Whether you're only just getting started in Palworld, or you've been exploring and catching Pals for quite some time already, the following tips and tricks are sure to make your adventures run more smoothly!

Carefully Assign Points When Leveling

When you level up, you can choose one of your stats to enhance permanently. Although increasing your stats is generally helpful, some of these stats offer far more value than others. The only known way to reset your stats is by taking Memory Wiping Medicine, crafted at level 43, and Palworld devs have stated that there’s a bug with this medicine currently and players should avoid consuming it. So the points you allocate are effectively permanent!

• HP: HP is one of the most valuable stats to increase as it’ll help you stay alive longer.
• Stamina: Stamina is useful in the early game when you don’t have a mount, but once you use a mount, it’s the mount's Stamina stat that becomes relevant instead.
• Attack: Similar to Stamina, you’re most likely to be dealing damage using a Pal, so your Attack stat isn’t that relevant to your overall strength. You also don’t get much extra Attack when you level it up, so it’s not recommended.
• Work Speed: Work Speed is helpful, but if you’re really efficient you’ll be getting Pals to do your work for you - and eventually you’ll get Pals who work faster than you ever could, so it’s not a valuable long term investment.
• Weight: Weight is another very valuable stat to increase, allowing you to carry more heavy resources like ore and stone.

Choose the Best Base Location

The spot you choose for your first base is incredibly important.

Ensure the entire space around your Palbox is clear and can be built on easily. While landmarks and interesting terrain may be appealing visually, you will end up needing all your available space to place base modules and you don’t want anything getting in your way. Also, your Pals can get stuck pretty easily - see the image above - and they won’t be happy if they spend a whole day trapped somewhere not eating or sleeping.

However, you do want to include as many harvestable resources like stone, wood, and ore as possible in your base radius, as your Pals will be able to collect these for you automatically and they respawn every day. Including ore is particularly useful!

Lay Out Your Base Efficiently

It’s most efficient to set up Food Pots close to where your Pals will be working, so they don’t waste time walking to and from the Food Pot when they’re hungry.

Placing Chests next to production stations is also the most efficient option as it means Pals won’t waste time carrying resources across your base.

Catch 10 of Every Pal

You receive a huge chunk of experience the first 10 times you catch any Pal species. This is by far the fastest way to level up in Palworld, so you should catch as many Pals as you can until you hit 10/10 for every Pal.

Use the Back Bonus When Catching Pals

If you hit a Pal from behind with a Pal Sphere, your catch chance improves significantly. You can preview the catch?% when aiming at the Pal’s back. It’s much easier to hit a Pal from behind when it’s sleeping, so if you explore at night, you can sneak up on and capture Pals that are significantly lower level than you.

Vixy Drops Pal Spheres and Arrows at the Ranch

You can assign certain Pals to your Ranch at the base and they will produce relevant items for you - Mozzarina produces milk, and Chikipi produces eggs, for example. Vixy, however, digs up items for you - specifically, Pal Spheres and Arrows, both of which are incredibly useful early on.

Condense Your Best Pals to Make Them Stronger

Since you’ll be catching 10 of every Pal, you’ll likely have loads of Pals of the same type filling up your Palbox - more than you could ever use. Once you’ve built your Pal Condenser, choose a Pal with the best passive skills from each species, and then use the weaker Pals as essences to upgrade it.

Upgrading your Pals in this way increases their base stats and the level of their Partner Skill, too.

You Can Revive Your Pals Instantly

You can revive a knocked-out Pal by putting it in your Palbox and waiting for 10 minutes, but there’s another way to revive one instantly - place it in your party, and go to sleep in a bed at night-time. When you wake up in the morning, it’ll be fully revived.