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Breeding is a mechanic added to many monster-tamer games - it gives you something quite different to do and encourages you to catch lots of different monsters, especially when stats and skills are random. This is certainly the case inPalworld, where catching lots of Pals is the best way to level up and each Pal comes with its own set of passive skills.
Breeding allows you to obtain new Pals, as well as create the optimised Pal of your dreams. Of course, you’ll need to prepare accordingly - it can be a lengthy, drawn-out process that requires much effort to get right.
Palworld is currently in Early Access. The information presented below may be subject to change as a result of the development process.
How To Breed Pals
You’ll need three things before you can breed in Palworld:
Once you have all of these requirements, all that’s left is toplace your prospective parents into the Breeding Farm. To do this, you’ll need to deploy them to your base and then manually lift them up andthrow them into the Breeding Farm, assigning them the ‘breeding’ task.
Once two compatible Pals are assigned to the Breeding Farm, agauge will start to creep up slowly as they breed. When the gauge is full, the pair will consume a Cake from the box in front of the Breeding Farm. Upon completion, an egg will appear in the centre of the farm.
Check here to find out how toincubate and hatch eggs!
If there is no Cake in the Breeding Farm box, the Pals inside willnot finish the breedingprocess- they will wait with the gauge maxed out for the Cake to arrive.
For this reason, it’s a good idea toonly take finished Cakes from the Cooking Pot when you’re ready to use them, lest they spoil.
How Breeding Works
Thanks to dataminers, we have a solid grasp on how breeding works in Palworld. Without getting into the details, there are two basic rules to know:
To get a little deeper into this and explain what’s happening,each Pal species in the game has a certain ‘strength’ assigned to it, numerically. When a pair of Pals breeds, the offspring is whatever Pal species has the closest ‘strength’ level to theaverage of the parents' ‘strength’ levels.
For example, if you were to breed aSurfent(a moderately strong Pal) with aRushroar(quite a weak Pal), you’dend up with aDigtoiseevery time, whose power is somewhere in between.
For this reason, it’simpossible to gain a Pal that the game considers ‘more powerful’ than its parents.
It is quite possible to getmultiples of a Pal by breeding that Pal with its own offspring over and over again, which will close the strength gap between the parents enough until you find a pair that may result in another of the first parent.
While stats are random, you’ll notice that Pals do in fact,pass down their passive skills. With this piece of knowledge, you can start passing down your favourite skills down to create the best fighters and workers you can.
Unique Breeding Combinations
There are a number of breeding combos that result in offspring that donot follow the strength level rule that all other pairings do, meaning it’s possible to gain various Pals without taking parental strength into account.
