Hello, Librarian Husky here! So, you want to be the very best Pal Tamer like no one ever was. Well, I’ve spent dozens of hours exploring Pal World, and I’ve got just the right tips to help you reach that goal with ease. Here are 15 things I wish I knew about Pal World.

Getting Your First Gun in Pal World

Let’s start with a question I know all of you are going to be asking when you start playing: how do I get a gun? Pal World has been called Pokémon with guns for a while now, but you don’t get any firearms until hours into the experience. At player level 20, you gain access to the weapons workbench. Fortunately, there’s still a way to bust a cap in some Pals before you reach that point.

Unlocking Leaf Monk’s Submachine Gun

First, you’re going to need to catch a Leaf Monk. At player level 11, you’ll be able to unlock Leaf Monk’s submachine gun. When crafted, this item allows your little green friend to take advantage of its partner skill, Leaf Monk Recoil. When activated, Leaf Monk will jump on top of your head and fire its SMG in the direction that you point, for a limited time.

Using the Submachine Gun Before Level 20

Now, I know the limited use seems like a bummer, but this is just to hold you over until Level 20 when you can use your own gun and Leaf Monk’s SMG at the same time. Besides, you can always use the partner skill again once the cooldown is done.

Equipping Tanz with an Assault Rifle

Another early option is to equip Tanz with an assault rifle. This partner skill is available at player level 12, but unlike with Leaf Monk.

Tany’s Aim and Fox Park Flamethrower

You can’t help Tany aim, and those monkeys are a horrible shot. Look at him, missing every shot—the cat is right in front of him. There you go, he hit one. Boom, all right, cool. For a different type of firepower, catch a Fox Park. At player level six, you can craft a harness for this fire breather that allows you to pick it up and use it as a flamethrower.

Customizing World Settings

Before you wake up on the beach dazed and confused, take a look at the custom World settings because there’s a lot you can change. Under difficulty, you’ll see another option that reads custom difficulty. Inside are a plethora of sliders that will change the speed of the day and night cycle, the rate at which you and your pals gain experience, how easy it is to capture a pal, and so much more.

Changing World Settings Mid-Adventure

If you’ve already begun your adventure, there’s no need to worry or restart your playthrough, as these settings can be changed at any time. Next time you’re at the world select screen, pick “Change World Settings” at the bottom of the screen. This is useful because it lets you jump into the game, experience it at its default state, and then pop out to change things that you may have found too hard, too easy, or too annoying.

Respawning and Choosing Your Start

By default, Pal World will drop you into an area called Windswept Hills, but if you’d like to spawn somewhere different, there is a way. Whenever you perish, you’ll see a handful of respawn points in biomes you haven’t even explored yet. So, if Windswept Hills isn’t your jam, or you just want to start differently than another character you made, kick the bucket after you load in and pick another spot for your humble beginnings.

Choosing Your Starting Location

I wouldn’t recommend starting in a different area because the Pals in those regions may be at a higher level and ready to kick your ass. But if you love the smell of danger in the morning, go ahead and set up your first base elsewhere. For the sake of this article, though, I’m going to assume you started in the default location, as that was my experience.

Starting Without a Guide

By now, you’ve spawned in and you’re ready to get the ball rolling, but something feels off. Where’s the person in a lab coat waiting to greet you with three starter monsters? Well, there is none. But the good news is, you’re free to grab whatever Pal catches your eye, so go wild.

Essential Pals for Your Base

However, I do have some recommendations. I found that the Lamb Balls are essential for your base. I don’t carry one around in my party, but they’re hard workers, and I’ve never seen them complain about the work conditions. Civas are useful because, unlike the Lambs, these pink kittens can mine resources. The only problem is, the ones I had working at my base got stressed fairly often.

Managing Resources and Food Spoilage

Then there are the Chickapea, and to be honest, I mostly ignored these guys. These little chickens quickly became my punching bags—I used them to test a weapon I crafted, practice the powers of a Pal I preferred, grab the eggs they drop to cook later, or the sweet, delicious chicken meat they drop as well. Speaking of food, in Pal World, the food you collect or cook can spoil if not eaten in a timely manner. While playing, take notice of the little timer on all of the edible items in your inventory or storage crates. This will let you know how much time you have to use them for yourself or your Pals. Funny thing about this is that my food never went bad during my playtime; the timer just always reset.

Preparing for Potential Game Changes

I’m including this tip because it’s a mechanic in the game that you should be aware of, just in case there’s a patch that fixes the busted timer when the game releases in Early Access for everyone. If that happens to be the case and food starts to collect flies in your pocket, just know that at level 13, you’ll be able to craft a cooler to store the food in, which will make it last longer.

Efficiently Managing Storage and Crafting

Speaking of storage, there’s no need to constantly carry all your crafting materials or drag them along to each workbench visit. Pal World has one of my favorite features in a crafting survival game: the workbenches can read what you have stored in any of the different crates you have scattered around your base. Campfires work the same way when cooking—the ingredients don’t need to be in your pockets.

Incubators and Feeding Your Pals

This is not the case with incubators, however. You’ll need to find where you stored that egg and then bring it over yourself to be hatched. Now, before we get too far away from the subject of food, I want to talk about the box that you can craft to feed your Pals. On the outside, this box has a design that makes it look like it’s constantly full of fruit for your buddies to munch on. However, this is not always the case—you’ll need to manually open it up to see.

Managing Pals and Resources Efficiently

If the box is fully stocked with goodies, your Pals won’t be stressed out or hungry, which could cause them to refuse to work. Hopefully, there’s a patch that will introduce a change in the appearance of the box as it empties. With all the capturing you’ll be doing, you’re bound to have an overflow of Pals in your Pal box.

Utilizing Excess Pals and Pal Merchants

Now, this overflow isn’t necessarily a problem, but why not benefit from the excess? Around the map, you’ll find Pal Merchants who will buy any Pal from you for varying prices. You can also buy Pals from these merchants, and the small selection seems to change with each passing in-game day. However, I haven’t found a reason to buy the Pals on offer—they don’t seem special or more powerful than the free ones in the open world. So, in my opinion, they’re just a waste of money.

Farming Resources from Extra Pals

If extra cash isn’t what you’re after, you may be more interested in getting some extra goodies from your additional Pals. Each Pal drops different things: for example, Lamb Balls drop wool, Chickpea drop eggs, and the big cow Pals drop milk. If you have extras of these or other Pals, why not use the excess to farm these drops?

Farming Methods: Violent vs. Nonviolent

There are two ways you can do this: the violent way and the nonviolent way. Let’s start with the latter. One of the structures you can add to your base is the ranch. Pals that hang out there will produce their drops for you to gather later—lovely. Just keep in mind that for this to work, the Pal must have a farming skill.

The Violent Approach: Using the Meat Cleaver

For the Pals that you want to farm but can’t use the ranch, you might want to craft the meat cleaver instead. This weapon becomes available at player level 12 and it transforms the pet action into “butcher,” causing you to hack up your Pal of choice and then collect what they drop.

Pals’ Skills: Beyond Base Assignments

When I first started playing, I thought that Pals could only take full advantage of their skills when they were at the base doing jobs that you assigned them to. This is far from the truth.

Efficient Resource Gathering with Pals

If you’re out with a Pal in your party that is good at mining, you can just toss the ball at a pile of rocks, and they’ll automatically start mining it for you. My current favorite Pal for this task is Rushor, whose move Reckless Charge takes large chunks of rocks at once. This type of resource gathering makes crafting tools like a pickaxe completely pointless. All you need to do is craft the saddle for Rushor at player level six, and boom—lots of mining in one move.

Choosing the Right Pal for the Task

When you know you want to go out and gather certain things, just bring along a specific Pal. They don’t degrade the same way your tools do. If you’re heading out for a fight, especially if it’s a boss battle and you know the opposing Pal‘s type, you should pay attention to the game’s elemental matchups so that you’re well-equipped.

Understanding Elemental Matchups

These matchups are very similar to Pokémon, so fans of that series may already know them by heart: Electric types beat Water, Water beats Fire, Fire beats Grass, and so on. This list can be found towards the bottom of the survival guide under the tab labeled “Elements.”

Healing Your Pals After a Battle

But if you happen to get completely wrecked during a fight, the only way to heal those dead Pals is to place them in the Pal Box for 10 real-world minutes. Unfortunately, there are no PokéCenter-like buildings, and sleeping in the game does not make them heal any faster.

Healing Your Pals

If your Pals are just injured, they will heal passively inside their ball over time, similar to how your character does outside of a ball. Interestingly, there are no potions in the game yet; however, there is medicine for your Pals with broken bones, ulcers, and even depression—oddly weird and specific.

The Statue of Power

Don’t ignore the Statue of Power. This structure, which resembles a very popular Pokémon, is where you can enhance your capturing power and boost Pal stats like HP, attack, defense, and more. The former uses little Leaf Monk collectibles that you can find hidden around the world, while the latter uses Pal souls, which can be found around the world as well or obtained from Pals that drop them.

Exploring Caves and Dungeons

The caves in the game aren’t just areas that you can walk in and out of; instead, they’re instant dungeons that lock and unlock throughout the day. So, if you come across one that’s boarded up, mark it on your map and check back later. These dungeons have proven themselves to be barely worth the trip, but they do contain a boss, and bosses drop ancient tech that you need to unlock special devices.

Disassembling and Rebuilding Your Base

If you hate where you’ve placed your storage, your house, your workbench, etc., there’s no need to go all Fortnite on your creations and chip away with a weapon. Just activate disassembly mode. This lets you quickly scrap anything, recollect the materials you used, and keep it moving.

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