Do you want to start fresh with Palworld, or are you already an experienced Pal Hunter looking for some tips? In both cases, MeinMMO author Linda B. has put together a list of small but fine tips and facts for you that she wishes she had known earlier.
What kind of list is this? Here you will receive a full load of quick tips that will hopefully ease your everyday life in Palworld a little.
I tried to remember all the situations where I thought: “Oh, I wish I had known that earlier…”.
For better clarity, I have roughly divided the list into three sections. Just jump to the point that interests you:
Here you will find out how to level up quickly:
For Beginners
If you want to start new in Palworld, or are still at the very beginning, the following tips are perfect for you.
1. There are multiple starting areas
I actually spent my first hours in Palworld exclusively around the spawn point. In fact, I could have gone on an adventure much earlier. There are several starting areas!
All regions that are revealed on your map at the beginning are suitable for low levels. This way, you can start exploring right from the get-go if you want!
2. Choose a spawn point
In fact, you don’t have to start at the spawn point where the game drops you by default.
- Press Escape, and then select Respawn.
This will cause your character to die, and you can choose from many spawn points, all located in a starting area.
Warning: Only do this if you don’t have any items in your inventory yet. In normal settings, you will lose them otherwise.
Bonus tip: Near almost every spawn point, there is also a fast travel point that you can activate. At the beginning of the game, you can theoretically respawn as often as you like until you have unlocked a teleporter on every island.
This will greatly facilitate your exploration of the starting areas, but it is also a bit “cheaty”.
3. Place Palbox
A Palbox creates a radius around it in which you can then build your base. So don’t make the same mistake I did by placing the Palbox next to water or a cliff.
Place it nicely in the middle to have maximum space and avoid having to move the box later.
4. You can have 3 bases
At the beginning, the game unfortunately does not inform you how many bases you can actually build with the Palbox. The answer is 3.
To place the second and third Palbox, you only need to increase the level of your Palbox.
- From the start: 1st base
- Palbox Level 10: 2nd base
- Palbox Level 15: 3rd base
5. Each base is a teleporter
To connect your base well, you do not need to build next to a teleporter, as I initially thought. Because each base is its own fast travel point. Just stand in front of the Palbox and press c.
If you want to plan perfectly, place the Palboxes as far away from normal teleporters as possible. This way, you can provide a previously less accessible area with a fast travel point.
6. Pals in the team can help in the base
Pals in your team can also help you with tasks in the base. Summon the desired Pal simply with E and it will assist as long as you stay in the base yourself. We won’t say no to free labor!
7. Don’t prioritize attack leveling
When leveling your attributes, do not prioritize attack. At first, I thought it would be good to increase this value. However, since you only increase your attack value by 2 per level, it’s simply not worth the level point.
Since you can only change your attributes again at level 43, make sure to distribute the points well from the beginning.
How to best skill your character, you can find out here: The best skill and character values that you should definitely increase
8. Raids only start when you are in the base
When I want a moment of peace in other games, for example, to grab a small snack, I usually stand in the base. After all, you’re well protected there.
However, in Palworld, this is not a good idea. The raids that will regularly attack your bases only appear when someone is present in the base.
So, it’s better to step outside a little to a quiet spot. This also applies, for example, if you are waiting for your Pals to perform a certain task. If you simply wait next to the base, you avoid unwanted raids.
9. Incapacitated Pals
If a Pal in your team loses all hit points, fortunately, it does not disappear permanently. Instead, it becomes incapacitated.
To revive the Pal, you can place it in a Palbox for 10 minutes.
At night, you can alternatively go to sleep. This will immediately make the Pals in your team ready for action again!
More tips for beginners can be found here:
Did you know?
Even if you have already spent several hours in Palworld, you might still learn something here. For example, did you know the following? In Palworld, you actually have a…
1. Higher catch chance from behind
If you throw a sphere at the back of a Pal, your catch chance increases!
You can see whether you would get the bonus or not directly above the percentage when you hold the button to throw the sphere.
In English, this is called the “Back Bonus.” In German, it was misleadingly translated as “Escape Bonus.” While you also get the bonus if a Pal flees from you, you get it at all other times as well when you aim at the back.
Bonus tip: Since Pals do not move while sleeping, they can be hit from behind very well here. This way, even weaker Pals can often be caught without starting a battle at all.
2. Enemies have weaknesses
The enemies in Palworld have specific weaknesses – usually the face. If you hit these weaknesses, you deal more damage.
This is noticeable by the red damage number that appears next to the hit enemy. With normal attacks, the number is always white.
You can hit the weaknesses particularly well with ranged weapons. However, critical hits are also possible in close combat.
3. Use ranged weapons while flying
If you have a ranged weapon equipped, you can shoot immediately “from the hip” with a left click. However, if you are mounted on a creature, a left click will perform an attack with your Pal.
Nevertheless, you can also use your ranged weapons while flying! Just aim with the right mouse button, and you can shoot as usual.
4. Give commands to Pals
You can control how Pals in your team behave to a certain extent. There are three possible levels:
- Passive: does not attack
- Neutral: attacks the same target as the player
- Aggressive: attacks everything in the vicinity
Change the behavior as follows:
- PC: 4
- Controller: press the right stick
The interesting part: This setting also applies to Pals that fly around you permanently when you have them in your team. This includes, for example, Daydreams. This way, you avoid the annoying scenario that such a Daydream kills a Pal you actually wanted to catch.
5. Important items cannot be dropped
Besides the normal inventory, every player has a collection of Important Items. This includes, for example, the saddles for your riding Pals.
Once you pick up such an Important Item, you cannot drop it again. This also applies if you accidentally pick up the item a second time, for example, because you intended to craft it for a fellow player!
The item is then gone – wasting the resources for it. This is especially annoying if you have used rather valuable materials like Ancient Parts.
6. How food spoils
As you have probably already discovered, food in Palworld spoils after a certain time. Each perishable item is equipped with a small timer. When this runs out, exactly one item from that item stack disappears.
- It’s always better to store food in large stacks.
For example, if you store 5 berries in 5 item slots, all will disappear after 10 minutes. If you instead store the 5 berries stacked, only one will spoil after 10 minutes.
What happens if I combine items with different timers? In such a case, it depends on which of the items you moved. The expiration time of the item that was not moved is always retained.
- Therefore, always pull the item stack with the lower timer onto the one with the higher.
Below, I am pulling old food onto new.
In practice, this will generally not be particularly important. Whether you lose a berry 2 minutes earlier or later is not so relevant. Of course, the Pals will always place fresh items on older ones. However, if you are manually handling laboriously cooked food, this information can be quite useful.
7. Manage food properly
Perhaps you know the problem: you build a cooler to keep your valuable food for longer. But your Pals just put everything in their feeding trough.
The prioritization of where Pals bring collected food is as follows:
- 1. Feeding trough
- 2. Cooler
- 3. Other storage containers
If you want your Pals to automatically place food items in the cooler, all feeding places must be full!
The easiest way is to place a honey in each of the five right slots of the feeding trough. This will never spoil. The food for your Pals will then come in a large stack in the left slot. Pals will conveniently always eat the food that is furthest to the left in the feeding trough first.
Now, all other food items will be placed in the cooler as desired by your Pals.
8. Split item stacks
If you want to move items without moving the entire stack, you have three options:
- Shift + left mouse button: halves the stack. If you click again, the stack halves again. You can do this as many times as you like until you are satisfied with the selected amount.
- Hold Shift and drag the item stack to another field: halves the stack once.
- Ctrl + left mouse button: takes one item. You can click here as many times as you like to add one more item each time.
Currently, there is no field or slider to directly select the desired number of items.
More glitch than feature?
In an early-access title like Palworld, it is of course understandable that not everything works smoothly yet. Sometimes, small glitches can also benefit players.
Attention: If you do not want to exploit any potential bugs in the game, it’s best to skip the following three points.
1. Fly on water permanently
Your flying Pals consume stamina while you are in the air. To regenerate stamina, the Pal must land. Interestingly, this is also possible on water!
So, you don’t necessarily have to embark on long journeys over water with a swimming Pal. You can simply use your favorite flying creature.
I’m actually not sure if this is intended by the developers. However, it makes swimming Pals almost completely useless, so I can well imagine that it is a glitch.
2. No crime in the nature reserve
If you have already explored one of the three nature reserves, you probably know that you are far from welcome there. When you enter such an area, a message immediately appears that you are committing a crime.
To avoid this, you need another flying Pal. As long as you are on such a Pal in a nature reserve, it is no longer considered a crime!
You can catch other Pals at will, collect resources, and land to restore the stamina of the flying Pal. As long as you don’t dismount, everything is fine!
3. Respawning bosses in dungeons
All over Palworld, you will find dungeons that can be entered for a certain period. At the end of these dungeons, a large alpha version of a Pal awaits you as a dungeon boss.
Which boss it is depends initially on the dungeon level. Each dungeon level has a pool of Pals that you can get as a boss. Which one you encounter is random.
And here comes the “cheaty” part. If you are not satisfied with the boss, you can simply “reroll” him.
- 1. Peek into the room with the boss and see if you like it.
- 2. If not, turn back and cross the entire room before the boss room. Usually, this is a long room with a path of rocks. You are now back two rooms before the boss.
- 3. Walk back to the boss room. The Alpha Pal should now be different.
Note: I have not yet tried this trick at all level stages. It should definitely work with dungeons at level 13 or 29.
I hope I was able to help you with one or the other tip. Was there a point that particularly surprised you? Feel free to let us know in the comments.
In Palworld, there’s of course much more to discover. If you are looking for more information and guides, you will surely find what you need in this overview: All tips, tricks, and Pals in overview
