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EasyBeginner #1

Rancher

Base work suits

The best first job. You keep the factory alive: fire, water, plants, ore, and wood. Combat legendaries do not chop trees while you are in a dungeon.

Early: Kindling, watering, planting, mining, lumberingLater: Electricity, cooling, transporting, farming

Kit: Palbox on flat ground · Beds + food + SAN · One job per Pal, not 'everything'

Palworld Pals working a base production line

Strengths

  • Prints the rest of the game — spheres, guns, and cakes all start as ore and berries
  • Teaches pathing, feeders, and why the palbox monitor exists
  • Foxparks, Pengullet, Lamball, and Cattiva are enough to start

Weaknesses

  • Boring if you only wanted to catch a dragon on day one
  • A messy base looks like 'AI is broken' when it is just blocked doors

Starter tips

  1. 1

    Assign mining, planting, and kindling to dedicated Pals. Wander-mode is how the kiln goes cold.

  2. 2

    Beds equal to Pal count. Hungry, sleepless, low-SAN Pals sit down.

  3. 3

    Leave corridors. Chests in the only doorway create a traffic jam.

  4. 4

    Check the palbox monitor before you recatch the entire island.