Friends Make the world move Palworld, and you’ll need a good team to keep things running in your base. Each buddy has different “workability” skills, meaning some can mine rocks while others water crops. You want a diverse group of friends to keep things going, but you don’t want that to be the case to diverse. To help you, we have put together a list best friends for your base.
You’ll quickly notice that a buddy who does a lot of different things, like penking, who has a lot of basic skills, will get distracted and not actually complete the task you’re doing want to do them. While you might want Penking to be taken down, he might also run away to irrigate the fields. It’s best to have friends in your base who only do one or two things.
Below we list some Pals that are suitable for the tasks you need most in the early, mid and late game. We also list where to find them or what to breed to get them if finding them is difficult. Most Pals have multiple locations to find them and dozens of breeding combinations, but we’ve tried to list the easiest locations and combinations. (We have a guide to the fastest flying mount if you’re looking for something like that.)
Best friends in Palworld
Here’s our short list of the best Pals for your base:
- Anubis (craft)
- Jormuntide Ignis (Kindling)
- Blazamut (mining)
- Jormuntide (irrigation)
You don’t necessarily need highly efficient friends to do things like gathering and planting. Even with a full base (15 Pals), we had enough garden goods to feed all of our hungry Pals without compromising their efficiency.
Although the tips above are end-game options, we’ll also describe some early and mid-game options that you can find around the world since you can’t get them The The best of the best until later in the game.
Below is a more detailed explanation of where to find these Pals and why we chose them.
Best friends for handicrafts
You need friends with crafting skills to help you craft items and build new structures. Some items and structures later in the game take a while long Time to craft and if you don’t want to stand around holding a single button for three minutes, you’re going to need a few people to help you craft.
Best early buddy for manual work: Sparkit
- Skill levels: manual labor 1, generating electricity 1, transportation 1
Sure, Cattiva and Lamball also have level 1 crafting, but they’ll be busy doing other things (mining and ranching), so it’s best to just keep a savings kit nearby. The focus is on helping you craft and build, and carrying your stuff into your chest when you’re not actively working on something.
You may be worried about the ability to generate electricity, but to start with you don’t have anything that needs electricity anyway, so it won’t be distracted.
Best mid- and end-game friend for crafting: Anubis
- Breeding combinations: Celaray/Relaxaurus, Penking/Bushi
- Skill levels: Manual labor 4, Mining 3, Transport 2
Even though Anubis is an endgame boss, he can actually be farmed very easily with a ton of different combinations. Create one as quickly as possible, and then you won’t have to worry about upgrading your Handiwork force later.
That said, Anubis has the highest base craft stat in the game at level four. It can do a lot of things, but it does them all pretty well, making Anubis one of the few multifunctional Pals we really recommend.
Best friends for Kindling
Friends with Kindling help you smelt ingots and cook food. They also power all of your heating devices. Later in the game you’ll want faster melting speeds as you’ll need tons of ingots and a constant supply of them.
Best early buddy for Kindling: Foxsparks
This thing is easy to find and will light all your fires. That’s all.
Best mid-game friend for Kindling: Kitsun
- Breeding combinations: Penking/Rushoar, Rooby/Grintale, Gumoss/Nitewing
- Skill levels: Kindling 2
Once you have access to the snowy area around Lily and Lyleen, seek out one of them at night and add it to your base. It has level 2 kindling so it cooks faster and is more fragrant than Foxsparks.
Best endgame friend for Kindling: Jormuntide Ignis
Jormuntide Ignis is definitely the best kindling buddy in the game, with a base kindling level of four. It will smell all your things very quickly, but with one downside: it’s huge. Jormuntide Ignis is gigantic So if you have a primarily indoor base it will be buggy. We left all of our melting tools outside so they wouldn’t have a problem, but I had to watch as he tried four times to get himself into the right position to melt.
Unfortunately, the only way to breed a Jormuntide Ignis is to breed two other Jormuntide Ignis. However, as shown above, it is very common in Wildlife Sanctuary #2.
Best friends for mining
Mining Pals helps you mine rock, ore, sulfur, coal and quartz. These Pals are especially important because these resources are your main ingredient for advanced Pal bullets and ammo.
Best early buddy for mining: Rushoar
This guy hits rocks! That’s really all! Note that Rushoar is extremely early game. Due to its low mining level, it cannot even mine ore.
Best mid-game friend for mining: Digtoise
- Breeding combinations: Penking/Woolipop, Gumoss/Kingpaca, Rushoar/Surfent
- Skill levels: Mining 3
A bunch of Digtoise will get you far. There’s a reason every YouTuber, TikToker, and travel guide recommends setting up an ore farm with these things. You’ll encounter them fairly early on, so you can grab a few of them. All they can do is mine! They will mine all the ore for you.
Best endgame friend for mining: Blazamut
- Breeding combinations: Blazamut/Suzaku Aqua
- Skill levels: Kindling 3, Mining 4
Unfortunately, there is no easy way to get Blazamut eggs, but you are guaranteed to catch an Alpha Blazamut at the above location. (Note that this is a mine shaft, the entrance to which you can find at the spot we marked with the star.) You can also rarely find them in Wildlife Sanctuary #3, which lies across the great desert to the northeast. Once you have a Blazamut, you can cross it with a Suzaku Aqua to get more.
Our endgame mining setups involve some of these in a good mining camp (be it ore or coal, which is what you need the most of in the endgame), with a reasonable number of beds, a food crate and a bathroom. They destroy every stone in sight and when they’re done I just put them back in the palbox and take them out again when the stones respawn and I need more resources. These things are so efficient it’s scary.
Best friends for casting
While you don’t need an experienced buddy to water your plants, you do need one to grind rocks into paldium fragments. These Pals will also grind any wheat you have into flour, which is always nice for cooking too.
Best early partner for watering: Teafant
This thing irrigates your crops and everything without any other distractions. Hooray!
Best mid-game buddy for watering: Azurobe
- Breeding combinations: Incineram/Sweepa, Elizabee/Univolt
- Skill levels: Irrigation 3
So, you may Breed Azurobe, but you should only catch the Alpha Azurobe – it’s only level 17. You can also choose to get more Azurobe from the #1 Wildlife Sanctuary in the south if you don’t like having a huge amount of buddy trash in your base.
In any case, this is a great, non-obstructive buddy (see below) that waters and only waters. Whether you’re making Paldium from a crusher or irrigating your crops, it’s quick and easy.
Best endgame friend for Watering: Jormuntide
- Breeding combinations: Sweeper/Beacon, Elizabeth/Relaxaurus
- Skill levels: Irrigation 4
Just like Jormuntide Ignis, the normal Water-type Jormuntide is definitely the best Watering buddy in the game, with a base Watering skill of four. And just like its Fire-type brothers, it is gigantic. If you catch and use either Alpha Jormuntid, they will be evenly matched greaterTherefore, we do not recommend this if you want a base that won’t break. Grab the Alpha Jormuntides and breed them to get a normal size specimen or Breed an Elizabee with a Relaxaurus to get one.
(Since I use Jormuntide Ignis to smelt things, I personally chose to use Azurobe to keep my crushers and mills running since it’s not gigantic. I think the giant Pals are kind of an eyesore , but that’s ultimately a personal preference.)
For more Palworld Guide, we are here for you. If you’re just starting out, we have a beginner’s guide, a list of all Pals and a type table. We also have explanations of breeding, eggs, and an overview of how multiplayer works.
Looking for resources? Check out our guides on how to get Ore, Coal, Polymer, Leather, Sulfur, Wheat Seed, Pure Quartz, Ancient Tech Points, and Ancient Civilization Pieces. Advanced players can consult our lists of all tower boss locations, all passive skills, all flying mounts, and best base locations.
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