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"post": {
"title": "What are some basic mechanics that the game doesn't tell you?",
"selftext": "* Pals need level 2 mining to mine ore.\n\n* Capturing a pal from behind gives a capture rate boost.\n\n* To ride a pal:\n\n>1. Unlock the pal's specific saddle in the tech tree.\n\n>2. Craft it in the pal gear work bench. It will appear in the key inventory tab, not your main inventory. Also the game will let you craft multiple but you only need one.\n\n>3. Summon the pal and hold ~~E~~ F. \n\n* You don't take fall damage while riding a pal\n\n* Crafting items, building stuff and repairing gear will all pull items chests in your current base. No need to carry around wood or stone.\n\n* Ores, trees and such respawn after 24 in-game hours\n\n* Raw berries don't restore sanity, so your pals will slowly go insane and refuse to work. Cooked food, hot springs and fancy beds all restore sanity.\n\n* Ancient technology points are earned by killing bosses. Tower bosses gives 5, roaming bosses give 1.\n\n* Press B then C to instantly deconstruct things you've built.\n\n* Fire pals are easier to find at night because they glow.\n\n* Press 4 to command your pals. Two important ones are don't attack if it keeps killing pals before you can capture them, and attack aggressively when fighting raiders.",
"url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/comments/1afr2vm/what_are_some_basic_mechanics_that_the_game/"
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"comments": [
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"body": "another good one is Dark pals will work at night",
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"body": "I would love a dark ice type that only knows how to chill",
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"body": "Dude forreal. Especially when in multiplayer servers. Your friends won't go to sleep to pass the time and not lose as much time on your food. Foxicle has been the best for keeping my fridge cold 24/7 I keep a feeding bin right next to her so she doesn't gotta go far for food. And a bed right next to her as well so she doesn't have to travel as far for bed like my other tames. To also help keep things fresh just auto sort the fridge to refresh their timers. It's a little bug for now that helps until there is another solution.",
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"body": "Vanwyrm Cryst works day and night. It does have transport, but it's lazy and doesn't like to move.",
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"body": "The failing of all transport pals lol",
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"body": "I find they just constantly get stuck on everything, or they're like \"2000 stone? Nah I'm gonna pick up this one random piece of wood from the corner of the base\"",
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"body": "I have my ore/coal base set up with 2 Astegon for mining, 2 Anubis for back up miners/transport, and the rest are Orserk for pure transportation speed lol. Having a multipurpose base is so tough lol",
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"body": "how do I get them to lvl2 to mine ore?",
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"body": "Some.pals have their mining at level 2 or 3 as standard. But all pals level up their work skills at their 4th level on the pal condenser.",
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"body": "sweet. thanks!",
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"body": "Patch just released that should fix this"
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"body": "My biggest issue is finding pals that'll actually help work the crafting tables and assembly lines. Loupmoon has been great cause it's all he does. But I'd love for my other ones to actually help and get the use from the assembly line. But my god... don't leave a bunch of repair tools in a chest. They just keep picking them up and dropping them over and over for some reason leaving them around my base like garbage. So I'll craft a bunch let him repair everything once it's all good I just destroy the rest. They don't take much to craft.",
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"body": "Anubis has +4 to Handicraft which is absolutely bonkers. They craft things that would take 2 minutes and do it in 5 seconds.",
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"body": "I bred a bunch of Anubis for this reason! Too bad all they do is work the stone pit. I have 5000 stone but 0/20 hyper spheres sitting on my assembly line :(",
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"body": "Just throw a Anubis on what they should do to assign them."
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"body": "I ended up moving my stone pit to a separate base to focus crafting on the main one",
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"body": "Build on foundation and make stairs. Destroy the stairs when you are tired of them mining",
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"body": "tbh the easiest way is just to have an Anubis on you and manually throw him at the workbench, with Handicraft 4 even without other skills they are pretty fast on their own.\n\nAnubis also happens to be one of the strongest non-legendary pals so he is amazing for combat. \n\nI am currently in the process of replacing all my pals with perfectly bred workers."
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"body": "We need a tool to actually set work task with priority. Just throwing them to a machine doesn't really solve the problem imho. \n\nOn a game focused on automation I don't understand, why we don't have that already.",
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"body": "Hope they let you set pals base priority’s from the command tower thing",
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"body": "At first I thought that it does that. Then I used it and all I can do is enslave them harder. Felt bad man.",
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"body": "I found that you can prevent pals from needing with the contents of a chest by putting it behind a door or making it otherwise inaccessible.\n\n\nI have a building for incubators and egg storage with a door, and with rare exception they don't seem to be able to get inside. And I have a bunch of chests on top of a roof and the only wall up there is closed door at the top of the stairs. I never even used the door. I either just run up the stairs and jump around that little piece of wall, or grapple up onto the roof.\n\n\nNo more random rocks and twigs in my nicely sorted storage.\n\n\nNow the handful of chests I have on the ground for pals to transport stuff to? Utter chaos."
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"body": "Idk about multiplayer but removing food from the cooler box and then putting it back in resets the time for me.",
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"body": "I'm pretty sure just hitting the sort button resets food timers."
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"body": "Also the timer is for one piece of the food.\n\n100 berries expiring becomes 99 berries",
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"body": "This is why I haven't used fridges at all. My pals are eating from a pile of 2000 cooked berries",
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"body": "Worth it for once salads become a main source of food for your base and other good foods. Otherwise a cooked berry diet carries for like 75% of the game",
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"body": "Nah cooked berries works for 100% of the game.",
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"body": "Its more a nutrition-weight ratio, as well as nutrition to feed ratio.\n\nIf you just have berries, your palls will spend a long time eating to fill up. if you use salads, they spend a lot less time at the food box and get back to work.",
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"body": "no way, thats wild"
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"body": "That works but it's faster to just press the sort button. Another nice trick/feature that isn't mentioned. You need cake for breeding. And each piece has a 20 minute timer. But throwing them into the breeding box will stop the timer. So you can just make tons of cakes and leave them in there with no worries. Just gotta be careful and remove the ones breeding if you don't want a ton of eggs from them.",
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"body": "As a stopgap, pals from your team will work overnight if you assign them yourself. So you can pick up the sleeping foxicle into your team and throw her at the fridge"
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"body": "And they say this game won’t do good cause people don’t care about their Pals. Prime example of caring about a pal. Even if it’s to work them it’s making things easier for them!",
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"body": "I would die for quivern.",
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"body": "Me and my swift runner vanguard Chillet. First boss fight of the game and I got a god roll. Hasn't left my party since!"
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"body": "They should just let the freezer collect charge like the power pylon thing.",
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"body": "Closest is vanwyrm cyst. ",
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"body": "Vanwyrm-cryst is the answer you’re looking for"
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"body": "It would still leave the fridge to eat and relax in the spa.\n\nWhat really needs to be done is that the fridge needs to get \"charged\" up by Chill Pals the same way the generator gets charged by electricity Pals, so that it doesn't immediately switch to \"unchilled\" as soon as the Pal wants to do something else.\n\nWouldn't hurt to put a higher priority on chilling than it currently has either, my Penking would rather be watering, mining or transporting than chilling most of the time."
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"body": "Frostallion Noct I'm pretty sure is Dark/Frost with level 4 cooling only."
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"body": "That’s a really good one, actually."
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"body": "fire pals can keep you warm\n\neggs only count one source of heat, apparently.\n\ncampfires work like a heater and dont need a pal to maintain\n\npress b then c activate deconstruction mode for multiple buildings, and you cant loot while in this mode\n\npals have a priority list and will typically ignore environment collections if they have other tasks to do\n\nthey will repair structures if you put repair kits in the chest, this is the lowest priority next to transporting items off the ground.\n\nplayer cooldown on mount skills are separate from the pals using it on their own\n\npals will commit to a workload and go insane regardless of what you feed them but if they have someone to tag out the workload with, it can almost prevent insanity.\nexample: two foxes cooking 1000 eggs will probably be fine but one fox cooking 500 eggs will probably develop an ucler.\n\nfood mostly helps deal with large workloads.\n\npersonal recommendation is pizza. very easy to make and sustains very well.\n\ni know i had a few more but people keep talking to me at work so ill post more later if i recall lol",
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"body": ">pals will commit to a workload and go insane regardless of what you feed them but if they have someone to tag out the workload with, it can almost prevent insanity. example: two foxes cooking 1000 eggs will probably be fine but one fox cooking 500 eggs will probably develop an ucler.\n\nCan you explain this one? Is this because they're happier working/doing a task together?",
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"body": "If you have two pals capable of doing a job, if one is in downtime when the other decides to enter downtime, it will likely take over the role the other was filling, giving them both time to chill.",
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"body": "Huh could’ve sworn they eat and bathe regardless but never paid too close attention to it and never had an issue except when you log out and they all get stuck and develop spontaneous depression forcing me to butcher all of them bc the medicine is unbalanced levels of expensive/tedious",
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"body": "I think it's less about the eating and bathing; you're right that a solo pal does that anyway.\nThe idea here is that working continuously for too long can drain san faster than it recovers even with the food and saunas.\nBut if you have two for the one job, when one stops to eat, the one that has been chilling takes over the job, so when the first is done eating it now gets to chill/do other less continuous stuff"
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"body": "what the other guy said. they take more time to themself and it allows san to recover.\n\nto add to my other comment. it seems breeding and grazing are 0 san draining activities.",
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"body": "I must have been hit by a bug then, bc my Melpaca went a bit crazy while grazing."
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"body": "Think of it like RL-Work. Your Boss orders you to do 500 calls before you can go Home. You work alone. After 300 calls you sit in the corner of your office and cry.\n\nNow you get a Coworker. Because your Boss expects more work of you because you are now 2 People, he expects 1000 calls before you can go Home. So you do 200 before you take a relaxing break and have some Lunch - in the meantime your coworker does 200 calls - then you take over again. At the end - since you started - you are even doing 600 calls during the day, but since you were not forced to do it all at once by yourself, your mental health is better.",
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"body": "\"like RL-work\"\n\"sit in the corner of your office and cry\"\n\nI love you so much."
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"body": "I bet you would go insane if you had to cook 500 eggs in a row without having a snack yourself or taking a nice bath haha. Thats why having more pals or taking turns helps."
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"body": "Along with fire pals keeping you warm, icy pals can keep you chilled I'm hot places",
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"body": "I am not 100% sure on that one. \n\n​\n\nI took my Frostallion (Ice type) to the volcano region on the map. And she burst into flames. While flying. I also caught fire.",
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"body": "If you fly over the lava areas, no matter how high you are, the game treats it the same as if you ran through it on surface level. Not sure if it's intentional or will be patched in the future.",
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"body": "I went through the whole lava area, even flew above the volcano and I never caught fire or anything"
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"body": ">eggs only count one source of heat, apparently.\n\nNot exactly - they work like Aura effects. So for example the Campfire gives Heat Level 1 in a small area around it. \nThe Cooler gives Cold Level 2 in a Medium area. \n\n\nSo if you put A cooler down and a Campfire right next to it, you will have a small area of Level 1 Cold and a ring around it of Level 2 Cold \n\n\nBut yes each kind of Source only counts one. So 2 Campfires are not Level 2 Heat - you need a Heater for that or build your eggs in a better Biome.",
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"body": "Honestly I just turned down the egg timer to 0. Waiting for eggs and managing their heat is the most boring and annoying mechanic in the game.",
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"body": "I have so many questions. Can I bother you?\n\n-Sometimes the health is really low but I throw the ball & it still fails. Why?\n\n-At what point is it okay to leave the base & explore? Will my pals collect berries to feed themselves?\n\n-From game start I went right & set up my base near some stone walls. Is this a bad spot? I keep getting messages not to build there because it’s a boss spawn or something.\n\n-Strategy for raiders & raiding monsters?\n\n-Do pal beds go inside or outside?\n\n-Do pals die?\n\n-Which pal works on cutting down trees?\n\n-How do I read what each personality trait means?",
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"body": "lots of pals can cut trees. Very early on you can catch Eikthyrdeer. They are this big purple deers with huge antlers. They are very effective at woodcutting."
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"body": ">\\-Sometimes the health is really low but I throw the ball & it still fails\n\nbad rng\n\n>\\-At what point is it okay to leave the base & explore? Will my pals collect berries to any food found inside a feed basket first so they don't starve. \n\nyour pals will auto collect any food and berries and bring it to a feed box. i recommend a ranch with one or two chickens and you'll have a steady supply of eggs. youll be good to leave base anytime\n\n>\\-From game start I went right & set up my base near some stone walls. Is this a bad spot? I keep getting messages not to build there because it’s a boss spawn or something.\n\nthat message is just to warn you that you're close to another object's hitbox. a place you like for a base is fine but i find open and wide areas good for pals to navigate with their pathing. also a good idea to plan for future bases near large deposits of your resource choice like ore\n\n>\\-Strategy for raiders & raiding monsters?\n\nif you block the path to your base ring, their pathing ai can bug out and they'll just stand in a corner for you to murder them. if you want a more legit way, they follow a line so mines and traps are good or pals with explosives. i find having a ranch of exploding chickens near their point of entry very effective as pals with transport (i think) will auto revive your chickens after they explode.\n\n>Do pal beds go inside or outside?\n\nanywhere you want but pals need to be able to reach them.\n\n>\\-Do pals die?\n\nno but the game suggests if pals are lost by your death, a black market might sell them. i haven't tested this.\n\n>\\-Which pal works on cutting down trees?\n\na lot of pals can work on cutting trees but if you mean the best pal at it? idk, but i think bushi personally looks the coolest doing it\n\n>How do I read what each personality trait means? \n\nif you mean their passive trait, hovering the mouse over it works .",
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"body": "I recommend jam toast, only two ingredients and don't compete with cake much since getting them is relatively faster than milk and eggs.\n\nsure, they will eat more often but their sanity is capped out and little time wasted in hotsprings"
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"body": "certain Boss pals have a chance to drop specific legendary schematics as well as some of the chests at the end of a high lvl dungeon.",
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"body": "Follow up: legendary schematics can also be found in locked (red) treasure chests in the wild.",
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"body": "are red the rarest version of chests?",
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"body": "Replying back to you directly.\nTo clarify: when I say \"red\" I'm talking about the glowing rune effect around the chest. Red is the highest rarity I've seen in the overworld and they require different keys mostly based on what region you find them in.\n\nThere are also purple rune chests that drop only items and gold, and gold rune chests that also drop keys for opening the red chests."
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"body": "For people wanting to know what drop where, see this:\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Palworld/s/HwAEKGbrZZ"
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"body": "Cake does not expire in a breeding box",
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"body": "Same goes for the cooking fire and pot. You can cook stuff up and leave them in the pot indefinitely and they won't start to expire until you pull the item out :D"
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"body": "This one was a huge game changer to discover"
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"body": "I believe the same is true of food items created on a ranch. If nobody picks up the eggs the timer won't start."
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"body": "All berry diet is fine it doesn't restore sanity but just make sure you have a hot spring per around 5 pals in the base\n\nWith just one they can't cycle through fast enough",
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"body": "Worthy of making its own tip I think. Hot tubs are not a passive sanity buff to pals, the pal has to be able to get to one and sit in it to get the benefits. If the hot tub is in use, or so far away that the pal spends most of their break time walking to it, they will not recover enough sanity during their break.\n\nI think most players are unknowingly working around this with better food that restores sanity.\n\nMy suggestion is to build 1 hot tub for every 4 pals working in the base. My endgame base has 4 hot tubs spread around for accessibility and I have not had any sanity issues since.",
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"body": "This is such a great and important tip, and a far simpler solution than the better food strategy.\n\nEMPLOYEES DON’T WANT PIZZA PARTIES, THEY WANT SPA DAYS.",
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"body": ">EMPLOYEES DON’T WANT PIZZA PARTIES, THEY WANT SPA DAYS.\n\nDon't give my boss more stupid ideas",
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"body": "Why not both? Every Monday you get a pizza party and every Friday you get a spa evening, sponsored by the Company"
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"body": "or just set up a salad business, it covers insanity perfectly well. Never had an insane pal, and it is fairly easy to sustain. Processed berries will also help. At the start it is some manual work but once you sustain it you just put 500 salad per feedbowl and you are done for 1-2 rl days."
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"body": "I have 2 of the high quality hot springs in each of my bases and that seems to be enough to keep 15 pals happy. I could fit more of the smaller hot springs in but the high quality stuff takes up a lot of space.\n\nSwitching to better food will still be worthwhile if you set up good farms because the better food also gives buffs like more work speed and fills your pals faster which means they spend less time eating and work more."
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"body": "The problem with that is time spent in the hot tub is time not spent working. If you feed them cooked food (even just baked berries mitigate a lot of issues), you get better productivity overall.",
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"body": "It may be worth it to do both. You can build a monitoring stand and toggle your pals to be more productive at the cost of more sanity."
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"body": "Not enough with Amazon monitoring stand haha."
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"body": "Push R when chest open to toss things you have stacks of already into that chest instantly\n\nEdited out the aoe deposit part after testing",
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"body": "It actually tells you this on the bottom-right of the screen. I didn't realize it for like 2 weeks either until someone mentioned it to me in the palworld mod subreddit lmao",
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"body": "Boy, I didn't realize this until I hit about level 20, I felt so stupid not noticing the button on the screen"
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"body": "It also works on the repair bench to repair everything in your inventory at once",
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"body": "No way! Thanks for that one."
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"body": "no fucking way."
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"body": "Game changer!"
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"body": "Anyone know this command on steam deck / controller?",
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"body": "Its \"R1\" or \"RB\" on controller",
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"body": "Legend"
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"body": "Sadly there is no exclude feature for this. Yesterday I went exploring and was wondering why I suddenly had no pal balls in my inventory... Yeah.. There was one in the chest and all other got transferred!",
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"body": "Thank you so much!"
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"body": "As mentioned in the OP, level 2 mining is required to mine Ore.\n\nFollowing that though:\n\nStone and Sulfur can be mined at any level.\n\nLevel 3 mining is required for Coal and Pure Quartz.\n\nLevels 4 and 5 mining are not required for anything.\n\nNo other work suitability is required to do anything and having higher levels just increases work speed.\n\nLevel 4 is the max a pal can have at its base for work suitability.\n\nPals get +1 to all work suitability (they need at least one level in said category) once they have 4 stars. Allowing pals to reach level \n\n \n\nx2 damage to weakness.\n\nX0.5 damage to resistance.\n\nPals gain a STAB (same type attack bonus) of +20%\n\nLike with Pokemon, if a pal has multiple elements, they gain the weaknesses and resistances of both and thus can cancel out weaknesses if the typing is right.",
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"body": "You can kill bosses over and over again! No need to hoard the Ancient Technology Parts.\n\nAlso thanks for that very first factoid, I was wondering how my mining base was producing so little but I simply had way too few 2-mining pals",
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"body": "Also worth noting: Digtoise are only good at mining at the base facility or in your party when you have its equipment. Digtoise won't be good at mining overworld deposits if you don't have the equipment while it's in your party, or if the Digtoise is deployed at the base. \n\nA lot of people were confused why their passive metal bases weren't generating a lot of ore.",
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"body": "Climb on top of a pal sphere mid capture to get a boost for gliding. It’s a FEATURE not a bug",
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"body": "Grapple cancel and swing your screen before grapple impact to pogo off the wall in any direction, including up.\n\nOn controller use the B key to cancel before impact, on keyboard use your scroll wheel to change weapons right before impact.\n\nPoint your camera in the direction you want to fly\n\nI wanted to keep this on the DL but it's inevitable.\n\nMax your inventory weight with ore, slingshot to travel places."
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"body": "Pals that add carry capacity require their associated saddle (if they have one) to Grant that extra carry capacity.",
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"body": "Yep, discovered this one last night. Was wondering why I was getting zero bonus from my pal even when their tool tip mentioned they help with it. Making the saddle was the missing piece."
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"body": "If your Pals are incapacitated inside the base. Your other Pals that are alive can actually help them by dragging their body to the bed and instantly reviving them. You don't have to wait 10 minutes for the revive in Palbox.\n\nAlso helpful tip: It also works when you push the ragdoll of your incapacitated Pal to the bed.",
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"body": "But not if the pal is huge. My poor jormuntide ignis 😭",
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"body": "It does work. The animation for the dead pal will glitch out and they will still lie on the ground, but a pal will have the status \"Rescuing...\" while slowly walking over to a bed. Once they reach the bed, the dead pal will suddenly appear in the bed and be healed.",
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"body": "You can go into your party, select a pal, and change its active attacks. \n\nI'm over 100 hours into the game and just figured it out.",
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"body": "When they learn an extra skill it adds it to that list, you don't override what you have. Also, they can lear a lot of skills not of their element. At first I thought it was gated.",
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"body": "Pretty much every skill that's not exclusive to a certain pal, just have to find the fruits"
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"body": "This is especially handy if you have suicide bees in your ranch that blow up half your base plus themselves anytime you get raided.",
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"body": "Wow thank you so much. \n\n\nI've been using a Beakon + Shockwave to farm pal fluids from the gobfins and got upset when my Beakon hit lvl 40 & the ability was replaced with sand tornado! Will definitely be swapping that back to shockwave when I play tonight. :D"
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"body": "Tames eat from the first slot of the feeding troughs so make sure wheat, eggs, milk, and honey always gets put into the last few slots to prevent them from being eaten while tryna get a bunch.",
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"body": "They fill the fridge, if I fill all other feeding bins?! I didn't know that. Great tip I'll have to try that out tomorrow."
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"body": "Cotton candy is the way to go if you bake cakes in that base, as baking will take the honey from the feed box."
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"body": "Ice and Fire pals effect your temperature \n\nKinda obvious but the game doesn't tell you that",
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"body": "That’s still such a cool detail. Lot of love put into this game."
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"body": ">Pals on an all berry diet will slowly go insane and refuse to work.\n\nDon't think this is true. I've been doing an all berry diet for my bases and I'm level 50, my pals never go insane. You just need to make sure you have enough food.\n\n>Ancient technology points are earned by killing bosses. Each boss gives 5 the first time its killed.\n\nAlso sort half true. Tower bosses give 5, regular bosses give 1.",
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"body": "You need to place the pool so they can rest and restore energy. \n\nThe most important part is that they don't get stuck.",
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"body": "you just order the firefox to cook the berries. yes, all 99,000 of them.",
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"body": "Get the Jormuntide Ignis (Fire Gyarados) to do it, will be done very quickly"
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"body": "baked berries are fine\n\n raw ones aren't\n\n at least not for all pals\n\n I think the lower level ones get away with worse food",
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"body": "But they are fine. I've got thousands of raw berries in my base. My pals eat it happily and don't go insane. You just need to optimize your base better I guess.",
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"body": "fr put a fucking hotub or something down, make better beds dammit",
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"body": "This. With all comfy beds and 2 hottubes my pals be chillin with just berries. But i bake them because why not? I believe a baked berry fills more of the hunger bar. \n\nI also removed the wood pit because pals kept climbing the tree and falling out of it.",
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"body": "Salad is perfect, also boosts work speed by 30%, people are sleeping on it.",
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"body": "Hello, do you have a moment to speak about our Lord and Savior - Dumud Chow? Uses the same stuff as Salad + Dumud Meat and gives you 50% Work Speed <3 \n\n\nDumuds are easily farmable in stacks of 3 in Anubis Desert and you can also collect small souls there :D",
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"body": "But consider this: some people are lazy, and the salad stuff literally grows in your base."
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"body": "Okay, I’m gonna need directions.",
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"body": "honestly, the desert is pretty much exactly in the middle of the map (slightly to the left, in the direct middle is water). Just bring some heat resistant gear with you during the day :'D",
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"body": "You need to regularly farm dumud for it which is a major downside. Meanwhile I can afk for half an irl day in my farm base and recuperate the 200 salad they ate with the lettuce and tomato farms"
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"body": "I actually have my base built up on a nearby mountain. It's so nice to cruise down there to farm Pal Oil.",
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"body": "I go with Pizza. Small workspeed increase but extremely filling"
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"body": "Your pals are spending way too much time at the feed then.\n\nBerries do not fill them up much, this costing them their work time.\n\nHot springs and beds will help their sanity, but it won't fill their belly."
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"body": "Here to agree. My mining base only eats raw berries and they have no problems.\nSanity loss is related to workload. If they have a full workload everyday, the better food, beds, spas and optimization they need.",
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"body": "My mining base thrives just fine with a ranch and one chicken. No farming workforce needed.",
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"body": "Oh man I didn’t even think of doing it this way. That would be way more efficient! How many Pals does the one chicken feed, aka how many Pals are at your mining base?",
"replies": [
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"body": "One chicken. 8 pals. But I suggest 2 chickens to be safe.",
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"body": "Even with enough food, berries are terrible and are actively slowing down tons of peoples bases. Pals eat rather slowly, and big pals can easily spend two minutes slowly eating enough berries to fill them up. With salad/pizza you can also tick to cruel conditions without having anyone go crazy and its massive.",
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"body": "Sorting an inventory (at least on xbox) resets the spoiling food timer.",
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"body": "Works on PC as well. "
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"body": "Cooked food never starts to expire until picked up from the campfire/stove, if you don't need the food right away try leaving it there until you do or need to cook something else to keep it fresh\n\nPals don't seem to consider height when calculating distance between things, if they're transporting stuff to chests, a chest miles into the air above them might as well be right next to them and may try to take stuff there instead of to a more reasonable chest a bit further away\n\nThere's more to heating eggs than just putting fires next to it, night and day, indoors or outdoors, whether the biome is cold or hot all make a difference and probably why your eggs say they're still cold\n\nShould be super obvious but mount pals have separate stamina bars than you do, if you're flying and need to stay in the air after your pal tires out, dismount and start gliding\n\nPals that are perpetually in flight like vanwyrm can move over water indefinitely without worrying about stamina or drowning\n\npals that produce resources in ranches produce more at a time when condensed and for wixy specifically can upgrade from finding basic spheres to mega spheres",
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"body": "Whoah, didn’t realize the vixy trick",
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"body": "Flying pals can walk on water without losing stamina.\n\nSome watertypes can run without losing stamina.",
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"body": "Depends on the flying pal - the \"endless skimming over water\" only works if it's a flying pal that *cannot walk.*\n\nI discovered the hard way that cutie Elphidran will get you killed if you try to fly long distances across water. If it runs out of stamina and lands in the water, it walks instead of skimming over the water and you drown.",
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"body": "Same. \"I finally unlocked the Quivern saddle, so I don't need Valwyrm for traveling anymore. Wait, why are we drowning? Why isn't Quivern hovering over the water?\""
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"body": "Oh, that's actually great to know! \n\nTried with two and both worked so i assumed they all do."
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"body": "You can grapple hook with an over weight load. Use multiples hooks to move around your base with as much wood as you want.",
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"body": "Gold tip",
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"body": "Every day I see people STILL saying “wait you can slide/roll?” \n\nYes, you can slide and dodge roll",
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"body": "You can backflip too"
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"body": "On controller, hitting Y in the repair table will give you the option to repair all damaged items in your inventory. \nThis is not listed on the menus for the repair table, and it will do nothing if you don’t have the necessary resources for all of the repairs.",
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"body": "What's the corresponding key on PC? What does y Y normally do on Xbox?",
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"body": "It's the R key"
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"body": "Y is used to scroll through your 4 quickslots, in inv its the 'use' key (when eating food or using tech books f.e)"
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"body": "If it’s an upgraded item it won’t repair unless the blueprint is in the inventory or chest at the same base"
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"body": "If you're cold you can throw out a fire pal to warm up",
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"body": "Opposite is also true. I used an ice pal and one layer of heat protection to explore the volcano",
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"body": "Or throw a Foxparks or similar out in a cave to see better."
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"body": "Utilize every inch of your base radius. Search the perimeters for any good resource spots then place chests just inside the base boundary but close to whatever nearby ore/tree grove/pal shard etc. when you need mats quick and you don’t have high carry weight, this is a much quicker way to keep stocked up on the mats without having to build the quarry or logging centers. All containers on base are connected and accessible by all guild members (amazing feature love this so so much!) \n\nAlso a great way to share pals among guild is to have the pal showcase pen thing as it can hold a crap ton and is accessible to guild. They don’t have needs in the pen so it’s a good way to share pals without keeping them out at the base.",
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"body": "Worth noting locking your chest doesn’t protect materials from guild members. They can craft using mats out of a locked chest.",
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"body": "Going off of the raw berries thing, I have 2 berry plots and pals to grow, water, and harvest them to take to the food bowl. If I cook them (the berries, not my pals lol) at the campfire, do they go back to the bowl, or do I need to drop them in?\n\nI also have a couple chickens to lay eggs, but they never seem to get eaten if I leave them in the bowl, so I've been taking them with me while exploring.\n\nI'm still new in the game, only level 14 right now lol and I would just try it out, but I'm out of town for work and won't be able to play until Friday lol",
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"body": "Pals eat whatever is in the left most slot of the food bowl UI.",
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"body": "> Fire pals ***and electric pals*** are easier to find at night because they glow.\n\nFTFY\n\nEdit:\n\nYes, Lifmunk effigies and other objects that emit light will glow at night but it won't light up the path when you're travelling.\n\nElectric and fire pals are good substitutes for a Torch or a Hip Lamp. I think that's the point of OP's suggestion.",
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"body": "Omfg that’s why my dudes keep refusing to work? The damn berries??!",
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"body": "Not basic but fun to know.. you can use the grappling hook to go through windows. Its a bit janky and sometimes takes a second to go through, only saves a little bit if time realistically, but its pretty fun"
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"body": "Ability cooldowns continue to tick even when not active, juggle between multiple pals when fighting. Ability cooldowns aren’t shared between riding and not riding — you can cast fireball while riding a vanwrym, then hop off and vanwrym can immediately fireball again. Legendary bosses get absolutely deleted when you’re mercilessly spamming big attacks they’re weak to"
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"body": "Oooh omg I've been wondering why my boar doesn't mine ore!",
"replies": [
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"body": "Buuuuut if you ride it and charge into the ore, it is the fastest way to mine ore I've found.",
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"body": "The fastest one for mining I found was using mammorest skill while riding it"
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"body": "This is why games need good tutorials.\n\nHovering your mouse over the mining icon already says \"Mining 1\". It wouldn't be hard to put more info in the tooltip.",
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"body": "I mean... the game does tell you a lot of these.\n\nMost are covered in the survival guide.\n\nPartner skills mentions needing to unlock and craft gear. \n\nIt tells you back shots increase capture rate. \n\nFood quality is important for sanity ect. \n\nI know it's a meme not to read/do tutorials but don't claim the game doesn't tell you.",
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"body": "Yeah I thought particularly the pal gear thing was very straightforward, even without reading on the survival guide. It was pretty intuitive"
},
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"body": "Almost everything said in the comment is mentioned in the survival guide or on the pal screen lol. Just because you can’t read doesn’t mean the game didn’t try and help"
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"body": "You can carry an 9999 stack of items unencumbered if you grab the item, but don't put it in an inventory slot, then close the page. You can walk around with the stack floating in the air under your mouse, and put it in another storage. Probably a bug, but still really handy.",
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"body": "it has to be click and drag, then specifically press tab to close the inventory while still holding down the mouse button. it's technically a bug but boy is it handy."
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"body": "You can drop a pall from your party on the ground by highlighting in your party screen and pressing R(not of the button on console).\n\nYou can instantly move matching items from your inventory to a chest or other inventory by pressing R.\n\nEdit: forgot one\n\nYou can repair all your items at once at the repair bench by pressing R.",
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"body": ">Pals on an all berry diet will slowly go insane and refuse to work. Bake them or use more expensive foods that restore sanity when eaten.\n\nWHAT??",
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"body": "Yep. I kept wondering why *all* the Pals at my guilds base were getting depressed, turns out my guild mate had been taking everything but the berries (I like to give them a variety of low-level food). \n\nHe’s no longer allowed near the food baskets lol",
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"body": "When moving items to storage, you can press a button (RB on Xbox) to take ALL items with a matching storage slot in the chest. Stone goes to stone, wood to wood, etc in one click."
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"body": ">Crafting items, building stuff and repairing gear will all pull items chests in your current base. No need to carry around wood or stone.\n\nLove this feature"
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"body": "Tired of carrying harvested perishables from your food troughs to your ice box?\n\nPut the food you want eaten in the first slot of the food trough, and fill the rest with non-edible items.\n\nIf there isn't an available slot in any food throughs, berries, eggs, milk, assorted produce, etc will be carried to the ice box instead.",
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"body": "Some heroes don't wear capes"
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"body": "You can click on the skills while a Pal is in your party to swap them out with another skill if your Pal has learned more than 3 skills. \n\nAt least, I figured this out just by clicking shit because I gotta click clicky everything. Don't recall seeing it as a note or tip anywhere.",
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"body": "Instructions unclear hungry pals baked."
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"body": "The back shot bonus one is definitely good to know. It does tell you but not in a tutorial kind of way."
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"body": "Here's one:\n\nYou can slide. Crouch while sprinting and if you do it down a hill, jump and use your glider and *you will retain that speed* while in flight.\n\nEdit: also, in the Wildlife Sanctuaries, you won't be considered \"Trespassing\" unless you touch the ground in those areas. So if you stay on a pal who never touches the ground (most bird types and Vanwyrm, too), the PIDF guys won't be hostile."
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"body": "And mining 3 for coal. Was trying to figure out for about an eternity why my Tombats wouldn‘t touch the coal ores ffs"
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"body": "| Pals on an all berry diet will slowly go insane and refuse to work. Bake them or use more expensive foods that restore sanity when eaten.\n\nAlright, well my mind is blown.",
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"body": "You can \"repair all\""
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"body": "It's F not E."
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"body": "1. You do not get enough technology points from leveling up to unlock everything. You DO find books (from chests) that give 1 2 or even 3 additional points that will let you unlock everything...eventually.\n2. You can change your pals attacks.\n3. Higher tier crafting stations mean you can deconstruct lower tier versions of the same crafting station.. \n4. Not all of the pals are listed in the paladex. The list shows 111 but some (Elphidrin) have a B version. Some can be captured others can only be obtained Via breeding.\n5. You get GOLD keys from killing the Black Market merchant. \n6. The wild life sanctuaries are a great place to find super rare pals.\n7. Many pals have hidden or passive stats the game really does not tell you about. Cativa increases your carry capacity by 50 in your party (more if you level it via condensing) Wumpo adds 120 if in your party. And they stack. Others make your attacks do elemental damage such as Chillet (must be mounted) or Anubis (must be active)."
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"body": "Press sort to reset food timers",
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"body": "I didn't know that about the berries...."
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"body": "Just in case someone missed this tiny UI feature (and I saw people missed this):\n\n> you can sort out your items and Pals automatically by clicking the grey box that says ‘Sort’ at the top-right of your Inventory/Palbox. What’s even neater is you can sort your Pals via their elements, levels, Paldex number, and Alpha status!"
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"body": "Honestly they don’t really tell you anything. Which, imo, is a HUGE factor in the success of the game. \n\nHandholding is a plague in gaming. It isn’t talked about because in theory it has some decent rationale behind it, and because there are bigger fish to fry. But loading in and being locked to learning the entire game with endless text and condescension is bad, a new player being clueless and suffering is better than everyone going through the tutorial blender.",
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"body": "There's a difference between hand holding and having tooltips for essential information. I don't expect a mobile game ad level of forced tutorialization.",
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"body": "Didn't try this yet, but if your pals are prioritizing mining stone over orethen you can build a foundation to glitch in the stone and they will ignore it.\n\nMore known: if you have galeclaw in your team and his glove, he will automatically be used for gliding. He is the best glider in the game."
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"body": "I wasn’t aware of the level 2 mining ore thing. Thanks"
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"body": "All this useful information for me to read and forget before I even get the chance to play and put all that good info into use."
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"body": "Capturing a sleeping Pal doesn't add your capture bonus."
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"body": "> Summon the pal and hold E.\n\ndo you mean summon the pal using E and hold F? or does holding E automatically mount them?",
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