First things to do in the game:

• Focus on collecting resources first, to make palspheres and start off with your base
  
• When placing the Palbox you are determining the radius of your base, make sure it's an effective location, best in an open meadow surrounded by lots of materials
  
• Collect food but keep an eye on it in your inventory as it does expire over time!
  
• Follow the missions! They appear on the top right corner and are a great guide to a good start-up base.
  
• Upgrade your base to have more pals help you out -- you can view what's needed to upgrade the base by selecting [v] on your palbox.
  
• Explore the map after setting up your base to find different kinds of pals, materials, and unlock fast-travel locations. It's a huge open world! Go have fun venturing it.
  
• While exploring you will come across the Lifmunk Effigies, the glowing green statues. These are used to enhance your capturing ability and upgrade your pals. There are over 400 of these, just collect them as you go.

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Here's a link to a great interactive map of all fast-travel locations, syndicate towers, dungeons, pal bosses, etc. Palworld Interactive Map[palworld.gg]

Each pal has a certain element and different function within the base, focus on the symbols on each of their profiles when viewing your pals in the palbox.
There are 9 elements -- Neutral, Grass, Water, Ice, Fire, Electric, Dragon, Ground, and Dark.
There are 12 skills for within the base:


Some beginner Pals and their functions:

Another helpful link for a complete table of all pals and their skills / elements:
Complete List of Pals[genshinlab.com]
(Although I recommend just exploring this yourself in-game!)

• If you find glistening pals, collect them, as they always have a special skill.
  
  
• "Dungeons" are often caves with a mini-boss before being able to exit, also helpful to enter these if you are in need of certain minerals/ ores.
  
• Collecting 12 pals of the same breed gives you lots of XP!
  
• Make a shield as soon as possible (unlocked at level 4) to give you a buffer before taking health damage during fights.
  
• Upgrade your stats !! In the beginning I would focus on weight to be able to carry more stuff, then damage, health, or stamina. Working speed is irrelevant as you have pals to do it for you.
  
• Spend technology points to unlock new things you can craft / add to the base.
  
• When riding a pal there is no fall damage.

Some extra features that are nice to know/use:

• when pressing 4 on your keyboard you can choose to pet you current equipped pal, or any of them in your base if you're close enough to them. (you can even make a Depresso smile!)
  
  
  
  
  
• Try to avoid accidentally throwing a palsphere at a higher level pal (such as the Mammorest) who might be walking in areas with much lower level creatures, as they will see it as a threat and attack, most likely killing you.
  
  
• Craft saddles and other items specifically for certain pals to unlock extra features like riding, gliding, flying, or weaponizing with the pal gear workbench.
  
  

Once you unlock the breeding farm you can assign a female and a male pal to it who will breed new pals! You need cake for the process. For the ingredients you'll need:

• 8 eggs from Chikipis
  
• 7 milk from Mozzarinas
  
• 5 flour produced by wheat in the mill
  
• 2 honey from Beegardes
  
• 8 red berries.

The process of making 1 cake takes quite long, I recommend assigning a pal to it at all times.

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Here is a list of great pals to breed for your base:

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And here are great pals to breed as mounts:

• Fenglope and Rayhound: High-Speed Mount with Double Jump Ability
  
• Galeclaw: Alternative to a Glider (much faster than both the Mega & Giga Glider)
  
• Kitsun: High-Speed Mount & unaffected by heat or cold while riding. Use it when exploring volcanoes & snowy mountains.

Thank you to the Palworld Walkthrough Team for their informative website :)
⋗ Palworld Walkthrough & Guides Wiki[game8.co]

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This review is still a work in progress! I am open to any feedback or other good tips to add, as I haven't invested that much time into the game myself yet. :)



Enjoy the game!

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