Guides
Fan-written walkthroughs for new survivors through mid-game base optimization.
Beginner's Guide to Palworld: Your First 10 Hours
A fan-made roadmap for new survivors covering your first base, first captures, and the early tech tree.
Best Early-Game Pals for Base Building
Which common and uncommon Pals to prioritize for Kindling, Watering, Planting, and Electricity work.
How Pal Breeding Works: Combi Rank, Eggs, and the Breeding Table
How Palworld breeding actually resolves a parent pair to a child, egg incubation tiers, and why a rank-formula approximation isn't reliable.
Palworld Type Chart — Elemental Strengths & Weaknesses
The full Palworld elemental type chart: which elements counter which, and how to read weaknesses on a Pal's detail page.
Best Pals for Each Element (Early and Mid Game)
A quick-reference pick for each of the nine elements, from the full Pal database.
Best Base Locations in Palworld
Where to actually put your base — not which Pals to staff it with. Windswept Hills, Sea Breeze Archipelago, and what makes a location worth building on.
Palworld Lifmunk Effigy Guide: Every Effigy Type & Location
Where to find every Lifmunk Effigy (155 total) plus all 12 other Palworld effigy types — what each boosts, and the new World Tree locations.
Palworld Merchant Guide: Every Shop & What It Sells
Every merchant type in Palworld — including where Dog Coins actually come from — which of the four currencies each one uses, and which shop to check first for schematics, ammo, healing, or a rare Pal.
Palworld Black Marketeer Locations & How to Buy Rare Pals
Every documented Palworld Black Marketeer location, plus what each level tier sells, how it differs from the Pal Merchant, and who's actually worth the Gold Coin.
Palworld Bounty Targets: Every Wanted NPC, Reward & Location
How Palworld's bounty system actually works — how to get a bounty in the first place, what Successful Bounty Tokens buy, and how difficulty scales across all 32 named targets.
Palworld Alpha Pals: Every Alpha Boss Location & Level
Every Palworld Alpha Pal — what actually makes one an Alpha, why they're worth hunting down, and the real level curve across all 78 documented spawns, plus notable Alphas worth a detour by name.
Palworld Tower Locations: Every Boss Arena & Watchtower
The real difference between Palworld's Boss Towers and Watchtowers, how the map's 35 towers are distributed, and which faction fights are actually worth planning around.
Palworld Work Suitability Guide: Best Pals for Every Base Job
Which Pal has the highest Work Suitability for each of Palworld's 13 base jobs — including the best Mining pal — pulled straight from this site's Pal database rather than a tier list that stopped updating years ago.