Summary

  • Playing Palworld solo requires optimal play and preparation to survive harsh conditions without allies.
  • Utilize partner skills, gear upgrades, and capturing unique pals to increase efficiency and level up faster in the game.
  • Automated resource harvesting, adjusting difficulty settings, and using elemental damage are key strategies for solo players.

While primarily a co-op game, Palworld is fully playable for solo players, but gamers must take some measures as the game becomes more difficult when experienced alone. Survival becomes harsher as players have no other companions to depend on and death is far more punishing.

Versatile Pals Suitable for Many Types of Work
Palworld: 11 Versatile Pals Suitable For Many Types Of Work

Many Pals in Palworld excel at one particular base task. However, these Pals are more versatile, and can handle multiple duties with ease.

Players must take several precautions to improve their chances of success when fighting bosses and high-level pals. Playing optimally and using every possible advantage is essential to progressing to the end game. Playing in a private world will be easier for solo players as they do not need to compete for favorable base areas, pals, and resources.

1 Prepare For Death

Tip Benefit: Obtain Items Easier

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Fighting pals or raiders alone puts too much focus on the player and can lead to unfortunate events. Players can prepare for these unfortunate scenarios by knowing the nearest fast travel points and having them unlocked. Dashing to recover items is easier when players teleport close to their death point.

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Palworld Map Shows What Level Pals Spawn in Each Area

This helpful Palworld map shows players where they should go next based on what level they are in the game.

Before sprinting to recover items, players should ensure that none of their pals are unconscious, and they have a fast mount to minimize risk. Scanning areas from a high vantage point is the best way to find nearby fast-travel locations as they have a distinct orange glow.

2 Blocking Incoming Boss Attacks

Tip Benefit: Reduce Damage

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Incoming attacks can be dodged and most can be blocked by walls. Boss rooms are close-quarter engagements and give little room for error. Players can use the terrain to their advantage and use the pillars and other objects to defend against incoming attacks.

Fighting tower bosses alone is difficult and taking as little damage as possible is the key to survival. When the boss is focused on the player, avoiding damage should be the priority. When the boss is busy fighting pals, players can concentrate on dealing damage.

3 Using Partner Skills & Buffs

Tip Benefit: Improving Pal Efficiency

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Partner skills are what make each pal unique from one another. These skills are essential to use in combat, as certain pals can increase their damage for a short duration. Other skills work for pals assigned to a base and offer no combat advantage. Having one healer pal is vital for solo players, as there is no way to heal quickly in Palworld.

Some pals offer partner skills that are useful for facing certain tower bosses. Wixen's partner skill adds fire damage to the player's attacks but only applies when Wixen is deployed. The fire damage add-on is perfect for tackling tower bosses weak to fire.

4 Gear Upgrades

Tip Benefit: Increased Player Damage And Defense

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Staying on top of armor and shield upgrades is necessary when fighting high-level pals. Make sure that armor, helmets, and shields will not break during fights, so keeping them repaired is a good idea. Using the newest weapons available is an excellent way to increase damage and stay on top of enemy pals.

Players should have plenty of ammo to avoid running out during fights. If players have the resources to spare, making a backup kit of armor and weapons can make grabbing items after dying easier and less stressful.

5 Capture Capture Capture

Tip Benefit: More Experience & Stockpile Unique Pals

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Capturing pals rewards lots of experience and is one of the fastest ways to level up in Palworld. The reward for capturing 5 and 10 of the same pal will help solos progress to higher levels while building a stockpile of pals along the way.

Best Passive Work Skills in Palworld
Palworld: 9 Best Passive Skills For Work, Ranked

There are several ways to increase work efficiency in Palworld. For those looking to do so with ease, here are the best passive skills available.

Another advantage is that players have the potential to obtain pals with great passive skills for work. The only downside to this method is the resource requirement to capture tons of pals, but the experience reward is worth it.

6 Second Base

Tip Benefit: Automate Resource Harvesting

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Automating tasks is vital for any player, but more so for a solo player. Sources such as ore are time-consuming to obtain and players will require more as they progress. Rich ore locations make good areas for a second base because pals will mine the ore when it respawns, providing the player with an automated supply of it.

Having lots of ingots will help players with resources, which will go into making new weapons, armor, ammo, and Pal Spheres. Finding good mining pals will help players fulfill all their ore needs, as ingots are a common crafting material.

7 Adjusting Difficulty

Tip Benefit: Customizes The Experience

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Palworld offers several world settings that players can change for new and old saves alike. Picking custom difficulty provides a slew of options that can improve a player's experience. Since playing solo is harder in Palworld, players can give themselves an advantage.

All Difficulty Options in Palworld
Palworld: All Difficulty Settings

Understand what you are getting into in Palworld with these different difficulty settings.

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Gamers can tweak damage output, EXP rate, damage to player, keep items after death, structure deterioration, HP recovery speed, gatherable items multiplier, and much more. To save time on farming materials, players can maintain the same level of difficulty but multiply the rate at which resources are gathered.

8 Elemental Damage & Rotating Pals

Tip Benefit: Increase Damage

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Using elemental damage allows players to tackle stronger enemies and obtain more EXP to progress faster. Having a variety of pals with different elements is the core of Palworld and the secret to having a solid team. Using pals that possess elements that the boss is weak against makes defeating bosses much easier, as their damage is doubled and defense is increased.

Rotating pals during boss fights allows them to heal some HP and even recharge their abilities. Having a variety of pals will give players an advantage when tackling tower bosses and high-leveled pals, as long as players use elemental damage to their advantage.

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Palworld
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Released
January 19, 2024
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DIGITAL
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Developer(s)
Pocket Pair, Inc.
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Genre(s)
Open-World, Shooter, Survival