Pals are the creatures that appear in the game Palworld. They can assist players in various activities such as farming, breeding, fighting, and factory work, including gun factories as shown in the trailer. However, you can also sell or slaughter Pals for food.
Picking up your pals is one of the main interactions in the game, you can carry them around or use on a building to activate the work animation. Once you pick them up, they ragdoll.
You can pet Pals like a real life pet to make them happy.
You can feed pals manually or they will eat from a Feed Box, if you feed them they will heal faster.
You can use partner skills your pall has. Some are passive, some are weapons, and most are unlocked through crafting something at the Pal Gear Workbench. There's also Rideable Pals.
A Pal can exhibit one of 12 unique Work Traits. After constructing a structure, a text signal will emerge over it to notify you of the suitability demanded. Some structures mandate a certain suitability to work, while others suggest a suitability to hasten the activity.
Pals will apply fire to create warmth for various constructions.
n their assigned agrarian lands, they will sow diverse crops. They can enhance their farming productivity by utilizing Watering, Gathering, and Transporting Pals in a synergistic fashion.
In Palworld, Lumbering is the skill to chop trees to build and trade across the large-scale virtual community.
Pals will manufacture pharmaceuticals at any medicinal workstation.
Pals endowed with this attribute will irrigate the crops, employ the Crusher to facilitate the task.
Pals shall utilize labor to additionally Gather ando harvest vegetation.
Some of your Pals’ attributes will enable them to extract specialized ore, stone, sulfur, and coal.
Pals have the ability to provide cooling to various buildings.
Pals with the Farming trait produce items at the Ranch. This Farming Pals are best used when combined with Transporting Pals.
Over time, a worker’s productivity may decline due to a decrease in their subjective well-being (SAN) while working. Workers may take breaks autonomously, and if a bed is available, they may retire for the night. Certain interventions, such as hot springs or specific medications and foods, may expedite the recovery of their SAN.
There are also other activities a Pal can do at base.
Pals can be put to work in factories to mass produce gear and items.
Pals can be assigned to Mixed Ranch to breed.
Pals can be used to defend the base from enemy raids.
Pals will rescue incapacitated Pals in base.
In addition to the standard Pal, there are two other types of Pals that exist: Alpha Pals and Lucky Pals. Alpha Pals are large boss-type Pals that roam around the map and are incredibly strong. Lucky Pals are rare Pals with unique aesthetic features, better stats, and movesets. These Pals can be caught and added to your collection to enhance your Pal’s abilities and performance.
Alpha Pals, also known as bosses, are huge Pal variants with titles. You can capture them.
Lucky Pals are shining variants of Pals. They are larger variants of a pal and are heard from a decent distance when one spawns in. Usually recognized by a "sparkly" icon next to their name as well. When caught they will always give you ancient civilization items and will come with the "Lucky" prefix, which increases ATK by 15% and Workforce by 15%.
Some Pals can be created by breeding two specific species together.
The Paldeck is an encyclopedia of all the Pals in Palworld. When you first encounter a Pal it is logged in your Pal Deck. It will appear as a greyed-out image of the Pal. You will also be able to view their Habitat range. If you capture a pal it will show up in the Paldeck with full color and list possible drops, their partner skill, work traits, food level, and your capture bonus.