Update Note

Update Note

2024/06/27

New Island - Sakurajima

  • A new island has appeared! Sakurajima!
  • Take control of the tower protected by a new faction "The Moonflowers", and free this beautiful island from their control!
  • Sakurajima is home to many new Pals! Explore and find new species!

Arena

  • An arena has appeared in the Desiccated Desert! Battle against other players to assert your dominance! (Multiplayer exclusive content)

Stronghold - Oil Rig

  • An oil rig controlled by the Rayne Syndicate has appeared in the ocean! Work together with your friends to defeat powerful enemies and claim valuable resources such as crude oil!

Player level cap raised to 55!

  • Players can now adventure to level 55!
  • New technologies available
  • Upper limit for Pal's capture bonus has been increased from 10 to 12

New Resource - Crude Oil

  • You can extract Crude Oil by unlocking and placing a new building, the Crude Oil Extractor, in certain spots around the world
  • New high-tier equipment and spheres can be crafted using the new material Plasteel which can be made from crude oil

New Raid

  • Blazamut Ryu has arrived! The strongest Dragon Pal in the game!

Meteorite Event

  • Meteorites or supplies will fall from space sometimes! There may even be an unknown Pal from outer space too...!?
  • May contain a Supplies. Cooldown 3 hours, you can adjust the system timer.

Tower Boss Hard Mode

  • Each tower boss now has a hard mode, allowing you to face them in their ultimate form!
  • Defeat all tower boss to unlock the option

New Merchant - Medal Merchant

New Items

New Weapons

New NPC cosmetic hats! Dress up like your favourite bosses!

New Pal cosmetic hats! Dress up like your favourite Pals!

New Buildings

New Feature - Lockpicking

  • You can now attempt to open locked treasure chests with the new lockpicking mini-game. Requires a Lockpicking Tool v1!

New Feature - Pal Skins! (Cosmetics for Pals)

  • You can now change Pal's skin at the new Pal Dressing Facility!
  • The "Sunglasses Cattiva" skin is now available for everyone! More skins will be added in future updates

Player

  • Palbox capacity increased from 480 Pals to 960 Pals
  • Increased the maximum amount of power that can be enhanced by Lifmunk Effigy from 10 to 12
  • Added a setting that prevents items from being automatically picked up if it will overencumber the player
  • The building system has been reworked and improved! Basic construction is now much more intuitive and smooth!
  • Pillars have been added. The days of accidentally demolishing a supporting wall and the entire 2nd flood collapsing are over!
  • Axis alignment function added
  • Defensive walls can now be connected
  • It is now possible to connect from the roof, walls, stairs, and pillars to the foundation (previously, connections could only be started from the foundation)
  • New building material "Glass" has been added. Keep an eye on your cute Pals from inside with glass walls!
  • The maximum base level has been increased to 25, and the number of bases allowed has been increased from 3 to 4 at level 25
  • You can now change the maximum amount of guild bases from the game options ※Note: Too many bases may lead to performance issues (3→10)
  • You can now change the maximum amount of base Pals from the game options ※Note: Too many Pals at one base may lead to performance issues (20→50)
  • Implemented a private lock function for chests. Your friends won't be able to steal your metal anymore!
  • It is now possible to permanently assign a Pal to a specific facility from the Monitoring Stand
  • Cakes will now be transported to chests as a priority
  • Readjusted the work priority order for Pals
  • Changes to defense facility specifications. Work pals will use them automatically even if they are not assigned to a specific facility
  • Measures and mitigation for base pals getting stuck when a route cannot be taken

UI

  • Added a lock function in the Palbox menu
  • Player crosshair colour can now be adjusted and fixed an issue where the crosshair would get stuck behind the player
  • You can now craft items in units of 100x
  • Added more types of custom map markers, and increased the placement limit to 300
  • Statue of Power UI has been improved
  • Improved sorting function of Palbox, making it easier to find the Pal you want

World

  • Junkyards have been added around the world! You might find some valuable items there...
  • A new random event has been added. Find and steal eggs from "Monster Nests" hidden around the islands!

Pals

New Pal Skills!

New Passive Skills

  • Philanthropist - Greatly reduces the time required to produce eggs
  • Impatient - Reduced cooldown on active skills
  • Infinite Stamina - Increased stamina (Only on mountable Pals)
  • Noble - Pals with this passive will give you an advantage when trading with merchants
  • Nocturnal - Pals with this passive become nocturnal and will work throughout the night

New Pals

Multiplayer

  • Added a new setting that always rejects guild invites

Balance Adjustment

  • Due to the increase in accessory slots, accessories with the same name have been changed so they cannot be equipped more than once
  • Defensive accessories have been balanced due to the increase in accessory slots.
  • Due to the addition of many new Pals, some Pal breeding combinations have been changed
  • Adjusted the selling price of all Pals. The selling price of Alpha Pals is now about twice that of the original species

Bug Fixes

  • Mitigations have been added for an issue that caused PCs to freeze when closing the game
  • Changed the grappling gun behaviour to make it less likely to get stuck
  • Many many many other minor bug fixes

Other

  • A warning will now be displayed if the GPU driver is too out-of-date

Soundtrack

  • 6 new songs have been added to soundtrack. If you have already purchased the game, please update the soundtrack.

Patch Notes v0.2.4.0

2024/05/14

Balance Adjustment

  • Increased the HP of all Alpha Pals (larger than normal Pals), including Lucky Pals, by 1.2
  • Breeding eggs now have a slight chance to produce an Alpha Pal
  • Reduced the damage reduction rate of enemy bosses by 18%. (The HP adjustment above has been adjusted so that battles don't become too difficult.)
  • Items and Pals dropped on death can now be picked up by anyone 24 hours after they are dropped
  • Items and Pals dropped on death will now disappear 48 hours after they are dropped

UI

  • Fixed a bug that notified all players on the server when someone finished or failed a raid

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug that caused synchronization issues when gates were opened
  • Many other minor bug fixes

Patch Notes v0.2.3.0

2024/04/22

Balance Adjustment

  • The electric egg incubator now has increased hatching speed. Hatches at 1.5 times the normal rate

Optimization

  • Optimized the processing load on dedicated servers

Bug Fixes

  • You can now pet some pals that could not be pet due to a bug that prevented the "pet" option from working correctly
  • Fixed an issue where base pals would sometimes collide with each other on dedicated servers
  • [Xbox version only] Fixed an issue where the "Option to show/hide Journey" and "Option to change the scale of damage text numbers" were not working
  • Fixed other minor bugs

Patch Notes v0.2.2.0

2024/04/15

Major Fixes

  • Corrected an issue that caused all Pal attacks to deal only half the intended damage
    • Attack Before: (50+PalBase*PalLv*0.075*IV)*Condenser*StatueOfPower*PassiveSkills*FoodBuff
    • Attack After: (100+PalBase*PalLv*0.075*IV)*Condenser*StatueOfPower*PassiveSkills*FoodBuff

Other Fixes

  • Corrected the hit detection in the latter parts of the "Nightmare Ray" and "Nightmare Bloom" attacks
  • Reduced the jittering of sleeping Pals on Pal beds
  • You can now close the character editing screen of the antique dresser using the ESC key
  • Corrected other minor bugs

Patch Notes v0.2.1.0

2024/04/11

  • Fixed an issue where eggs could not be placed in the egg incubator if you loaded save data from v0.1.5.x or earlier.

Patch Notes v0.2.0.6

2024/04/04

Implemented the first Raid Boss

New Items

Pals

UI

  • While aiming a sphere, it will now display how many of the target Pal has already been captured
  • You can now check the cooldowns on partner skills for all your Pals on the main screen
  • Equipment and item stats are now visible on the technology screen, even if you have not unlocked them first
  • The tutorial has been improved and renamed to "Journey"
  • You can now show/hide the "Journey" in the game options
  • Damage number display size can be changed in the game options. (In Raid Boss battles, the damage numbers tend to overlap a lot and it may be difficult to see, so we recommend adjusting the size)

Player

  • Items dropped by players after death on a dedicated server can now be picked up by anyone after 24 hours of real-time have passed
  • Added a new "sleeping" player emote
  • You can now allow/disallow certain work for base Pals at the Monitoring Stand
  • Chest filters have been added. Select item types to allow or disallow inside chests
  • Crafted items are now transported from crafting facilities. Selecting "allow transport" when crafting will result in Pals transporting those items to chests when finished
  • You can now edit your character's appearance at any time by using the "Antique Dresser"
  • Building and building piece placement rules have been relaxed
    • You can now connect stairs facing upwards
    • You can now connect stairs facing downwards while holding Alt
    • Roof pieces can now directly connect to foundations
    • Triangular walls can now be connected to stairs
  • You can now force a Pal to work and cancel their break by picking them up and throwing them towards a facility (Pals recover their SAN while taking a break, so be careful!)
  • Fixed assignments remain fixed, even after bad events occur. Previously, some assignments would change due to certain conditions, but now they will remain fixed unless the Pal is placed inside the Pal Box
  • New Crusher recipe:

Balance Adjustment

  • Minimum heat and cold resistance have been added to various armour. You will no longer need to take off your heat-resistance armour when it is cold at night in the starting areas!
  • Reduce the button press time in the egg incubator
  • Change the pattern for Jormuntide Ignis to something more unique
  • Added legendary blueprints for some firearms (Dropped from specific enemies)
  • Corrected the selling price of Diamonds
  • In single-player, it is no longer possible to select the initial spawn point for multiplayer
  • Blocked the back of the starting area with rocks to prevent players from getting lost or stuck
  • The increased attack power multiplier of partner skills that increase the player's attack power while riding has been uniformly reduced from 2.0 to 1.2
  • Eggs found in the wild now have a small chance to produce Alpha Pals
    • Only wild eggs and eggs dropped by Bellanoir (10%) have a chance to appear as Alpha.
  • Flying and floating Pals are now immune to falling damage
  • Shop price adjustments

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where treasure chests would become empty when dying in a dungeon, etc
  • Fixed an issue where the effect that increases the player's attack power while riding was duplicating and accumulating under certain conditions
  • Fixed an issue where players were not receiving loot when capturing Pals while mounted
  • Adjusted the HP of the Alpha Pal and fixed an issue where the difference in HP between the captured Alpha Pal and the bred Alpha Pal was too large
    • Captured Tower Bosses have same HP as normal one
  • Fixed an issue where Pal would eat while riding.
  • Fixed an issue where spheres thrown close to wild pals would not hit and be lost
  • Jetragon's mount missiles will correctly attack the target you are aiming at.

Others

  • Improved various Pal models and textures
  • Added and adjusted some sound effects
  • Many other minor bug fixes
  • Added 3 new hairstyle
  • Ragnahawk unable to pass player doors and dungeon doors
  • NPC Pal tamers all over the place
  • Wandering Merchant visit more often and selling Pal Fluids
  • Stuck Pals teleport to the Palbox
  • Fast Travel icon changed
  • Pal's base attack reduced from 100 to 50
    • Attack Before: (100+PalBase*PalLv*0.075*IV)*Condenser*StatueOfPower*PassiveSkills*FoodBuff
    • Attack After: (50+PalBase*PalLv*0.075*IV)*Condenser*StatueOfPower*PassiveSkills*FoodBuff
    • for a full buffered Pal, it's about 10% nerf

Dedicated Server

  • Fixed an issue where sorting did not work in the server list
  • Improved the server list to allow page transitions
  • Dedicated servers now support various log outputs
  • Implemented REST API ※ Please check the tech guide for details https://tech.palworldgame.com/

Cheat Prevention

  • Fixed a vulnerability that allowed Steam account spoofing
  • Fixed 7 other critical vulnerabilities

Soundtrack

  • One new song has been added to the soundtrack. If you have already purchased the soundtrack, please update and enjoy the new song! ※ Please note that the soundtrack may take a few days to update

We are planning a larger, more content-packed update for summer 2024. Enjoy never-before-seen scenery and thrilling adventures on a new island, home to many new pals. In addition, we plan to add a large amount of new content including new buildings, weapons, and tower bosses.

Thank you for your continued support of Palworld.

[Known Bug]

After the v0.2.0.6 update, it has been reported that there is an issue where eggs cannot be placed inside the Egg Incubator. We apologize for this inconvenience.

The problem can be resolved by rebuilding the incubator.

Patch Notes v0.1.5.1

2024/02/29

Major Fixes

  • Fixed various game crashes

Balance Adjustment

  • Fixed a bug where breeding Pals always had fixed passives
  • Fixed an issue where the increase in condensation progress was incorrect when using Pal of rank 2 or higher as a condensation material (it will increase by the number of Pals used in previous condensation)

Dungeon Issues

  • Fixed an issue where the innermost door would not open after defeating the boss of a random dungeon

Pals

  • Fixed an issue where the name of a Pal would not change even after renaming them

Server Issues

  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to search for spaces or Japanese/Chinese characters in the server list
  • Fixed so that if the server is no longer registered on the server list, it will be re-registered without needing to restart the server
  • Fixed an issue where the settings to enable RCON were not loaded from the configuration file

Patch Notes v0.1.5.0

2024/02/27

Major Fixes

  • Implemented backup of save data on the world selection screen
  • Resolved issue of unnecessary data accumulating in save data

Key Configuration

  • Added fully supported keyboard key configuration

Guild

  • Modified specification to allow guild members to be removed when not logged in

Player Issues

  • Changed long-press operation during player tasks to allow continuous work by pressing the work button once (This is switchable in the options settings)
  • Fixed issue where riding in prohibited hunting areas would not result in a crime
  • Improved interaction accuracy with adjacent objects

Pals

  • Changed specifications so that when a Pal is instructed to "attack aggressively," the Pal will attack enemies indiscriminately even if they are not in combat
  • Corrected an issue to allow Pals of rank 1 or higher to be selected as concentrated material (higher-ranked Pals yield more points when concentrated)
  • Fixed bug where if a large amount of experience points were gained and the level increased to 50 at once, Pals would not learn any active skills
  • Mitigated an issue where using Mossanda's partner skill "Grenadier Panda" on a dungeon boss would cause the boss to get stuck in walls

Base Issues

  • Fixed an issue where base Pals would get stuck on top of a logging site, etc.
  • Added measures to prevent the issue where base Pals would wander around and get stuck at the border of the base area
  • Fixed an issue where Pals at the base would get stuck repeatedly starting transportation tasks and the light bulbs icon would appear over and over again.
  • Added measures to prevent the issue of base Pals getting stuck in the farm on a roof
  • Fixed an issue where work Pals would get stuck in the summon space of Palbox when restarting the server on a dedicated server.
  • Adjusted the default work priority of base Pals (Anubis will prioritize manual labour)
  • Significantly relaxed building restrictions for stairs and triangular roofs
  • Fixed an issue where sound would play in an infinite loop when Pals at the base used certain active skills.
  • Specifications changed so that all changes in environmental temperature are added up (if you put 4 campfires next to each other, the surrounding area will have the temperature of a volcano)
  • Implemented "relax" working style on the monitoring stand

Balance Adjustment

  • Significantly strengthened mining power for Digtoise partner skills
  • Fixed the abnormally high selling price of nails
  • Significantly increased the number of police officers who appear when a crime is committed
  • Added electric shock effect to Free Pal Alliance's crossbow
  • Adjusted the flight distance of Sphere Launcher and Scatter Sphere Launcher.
  • Increased the SAN value recovery amount of high-quality hot springs
  • Renovated the server lobby
  • [Search by server name] will now work
  • Added the ability to view online players on a dedicated server

*On community servers, this will only be displayed if the setting is enabled

Others

  • Fixed the issue where Day 5 Memo was not placed
  • You can now adjust the in-game brightness in the settings
  • Fixed many minor bugs
  • Corrected various incorrect text
  • Improved measures against cheating

Patch Notes v0.1.4.1

2024/02/07

Major Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the game would always crash and save data would be corrupted when the total number of Pals captured by the guild reached approximately 7000.

  • In the previous patch, save data that had already been in this state (for servers, the server's world data) remained in a broken state that made it impossible to load, but after applying this patch it will be resolved and will load properly.

  • Fixed an issue where some weapons equipped by other players would disappear when a player used a grenade in multiplayer.

  • Fixed an issue where, although the displayed capture probability increased when the capture power was strengthened with Lifmunk Effigies, the capture probability did not actually increase at all due to an internal processing bug.

  • Fixed an issue where if a Pal that was manually assigned to a breeding farm went to sleep, it would not wake up forever.
  • Fixed an issue where no wood would drop when Pal at the base felled a tree.

Others

  • Implemented countermeasures against some cheats and exploits.

Patch Notes v0.1.4.0

2024/02/01

Major Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the game would crash under certain conditions
  • Fixed an issue where if another player's pal/base pal had HP 30% or less, it could be captured by using a sphere.
  • Fixed an issue where enemy pals would get stuck in walls due to charge attacks.
  • Implemented the first fix for an issue where the game would always crash and save data would be corrupted when the guild's total number of pals captured reached around 7000.

*The game no longer crashes even if the total number of captured objects exceeds 7000. However, save data that has already been in this state (in the case of a server, the server's world data) prior to this update will still be unable to load. We are continuing to work on fixing this issue permanently.

Key Configuration

  • Added support for mouse side keys and numeric keypad in keyboard key configuration.

*Further improvements are currently planned, such as support for interact key configuration.

Player Issues

  • Fixed an issue where players on dedicated servers and co-op (online) were receiving damage twice.
  • Specifications have been changed so that you can move at extremely low speed even when you have exceeded the weight limit.
  • Players will no longer pass through walls when dismounting.
  • Fixed an issue where capture power strengthened by Lifmunk Effigies was reset when using memory reset drugs.
  • Fixed an issue where armor could be equipped in the wrong slot.
  • Adjusted camera positions of several Pals to make it easier to see when mounted.

Base Issues

  • Specifications have been changed so that Pals who are manually assigned to a breeding farm will not become hungry and their manual assignments will not be removed.
  • The key to lift Pals has been changed from F → V (Pad: X → Y) in order to prevent accidents.
  • Reduced the speed and range of fire spreading on wooden buildings.
  • Fixed an issue where manual work assignments could not be set at all under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed an issue where extremely high-level Relaxaurus would attack the base during raids.
  • Added several measures to prevent base Pals from getting stuck.
  • Fixed an issue where Pals would get stuck while transporting items and would drop them on the spot.
  • Fixed an issue where Pals at the base would continue to cut down trees that were already cut.
  • Fixed an issue where Pals at the base were on the verge of death due to unexplained falling damage.
  • Fixed an issue where Pals at the base would float under some conditions.
  • Fixed an issue where if a farm was built on the second floor or above, work pals would be unable to move on the floors below.

Other

  • Corrected incorrect text
  • Measures have been added to prevent cheating and stealing other players' Pals.
  • Many other minor fixes such as the addition of a UI key guide.

Patch Notes v0.1.3.0

2024/01/25

Main changes

  • Fixed a bug where the loading screen did not end when logging into the world
  • Fixed a bug where the world date was not displayed correctly and appeared to reset.
  • Corrected various incorrect text
  • Countermeasures against various cheats and exploits