Ultimate Beginner Survival Guide - Tips, Base Building, Best Pals, & More
Learn how to start playing in Palworld
Ultimate Beginner Survival Guide - Tips, Base Building, Best Pals, & More
Learn how to start playing in Palworld
Survival Guide
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Palworld
Uncover the secrets of this mysterious land while taking on the unknown forces who stand in your way. Defeat the bosses that lay claim to each region's tower as you try to uncover the truth behind the origin of Pals. Build formidable bases, try to capture the strongest Pal possible, or breed it yourself! Embark on a unique adventure with your Pals in this new world!
What should you start with?
Once you’ve gathered enough materials, choose a location for your base, and build a “Palbox”. Once you place a “Palbox”, that area becomes your base. As your level increases, make weapons and a “Pal Sphere”. Then start capturing wild Pals by weakening them first. Pals can be combat allies if taken with you, or provide labor if placed in your base. Nighttime can be dangerous. Prepare for your first night by making a campfire, torch and a bed.
Getting Items:
Press F to pick up dropped items. You can also obtain materials by destroying trees or rocks with an axe or pickaxe.
Pals also drop items when defeated.
Gathering resources is a key aspect of crafting. Use tools to gather wood, ore, stone, fiber, and wool. Refine these resources at production workbenches to create usable assets. Be mindful of weight capacity; use the grappling gun to navigate while encumbered.
Tame Pals:
Pals are enigmatic creatures that inhabit this region. By capturing one with a sphere, you can make it your companions. Your Pals can be released from the sphere by pressing E. You can only carry up to 5 Pals at a time.
If you capture more, they will be automatically sent to the Palbox. You can retrieve them by building a Palbox if you don’t have one.
Check the best Pals to start with!
Capturing Pals:
Press Q to throw a Pal Sphere at a Pal to try and capture it.
Reduce a Pal’s HP, afflict it with status effects, or lure it into a trap to increase your chances of capturing it. You can also increase your chances of capturing a Pal by sneaking up on it and throwing a Sphere at it from behind.
Craft stronger Spheres to capture powerful Pals.
Check how to capture Pals!
Check your HUD:
At the bottom left, your Pals, your Health and your Hunger are displayed.
The current temperature is also shown. Extreme temperatures can hurt you.
At the bottom right, you will see the equipped sphere and weapon, along with the remaining ammo.
Building/Crafting:
By pressing B, you can open the construction menu and start building.
Select your desired construction location from the menu and start building by holding F. If there are Pals in your Party or at your Base, they will help with the construction.
You can craft items by building workbenches and other related facilities and interacting with them. Unlock new recipes by using Technology Points. By building different crafting facilities, you’ll be able to craft new items.
Start a base:
Building a Palbox will make the surrounding area your base.
Interacting with the Palbox allows you to summon Pals to your base, and they will perform tasks according to their Work Suitability.
By Building structures within the base, you can have pals work for you. Be careful as Pals in the base are exposed to threats from enemies.
Palbox:
The area around the Palbox becomes the territory of your guild’s base, and any structures built inside it belong to your guild. Clearing ‘Missions’ obtained by interacting with the Palbox will grow the guild’s base and increase the number of Pals you can summon in the base.
The Palbox also has a fast travel function, which can be used to warp to the Great Eagle Statues you’ve unlocked during your adventures.
Level Up:
You and your Pals will level up when you earn enough EXP. You can obtain EXP by defeating or capturing Pals.
If a Pal’s level is higher than yours, you won’t be able to handle it well, and its performance will drop to the same level as the player.
Player Status Enhancement:
You can distribute Status Points from the Inventory tab on the menu to increase your character’s stats. Level up your character to get Status Points.
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Pals in Party:
You can only have up to 5 Pals at a time. If you capture more, they are automatically sent to the Palbox. This team of up to 5 Pals is called your Party. You can open the Party tab from the menu. Here, you can check the HP, Hunger, etc., of your Pals. You can also check their acquired skills, and switch active skills if they’ve learned any.
Hunger:
The player’s and the Pals’ Hunger decrease as they perform actions. When Hunger is low, it may cause negative effects like reducing your stats. By using food items from the inventory, you can replenish the players and Pal’s Hunger.
Sanity:
When Pals do work at a base, their Sanity (SAN) drops. As their SAN drops, they will slack off, or maybe even get sick. If a Pal’s Hunger level is low, their SAN will drop more easily. Feed Pals quality food or let them rest in a hot spring to recover their SAN.
Partner Skills:
These are unique abilities that each pal species possesses. Some Pals have Partner Skills that allow them to shoot guns or to have the player ride them. Some Pals require “Pal Gear”, which can be made at the Pal gear Workbench, to unlock their Partner Skills. These skills can be checked from the Party tab. Some pals provide a benefit just by being in your Party.
Paldeck:
You can open the Paldeck from the menu. Information about your Pals you’ve caught or seen will be recorded, allowing you to research where certain Pals inhabit. Paldeck Bonus: You will earn bonus EXP When you capture a new species. Bonus EXP is also given for the first 10 times you capture a pal of the same species.
Guild:
By approaching other players, you can request to join their guild. The Guild Tab in the menu displays information about your guild and its members.
Players within the same guild share a base and their working Pals.
Map:
Press M to display the map. Information about Palspawns, terrain and other features of the world are displayed here:
Map Overview
Great Eagle Statue:
Activating a great Eagle Statue allows you to fast travel to any other previously visited great Eagle Statues, as well as your Palbox. In addition, will gain Technology Points each time you activate a Great Eagle Statue. The statues are scattered all over the world, so use them to your advantage.
Radial Menu:
Press 4 to call up the radial menu. With it, you can give strategic commands to Pals on your team or feed them.
Nighttime:
When night falls, the surroundings become dark, temperature drops, and dangerous Pals will appear. Build beds at a safe location and sleep till morning, or stay warm around campfires.
Tower Bosses:
Each region has a tower, and within that tower resides the leader of the organization that rules the area. These leaders usually regard Pal tamers from outside the island as enemies, and will challenge you immediately if you enter the tower.Tower boss battles have a time limit. If you can’t defeat the enemy within the given time, you lose. You can attempt tower boss battles as many times as you like, provided no one else is currently doing so.
Crime:
If you track friendly NPCs on the island, you will be reported and become a criminal. You will also be branded a criminal for sneaking into areas around the island where trespassing is forbidden. Be warned - if someone sees you commit a crime, the Palpagos Islands Defense Force (PIDF) will come after you.
Equipment Durability:
Equipment will lose durability with use, and break when its durability reaches 0. You can restore damaged equipment with materials at the repair table.
Item Rot:
Certain items like food will rot with time and eventually vanish when they spoil. Storing items in a cooler or refrigerator can prevent rotting.
Elements:
Each Pal possesses an elemental affinity, and each element has elements that it is strong or weak against. Elemental attacks deal more damage to elements they are strong against and less damage to elements they are weak against.
Status Effects:
Pals and players can be afflicted with status effects due to their surroundings or the impact of skills. When suffering a negative status effect, they may receive continuous damage, move slowly, etc. Pals are easier to capture when they are affected by a certain status effect.
Pal Eggs:
While exploring the world, you may come across Pal Eggs. These can be incubated at an Egg Incubator. An Appropriate temperature for the egg helps speed up incubation.
Pal Breeding Farm:
Assign a male and a female Pal to a Breeding Farm and place a cake with them. Later, you may find a Pal Egg. Some special combinations of Pals can give birth to special Pal Eggs.
Pal Essence Condenser:
Pals have a rank value, with higher ranks indicating higher abilities. Higher ranks can also enhance Partner Skills. You can increase a Pal’s rank using Pal Essence. Pal Essence can be obtained by placing multiple Pals of the same species in the Pal Essence Condenser.
Lifmunk Effigies:
Lifmunk Effigies can sometimes be found around the world. You can offer Lifmunk Effigies to Statue of Power to improve your Capture Power.
Pal Souls:
Pal Souls can sometimes be found in treasure chests. You can offer Pal Souls to Statue of Power to enhance a Pals Stats.
Pal Subspecies:
Some Pals have been known to adapt to their environment deviating from the species to become a “subspecies”. Subspecies have a different type from the original, with slightly higher stats. Certain Breeding combinations may also result in a subspecies. Subspecies have their own Paldeck entry, allowing you to earn the Paldeck Bonus by capturing them.
Lucky Pals:
Lucky Pals are rare Pals that can be found around the world. They are larger in size and have a radiant appearance. They often have high stats and feature special passive and active skills.
Death:
When a player dies, they drop their held items and Party Pals on the spot. You can retrieve them by returning to your death location after respawning.
Paldex Survival Tutorial 1
Paldex Survival Tutorial 2
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