What on earth is going on with Palworld? This “Pokemon with guns” meme game turned out to be something that has captured the attention of millions of players, and it’s already one of the most-played Steam games in history.
If you’re here, chances are you have gotten on the Palworld bandwagon, and are looking for ways to optimize your early experience and avoid say, the mistakes I made when I first started and had no guides to references.
So, with my large amount of early playtime here, here are ten things I wish I knew when I started Palworld.
1. Where To Build Your First Base
This is quite literally the first thing you’ll be asked to do, and there’s no harm in building pretty close to the starting point, given that you probably will not want to venture too far before night falls and you want to settle down without freezing to death. But there are some important things to keep in mind. Namely, you want to have a good amount of key resources nearby. Trees and rocks are obvious but those are everywhere. Rather, what’s more important, or what will be soon, are blue sparkly Palladium Nodes which are key for many recipes including spheres, and gold sparkly Ore nodes which you will need to farm later to make Ingots.
In addition to this, I would probably not build something in a wide open field as you will be attacked by enemies later in the game, and that makes you pretty indefensible. You want to find somewhere with some cliff walls, or by water, and then with just a few choke points to take on enemies. If not, prepare to build a lot of walls.
2. The Best Starter Pals
For my money, I would give a lot of credit to two specifically. First, I will give a lot of props to Cattiva as an all purpose base worker. Cattiva can help craft things, it can carry things, it can gather crops and it can mine ore. It can do a lot more roles than Lamballs, which may be what you think you should start with given how much they are everywhere.
For combat? My early pick was easily Foxparks. Not only does it breathe fire in combat, making it great for toasting early monsters, its upgrade allows you to pick it up and use it as a flamethrower. Which is not only one of Palworld’s traditionally hilarious uses of Pals, but it’s actually very effective in combat as well.
3. Understand Base Worker Pal Roles
As you build out your base, you are going to have to start matching Pal roles to Pal parts of your base. While at first, yes, you can use Lamballs to help you craft, things will soon get more complicated. If you hover over every Pal in your inventory, you will see a number of icons lit up, and those are the types of jobs it can do. Then, you will see different buildings that have an icon of requirement. Like a Foxparks, as a fire Pal, can help you cook or smelt. A Pengullet as a water/ice typer can help you chill food or water plans. And so on. It takes some getting used to, but it’s a key part of making a base function.
4. Get A Pal To Ride As Fast As Possible
You will notice quickly that getting around the map is kind of a huge pain. But this is quickly alleviated if you invest in “saddle tech” as there are a number of early Pals you can ride around in order to avoid having to run anywhere. I believe the lowest level Pal I saw you can ride is a Melpaca, but I soon got an Eikthrydeer to ride which looked much cooler. You can also ride flying Pals like Nitewing. To do this, you will have to unlock saddle tech for each Pal that can do this, and then research it with the requisite materials at the Pal Gear workbench.
5. The Best Way To Level XP Fast Bar None
You will need to level up not just to get stronger, but to open up way more building and crafting possibilities. While it’s true that crafting and building and farming in-base will get you and your team XP, you need to be out in the wild. And while killing wild monster will get you decent XP, far and…
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