Palworld is an action-adventure monster-catching survival game that’s currently in early access on Steam and Xbox Game Pass. You’re, quite literally, dropped into a world teaming with dangerous but cute creatures that you can befriend, battle, and capture while you’re figuring out how to survive the perils the environment throws at you.
The first few hours of Palworld can be quite daunting, especially as you have nothing but a few basic tools at your disposal and a world that’s basically a big question mark. Nothing has been explored, all the Pals are new to you, and there are human enemies lurking in the shadows.
Fear not! We’re here with our handy beginner tips and tricks for Palworld and we’ve listed all of our guides here in one place to help you out.
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Here’s a list of our handy beginner tips and tricks for Palworld, including how to power up your Pals and why it’s worth building more than one base.
Check and adjust world settings
When you first make your world (and before you enter it each time you log in), you can adjust the settings for the world to your liking. As long as you have selected ‘Custom’ in the difficulty settings, you can alter how much EXP you can gain, if you drop all of your items when you die, and many more small gameplay elements that can alter how the game works for you.
If this is your first time playing Palworld, we strongly recommend turning off the setting where you drop all of your items when you die.
Focus on levelling up
Your character level, base level and the level of the Pals in your team are all important factors in Palworld. The higher the level your base is, the more bases you can build across the world. The higher the level you and your Pal team are, the easier it will be for you to take on tougher, bigger, and more impressive enemies (including boss-level Pals like Jetragon).
Also, you should make sure that your level matches the level of your Pals otherwise it can be hard to command them in battle.
Essentially, increasing the level of all of these things will make your time in Palworld smoother and you will find there are more opportunities available to you.
Build a base near rich resources
Speaking of bases, we highly recommend building a base when you find any extremely rich resource deposits. Not only will this make travelling to the rich resource much easier, it also means you can exploit the deposits without too much effort.