New to Palworld? This guide covers your first hours, base building, catching Pals, and using the Palworld Breeding Calculator to plan ahead. Once you unlock breeding, refer to our Cake Farming Guide to keep your farm running.
Grab Wood, Stone, and Fiber from the ground. These three materials build everything early on.
Open your inventory, craft a Stone Pickaxe and Stone Axe. They speed up gathering by a lot.
This is your base. Put it on flat ground near trees, rocks, and water. Later you'll use the Palworld Breeding Calculator — for now, just survive.
You need Paldium Fragments + Stone + Wood. Make at least 5–6 spheres before hunting Pals.
Raw meat restores little. Cook it. Cooked food keeps your hunger and sanity stable longer.
One link only: Once you unlock breeding at Level 19, bookmark our Cake Farming Guide — you'll need a lot of cakes.
Not all early Pals are equal. These four will carry you through the first 10 levels.
Easy to catch, produces Wool at your base, and is a solid early-game companion for gathering.
Boosts your carrying capacity and works fast at the ranch. One of the most underrated starters.
Your first Kindling Pal. Essential for cooking and smelting. Also decent in early combat.
Shreds through Water-type Pals. Great for early battles and tree chopping at your base.
Weaken the Pal first — get it below 30% health — then throw your sphere from behind. Back hits have a much higher catch rate. This saves tons of spheres early on.
Your base is your home, factory, and fortress. Build these structures in this order for the smoothest start.
Your base anchor and fast-travel point. Place it on flat ground near trees, stone, and water.
Unlocks all early crafting recipes. Build this right after the Palbox — no delay.
Cooks raw meat into proper meals. Assign a Fire Pal to keep it lit automatically.
Deployed Pals need rest. One bed per Pal — tired Pals work slow and get stressed.
Inventory fills up fast. Place a storage box next to your workbench so materials stay close and crafting stays fast.
Once your base has value, raids start. Build a few Defensive Walls and keep a combat Pal deployed — even a low-level Foxparks can buy you time.
Don't waste time gathering the wrong things. These six materials power your first 20 levels.
The most used early resource. Punch trees or assign a Grass Pal to chop them at your base.
Found everywhere. Pick up loose stones early, then mine nodes with a Pickaxe for more.
Small blue crystals near water. Essential for crafting spheres — always grab these when you see them.
From bushes and plants. Needed for cloth, beds, and repairs. Easy to overlook, painful to run out of.
Big brown rocks with metallic veins. Turns into Ingots at a furnace — the gateway to guns and better gear.
Drops from defeated Pals. Stockpile these — armour and arrows consume them constantly.
Assign Pals with Logging and Mining work suitabilities to your base. They'll gather Wood and Stone while you explore — passive income changes everything.
Every Pal has an element. Using the right type against the wrong opponent wins fights fast.
Melts through Grass and Ice Pals. Essential for Kindling at your base — cooking and smelting.
Douses Fire Pals completely. Also handles Watering tasks at your farm and mills.
Shreds Water and Ground types. Great for Logging and early-game combat dominance.
Water Pals stand no chance. Electric types also power generators for advanced bases.
The only hard counter to Dragon types. Also keeps your Cooler Box running.
Rare but devastating. Dominates Dark Pals. Most legendary Pals carry this type.
Fire beats Grass → Grass beats Water → Water beats Fire. That triangle alone covers 70% of early fights. Keep one of each in your team and you'll always have the advantage.
Breeding is how you get rare Pals without hunting them. Here's how to start.
Breeding unlocks at Technology Level 19. Focus on catching and base-building until you hit this milestone.
Costs 100 Wood, 20 Stone, 50 Fiber. Place it inside your base with enough space for both Pals to move.
Every breed consumes 1 Cake. Check our Cake Farming Guide for the full recipe and automation tips.
Pick one male and one female Pal. Gender doesn't change the offspring species — only passive skill inheritance.
Wait for the breeding bar to fill, then grab the egg. Incubate it in the right temperature for its element type.
Don't guess — plan. Our Palworld Breeding Calculator shows exactly which two Pals produce your dream offspring.
Try breeding Penking × Bushi to get Anubis — one of the best base Pals in the game. It has Handiwork Lv4 and is achievable as early as Level 20.
You've mastered the basics. Here's where to go next — and the resources that will help you get there.
Palworld rewards patience and planning. Use the tools on this site, breed step by step, and within a week you'll have a team that dominates every boss and raid. Good luck, trainer.