Croajiro Noct
Where to find Croajiro Noct in Palworld (Yamijima, level 61-62), how to breed it from Croajiro and Bushi Noct, and what Shadow Stance does — plus stats, work, skills and drops.
Croajiro Noct No. 009B
Croajiro Noct is the Water/Dark variant of Croajiro at No. 009B. It shares the launchpad trick and almost nothing else. The base Croajiro is a level-4 river frog you catch in your first hour. The Noct is a level 61–62 pack hunter on Sakurajima, a high-level island most players will not reach for a long time — with a different element, a different partner skill, a different move set and an extra drop.
Where to find Croajiro Noct
Croajiro Noct lives on Sakurajima — the Japanese-themed island in the north-west, along its shores and lakes. The game data places it on the plateau at level 61–62, and in practice most players never fight one: they fish it out of Sakurajima's water.
Three alternatives exist, and two are far easier. Breeding is the sane route (see below). It hatches from a Large Damp Egg. And a Large Fishing Pond hooks one at around 7.3% at level 36–48. It can also turn up in raids at low level.
Region: Sakurajima · Time: day & night · Sphere: high-tier · Threat: high
Stats & how they vary
Base values before IVs, passives and condensing. Everything is a little better than the base Croajiro — +10 Shot Attack, +5 Defense, +5 HP — but "a little" is the operative word. At level 80 it reaches 4,300–5,320 HP and 760–958 Attack. Nobody catches this for the ten extra points; you catch it for the Dark typing, the weak-point aura and the Venom Glands.
Work & drops
The same four jobs as the base, with Handiwork bumped to Lv 2. Handiwork is the bottleneck station in most bases — it gates every crafting queue you have — so this is a real upgrade, not a rounding error.
The Venom Gland is the reason to farm it: two to four, guaranteed, every single time — and Venom Glands are otherwise a chore.
How the Noct differs from Croajiro
Two Pals with one silhouette and almost no overlap.
The skills are not the same buff with a new coat of paint. Leap Stance is a burst window — climb on, get thrown, hit hard on the way down. Shadow Stance is a permanent party aura for a damage type. If you already carry a base Croajiro for the launch, the Noct is not an upgrade to it; it is a different tool. Note the synergy, though: the Noct's own kit is mostly Dark, and its aura boosts Dark damage to weak points. It buffs itself.
Active skills
A full Dark rebuild. The base Croajiro throws water; the Noct throws poison and shadow — keeping only Acid Rain from its old self.
How to breed Croajiro Noct
Do not walk to Sakurajima at level 20. Breed it.
A verified unique combination, not a rank average, so it lands every time. Croajiro you already have — it was your first river frog. Bushi Noct is the only real errand, and given the alternative is a level-61 pack on a plateau, that errand is worth running.
The story of Croajiro Noct
Its Paldeck entry picks up where the base's left off, and somehow gets darker: “The Croajiro who have forsaken their honor gather and form splinter groups. They will use any underhanded means to take down their chosen prey. If you encounter a pack of Croajiro Noct in the dead of the night, it's your life that's on the line.”
So the base Croajiro belongs to a herd with a brutal code, and the Noct are the ones who walked away from it. Its alpha is called Natural Born Killer. Palworld does not usually bother building a two-part story across a Pal and its variant — here it did, and the punchline is that the dishonourable ones are the dangerous ones.
Day 58. Heard them before I saw them. My Croajiro — the honest one, from the river — would not leave the sphere.
Day 60. Gave up and bred one instead. It hatched, looked at me, and I understood immediately why they hunt in packs and why the game warns you about the dark.
Day 71. It runs Handiwork now, which is an undignified end for a natural born killer, and it produces more Venom Glands in a week than I gathered in a month. I have stopped feeling bad about it.
Croajiro Noct, answered
Where do you find Croajiro Noct?
On the Sakurajima plateau, at level 61–62. You can also hatch it from a Large Damp Egg, hook it from a Large Fishing Pond (about 7.3%, level 36–48), or breed it — which is what almost everyone does.
How do you breed Croajiro Noct?
Croajiro + Bushi Noct. A verified unique combination, so the pairing produces it reliably.
What is Croajiro Noct's partner skill?
Shadow Stance — it launches you into the air like the base Croajiro, but the party buff is different: +25–40% Dark damage to enemy weak points, for you and your Pals. It does not stack.
Is Croajiro Noct better than Croajiro?
For your base, yes — Handiwork Lv 2 instead of Lv 1, and guaranteed Venom Glands. In combat it is marginally stronger (+10 Shot Attack). But the partner skills do different jobs: the base gives an airborne damage window, the Noct a permanent Dark weak-point aura. Neither replaces the other.
What does Croajiro Noct drop?
Aquatic Pal Fluids (always), Cloth (25%), and Venom Gland ×2–4 every time — the main reason to farm it.
Was Croajiro Noct renumbered in Palworld 1.0?
Yes. It was No. 114B before 1.0 and is No. 009B now.
Stats and details as of Palworld 1.0. Last updated 10 July 2026.
