Palworld is equal parts survival base-builder and creature collector. These are the systems that make both click — the jobs your Pals do at home, the way capturing and breeding shape your roster, and the element chart that decides every fight.
Pals at work
🛠️ Work Suitabilities
Each Pal is rated for jobs like Kindling, Watering, Planting, Mining, Lumbering, Handiwork, Gathering, Cooling, Transporting and Generating Electricity.
⚡ Partner Skills
A Pal's active ability when out with you — a mount, a glider, extra mining power, or a mounted weapon.
🥚 Breeding
Pair two Pals at a Breeding Farm with cake to hatch eggs — combine species and pass down strong passive traits.
🧪 Condensation
Merge duplicate Pals at the Statue of Power to raise a Pal's star rank and stats.
Catching & combat
🔴 Pal Spheres & capture rate
Better spheres and lower target HP raise your odds; a back-hit bonus and Lifmunk Effigies boost it further.
🌀 Elements
Nine types (Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ground, Ice, Dark, Dragon, Neutral) with a rock-paper-scissors chart — bring the right counter to each tower.
🔫 Guns + Pals
You fight alongside your active Pal; some Pals become mounted weapons. Ranged weapons carry the tough tower fights.
Element counters at a glance
Bring the counter type to a tower and the fight roughly halves in length.
| Element | Strong against | Weak to |
|---|---|---|
| Fire | Grass, Ice | Water |
| Water | Fire | Electric, Grass |
| Grass | Ground, Water | Fire |
| Electric | Water | Ground |
| Ground | Electric | Grass |
| Ice | Dragon | Fire |
| Dragon | Dark | Ice, Dragon |
| Dark | Neutral | Dragon |
| Neutral | — | Dark |
Sanity & status
- Pals have a sanity (SAN) meter; low sanity makes them slack, overeat or fall ill.
- A hot spring and good food restore sanity — build both into every base.
- Injured or sick Pals need a Pal Bed and time (or a medical station) to recover.
- In the field, your active Pal tires too — swap Pals to keep Partner Skills fresh.
💬 Community Strategies & Discussion
Did you find a hidden chest? Struggling with a boss? Share your tips and questions with other mercenaries below!