Pals

Pals

Pals are the eponymous creatures of the game Palworld. Pals help the player, willingly or unwillingly, in the farm, breeding, fighting, or working in factories... including gun factories, as shown in the trailer. Pals can also be sold or slaughtered for food; however, said action is forbidden by law. There are 137 Pals in Palworld.

Interacting with Pals

Pals can be interacted with in multiple ways.

• Petting: You can pet Pals to make them happy.
• Feeding: You can feed pals manually, or they will eat from a Feed Box.
• Picking up: You can pick up Pals to carry them around or throw them at a building to have them work on it. Once you pick them up, they ragdoll.
• Partner Skills: You can use partner skills your pal has. Some are passive, some are weapons, and most are unlocked through crafting something at the Pal Gear Workbench. There's also Rideable Pals.

Fighting

You can fight Pals by using weapons and other Pals. Some wild Pals are aggressive and attack when approached.

Some Pals can also wield a weapon of their choice.

Capturing

You can use Pal Spheres to capture wild Pals. This is recommended, as you get much more XP from capturing rather than killing. You are granted an EXP bonus on each capture for the first 10 times you catch a specific pal. The higher tier of Pal Sphere, the higher the chance of catching a Pal.

Killing

The developers have said that killing Pals will be illegal within the world. Most likely, if the player character kills a Pal and is witnessed by an NPC, a bounty will be placed on the player character, who then will be pursued as a criminal. But there are no consequences if the player character manages to kill a Pal without being witnessed.

Breeding

When Pals breed, the children can inherit the parents' characteristics or create completely new ones. Mixing rare species of Pals creates stronger Pals.

Wilderness Activities

Pals can be used in the wilderness for certain activities. They can break rocks, cut down trees, and be used to run/swim/fly around the map.

Base Activities

Pals can participate in several activities done on bases, depending on their form and abilities.

Work Traits

There are 12 different Work Traits a Pal can have. After placing a building there will be a text indicator above it to let you know what suitability is needed. Some buildings require a specific suitability to work, while others suggest a suitability to make things go faster.

• Kindling: Pals will use fire to provide heat to various structures. And will warm you will riding on them.
• Planting: Pals will plant seeds at plantations.
• Handiwork: Pals will help with crafting at crafting stations.
• Lumbering: Pals will chop down trees.
• Medicine Production: Pals will produce medicine at any medicine bench.
• Transporting: Pals will transport items to any storage item.
• Watering: Pals will water plantations and power the Crusher and Mill.
• Generating Electricity: Pals will generate electricity at a Power Generator.
• Gathering: Pals will gather plants.
• Mining: Pals will mine ore, stone, sulfur, and coal.
• Cooling: Pals will provide cooling to various buildings. And will cool you while riding on them.
• Farming: Pals will produce items at a Ranch.

SAN

Short for Sanity. Over time, a Pal's SAN decreases while working, which will eventually cause them to not be as productive/slack off. Pals will take breaks by themselves. At night, if a Pal bed is available, most Pals will go to sleep. However, Dark-type Pals will continue to work through the night. Certain things, like Hot Springs or particular medicines and foods, can help get their SAN back up quicker.

Other

There are also other activities a Pal can do at the base.

• Mass production: Pals can be put to work in factories to mass-produce gear and items.
• Breeding: Pals can be assigned to Breeding Farm to breed.
• Defense: Pals can be used to defend the base from enemy raids.
• Rescuing: Pals will rescue incapacitated Pals in base.

Pal Variations

Besides regular Pals, Alpha Pals, Legendary Pals, and Lucky Pals exist.

Alpha Pals

Main article: Alpha Pals

Alpha Pals, also known as bosses, are huge Pal variants with titles. You can capture them.

Lucky Pals

Main article: Lucky Pals

Lucky Pals are shining variants of Pals. They are larger variants of a pal and are heard from a decent distance when one spawns in. Usually recognized by a "sparkly" icon next to their name as well. When caught, they will always give you ancient civilization items and will come with the "Lucky" prefix, which increases ATK by 15% and Workforce by 15%.

Legendary Pals

Main article: Legendary Pals

Legendary pals are a especially rare type of Pal. They are only found as Alpha Pals, and come with the “Legend” prefix.

Subspecies Pals

Main article: Breeding

Some Pals can be created by breeding two specific species together. You can also breed pals the same species to reproduce them or pass down the passive traits to the offspring.

Paldeck

Main article: Paldeck

The Paldeck is an encyclopedia of all the Pals in Palworld. When you first encounter a Pal it is logged in your Pal Deck. It will appear as a greyed-out image of the Pal. You will also be able to view their Habitat range. If you capture a pal it will show up in the Paldeck with full color and list possible drops, their partner skill, work traits, food level, and your capture bonus.