Summary
- The Work Suitability system adds depth and decision-making to base-building in Palworld, requiring players to consider each Pal's unique traits.
- There are twelve Work Suitability traits that determine what tasks a Pal can perform at the base, such as planting, gathering, or generating electricity.
- Learning about a Pal's Work Suitability traits can be done through the Paldeck, and players can assign Pals to tasks by submitting orders at crafting stations.
Apart from the constant urge that Pocketpair's Palworld places on its players to venture out into the wilds of the Palpagos Islands and capture more of its adorable Pals, one of its other core gameplay loops involves base building. At a player's base, they can build various structures, each of which typically comes with relevant crafting capabilities. However, while players can use many of these facilities to manually craft items themselves, the Pals that they catch in the wild can be employed to work for them at the base while they are gone, but only per the rules of Palworld's robust Work Suitability system.
The Work Suitability system in Palworld adds an innovative layer of decision-making to the game's base-building by requiring them to consider each Pal's unique Work Suitability traits. While players can certainly learn the Work Suitability system's rules as they progress in the game, it can still be a bit difficult to get a firm grasp on. As it is one of the most important mechanics of running a base in Palworld, players must know how Work Suitability works in order to maximize efficiency and create a well-oiled, well-managed workspace.
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How Work Suitability Works in Palworld
There Are Twelve Work Suitability Traits in Palworld
Once players manage to capture a Pal on their adventures through Palworld's Palpagos Islands, they can begin summoning and employing those Pals to work at their base. However, getting Pals to work is not as simple as dropping them into the base. Each Pal comes with a unique set of Work Suitability traits that will only allow them to perform certain tasks at the base. There are twelve Work Suitability traits in total, and Pals can have anywhere from one of them to five of them, and possibly even more.
- Kindling
- Planting
- Handiwork
- Lumbering
- Medicine Production
- Transporting
- Watering
- Generating Electricity
- Gathering
- Mining
- Cooling
- Farming
Work Suitability traits are static for each species of Pal, so players shouldn't expect to find two or more Pals of the same species with a different Work Suitability arrangement. For more information regarding a Pal's Work Suitability traits, players can check the Paldeck in the main menu, which functions similarly to Pokemon's Pokedex in providing essential details about each species of Pal in Palworld.
How to Know Where Pals Can Work
The Work Suitability in Palworld comes with a slight learning curve, as simply learning which Pals can work at what stations can take some time to get used to. Most of Palworld's crafting stations' Work Suitability requirements can be seen in the Build menu. However, the most efficient way to tell what a crafting station requires is for a player to build it and then approach it. Upon their approach, a line of text will appear above the station that indicates what trait it requires. While some crafting stations can be manually operated by the player, many others can only be operated by Pals that have the specified Work Suitability trait.
For example, a Primitive Workbench or High Quality Workbench can be used by either the player or a Pal with the Handiwork trait, whereas the Crusher can only be operated by a Pal with the Watering trait. To assign a Pal to a task, players need only submit an order at a crafting station and then ensure a Pal has been retrieved from the Palbox that possesses the Work Suitability trait required by that station. The Pal will then automatically get to work once an order is submitted.
Palworld's Work Suitability system may take some time to get used to, but it creates some interesting dynamics that many other base-building games don't have in their core mechanics. Furthermore, this unique and innovative system encourages Palworld players to find and capture Pals of all kinds to ensure operations at their base run at maximum efficiency, thus increasing the value of exploration in the game.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 71 /100 Critics Rec: 58%
- Released
- January 19, 2024
- ESRB
- T For Teen Due To Violence
- Developer(s)
- Pocket Pair, Inc.
- Publisher(s)
- Pocket Pair, Inc.
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Multiplayer
- Online Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
- Xbox Series X|S, pc
WHERE TO PLAY
In this game, you can peacefully live alongside mysterious creatures known as Pals or risk your life to drive off a ruthless poaching syndicate. Pals can be used to fight and breed, or they can be made to work on farms or factories. You can even sell them or eat them.
Survival: In a harsh environment where food is scarce and vicious poachers roam, danger waits around every corner. To survive, you must tread carefully and make difficult choices...even if that means eating your own Pals when the time comes.
Mounts & Exploration: Pals can be mounted to traverse the land, sea and sky—allowing you to traverse all kinds of environment as you explore the world.
Collect all kinds of exciting Pals to fight, farm, build, and work for you in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X
- Genre(s)
- Open-World, Shooter, Survival
