Palworld Breeding System Explained

Your own Pal Breeding Farm

Aside from capturing pals, the only other reliable method of obtaining new pals is through breeding. The breeding system in the game isn't overly complicated though some important mechanics need to be covered. In this article, we will discuss the basics of breeding pals in the game.

Why Breed Pals?

Aside from obtaining new pals without hunting and using spheres, breeding is a reliable way of obtaining new pals that you can use to work on your bases or as new breeding parents. Depending on the parents you've selected, you can even hatch new subspecies that you can't easily capture in the wild.

Breeding will enable the parents to randomly down their random passive skills in the game, giving you the option to "create" your ideal pal based on the desired golden Passives. Work Suitability is innate per pal species and can't be modified unless when enhancing the pal using condensed essences. Breeding will allow you to hatch multiple copies of the same species that you can either have work on your base or use as essences.

Breeding takes a while since pals assigned to the Breeding Farm are not going to do any other tasks but to focus on generating an egg. After getting an egg, you also need to incubate the egg long enough until the pal inside is hatched. Hatched pals are added automatically to the Palbox.

Breeding Requirements

Breeding requires several key items and structures. First, you need to have the proper facility. You have to build the Breeding Farm, which can be unlocked after reaching Technology 19.

Next, you need to be able to have the capability to bake Cakes. This food item can be created using the Cooking Pot (Technology LV17) though you will need to eventually switch to the Electric Kitchen (Technology LV41) and assign Pals with Kindling LV3 or LV4 to make cakes faster.

Take note that these cakes must be placed inside the box that's part of the Breeding Farm. Don't place it in Feed Boxes or your other non-breeding pals will consume them. Cakes placed in the Breeding Farm's storage box will not perish or decay.

You'll also need an Incubator. As the name suggests, this is where you can place eggs that you find in the wild or obtained from breeding Pals. This requires Ancient Technology but fortunately, you can unlock this structure very early on. Ambient temperature can affect the incubation speed of eggs which we will discuss in a dedicated section below.

Finally, you need to have one male Pal and one female Pal that you need to assign to the breeding farm. The species doesn't matter that much but there are specific parent combinations that will yield special subspecies or even rare pals. We will cover those in detail in a separate article.

Cooking Cake

To bake a cake, you'll need some uncommon ingredients. Flour can be obtained by placing Wheat to the Flour Mill while Berries are quite common but Egg, Milk, and Honey can be hard to come by. You can buy these from merchants but to make breeding sustainable in your base, you have to capture specific pals and assign them to a couple of Ranches in your base to produce. Here are the pals that you need to have and assign to your Ranch to provide the following items:

• Chikipi : Egg
• Mozzarina : Milk
• Beegarde : Honey

You can go out your way to capture these pals. If you're lucky, you can even hatch them from wild eggs that you find and incubate, or purchase them outright from Black Marketeers. Please refer to the screenshots of these Pals' Paldeck entries to identify their habitats.

Hatching Eggs

Once you have the parent pals and the cakes stored, you just need to wait for the parents to produce an egg. You can let them do their thing and the eggs they produce will just stack up on the breeding farm. You need to pick up these eggs and manually place each of them inside an incubator.

You can only place one egg on each incubator but you can build multiple incubators should you want to. Incubators can be placed near heat sources such as campfires, heaters, and electric heaters to speed up the incubation process. There are some eggs however, that won't gain bonuses from additional heating. If you take a closer look at the individual eggs, the game will tell you if the temperature is favorable for the egg or not. Thankfully, there is no negative impact for not adjusting the temperature. Eggs will not get destroyed nor will the hatchling become abnormal. The ideal temperature will just directly affect the incubation period.

When placing heat sources, take note that you can't stack the effects of the same heat source on a single egg. For example, surrounding an egg with several campfires won't improve the hatching speed. The proper way to do it is to place an egg near a campfire, a heater, and an electric heater to get the most out of their effects. You can also surround a single campfire with multiple incubators (like how I did it below) and all of them will gain the hatching speed bonus equally.

After hatching an egg, it will be added to the palbox automatically. You and your party will also earn EXP and new hatchlings of the same species will count towards the EXP Bonus for capturing the same pal over and over again. Hatchlings are automatically adults upon hatching so if you find one with great Passives, you can immediately re-assign that pal to become a parent for the next batch to pass along its passives.

There's no limit to how much you can breed; as long as your palbox has space, you can hatch as many eggs as you want. Both the Breeding Farm and Ranch take up so much real estate already so if you're planning to have at least two of each, try to find a base with a huge open area so you won't have problems with Pals getting clipped or stuck on weird places or locations.