Palworld lead gently reminds players the next update is not "massive," since "mammoth sized 1.0" is still a long way off: "I think you've misunderstood"

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Palworld 1.0 is coming, but not quite yet

Screenshot from Palworld: Tides of Terraria's animated trailer, showing a ginger woman alongside two Pals looking up in awe at something off-screen while in a crytal-covered cave.
(Image credit: Pocketpair)

Palworld developer Pocketpair will soon release the monster-catcher's 1.0 version after two years thriving in early access – but not until 2026, OK? So communications director and Pocketpair publishing manager John "Bucky" Buckley would like you to relax, please!

"Maybe I should push out the 1.0 explanation video again across the entire Palworld community?" Buckley writes in a November 24 post on Twitter. "Seeing a lot of comments on the Home Sweet Home trailer thinking it's gonna be a massive update."

"Home Sweet Home isn’t 1.0," he says plainly in another post. "I think you've misunderstood. Home Sweet Home is a smaller update because so much of the focus is on the mammoth sized 1.0 in 2026."

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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