Latest Palworld Patch Notes Steam 0.3.1 Update – June 2024

Palworld has taken the survival game genre by storm with its pal-catching, guns-focused gameplay. Like every game in early access, errors are part of the process. Here's what Palworld Steam and Xbox update 0.2.3.0 patch notes bring to the table.

Palworld Update v.0.3.1. Steam Patch Notes - June 27, 2024

The v.0.3.1. major update brings about an entirely new island in Palworld, with lots of new Pals, craftable materials, levels on the Technology Tree, and much more. Apart from new content, there are also a bunch of optimizations and adjustments to the gameplay and UI.

New Content

New Island - Sakurajima

• A new island has appeared! Sakurajima!
• Take control of the tower protected by a new faction "The Moonflowers", and free this beautiful island from their control!
• Sakurajima is home to many new Pals! Explore and find new species!

Arena

• An arena has appeared in the Desiccated Desert! Battle against other players to assert your dominance!
  (Multiplayer exclusive content)

Stronghold - Oil Rig

• An oil rig controlled by the Rayne Syndicate has appeared in the ocean! Work together with your friends to defeat powerful enemies and claim valuable resources such as crude oil!

Player level cap raised to 55!

• Players can now adventure to level 55!
• New technologies available
• Upper limit for Pal's capture bonus has been increased from 10 to 12

New Resource - Crude Oil

• You can extract crude oil by unlocking and placing a new building, the crude oil extractor, in certain spots around the world
• New high-tier equipment and spheres can be crafted using the new material Plasteel which can be made from crude oil

New Raid - Blazamut Ryu

Meteorite Event

• Meteorites or supplies will fall from space sometimes! There may even be an unknown Pal from outer space too...!?

Tower Boss Hard Mode

• Each tower boss now has a hard mode, allowing you to face them in their ultimate form!

New Merchant - Medal Merchant

• A merchant who will exchange a new item Dog Coin for rare items!

New Items

• Mysterious Accessory Box - Permanently increases the number of accessory slots by 1
• Concentrated All-Purpose Pal Extract - Increases the rank of a Pal by 1 when used
• Ring of Freight - Increases your carrying weight when equipped
• Vital Remedy, Stamina Remedy, Might Remedy, Speed Remedy, Burden Remedy - These new remedies permanently strengthen the player's base stats. Until now, players could only increase their stats when levelling up, but now you can reach MAX stats!

New Weapons

• Laser Rifle
• Flamethrower
• Gatling Gun
• Grenade launcher
• Guided Missile Launcher
• Multi Guided Missile Launcher
• Meteor Launcher

New NPC cosmetic hats

• Zoe Hat
• Axel Hat
• Lily Hat
• Victor Hat
• Marcus Hat
• Saya Hat

New Pal cosmetic hats

• Lyleen Floral Cap
• Sibelyx Hat
• Leezpunk Hood
• Killamari Cap
• Cawgnito Hat
• Ribbuny Headband
• Lamball Helm
• Dumud Helm
• Swee Cap
• Dazzi Hat
• Cattiva Hat

New Buildings

• Cold Food Box - Feed your Pals while keeping your food nice and cool
• Sulfur Mine and Coal Mine - Gather valuable resources at your base
• Pal Disassembly Conveyor - Get rid of unwanted Pals automatically! Your heart will hurt less this way...
• Wall-Mounted Sign - Make notes without taking up too much space
• Refrigerated Crusher - An upgraded Crusher that can break down various items into different items

New Feature - Lockpicking

• You can now attempt to open locked treasure chests with the new lockpicking mini-game. Requires a Lockpicking Tool!

New Feature - Pal Skins! (Cosmetics for Pals)

• You can now change Pal's skin at the new Pal Dressing Facility!
• The "Sunglasses Cattiva" skin is now available for everyone! More skins will be added in future updates

Player

• Pal Box capacity increased from 480 Pals to 960 Pals
• Increased the maximum amount of power that can be enhanced by Lifmunk Effigies from 10 to 12
• Added a setting that prevents items from being automatically picked up if it will overencumber the player

Base Related

• The building system has been reworked and improved! Basic construction is now much more intuitive and smooth!
• Pillars have been added. The days of accidentally demolishing a supporting wall and the entire 2nd flood collapsing are over!
• Axis alignment function added
• Defensive walls can now be connected
• It is now possible to connect from the roof, walls, stairs, and pillars to the foundation (previously, connections could only be started from the foundation)
• New building material "Glass" has been added. Keep an eye on your cute Pals from inside with glass walls!
• The maximum base level has been increased to 25, and the number of bases allowed has been increased from 3 to 4 at level 25
• You can now change the maximum amount of guild bases from the game options
  ※Note: Too many bases may lead to performance issues
• You can now change the maximum amount of base Pals from the game options
  ※Note: Too many Pals at one base may lead to performance issues
• Implemented a private lock function for chests. Your friends won't be able to steal your metal anymore!
• It is now possible to permanently assign a Pal to a specific facility from the Monitoring Stand
• Cakes will now be transported to chests as a priority
• Readjusted the work priority order for Pals
• Changes to defense facility specifications. Work pals will use them automatically even if they are not assigned to a specific facility
• Measures and mitigation for base pals getting stuck when a route cannot be taken

UI

• Added a lock function in the Pal Box menu
• Player crosshair colour can now be adjusted and fixed an issue where the crosshair would get stuck behind the player
• You can now craft items in units of 100
• Added more types of custom map markers, and increased the placement limit to 300
• Statue of Power UI has been improved
• Improved sorting function of Pal Box, making it easier to find the Pal you want

World

• Junkyards have been added around the world! You might find some valuable items there...
• A new random event has been added. Find and steal eggs from "Monster Nests" hidden around the islands!

Pals

New Pal Skills!

• Unique Skills
  ⤷ Jumping Stinger (Menasting)
  ⤷ Rocket Slam (Chillet)
  ⤷ Protection of Fertility (Lyleen)
  ⤷ Raging Flame Wave (Faleris)
  ⤷ Thunderbolt Heavy Tank (Grizzbolt)
  ⤷ Polyceraunos (Orserk)
  ⤷ Divine Disaster II (Shadowbeak)

• Neutral Skills
  ⤷ Air Blade
  ⤷ Holy Burst
  ⤷ Star Mine

• Fire Skills
  ⤷ Flame Wall
  ⤷ Volcanic Rain
  ⤷ Flame Funnel

• Water Skills
  ⤷ Splash
  ⤷ Wall Splash

• Grass Skills
  ⤷ Circle Vine

• Electric Skills
  ⤷ Thunder Rain
  ⤷ TriSpark
  ⤷ Thunderstorm

• Ice Skills
  ⤷ Icicle Line

• Ground Skills
  ⤷ Rockburst
  ⤷ Sand Twister

• Dragon Skills
  ⤷ Beam Slicer
  ⤷ Comet

• New Passive Skills
  ⤷ Philanthropist - Greatly reduces the time required to produce eggs
  ⤷ Impatient - Reduced cooldown on active skills
  ⤷ Infinite Stamina - Increased stamina (Only on mountable Pals)
  ⤷ Noble - Pals with this passive will give you an advantage when trading with merchants
  ⤷ Nocturnal - Pals with this passive become nocturnal and will work throughout the night

Multiplayer

• Added a new setting that always rejects guild invites

Balance Adjustment

• Due to the increase in accessory slots, accessories with the same name have been changed so they cannot be equipped more than once
• Defensive accessories have been balanced due to the increase in accessory slots.
• Due to the addition of many new Pals, some Pal breeding combinations have been changed
• Adjusted the selling price of all Pals. The selling price of Alpha Pals is now about twice that of the original species

Bug Fixes

• Mitigations have been added for an issue that caused PCs to freeze when closing the game
• Changed the grappling gun behaviour to make it less likely to get stuck
• Many many many other minor bug fixes

Other

• A warning will now be displayed if the GPU driver is too out-of-date

Soundtrack

• 6 new songs have been added to soundtrack. If you have already purchased the game, please update the soundtrack.
  *Please note that the soundtrack update may be delayed by about a day.

Palworld Update v.0.2.3.0 Steam Patch Notes - April 22, 2024

Palworld's 0.2.3.0 patch is mostly focused on fixing bugs, and I'm especially happy that they are fixing the petting option for your Pals. Along with the fixes, this patch has also balanced the egg-hatching speed of the Electric Egg Incubator. This was a necessary update considering how many Ancient Civilization Cores you need to get by fighting Bellanoir Libero.

Balance Adjustment

• The electric egg incubator now has increased hatching speed. Hatches at 1.5 times the normal rate.

Optimization

• Optimized the processing load on dedicated servers

Bug Fixes

• You can now pet some pals that could not be pet due to a bug that prevented the "pet" option from working correctly
• Fixed an issue where base pals would sometimes collide with each other on dedicated servers
• [Xbox version only] Fixed an issue where the "Option to show/hide Journey" and "Option to change the scale of damage text numbers" were not working
• Fixed other minor bugs

Palworld Update v.0.2.2.0 Steam Patch Notes - April 15, 2024

The 0.2.2.0 patch focuses on fixing the issue with Pals inflicting half the damage than intended, along with an array of other improvements. These include fixing hit detection bugs, reducing Pals' stuttering while asleep, and other slight tweaks to improve the overall experience.

Steam version v0.2.2.0 has been released.

▼ Major Fixes
・Corrected an issue that caused all Pal attacks to deal only half the intended damage.

▼ Other Fixes
・Corrected the hit detection in the latter parts of the "Nightmare Ray" and "Nightmare Bloom" attacks.
・Reduced the jittering of sleeping Pals on Pal beds.
・You can now close the character editing screen of the antique dresser using the ESC key.
・Corrected other minor bugs.

As always, thank you for supporting Palworld!

Palworld Update v0.2.1.0 Steam and Xbox Patch Notes - April 5, 2024

While this patch note for Palworld addresses the issue of eggs not being incubated when loading saved data from version 0.1.5.x or earlier, there are still no apparent fixes for the problem of multiplayer data not loading correctly from an older version on Xbox. The developers have identified the error and are working on a patch. However, they advise players not to load from earlier saves for the time being.

Steam version v0.2.1.0 has been released.

・Fixed an issue where eggs could not be placed in the egg incubator if you loaded save data from v0.1.5.x or earlier.

Thank you for your continued support of Palworld.

After the v0.2.0.6 update, it was reported that in addition to multiplayer data not loading properly, there is an issue where eggs cannot be placed in incubators if you loaded up from a different save. This has been fixed with the latest patch 0.2.1.0 for Steam only.

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In the Xbox version v0.2.0.6 that was released today, we have confirmed an issue where multiplayer player save data is not being loaded correctly when multiplayer save data from an older version is loaded. We have identified the cause and are currently developing a patch to fix this issue.
Please do not load the affected save data until the patch is released.
※ Please Note: Multiplayer save data created in a multiplayer game after Xbox version v0.2.0.6 will no longer be able to be loaded after the above patch is released.

[Xbox Update Notice] 

Xbox version v0.2.0.6 has been released. [Please refer to previous patch notes for details -> ⁠patch-notes⁠] 

▼Known Bugs ・After the v0.2.0.6 update, it has been reported that there is an issue where eggs cannot be placed inside the incubator.

We apologize for this inconvenience. The problem can be resolved by rebuilding the incubator. We plan to fix this in the next few days.

Palworld Update v0.2.0.6 Steam and Xbox Patch Notes - April 4, 2024

The April update of Palworld has brought one of the most anticipated features for the game, Raids along with a new pal which you can't catch but you can breed from eggs. While I am working towards participating in this Raid, I have to say I am the most excited about chest filters which will make the organization of items so much easier.

New Content

• Implemented the first Raid Boss
  • You can summon Raid Boss Pals by using slabs at the new Summoning Altar
  • Raid Boss Pals summoned by slabs are very powerful and can not be captured. Work alongside your base Pals to take on these powerful foes.
  • Pals Eggs can drop after defeating Raid Boss Pals.
  • The "extreme" version of the Raid Boss is incredibly powerful and difficult to defeat
• New "Training Manual" items have been added. These manuals allow you to give experience points to Pals.
• New item "Ancient Technical Manual" has been added. This manual gives you ancient technology points and can be randomly found inside dungeon chests.
• New "Recovery Meds" items have been added. Using these meds will slowly recover your HP over time.
• New item "Homeward Thundercloud" has been added. When used, this item will instantly move you to your nearest base.
• New item "Ability Glasses" has been added. When equipped, you can see Pal's stats.
• New stat boosting items have been added: "Power Fruit, Life Fruit, Stout Fruit". These items will boost Pal's stats when used.
• Added a new passive "Mercy Hit". Pals with this passive cannot reduce enemy HP below 1 when attacking.
• New item "Ring of Mercy" has been added. When wearing this ring, you cannot reduce enemy HP below 1 when attacking.
• New armour "Multiclimate Undershirt" has been added. Protect yourself against both the heat and the cold with just one slot!
• New building "Electric Egg Incubator" has been added. This incubator consumes electricity to automatically adjust the temperature to the optimum temperature for each egg.
• New building "Ore Mining Site" has been added. This mining site allows you to produce ores from the comfort of your base!

Pals

• Kelpsea can now produce Pal Fluids at the ranch
• Dumud can now produce High-Quality Pal Oil at the ranch
• You can now reduce the weight of metal ore while riding Surfent Terra
• Increased the amount of ore dropped while riding Astegon
• You can now raise Pal's rank to the maximum with a single synthesis using the Pal Essence Condenser.
  • Condensation progress is now accumulated in the individual Pal
• Negative Pal status will now be resolved after spending some time in the Pal Box

UI

• While aiming a sphere, it will now display how many of the target Pal has already been captured
• You can now check the cooldowns on partner skills for all your Pals on the main screen
• Equipment and item stats are now visible on the technology screen, even if you have not unlocked them first
• The tutorial has been improved and renamed to "Journey"
• You can now show/hide the "Journey" in the game options
• Damage number display size can be changed in the game options.
  • In Raid Boss battles, the damage numbers tend to overlap a lot and it may be difficult to see, so we recommend adjusting the size

Related: How to save and pause in Palworld

Player

• Items dropped by players after death on a dedicated server can now be picked up by anyone after 24 hours of real-time have passed
• Added a new "sleeping" player emote

Base Related

• You can now allow/disallow certain work for base Pals at the Monitoring Stand
• Chest filters have been added. Select item types to allow or disallow inside chests
• Crafted items are now transported from crafting facilities. Selecting "allow transport" when crafting will result in Pals transporting those items to chests when finished
• You can now edit your character's appearance at any time by using the "Antique Dresser"
• Building and building piece placement rules have been relaxed
• You can now connect stairs facing upwards
• Roof pieces can now directly connect to foundations
• Triangular walls can now be connected to stairs
• You can now force a Pal to work and cancel their break by picking them up and throwing them towards a facility
  • Pals recover their SAN while taking a break, so be careful!
• Fixed assignments remain fixed, even after bad events occur. Previously, some assignments would change due to certain conditions, but now they will remain fixed unless the Pal is placed inside the Pal Box

Balance Adjustment

• Minimum heat and cold resistance have been added to various armour. You will no longer need to take off your heat-resistance armour when it is cold at night in the starting areas!
• Reduce the button press time in the egg incubator
• Change the pattern for Jormuntide Ignis to something more unique
• Added legendary blueprints for some firearms (Dropped from specific enemies)
• Corrected the selling price of diamonds
• In single-player, it is no longer possible to select the initial spawn point for multiplayer
• Blocked the back of the starting area with rocks to prevent players from getting lost or stuck
• The increased attack power multiplier of partner skills that increase the player's attack power while riding has been uniformly reduced from 2.0 to 1.2
• Eggs now have a small chance to produce Alpha Pals
• Flying and floating Pals are now immune to falling damage
• Shop price adjustments

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where treasure chests would become empty when dying in a dungeon, etc+
• Fixed an issue where the effect that increases the player's attack power while riding was duplicating and accumulating under certain conditions
• Fixed an issue where players were not receiving loot when capturing Pals while mounted
• Adjusted the HP of the Legendary Pal and fixed an issue where the difference in HP between the captured Legendary Pal and the bred Legendary Pal was too large
• Fixed an issue where Pal would eat while riding.
• Fixed an issue where spheres thrown close to wild pals would not hit and be lost

Others

• Improved various Pal models and textures
• Added and adjusted some sound effects
• Many other minor bug fixes

Dedicated Server

• Fixed an issue where sorting did not work in the server list
• Improved the server list to allow page transitions
• Dedicated servers now support various log outputs
• Implemented REST API
  • Please check the tech guide for details https://tech.palworldgame.com/

Cheat Prevention

• Fixed a vulnerability that allowed Steam account spoofing
• Fixed 7 other critical vulnerabilities

Soundtrack

• One new song has been added to the soundtrack. If you have already purchased the soundtrack, please update and enjoy the new song!
  • Please note that the soundtrack may take a few days to update

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Palworld Update 0.1.5.1 Steam and Xbox Patch Notes - February 29, 2024

Major Fixes

・Fixed various game crashes

Balance Adjustment

・Fixed a bug where breeding Pals always had fixed passives
・Fixed an issue where the increase in condensation progress was incorrect when using Pal of rank 2 or higher as a condensation material (it will increase by the number of Pals used in previous condensation)

Dungeon Issues

・Fixed an issue where the innermost door would not open after defeating the boss of a random dungeon

Pals

・Fixed an issue where the name of a Pal would not change even after renaming them

Server Issues

・Fixed an issue where it was not possible to search for spaces or Japanese/Chinese characters in the server list
・Fixed so that if the server is no longer registered on the server list, it will be re-registered without needing to restart the server
・Fixed an issue where the settings to enable RCON were not loaded from the configuration file

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