Palworld Tips

How to XP pals

Get Omascul with full condensed to get 80% XP to all pals in your party

• Get "Growth Acceleration Bell" in Ancient Ruin (-26, -92)

Omascul

Growth Acceleration BellAn accessory that raises Pal EXP.

Yellow passive text is fixed, blue grows

In a Pal's passive skill, yellow values are permanent ; blue values increase by condensing.

You can swap a Pal's active skills

Select the Pal in the menu or at a Pal station, click a skill, and pick from its known skills.

Mark egg spawns

The egg locations are fixed and the eggs reappear (their size is random and they may be mutated) — mark them on your map.

Farm fruits and peaches with a base

Pals auto-pick skill fruits if the tree is inside your base — worth building around one.

Reroll skill fruits

Don't like a tree's fruits? Travel away and come back — they change (sometimes it takes 2 tries).

Mark skill-fruit trees

They respawn, so mark every one you find on your map.

The Sort button refreshes expiry

Sorting resets expiration timers on everything (as long as it isn't already sorted). Or just move items around manually.

Keep lucky-Pal sounds at 100%

'SE' in the audio settings also covers the lucky (shiny) Pal sound — set it to 100% and lower the rest, you won't miss any.

Reset the grappling hook cooldown

Move it out of the weapon slot and back in to reset its cooldown.

Food type matters

Salad is cheap, gives lots of sanity to base Pals and raises work speed by 30%.

Match attacks to your Pal's element

Pals deal ~20% more damage using skills that match their own element. Water Pals hit harder with water attacks.

Elements have effects and synergies

Lightning shocks, ice freezes, poison/fire deal DoT. Soak an enemy with water then hit with lightning for double lightning damage. Elements also have strengths and weaknesses.

Revive Pals outside your base

Use Lyleen's heal ability to revive downed Pals out in the field.

LyleenLyleen Noct

Mounted cooldowns are separate

After using a mounted Pal's abilities, hop off — it can do them again. Mounted cooldowns don't share with regular ones.

Elemental effects boost catch rate

Inflict an effect (freeze, shock…) to raise catch %. Use mounted abilities + Ring of Mercy to apply them safely.

Ring of Mercy ignores DoT

Poison/burn still kill through the Ring — use damage-over-time to finish enemies without toggling the ring on and off.

Ring of MercyThe wearer's attacks will not reduce the target's Health below 1.

Ring of Mercy works while mounted

Using your mounted Pal's attacks still won't kill the enemy Pal.

Ring of MercyThe wearer's attacks will not reduce the target's Health below 1.

Experiment with build order

If A won't place next to B because of overlap, place A first then B. Can't place a wall? Place a diagonal wall, then swap it for a regular one.

Don't sleep on support Pals

Lunaris, Herbil… and some non-obvious ones. Elphidran Aqua flies, swims AND runs — all decently fast, very early. Great fishing Pal but also a great combat Pal that scales well.

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You can sleep on Pal-Beds too

Not just human beds.

Fast travel straight from your base

No need to walk to your Palbox — travel from anywhere in the base.

Run multiple expeditions at once

Build several expedition stations to run more than one at a time.

Exclude Pals from expeditions

Lock your team Pals so they always stay in the Palbox.

Push expeditions past 100%

Going beyond 100% on a Pal expedition really does give more rewards — don't stop at 100.

Read the keybinds in every menu

Instantly transfer inventory to chests, cycle between bases on the map, and more.

Keep low-tier schematics

You combine them in "Drafting table" later into better ones.

Food never expires in the guild chest

Store food in your guild chest and it won't spoil.

Big buildings only need to be 50% inside the base

Place ranch / breeding farm / expedition station on the base border to save a lot of space. Careful: ranches may drop items outside the base.

Two oil rigs on a single node

You can place 2 oil rigs on one node.

Stack your placeables

Most placeables (mining spots, plantations, production lines, storage…) can be stacked using benches/tables/boxes/pillows. Pals still work them from the ground, up to a limit.

Chests grab items instantly

Place a chest in an inaccessible spot and Pals transfer items to it instantly — no walking. Don't forget to configure each chest's settings!

Put merchants in a Viewing Cage

You can still trade with a caged merchant, without using a Pal slot at your base.

Capture merchants instead of grinding

Traps make it easy. For a lot of what they sell, it's cheaper to farm gold and buy than to farm the material itself.

Dig into the Settings

You can disable Pal auras and 'hold button for action' — plus a lot of other useful options.

Always do the hacking devices

Some of the best accessories are found there, and their locations are fixed.