeding them.
Shadowbeak has one reliable wild population. FandomWire's Palworld 1.0 Shadowbeak guide places it roaming the No. 3 Wildlife Sanctuary in the far northeast corner of the map (coordinates 650, 620), and a 1.0-extract-checked mapping from palmods.gg pins the cluster at [648, 625], levels 50–55, with BisectHosting listing roughly 641, 648 — all three point at the same island. Wild Shadowbeaks appear at level 50 and above, so FandomWire recommends arriving at least level 45 with a stack of high-tier spheres.
Getting there: fly or swim to the sanctuary from the Deep Sand Dunes fast-travel point (528, 526, per FandomWire), and circle the island until one shows — Shadowbeak shares its spawn table with several other high-level Pals, so patrol the island, and if nothing appears, fly out past the fog and back in to reset the spawns. GamesHorizon's 1.0 mount guide notes Shadowbeaks favor the eastern side of the sanctuary island.
Your first meeting is the tower fight: Victor and Shadowbeak at the PAL Genetic Research Unit Tower (−149, 447, per Game8's 1.0 boss guide). Beating Victor does not hand you a catchable Shadowbeak — it is a boss encounter, not a field Alpha — so the sanctuary is the route that fills the Paldeck slot. Note the 1.0 Paldeck number is 189 in the game files; older guides still list the Early Access number 107.
Shadowbeak is a Dark-type with the 1.0 game-file stats of 120 Attack, 120 HP and 140 Defense at breeding rank 550 and rarity 10. The 120 Attack ranks 32nd of all 299 Pals, and the 140 Defense makes it genuinely tanky for its speed class — Game8's tower guide flags its fast ranged attacks and notes its face takes extra damage, so ranged players should aim for the head while a tanky Pal holds its attention.
Typing is simple: Dark is weak to Dragon. FandomWire and Game8 both prescribe Dragon-type attackers or Dragon-element Active Skills (learned via Skill Fruits). The classic picks from the earlier guides in this series still hold — Jetragon, Quivern or Elphidran pressure it cleanly without taking super-effective damage back. Bring top-tier spheres for a level 50+ wild catch, chip it down carefully, and recall your Pal before the final throws so a stray Dragon hit does not finish the catch you spent ten minutes weakening.
For the full data-ranked picture, our Best Pals in 1.0 page ranks every job and the top combat Pals from the same game files.
Catch a male and a female at the sanctuary and pair them — same-species pairs always produce that species, so Shadowbeak + Shadowbeak is your only breeding route. That is exactly why catching matters more than with breedable Pals: every bred Shadowbeak inherits passives and IVs from two parents you chose, so the wild pair is just the seed. Condenser-spare any extras, and consider which Shadowbeak-line children you want next: Anubis, Astegon and Menasting all descend from a Shadowbeak parent, so one well-bred pair unlocks three endgame chains. Plan them on the breeding calculator rather than discovering them one Cake at a time, and read our Palworld Breeding Guide (1.0) for the inheritance rules that apply to every pair.
Only Shadowbeak + Shadowbeak. The 1.0 combination table has exactly 1 of 44,850 parent pairings producing Shadowbeak — true breeding only. The Early Access Kitsun + Astegon recipe now hatches Relaxaurus in the 1.0 data.
The No. 3 Wildlife Sanctuary, far northeast corner of the map. FandomWire lists coordinates 650, 620; BisectHosting lists roughly 641, 648; a 1.0-extract-checked mapping from palmods.gg pins the cluster at [648, 625] at levels 50–55. Reach it by flying or swimming from the Deep Sand Dunes fast-travel point (528, 526).
No. Victor and Shadowbeak at the PAL Genetic Research Unit Tower (−149, 447) is a boss encounter, and there is no field Alpha version — the sanctuary population is the catchable route.
From the 1.0 game files: Paldeck No. 189, breeding rank 550, rarity 10, with 120 Attack (32nd of 299 Pals), 120 HP, 140 Defense and Gathering level 2 as its only work suitability.
It makes Shadowbeak a flying mount with increased movement speed while flying, and enhances Dark attacks by 15% while mounted (15/17/20/24/30% across star levels 1–5, raised with Starfruits, per Game8). The Shadowbeak Saddle unlocks at Technology level 47.
Caught, necessarily — breeding cannot create your first Shadowbeak. Catch a male and a female at the No. 3 Wildlife Sanctuary, then breed them together to merge passives and generate condenser spares. Bred pairs are also the only source of high-IV Shadowbeak-line children like Anubis (with Blazamut), Astegon (with Azurmane) and Menasting (with Beakon).