Palworld puts you in a world full of mysterious creatures known as Pals and lets you collect over 100 of them, where you can use them for numerous tasks from combat to breeding. Pals have various “base” skills such as watering, planting, and mining to name a few, while also having access to a unique partner skill which can enhance you or them in and out of combat. You can use them as mounts, and even use them as weapons too! Read on to find out what Pals are, and what you should look out for in a Pal.

Pal Partner Skills¶

Briefly touched on in the above paragraph, each Pal will have a unique skill called “Partner Skill”. These skills allow Pals to perform various functions such as the aforementioned mounts and weapons, but they can also increase your weight capacity, help you battle fierce foes, heal you, and even use them as a shield. To give you an idea of these skills, we’ll list a few examples below:

• Lifmunk - This Pal’s Partner skill is “Lifmunk Recoil”. You’ll need to unlock a saddle before you can use it, but when activated, the Lifmunk will jump on your head and fire off an SMG at the enemies.

• Nitewing - The Partner Skill for Nitewing is “Travel Companion”. This allows you to traverse the skies providing you have a saddle to ride it.

• Direhowl - Similar to Nitewing, you can use this Pal as a mount, but this one will only let you traverse the ground, but with more speed. Its Partner Skill is called “Direhowl Rider”.

• Teafant - One of the early healers in the game, Teafant can heal you with its “Soothing Shower” Partner Skill.

• Relaxaurus - This large dino-looking Pal allows you to rapidly fire a missile launcher when it’s mounted. Its Partner Skill is called “Hungry Missile”.

These are just a few of the many Partner Skills you can expect to find in Palworld; some can even create materials for you!

Work Suitability Explained¶

Pals have access to twelve types of work from gathering to mining, and many more. Each Pal will be better at some tasks than other Pals, while some will be a jack of all trades, but not particularly good at anything specific. If you want your base to be efficient, you’ll want to locate the best Pals for each task as this will increase the speed you will get things done as well as take the tedious tasks away from you, leaving you time to find more Pals, explore dungeons, breed, and much more. The work suitability types are as follows:

The highest number a Pal can have in any given task is currently level 4. For example, Jormuntide Ignis is level 4 in Kindling and is currently the best Pal to use to smelt ingots or cook food. Some Pals can have levels in more than one task, so always keep an eye on their Work Suitability when acquiring a new Pal. The reason you want to select your Pals in the base is because you’re limited to 15 per base (you can increase this in the settings), so you’ll need a good mix of Pals to cover every task if you want your base to be efficient.

Pal Element Types - Strengths and Weaknesses¶

Each Pal is given an element, and each element will normally coincide with their work suitability. For example, a water-type Pal will generally have levels in the Watering task. The element of the Pal also plays a major part in combat as some Pals will be weak to specific elements, so if you attack an ice-type Pal with a fire Pal, you’ll deal increased damage; this works with your weapons too. There are nine elements in the game, Electric, Water, Fire, Grass, Ground, Ice, Dragon, Dark, and Neutral, and they are all strong and weak to at least one element outside of neutral, which isn’t strong against any. You can check out the element weakness and strengths below. Strong means what element it is strong again, so it’ll deal more damage to that element, while Weak means what element it is weak against, meaning it’ll take more damage from it. Note that Fire is strong against both the Grass and Ice elements and is the only element that does this.

Pal Traits (Passive Skills) - Best Passives¶

Every Pal can come with up to four passive skills. There are over 60 traits to choose from, some positive, and some negative, which is where breeding comes in. With the right Pals and a bit of luck, you can breed the ultimate Pal. In general, you’ll want the Legend trait (Attack +20%, Defense +20%, Movement Speed +15%), Musclehead (Attack +30%, Work Speed -50%), Burly Body (Defense +20%), Lucky (+15% Work Speed, +15% Attack) and Ferocious (Attack +20%) traits for your combat Pals while aiming for Artisan (Work speed +50%), and Workaholic (SAN drops +15% slower) for your Base Worker Pals. This is while you keep as many negative traits, ideally all of them, of your Pal.

Pal Sanity - Keeping your Pal Healthy¶

Sanity is a stat that starts at 100 and gradually decreases if you don’t meet the Pal’s needs. For the most part, this is hunger, a bed, being overworked, or their health (fracture or illness). When you’re at the base, the game will generally tell you if there are any problems with any Pals, so always keep an eye on it. This stat is only for Pals working in your base, or Pals active in the field. If they’re sitting in the Palbox, or are being unused in the party, it won’t decrease. Here are some ways you can circumvent these potential issues:

• Hunger - Craft a berry plantation and a feed box in the base. Place and water the seeds (or have a Pal do it), and then have another Pal (or the same ones) transport them to the box; this will always keep them fed at your base. For Pals in the party, take around a hundred or so berries with you and either place them in a seed bag or manually feed them by interacting with the berries.

• Beds - Each base needs one bed for every Pal working in the base. The game will tell you this under the base info in the top-right of the screen. The better the bed, the quicker they will recover Sanity, although the regular straw bed is more than enough right now.

• Overworked - After a good work session, a Pal likes to let off some steam. Place a hot spring or two in the base (High-Quality Hot Spring later) and that should keep them happy. Also, be warned that if you set the Pals to hard, or super-hard working via the monitoring stand, it’ll decrease their sanity much faster, so only do this if you’re desperate for something to get done.

• Health - By health, we mean illnesses or fractures which the base info will tell you about. This can be remedied by building a Medieval Medicine Workbench and crafting the right medicine for the illness. Low-grade Medical supplies are good for colds and sprains, Medical Supplies will treat Ulcers and Fractures, and High-Grade Medical Supplies are effective against weakened and depression. These can be crafted by you, or a Pal that has the Medical Production task. To heal the Pal with the aforementioned symptoms, place them in your party, and select the correct treatment.

Pal Stats¶

Pals only have three stats, Attack, Defense, and Work Speed, which do exactly what they say they do. Attack will increase the damage your Pal does, Defense will lower the damage your Pal takes from attacks, and Works Speed is how quickly they will complete a work-related task.

There you have it, everything you need to know about Pals, and what you can do with them. Almost every Pal will excel at one thing unless you breed the perfect Pals that will excel at most. In general, keep the Pal healthy and happy, and then use the right Pals for the right task. For the more difficult battles in the game, such as Tower Boss Battles, make sure you use a Pal that is the element opposing the boss.