Overview: Basically Pokemon + base building.
20241010 Snapshot:
Steam Game Time: 16.3 hours (cumulative game time) / 16h 16m (Playnite)
Last Played: 20240204
20251010: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 20.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 4.1 hours (session game time)
20251011: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 25.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.5 hours (session game time)
20251013: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 31.5 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.1 hours (session game time) / 0.5 hours (idle time)
20251016: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 35.1 hours* (cumulative game time) / 3.6 hours* (session game time)
*Estimated via 20251017.
20251017: (with SV)
Gameplay Log:
Played from about 7:45 PM to 11:27 PM (~3 hr 43 min)
Left the game on for SV; was gonna turn it off but fell asleep; the game stayed on overnight
Resume playing about 10 hours 45 min after recording (~6:30 AM) to 13 hours 25 minutes after recording (~9:10 AM)
Steam Game Time: 48.5 hours (cumulative game time) / 6.3 hours (session game time) / 7.1 hours (idle time)
20251019: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 50.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 2.4 hours (session game time)
Thoughts:
Pros:
+ Offers clear progression (missions)
+ Decent co-op
Neutral:
~ Getting around can take some time. Finding waypoints can feel boring.
Minor Con:
- I wish the game had dedicated server that stopped time when no players are joined. Well it might, but I tried to look it up and an old thread said it didn't.
Rating: 4.6 out of 5
Summary:
This game is fun to play with a friend.
20251026:
Steam Game Time: 54.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.7 hours (session game time)
20251027:
Steam Game Time: 56.7 hours (cumulative game time) / 2.1 hours (session game time)
20251028:
Gameplay Log:
Wanted to start breeding.
Breeding farm underground so started redoing foundation.
Wanted to make many cakes. Looked up honey -> Beegarde
Bushi + Penking -> Anubis
Mossanda + Petallia -> Lyleen
Looked up: many combos -> Rayhound; Mossandra + Rayhound -> Grizzbolt; Grizzbolt + Relaxaurus -> Orserk
High Quality Pal Oil -> Dumud
Closed game. Haven't got Orserk yet.
Steam Game Time: 66.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 9.9 hours (session game time)
20251029:
Got Orserk.
Trying to breed a better Orserk
Looking for Electric Organ to make Beakon saddle. Slowed down progress due to making Rayhound saddle. Ended up buying some Electric Organs.
Looked up a good spot for farming coal. Got coordinates. Broke down second base. Working on main base.
Tried to fight third boss (electric one) with SV. We were able to deal about half damage. Learned during fight that it is weak against ground and ice.
Steam Game Time: 77.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.5 hours (session game time)
20251030:
Steam Game Time: 87.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.0 hours (session game time)
20251101:
Gameplay Log:
Game was crashing quite often. I didn't know that something still needs to reach their server.
So at some point the number of crashes resulted in taking a break; though also cause I was sleepy
20251102:
We set a base near the quartz to the south. But later I looked up coordinates for a new quartz location. I closed down both our ore base and the new quartz base to set up at this new quartz location.
Breeding a Jormintide Ignis. After catching a Jormintide, needed a Blazehowl so bred that first. Took a while to get Blazehowl to inherit passives from best Orserk, and subsequently for the Jormintide Ignis to inherit from Blazehowl [though if I recall, I later took two Jormintide Ignis with split passives that could be combined to get ideal passives]. Comment: best here is with respect to passives easily accessible to my current Pals.
Also trying to breed better Anubis.
Steam Game Time: 102.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 15.8 hours (session game time)*
*A few breaks here and there. Maybe at most 30-45 minutes of breaks.
20251103:
Steam Game Time: 104.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 1.7 hours (session game time)
20251104:
Gameplay Log:
The last item we tried for the night was capturing another Astegon. Since I caught the Astegon the other day, it was SV to catch this one. After many spheres used, we ended up dying and had various difficulties recovering our gear. We ended the night with defeating Astegon instead of capturing it. In any case, we eventually did a retrospective which revealed that SV had not upgraded his capture rate (via the Effigies).
I left the game on for SV to do a few things
Next morning:
Collect all goods, all Vixy eggs
Looked up spot for mushrooms. From Reddit I found these coordinates: (95, -383)
Looked up spot for tomato speeds: Wandering Merchant at fisherman's Point, roughly (-478, -743)
Steam Game Time: 118.2 hours (cumulative game time) / TBD hours (session game time) / TBD hours (idle time)
20251109 Snapshot:
Notes for 20251105-20251107 were lost after system crash. Which is odd cause I felt I would have pressed "Update" in the Blogger interface. Anyways, yesterday (20251108) I was looking into gold farming. While there's a complex method of crafting and selling Legendary Spheres, it's easier to just use the Gold producing conveyor belt.
Steam Game Time: 146.9 hours (cumulative game time)
20251109:
Gameplay Log:
Looking to breed Orserk for electricity generation
Looking to set up oil base (harder than I thought... was lacking in electric organs. Spent money on electric organs.
Steam Game Time: 156.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 9.1 hours (session game time)
20251110:
Steam Game Time: 170.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 14.2 hours (session game time)
20251111:
Gameplay Log:
We got a Jetragon!
Steam Game Time: 184.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 14.4 hours (session game time)
20251112:
Gameplay Log:
We got another Jetragon!
Steam Game Time: 193.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 8.6 hours (session game time)
20251113:
My initial goals today are good Yakumo(s) and capture Jetragon with Yakumo for end-game Jetragon.
Steam Game Time: 197.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 4.0 hours (session game time)
20251115:
Steam Game Time: 208.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.9 hours (session game time)
20251116:
Changed max bases from 4 to 6. However, at the moment we've only unlocked 5 bases. The idea is, since we are two players, to each have two personal bases, a shared breeding base, and a shared base dedicated to fights.
20251118 Snapshot:
Steam Game Time: 228.0 hours (cumulative game time)
Last Played: 20251117
20251118:
Steam Game Time: 234.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 6.6 hours (session game time)
20251119:
Steam Game Time: 238.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 4.3 hours (session game time)
20251120:
Gameplay Log:
Was planning for breeding perfect IV Frostallion with Demon God and Legend. Got lucky with a copy that was also an alpha pal!
Steam Game Time: 249.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.3 hours (session game time)
20251121:
Gameplay Log:
Fought the Splatterina Predator to realize that there's a whole section to the southwest that I haven't explored.
Exploring Feybreak Island
Steam Game Time: 259.3 hours (cumulative game time) / 9.1 hours (session game time) / 1.0 hours (idle time; estimate)
20251122:
Gameplay Log:
Read before starting that you can destroy the anti-air craft station in Feybreak. Will have to do that. Super annoying.
Defeated Moonflower Tower boss. Had done it solo because SV wasn't available.
Steam Game Time: 272.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 12.1 hours (session game time) / 1.0 hours (idle time; estimate)
20251123:
Gameplay Log:
Learned that Dark type pals, like Astegon, don't sleep. So Nocturnal isn't necessary on them. Where possible I switched Nocturnal to Serious on my Astegons, and where not possible Workaholic.
Clearing the anti-air bases. It started becoming easier how to spot them.
Steam Game Time: 286.7 hours (cumulative game time) / 12.3 hours (session game time) / 2.0 hours (idle time; estimate)
20251124:
Steam Game Time: 291.8 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.1 hours (session game time)
20251125:
Steam Game Time: 295.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.1 hours (session game time) / 1.0 hours (idle time; estimate)
20251126:
Gameplay Log:
Finishing alpha pals on Feybreak.
After a decent amount of time searching and also coming back at night, looked up location of Splatterina Alpha. It's well hidden.
Looked up location of Ram. Apparently he also has a cave entrance. Of all the bounties he's the only such with a cave entrance.
Steam Game Time: 299.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.2 hours (session game time)
20251127:
Gameplay Log:
Set up and did Bellanoir and Bellanoir Libero.
Another round of condensing pals.
Steam Game Time: 312.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 13.5 hours (session game time)
20251128:
Gameplay Log:
Wrapping up before switching to PoE2.
Tried to fight Feybreak boss again, and while damage was decent, he had an attack which took me out twice (once where I was revived by Herbil and the second time to finish me off). That makes me a weak point in the battle. Of course I could try to increase the damage of my Pals via various boosts and food, and more fire moves.
Steam Game Time: 316.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.8 hours (session game time)
20251221:
Taking a break from Path of Exile 2 and watching movies.
Gameplay Log:
Checking on the bases.
Tried to fight Bjorn and Bastigor a couple times with a team of four Jormuntide Ignis and Frostallion to tank. But I was still the weak point
Steam Game Time: 319.8 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.4 hours (session game time)
20251222:
Gameplay Log:
Finally defeated Bjorn and Bastigor using three Jormuntide, a Rooby, an Herbil, gattling gun, and Attack pendant.
Continue breeding four Gobfins
Steam Game Time: 330.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.2 hours (session game time)
20251223:
Gameplay Log:
Trying to collect 12/12 for all Pals
Started fishing
Steam Game Time: 333.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.4 hours (session game time)
20260809:
Starting over with these adjustments to settings:
Gatherable Items Multiplier from 1 to 2
Item Weight Rate from 1 to 0.5
Time (h) to incubate Massive Egg from 1 to 0
Death Penalty is default: Drop all items except equipment
Maximum number of work pals at the base from 15 to 20
Steam Game Time: 341.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 8.5 hours (session game time)
Includes one or two hours from the next morning.
20260810:
Steam Game Time: 345.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.1 hours (session game time)
Excludes the hours from the morning, which are already included in previous entry.
20260811 Comment:
Some of the information I've read and/or looked into:
I remember cake making and breeding from before. In 1.0 it's mostly same: Beeguard for Honey, Braloha for partner skill
Mid-game money strategy: in v1.0 there's a new (?) good source of income selling Damud Gild
There's an official Zoe/Grizzbolt quest but you can also catch human Zoe which has base Level 3 Handiwork and condense her to get Level 7 Handiwork.
While pre-1.0 mining kings were Astagon and Digtoise, v1.0 brings new strong miners.
For early game mining, one combo is Rushoar + Turtacle for their partner skills.
Someone said you don't need to chase the fish in the mini-game, but that seems to me like boring gameplay. And I doubt it saves time.
Berries < Baked Beries < Jam-filled buns / pancakes < salad / pizza
There's a Japanese floor cushion glitch to stack farms. Pro: can always add to existing stack. Con: unlikely to be perfectly aligned (not sure if this is fixable with like a column for alignment).
20260815:
Gameplay Log:
Went AFK and came back and base was destroyed and most items were lost except some floating chests which didn't get destroyed. While I have a second ore base, the base that got destroyed was my main base. I suspect what happened was my pal was set to aggro and it attacked the Mammoth. The Mammoth likely then destroyed most of the foundation and items on the foundation broke. Chests that were destroyed released their contents, and those contents eventually despawned before I got home.
Changed Maximum Number of Dropped Items in a World to 5000.
Changed Damage to Structure Multiplier from 1 to 0.5.
Changed Structure Deterioration Rate from 1 to 0.
Changed Meteorite/Supplies Drop Interval from 180 to 60
Played around to move lost items from previous backup.
Steam Game Time: 352.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 7.1 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260816:
Steam Game Time: 357.8 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.7 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260817:
Steam Game Time: 361.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.8 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260820:
Steam Game Time: 363.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 1.8 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260822:
Gameplay Log:
Sathwik and I battled various high level Pals bosses (e.g., level 38 Mammorest)
Steam Game Time: 371.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 7.8 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260823:
Gameplay Log:
Defeated Axel at Eternal Pyre Tower
Today I found some Dumud Gild (near the East coast of the island containing Axel boss.
Galeclaw passive not worker. Apparently moving it to a higher slot fixes the bug
Ended the day looking to make a base upgrade which would give three bases. I plan to make the third base a breeding base.
Steam Game Time: 383.3 hours (cumulative game time) / 12.1 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260824 Comment: I previously read and today I was double-checking the Dumud Gild strategy (Google AI). Considerations:
- I currently have two bases, and I'm about to unlock a third. It makes sense to keep the two I have as-is: main base (production and crafting) and mining base. The third one can be a dedicated breeding base. Need to scope out flat land.
- I'm currently in my 30s, and while I'll get Pals with higher suitablility, for now I think my strongest watering is Azurobe and my strongest planting & gathering is Petallia. I'll double-check if this is the case. I'll need someone to make the vegetable cake (optimal for quantity of eggs).
- Of course have a Braloha to increase egg creation.
- Eventually I'll have multiple breeding farms with Dumud Gilds, but for now start with one breeding farm.
- I have two of ethree Pals with party passives for eggs: Grintale, Broncherry, and I'm missing Broncherry Aqua
- Catch two Beegardes for honey in a Ranch
20260824:
Gameplay Log:
Achieved Base Levle 15
Researched and occupied "Abandoned Ruins (-82, 190)"
Steam Game Time: 389.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 6.7 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260825:
Steam Game Time: 392.3 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.3 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260826:
Steam Game Time: 401.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 8.9 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time, includes a little playtime in the AM when I was turning the instance off.
20260827:
Gameplay Log:
Got my Dumud Gild farm online, eventually I worked up to the following:
- Breeding base has the following:
- - 2 Dumud Gild with Philanthropist, Insomnia, Nimble, and Diet Lover via Surgery Table.
- - Braloha
- - some pals for berry production sustain
- - various grazing pals to fill out empty slots
- Main base is in charge of vegetable cake production. I already had a lot of milk and tomatoes so my focus was on the following:
- - converting flour to wheat via 2x Mill
- - Buying eggs with money
- - 3 1-star Beegarde for honey
- - large scale stone oven with 4 kindling pals (either level 4 or 5 kindling at the moment)
- - four plots of lettuce for a while and then as time past and ratios changed, I eventually came back to two plots of lettuce, one plot of tomatoes, and one plot of wheat
- - As snapshot of 20260828 7AM, I have 3400 flour, 4783 tomato, 4048 lettuce, 1 egg, 2023 honey, but vegetable cake needs those in quantities of 8, 8, 7, 8, and 4, respectively. As such, I'm now a little short on flour, can continue to buy egg, but also identify that the bottleneck may be in egg production (i.e., I should have another pair of Damud Gild breeding). On the topic of snapshot, I went from having about 800K gold coins, investing that down to 400K or so, and then now having 2.4M gold coins with lots of resources being bought on the order of 100K coin purchases at a time and another set of 84 Damud Gil (most of which are alpha) waiting to be sold. [just bought ~4K eggs for ~800K gold coins]
- Two part pal presets:
- - team of five pals with Noble passive, eventually also given Fine Fur via surgery table
- - team of Grintale, Broncherry, and Broncherry Alpha
Steam Game Time: 420.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 19.7 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time, includes playtime in the next day prior to finally turning the instance off
20260828:
Before calling it a night, I sold most of my Dumud Gild and now have 13.9M Gold Coin.
Steam Game Time: 424.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.1 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260829:
Gameplay Log:
Do some exploring
Thinking towards setting up oil extraction. Look up location of Orzerk
Catch Dazzi for Dazzi clouds
I was looking for Dazzi in the northeastern desert area (Palpedia says there's some there). However, searching there were none. A quick Google search confirms this: "While the cloud outline marks the 'Twilight Dunes' mini-desert, Dazzi's actual spawn weight there is incredibly broken or nonexistent, leaving many players searching an empty area." (Google AI) [It's answer was actually incorrect. Perhaps the area I was searching was bugged, but Twilight Dunes, the other cloud shown in Palpedia did have Dazzi]
Catching up on technologies I should have upgraded such as the following: Pal metal body armor, various Epic-level items (rod, axe, pickaxe, grappling, glider), hyper shield, lockpicking tool v3
My best pal Work Suitability:
- Kindling 6 Blazamut, Watering 7 Jormuntide, Planting 6 Carnibora, Electricity 4 various, Handiwork 6 various, Gathering 6 Venusa, Lumbering 5, Mining 7 Knocklem and Blazamut, Medicine 5 Bellanoir, Cooling 5 Mammorest Cryst and Wumpo, Transporting 7 Knocklem
Caught Wandering Merchant in Small Settlement. One shot with Assault Rifle and one Legendary Sphere.
Steam Game Time: 438.5 hours (cumulative game time) / 14.5 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260830:
Gameplay Log:
I just learned that the Guild Chest freezes food timer (similar to how Cake timer freezes in Breeding farm). It seems the main downside is that Guild Chest space is limited.
More or less have a basic oil setup:
- two high pressure crude oil extractors
- two large power generator
- five accumulators
- electric pylon
- working on filling out relevant research (under electricity and mining trees)
Read that the best expedition pal is Frostallion Noct, and that the non-boss version is available by breeding Frostallion and Helzephyr. So it's a matter of catching the one
Steam Game Time: 449.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.5 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260831:
Gameplay Log:
I previously knew you could have Pal Labor Research Lab across bases, but I assumed one per base. I realized today that you can have multiple research labs in a single base.
Switching out Pal Metal Armor for V2 Armor; upgrade Hyper Shield to Ultra Shield
Steam Game Time: 452.7 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.5 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260901:
Steam Game Time: 458.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.7 hours (session game time)*
20260902:
Steam Game Time: 463.5 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.1 hours (session game time)*
20260903:
Steam Game Time: 469.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.9 hours (session game time)*
20260904:
Steam Game Time: 473.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.8 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260906: Gameplay Log:
Starting 20260905.
Starting 20260906.
Caught Frostallion using Bushi and Bushi Noct down to about 2000 damage (also I'm attacking). Finished with Beakon which has Mercy Hit.
Bred Frostallion Noct. Demon God, Legend, Siren, Immortality. 100/100/100 IVs.
Steam Game Time: 506.7 hours (cumulative game time) / 33.5 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time and hours from 20260905.
20260906: Gameplay Log:
Looked up thermal undershirt schematic location: (604, 305)
Bought Mysterious and Mystic Accessory Box
Condensed Braloha, Broncherry, and Broncherry Aqua to 4 star. I didn't have an extra Bronchery Aqua, so I bred one (looked up: Fuack and a Broncherry).
Steam Game Time: 517.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.9 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260908:
Steam Game Time: 524.8 hours (cumulative game time)*
20260909:
Steam Game Time: 529.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.1 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
Palworld (PC) (2024)
Relevant Links:
Palworld (Wikipedia.org)
Palworld (PC) (MetaCritic.com)
Palworld (steamdb.info)
Palworld (Steam Store Page)
20241010 Snapshot:
Steam Game Time: 16.3 hours (cumulative game time) / 16h 16m (Playnite)
Last Played: 20240204
20251010: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 20.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 4.1 hours (session game time)
20251011: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 25.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.5 hours (session game time)
20251013: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 31.5 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.1 hours (session game time) / 0.5 hours (idle time)
20251016: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 35.1 hours* (cumulative game time) / 3.6 hours* (session game time)
*Estimated via 20251017.
20251017: (with SV)
Gameplay Log:
Played from about 7:45 PM to 11:27 PM (~3 hr 43 min)
Left the game on for SV; was gonna turn it off but fell asleep; the game stayed on overnight
Resume playing about 10 hours 45 min after recording (~6:30 AM) to 13 hours 25 minutes after recording (~9:10 AM)
Steam Game Time: 48.5 hours (cumulative game time) / 6.3 hours (session game time) / 7.1 hours (idle time)
20251019: (with SV)
Steam Game Time: 50.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 2.4 hours (session game time)
Thoughts:
Pros:
+ Offers clear progression (missions)
+ Decent co-op
Neutral:
~ Getting around can take some time. Finding waypoints can feel boring.
Minor Con:
- I wish the game had dedicated server that stopped time when no players are joined. Well it might, but I tried to look it up and an old thread said it didn't.
Rating: 4.6 out of 5
Summary:
This game is fun to play with a friend.
20251026:
Steam Game Time: 54.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.7 hours (session game time)
20251027:
Steam Game Time: 56.7 hours (cumulative game time) / 2.1 hours (session game time)
20251028:
Gameplay Log:
Wanted to start breeding.
Breeding farm underground so started redoing foundation.
Wanted to make many cakes. Looked up honey -> Beegarde
Bushi + Penking -> Anubis
Mossanda + Petallia -> Lyleen
Looked up: many combos -> Rayhound; Mossandra + Rayhound -> Grizzbolt; Grizzbolt + Relaxaurus -> Orserk
High Quality Pal Oil -> Dumud
Closed game. Haven't got Orserk yet.
Steam Game Time: 66.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 9.9 hours (session game time)
20251029:
Got Orserk.
Trying to breed a better Orserk
Looking for Electric Organ to make Beakon saddle. Slowed down progress due to making Rayhound saddle. Ended up buying some Electric Organs.
Looked up a good spot for farming coal. Got coordinates. Broke down second base. Working on main base.
Tried to fight third boss (electric one) with SV. We were able to deal about half damage. Learned during fight that it is weak against ground and ice.
Steam Game Time: 77.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.5 hours (session game time)
20251030:
Steam Game Time: 87.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.0 hours (session game time)
20251101:
Gameplay Log:
Game was crashing quite often. I didn't know that something still needs to reach their server.
So at some point the number of crashes resulted in taking a break; though also cause I was sleepy
20251102:
We set a base near the quartz to the south. But later I looked up coordinates for a new quartz location. I closed down both our ore base and the new quartz base to set up at this new quartz location.
Breeding a Jormintide Ignis. After catching a Jormintide, needed a Blazehowl so bred that first. Took a while to get Blazehowl to inherit passives from best Orserk, and subsequently for the Jormintide Ignis to inherit from Blazehowl [though if I recall, I later took two Jormintide Ignis with split passives that could be combined to get ideal passives]. Comment: best here is with respect to passives easily accessible to my current Pals.
Also trying to breed better Anubis.
Steam Game Time: 102.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 15.8 hours (session game time)*
*A few breaks here and there. Maybe at most 30-45 minutes of breaks.
20251103:
Steam Game Time: 104.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 1.7 hours (session game time)
20251104:
Gameplay Log:
The last item we tried for the night was capturing another Astegon. Since I caught the Astegon the other day, it was SV to catch this one. After many spheres used, we ended up dying and had various difficulties recovering our gear. We ended the night with defeating Astegon instead of capturing it. In any case, we eventually did a retrospective which revealed that SV had not upgraded his capture rate (via the Effigies).
I left the game on for SV to do a few things
Next morning:
Collect all goods, all Vixy eggs
Looked up spot for mushrooms. From Reddit I found these coordinates: (95, -383)
Looked up spot for tomato speeds: Wandering Merchant at fisherman's Point, roughly (-478, -743)
Steam Game Time: 118.2 hours (cumulative game time) / TBD hours (session game time) / TBD hours (idle time)
20251109 Snapshot:
Notes for 20251105-20251107 were lost after system crash. Which is odd cause I felt I would have pressed "Update" in the Blogger interface. Anyways, yesterday (20251108) I was looking into gold farming. While there's a complex method of crafting and selling Legendary Spheres, it's easier to just use the Gold producing conveyor belt.
Steam Game Time: 146.9 hours (cumulative game time)
20251109:
Gameplay Log:
Looking to breed Orserk for electricity generation
Looking to set up oil base (harder than I thought... was lacking in electric organs. Spent money on electric organs.
Steam Game Time: 156.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 9.1 hours (session game time)
20251110:
Steam Game Time: 170.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 14.2 hours (session game time)
20251111:
Gameplay Log:
We got a Jetragon!
Steam Game Time: 184.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 14.4 hours (session game time)
20251112:
Gameplay Log:
We got another Jetragon!
Steam Game Time: 193.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 8.6 hours (session game time)
20251113:
My initial goals today are good Yakumo(s) and capture Jetragon with Yakumo for end-game Jetragon.
Steam Game Time: 197.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 4.0 hours (session game time)
20251115:
Steam Game Time: 208.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.9 hours (session game time)
20251116:
Changed max bases from 4 to 6. However, at the moment we've only unlocked 5 bases. The idea is, since we are two players, to each have two personal bases, a shared breeding base, and a shared base dedicated to fights.
20251118 Snapshot:
Steam Game Time: 228.0 hours (cumulative game time)
Last Played: 20251117
20251118:
Steam Game Time: 234.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 6.6 hours (session game time)
20251119:
Steam Game Time: 238.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 4.3 hours (session game time)
20251120:
Gameplay Log:
Was planning for breeding perfect IV Frostallion with Demon God and Legend. Got lucky with a copy that was also an alpha pal!
Steam Game Time: 249.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.3 hours (session game time)
20251121:
Gameplay Log:
Fought the Splatterina Predator to realize that there's a whole section to the southwest that I haven't explored.
Exploring Feybreak Island
Steam Game Time: 259.3 hours (cumulative game time) / 9.1 hours (session game time) / 1.0 hours (idle time; estimate)
20251122:
Gameplay Log:
Read before starting that you can destroy the anti-air craft station in Feybreak. Will have to do that. Super annoying.
Defeated Moonflower Tower boss. Had done it solo because SV wasn't available.
Steam Game Time: 272.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 12.1 hours (session game time) / 1.0 hours (idle time; estimate)
20251123:
Gameplay Log:
Learned that Dark type pals, like Astegon, don't sleep. So Nocturnal isn't necessary on them. Where possible I switched Nocturnal to Serious on my Astegons, and where not possible Workaholic.
Clearing the anti-air bases. It started becoming easier how to spot them.
Steam Game Time: 286.7 hours (cumulative game time) / 12.3 hours (session game time) / 2.0 hours (idle time; estimate)
20251124:
Steam Game Time: 291.8 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.1 hours (session game time)
20251125:
Steam Game Time: 295.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.1 hours (session game time) / 1.0 hours (idle time; estimate)
20251126:
Gameplay Log:
Finishing alpha pals on Feybreak.
After a decent amount of time searching and also coming back at night, looked up location of Splatterina Alpha. It's well hidden.
Looked up location of Ram. Apparently he also has a cave entrance. Of all the bounties he's the only such with a cave entrance.
Steam Game Time: 299.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.2 hours (session game time)
20251127:
Gameplay Log:
Set up and did Bellanoir and Bellanoir Libero.
Another round of condensing pals.
Steam Game Time: 312.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 13.5 hours (session game time)
20251128:
Gameplay Log:
Wrapping up before switching to PoE2.
Tried to fight Feybreak boss again, and while damage was decent, he had an attack which took me out twice (once where I was revived by Herbil and the second time to finish me off). That makes me a weak point in the battle. Of course I could try to increase the damage of my Pals via various boosts and food, and more fire moves.
Steam Game Time: 316.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.8 hours (session game time)
20251221:
Taking a break from Path of Exile 2 and watching movies.
Gameplay Log:
Checking on the bases.
Tried to fight Bjorn and Bastigor a couple times with a team of four Jormuntide Ignis and Frostallion to tank. But I was still the weak point
Steam Game Time: 319.8 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.4 hours (session game time)
20251222:
Gameplay Log:
Finally defeated Bjorn and Bastigor using three Jormuntide, a Rooby, an Herbil, gattling gun, and Attack pendant.
Continue breeding four Gobfins
Steam Game Time: 330.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.2 hours (session game time)
20251223:
Gameplay Log:
Trying to collect 12/12 for all Pals
Started fishing
Steam Game Time: 333.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.4 hours (session game time)
20260809:
Starting over with these adjustments to settings:
Gatherable Items Multiplier from 1 to 2
Item Weight Rate from 1 to 0.5
Time (h) to incubate Massive Egg from 1 to 0
Death Penalty is default: Drop all items except equipment
Maximum number of work pals at the base from 15 to 20
Steam Game Time: 341.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 8.5 hours (session game time)
Includes one or two hours from the next morning.
20260810:
Steam Game Time: 345.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.1 hours (session game time)
Excludes the hours from the morning, which are already included in previous entry.
20260811 Comment:
Some of the information I've read and/or looked into:
I remember cake making and breeding from before. In 1.0 it's mostly same: Beeguard for Honey, Braloha for partner skill
Mid-game money strategy: in v1.0 there's a new (?) good source of income selling Damud Gild
There's an official Zoe/Grizzbolt quest but you can also catch human Zoe which has base Level 3 Handiwork and condense her to get Level 7 Handiwork.
While pre-1.0 mining kings were Astagon and Digtoise, v1.0 brings new strong miners.
For early game mining, one combo is Rushoar + Turtacle for their partner skills.
Someone said you don't need to chase the fish in the mini-game, but that seems to me like boring gameplay. And I doubt it saves time.
Berries < Baked Beries < Jam-filled buns / pancakes < salad / pizza
There's a Japanese floor cushion glitch to stack farms. Pro: can always add to existing stack. Con: unlikely to be perfectly aligned (not sure if this is fixable with like a column for alignment).
20260815:
Gameplay Log:
Went AFK and came back and base was destroyed and most items were lost except some floating chests which didn't get destroyed. While I have a second ore base, the base that got destroyed was my main base. I suspect what happened was my pal was set to aggro and it attacked the Mammoth. The Mammoth likely then destroyed most of the foundation and items on the foundation broke. Chests that were destroyed released their contents, and those contents eventually despawned before I got home.
Changed Maximum Number of Dropped Items in a World to 5000.
Changed Damage to Structure Multiplier from 1 to 0.5.
Changed Structure Deterioration Rate from 1 to 0.
Changed Meteorite/Supplies Drop Interval from 180 to 60
Played around to move lost items from previous backup.
Steam Game Time: 352.1 hours (cumulative game time) / 7.1 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260816:
Steam Game Time: 357.8 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.7 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260817:
Steam Game Time: 361.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.8 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260820:
Steam Game Time: 363.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 1.8 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260822:
Gameplay Log:
Sathwik and I battled various high level Pals bosses (e.g., level 38 Mammorest)
Steam Game Time: 371.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 7.8 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260823:
Gameplay Log:
Defeated Axel at Eternal Pyre Tower
Today I found some Dumud Gild (near the East coast of the island containing Axel boss.
Galeclaw passive not worker. Apparently moving it to a higher slot fixes the bug
Ended the day looking to make a base upgrade which would give three bases. I plan to make the third base a breeding base.
Steam Game Time: 383.3 hours (cumulative game time) / 12.1 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260824 Comment: I previously read and today I was double-checking the Dumud Gild strategy (Google AI). Considerations:
- I currently have two bases, and I'm about to unlock a third. It makes sense to keep the two I have as-is: main base (production and crafting) and mining base. The third one can be a dedicated breeding base. Need to scope out flat land.
- I'm currently in my 30s, and while I'll get Pals with higher suitablility, for now I think my strongest watering is Azurobe and my strongest planting & gathering is Petallia. I'll double-check if this is the case. I'll need someone to make the vegetable cake (optimal for quantity of eggs).
- Of course have a Braloha to increase egg creation.
- Eventually I'll have multiple breeding farms with Dumud Gilds, but for now start with one breeding farm.
- I have two of ethree Pals with party passives for eggs: Grintale, Broncherry, and I'm missing Broncherry Aqua
- Catch two Beegardes for honey in a Ranch
20260824:
Gameplay Log:
Achieved Base Levle 15
Researched and occupied "Abandoned Ruins (-82, 190)"
Steam Game Time: 389.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 6.7 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260825:
Steam Game Time: 392.3 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.3 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260826:
Steam Game Time: 401.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 8.9 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time, includes a little playtime in the AM when I was turning the instance off.
20260827:
Gameplay Log:
Got my Dumud Gild farm online, eventually I worked up to the following:
- Breeding base has the following:
- - 2 Dumud Gild with Philanthropist, Insomnia, Nimble, and Diet Lover via Surgery Table.
- - Braloha
- - some pals for berry production sustain
- - various grazing pals to fill out empty slots
- Main base is in charge of vegetable cake production. I already had a lot of milk and tomatoes so my focus was on the following:
- - converting flour to wheat via 2x Mill
- - Buying eggs with money
- - 3 1-star Beegarde for honey
- - large scale stone oven with 4 kindling pals (either level 4 or 5 kindling at the moment)
- - four plots of lettuce for a while and then as time past and ratios changed, I eventually came back to two plots of lettuce, one plot of tomatoes, and one plot of wheat
- - As snapshot of 20260828 7AM, I have 3400 flour, 4783 tomato, 4048 lettuce, 1 egg, 2023 honey, but vegetable cake needs those in quantities of 8, 8, 7, 8, and 4, respectively. As such, I'm now a little short on flour, can continue to buy egg, but also identify that the bottleneck may be in egg production (i.e., I should have another pair of Damud Gild breeding). On the topic of snapshot, I went from having about 800K gold coins, investing that down to 400K or so, and then now having 2.4M gold coins with lots of resources being bought on the order of 100K coin purchases at a time and another set of 84 Damud Gil (most of which are alpha) waiting to be sold. [just bought ~4K eggs for ~800K gold coins]
- Two part pal presets:
- - team of five pals with Noble passive, eventually also given Fine Fur via surgery table
- - team of Grintale, Broncherry, and Broncherry Alpha
Steam Game Time: 420.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 19.7 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time, includes playtime in the next day prior to finally turning the instance off
20260828:
Before calling it a night, I sold most of my Dumud Gild and now have 13.9M Gold Coin.
Steam Game Time: 424.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.1 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260829:
Gameplay Log:
Do some exploring
Thinking towards setting up oil extraction. Look up location of Orzerk
Catch Dazzi for Dazzi clouds
I was looking for Dazzi in the northeastern desert area (Palpedia says there's some there). However, searching there were none. A quick Google search confirms this: "While the cloud outline marks the 'Twilight Dunes' mini-desert, Dazzi's actual spawn weight there is incredibly broken or nonexistent, leaving many players searching an empty area." (Google AI) [It's answer was actually incorrect. Perhaps the area I was searching was bugged, but Twilight Dunes, the other cloud shown in Palpedia did have Dazzi]
Catching up on technologies I should have upgraded such as the following: Pal metal body armor, various Epic-level items (rod, axe, pickaxe, grappling, glider), hyper shield, lockpicking tool v3
My best pal Work Suitability:
- Kindling 6 Blazamut, Watering 7 Jormuntide, Planting 6 Carnibora, Electricity 4 various, Handiwork 6 various, Gathering 6 Venusa, Lumbering 5, Mining 7 Knocklem and Blazamut, Medicine 5 Bellanoir, Cooling 5 Mammorest Cryst and Wumpo, Transporting 7 Knocklem
Caught Wandering Merchant in Small Settlement. One shot with Assault Rifle and one Legendary Sphere.
Steam Game Time: 438.5 hours (cumulative game time) / 14.5 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260830:
Gameplay Log:
I just learned that the Guild Chest freezes food timer (similar to how Cake timer freezes in Breeding farm). It seems the main downside is that Guild Chest space is limited.
More or less have a basic oil setup:
- two high pressure crude oil extractors
- two large power generator
- five accumulators
- electric pylon
- working on filling out relevant research (under electricity and mining trees)
Read that the best expedition pal is Frostallion Noct, and that the non-boss version is available by breeding Frostallion and Helzephyr. So it's a matter of catching the one
Steam Game Time: 449.0 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.5 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260831:
Gameplay Log:
I previously knew you could have Pal Labor Research Lab across bases, but I assumed one per base. I realized today that you can have multiple research labs in a single base.
Switching out Pal Metal Armor for V2 Armor; upgrade Hyper Shield to Ultra Shield
Steam Game Time: 452.7 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.5 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260901:
Steam Game Time: 458.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.7 hours (session game time)*
20260902:
Steam Game Time: 463.5 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.1 hours (session game time)*
20260903:
Steam Game Time: 469.4 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.9 hours (session game time)*
20260904:
Steam Game Time: 473.2 hours (cumulative game time) / 3.8 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260906: Gameplay Log:
Starting 20260905.
Starting 20260906.
Caught Frostallion using Bushi and Bushi Noct down to about 2000 damage (also I'm attacking). Finished with Beakon which has Mercy Hit.
Bred Frostallion Noct. Demon God, Legend, Siren, Immortality. 100/100/100 IVs.
Steam Game Time: 506.7 hours (cumulative game time) / 33.5 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time and hours from 20260905.
20260906: Gameplay Log:
Looked up thermal undershirt schematic location: (604, 305)
Bought Mysterious and Mystic Accessory Box
Condensed Braloha, Broncherry, and Broncherry Aqua to 4 star. I didn't have an extra Bronchery Aqua, so I bred one (looked up: Fuack and a Broncherry).
Steam Game Time: 517.6 hours (cumulative game time) / 10.9 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
20260908:
Steam Game Time: 524.8 hours (cumulative game time)*
20260909:
Steam Game Time: 529.9 hours (cumulative game time) / 5.1 hours (session game time)*
*Includes AFK time
Palworld (PC) (2024)
Relevant Links:
Palworld (Wikipedia.org)
Palworld (PC) (MetaCritic.com)
Palworld (steamdb.info)
Palworld (Steam Store Page)
Date/Time
Friday, October 10, 2025
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