Getting into a new game can sometimes come with asking a lot of questions to ensure that you’re not wasting days of not doing an important task, making irreparable decisions, or missing out on using something that would greatly enhance the experience.Palworldhas a lot of mechanics to be aware of, and each of them comes with a deeper level of detail than their surface lets on.
Palworld: What’s The Best Starter To Catch?
If you’re struggling to decide which Pal to catch first in Palworld, this guide can help you make the right choice.
This is a survival game where you willneed to make guns, explore a vast open world, discovering and capturing plenty of creatures known as Pals, and continuously use gathered resources to acquire upgrades to further enrich your experience.
Updated by Chad Thesen on June 07, 2025:This list has been updated for the purpose of adding additional entries to give it a more expansive range of coverage for readers to have a deeper well of knowledge. This list has also had new in-text links added to make navigation to related articles easier for readers.
15Palspheres Bounce Off Surfaces
If Lobbing Is Not Your Forte, Try Bowling Your Palspheres
Most players will attempt to use lob or launch their Palspheres so that they hit the Pal they want directly. This can be a little accuracy-reliant, resulting in overshot Palspheres. Palspheres will not disappear when they hit a surface, meaning they can bounce off a wall or tree before hitting the Pal.
In fact, players can do all sorts of trick shots by having them bounce multiple times. A reliable option is to bowl your Palsphere, aiming at a Pal then looking down letting the ball bounce and stay low while heading straight towards the Pal. Perfect for players that want to yell “Strike” when they hit a Pal.
14Bailout When In Trouble
There Is No Dishonor In Keeping Your Belongings
Palworld is a survival game and an established staple of the genre is losing your stuff upon death. There are many times you will realize that you are about to die, and when this happens, simply call up the menu and select “Return To Title.” This can help get you out of a tight spot. This is especially true when it comes to battles inBoss Towers.
If you are in a boss encounter with an opponent that is way over-leveled or deals too much damage with each hit, you may feel overwhelmed and do not want to lose everything you have been collecting. Simply return to the title screen and when you return, you will no longer be in the boss battle and can head off to get stronger before returning.
13You Can Equip Multiple Underwear
Wearing Layers To Combat The Environment
It might not be obvious to a lot of people, but you can actually equip multiple pieces of the same kind of clothing in the game. Players will have 2 accessory slots, and wearing something like 2 rings seems obvious, but some players might only put on one underwear item and an amulet without realizing they can put the same clothing on in both slots.
Palworld Type Chart: All Element Strengths & Weaknesses
If you’re trying to figure out which elements to use against your opponents in Palworld, this guide can help!
This is perfect for stacking up buffs such as Heat Resistance tocombat environmental hazardscaused by the volcanic landscapes surrounding the player character. So if you’re off exploring new areas and have no idea what the game is going to throw at you around the next corner, you can carry two of each of these items to double down on these buffs.
12Location Is Key
Pick A Good Area To Start
In Palworld, you will come across many different kinds of locations. It is a good idea to know which one of them is the ideal one for you to start your journey. It just makes sense thatsome locations will be better than others.
The Eastern Wild Island is an excellent defensive option for those that worry about raids, Forgotten Island will have Rare Pal options for you to catch much earlier in the game than if you set up base somewhere else, and Windswept Hills Plateau of Beginning has the maximum levels of both Resources and Pals giving you a perfect starting point to fill up your inventory.
11Palspheres Can Catch Humans
Anything caught in a Palsphere, counts as a Pal
Palworld gives players a lot of moral implications, and one such implication is catching humans in your Palsphere. You will encounter plenty of humans on your journey, and in most cases, you can just gun them down as they will not be optimal choices. However, they do offer some benefits and could still be useful early in the gameby putting them in your base.
A captured human. On Palpargos Island, capturing humans in Palspheres is considered inhumane.
Once caught, they function just like a captured Pal. They can then be put to work in your bases, used to aid you in battles — although they are not as effective as Pals, or you can even butcher them just like a Pal. Humans cannot be sent over to the Pal breeding farm
10Automatic EXP Share
Pals Can Gain Experience Without Needing To Fight
If you catch a new Pal and want to start using it as soon as possible, do not try leveling it up in a low-level area. This will take just as long as when you started out at a lower level yourself. When you are already at a much higher level and have access to higher-level enemies, you should use that to speed up the process for all low-level Pals you catch.
Palworld: How To Get Cake
If you’re trying to get Cake in Palworld and need some help, this guide has you covered.
So it is better to put that Pal in your party with the rest of your current highest-level Pals and go face some daunting foes. The low-level Pal will gain experience from these battles and shoot up in levels at a very rapid rate. Keep in mind, while Pals of lower levels will gain a lot more experience this way, higher-level Pals will gain less experience.
9Ribbuny Has Skilled Fingers
Make A Ribbuny Weapon Workbench Workforce
One of the Pals you will come across is known as Ribbuny. Different Pals will have different Partner Skills, and Ribbuny has a Partner Skill called “Skilled Fingers.” This will allow them to gain a speed buff when it comes to working at a Weapon Workbench.
While in team, increases attack power of Neutral Pals. While at base, increases work efficiency if working at a Weapon Workbench.
Get some Ribbuny Pals and have them work at your base at Weapon Workbenches to crank out ammo faster than any other Pals. This can greatly speed up the rate it takes you to be topped up, and will have lots of reserves in the long run. You can find Ribbuny Pals along the coast of some of the colder locations — such as Ice Wind Island.
8Use Grappling Gun When Over-Encumbered
Grappling Gun Ignores Weight
A lot of times you will be picking up everything you come across and find that you have gone beyond your maximum weight limit. It’s never a good feeling when you need to leave something behind — especially when you really don’t want to. However, there is a solution that you can make use of to get all the way back to your base no matter how over-encumbered your character is.
When you find yourself overweight, use your Grappling Gun to pull yourself chunks of distance at a time, all the way back to your base. Then you may lighten your load and craft everything you need from all the material you have gathered.
Grappling Gun Material
Paldium Fragment
Ancient Civilization Part
7Faster Ore Collection
You’re Going To Need A Lot Of Ore
You will need tocollect a lot of ore in the game, and a Pickaxe is a slow method of acquiring it. A much faster way to do this would be to have your Pals help you out. Once you have a Rushoar with a saddle, you can have it use its reckless charge to charge through groups of ore rather than needing to use your Pickaxe at each one of them.
Palworld: How To Play With Friends
If you want to sling guns and tame monsters with your friends in Palworld, this guide can help!
Other Pals that can help you get a lot of ore faster than doing it yourself are Mammorest andDigtoise. Mammorest is able to use a powerful stomp that you may perform while surrounded by ore deposits. Digtoise also has a great move that will let it spin to hit multiple deposits at the same time.
6Don’t Neglect Breeding
Get Some Really Strong Pals Early
Players will explore every corner of the various islands to find what Pals are hiding around the next corner, but sometimes you come across a Pal that is really powerful, and catching it proves ever daunting. That iswhere Breeding shinesmore than any other mechanic. With Breeding you’re able to breed Pals likeKitsunandAnubismuch easier than obtaining them through catching them.
Then you get a Pal like Frostallion Noct, which is not anywhere on any of the islands. The only way you will be getting your first Frostallion Noct is by breeding a Helzyphyr with a regular Frostallion. This Pal is well worth the effort, as it is the only Pal with Lv4 in the Cooling — making it one of thebest Work Suitability Palsaround. Just don’t forget to celebrate a newborn Palwith some Cake.
